
“Male brain” vs “female brain” – no difference found
The difference between men and women’s brains has been a hot topic throughout the ages. Studies showing that one gender is better at certain mental tasks than the other (eg. spatial awareness), is often attributed to biological underpinnings; that men and women’s brains are hard-wired differently. A recent research study1 has found that there is in […]
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A Leap Year Wish
It’s been inspiring and encouraging to see the publicity around the Young Minds Matter series launched by The Duchess of Cambridge when she was guest editor of the Huffington Post this month. Especially the theme of taking preventative action. At Mindapples, that’s obviously a theme that is close to our hearts. If you’ve come across […]
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The Mindapples Tree at the Museum of Happiness
We were delighted to have the Mindapples Tree at the wildly successful Museum of Happiness event in Spitalfields Market. The Museum of Happiness brought together a ball pit, silent disco, laughter yoga, virtual reality experience, TickTheBucket and much, much more, all with the aim of doing things that raise spirits. I snuck into the Joy […]
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Mindapples Wellbeing, Resilience & Performance
We’re delighted to be working with Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP. Here’s what their Peter Bond wrote in a blog about the launch: “You often hear about mental health in the news but it’s all too often linked to a negative story. Mental health tends to have connotations of illness, rather than have the […]
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Declaring victory
It’s been over five years since we started Mindapples as a business (and even longer since the start of our campaign), and it’s fair to say the journey has been… emotional. Running a mental health organisation is tough enough at the best of times, without having to steer it through a global recession and brutal public spending cuts. […]
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Competition Time
For today only you could be in with the chance to win some fantastic gifts and be entered into a prize draw! If you buy a copy of A Mind for Business on amazon.co.uk TODAY and are one of the first one hundred people to register their purchase with Pearson you will be sent a free […]
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Mindapples training successful in independent trial
A study published today by the University of York shows that Mindapples training programmes increased participants’ ability to cope with stress, including three months after the programme was complete. This is the first controlled trial of Mindapples’ flagship training programme, Your Mind: A User’s Guide, and is a great endorsement for our unique approach to mental health […]
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Does your mind mean business?
With perfect timing for the start of Mental Health Awareness Week, the RSA have today released the highlights of my recent talk for them about psychology, mental health and work. The talk was the public launch event for A Mind for Business and gave me a chance to outline some of my arguments for why I […]
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Announcing A Mind for Business
Dear friends of Mindapples, I’m very excited to announce the impending arrival of our new book, A Mind for Business, to be published in February 2015 by Pearson. The book has been two years in development and is based on our successful training programmes which are now used by some of the biggest names in global business such […]
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A Gift to our Gardeners: Mindapples Impact Report 2014
IMPACT OVERVIEW This year we’ve grown shoots and leaves as an organisation, gaining public recognition and deepening our conversations about what public mental health means to people and organisations. We’ve been growing mindapples amongst students, bankers, festivalgoers and funders to reach a cross-section of minds from all around the country, reaching 33,183 people through our […]
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