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i-Genius grows Mindapples

4 August 2008

Thanks to Tommy and Barry at i-Genius for giving Mindapples a bit of coverage. News story here. Also, thanks to Salford City Radio for ringing me up out of the blue for a phone interview – very nice of them to take such an interest in the project. As I said in the i-Genius interview, […]

Acting sane

20 July 2008

I’m currently reading Keith Johnstone’s book on Impro (more about this on my other blog) and one of his observations about spontaneity and creativity particularly caught my eye. He believes that people are all innately creative and spontaneous, but self-censor in order to appear sane and safe. He has a very elegant theory that “sanity […]

Mind Training

1 July 2008

I went to see some very helpful people at Mind this morning for their campaign skills training – a marvellous free service they offer to people like me who care about mental health but don’t know what to do about it. It was great to meet people at the sharp end of the spectrum, campaigning […]

Expert Fives: the Mental Health Foundation

24 June 2008

I spent a very pleasant few hours with Simon Lawton Smith of the grassroots organisation ok2b today. I’d not met Simon before, but we heard some excellent piano playing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (I thoroughly recommend their free recitals), and then had a good chat about Mindapples. Simon’s day job is […]

Famous Fives – with Dave Briggs

1 June 2008

Today we’ve asked Dave Briggs about the most important things he does to stay mentally well. I asked Dave if wearing orange was part of a much grander plan? “To be honest, the tshirt I am wearing in my Facebook pic, and the one to which you were referring, I think, is red rather than […]

The results from the Belgian jury…

28 May 2008

Okay, so it’s not quite Eurovision but we’ve had over 70 responses already from countries as diverse as Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa and the US(of)A. Thank you all so much for taking up the challenge, and please keep spreading the word. Some of the most popular fives so far are talking to friends/family, meditation, […]

Curiosity

22 May 2008

The initial Mindapples research survey aims to get an idea from the public what are the 5 most important things they do regularly to help them maintain their mental wellbeing. This is very exciting indeed! We hear a lot from experts about mental health but rarely ask regular people what they personally have come to […]

What’s your five-a-day?

21 May 2008

Take the Mindapples test today and help us find the most popular things we all do to stay mentally healthy. Take the 2-minute test We’ve used Surveymonkey to create a quick survey to find out your five-a-days. We’ll publish the results here once we’ve had a few responses, and then we’ll use the popularity of […]

Mindapples. Hello.

16 May 2008

Welcome to Mindapples.org, a blog on the way to a new kind of mental health campaign. Read more about the idea, discuss the issues and help us work out what we need to do to make it happen. More to follow…