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Headroom

14 October 2008

The BBC have launched a new campaign called Headroom which aims to promote wellbeing widely. There are programmes, questionnaires, information of particular difficulties such as OCD and AHDH and depression. Well worth a look. Well done BBC. “Life is full of ups and downs. So the BBC has created Headroom, a campaign to encourage you […]

It’s a mad world

Thanks to Simeon Brody of communitycare.co.uk for sharing his five-a-day: For what it’s worth, here are my five a day – Have a project or try to learn something new – Regular exercise – Don’t take things too seriously – Try to let worries go – Try to be sociable Not that I do them […]

Apple Camp

8 October 2008

Lots of activity around the Mindapples project at the moment, very exciting times. I pitched the project at the first Social Innovation Camp Meetup last week, and found a whole bunch of people who would be interested in helping us develop a better website and various other useful services. So, later this month or early […]

Dr Liz Miller’s health tips

6 October 2008

I was honoured to receive a lovely e-mail from Dr Liz Miller recently about the Mindapples project. Dr Liz was voted Mind Champion of the Year in June and featured in Stephen Fry’s 2007 documentary series the Secret Life of the Manic Depressive. She writes wonderfully about self-management of mental wellbeing, and also practises what […]

The RSA Journal plants some Mindapples

30 September 2008

My friends at the RSA have very kindly included a piece about Mindapples in this month’s RSA Journal. It’s the back page article (always the best place to be), and you can read it online. There’s also a summary of the project on their main website. Thank you!

On happiness

12 September 2008

We’ve had a bit of a break during August while the Mindapples team did other things like write dissertations, go on holiday and launch shiny new websites. It’s been a pretty intense year so far and it’s been good to take a bit of a rest and recouperate. But now, we’re back, and I rejoined […]

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 […]