Mindapple-a-day: Turn email off for 5 minutes
Emails are a pressure of the modern world, people are always able to message us quickly and there’s a sense that we need to respond. It’s not just emails, it’s all kinds of devices, things that alert us to another message or another thing we might need to think about. And these can become distractions. They stop […]
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Mindapple-a-day: Sit on a bench
The New Economics Foundation are on a mission to increase wellbeing and came up with ‘The 5 Ways to Wellbeing’ – things that we can incorporate into our routine to benefit our mind. One of these ways is to ‘take notice’, so sitting on a bench relaxing and taking time out to notice things around us […]
Continue reading Mindapples’ COVID-19 campaign
Hello everyone, I hope you’re safe and well in these difficult times. I wanted to let you know about the next phase of Mindapples’ response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Last month I posted about what our commercial side is doing to keep ourselves and our clients and partners safe during this crisis, and some […]
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The Mind Manual, out now
The Mind Manual is our brand new guide to what’s going on inside your head, published today. It’s a practical guide to looking after your mind, and the follow-up to our award-winning guide to mental performance, A Mind for Business. Featuring our popular blend of insights from psychology, filtered through the wisdom of Mindapples’ global […]
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Theory of Change: The Mindapples Approach
The aim of Mindapples is to help everyone take better care of their minds. Research carried out by Mindapples and the charity Mind in 2013 showed that more than half of the people surveyed had never thought about the health of their minds, and 56% of the people wanted to know more about their mental […]
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Sanity and the City: Relationships at Work
Managing bipolar disorder at work There’s no doubt about it that creating and maintaining successful relationships in work situations can be hard, and there are many reasons for this. Three of the most significant are “The three Ps” – personalities, politics and pressure. In any working environment you’re thrown together with people with whom you […]
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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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