Our new timetable is out! Face to face enrolment sessions all set for Monday 21st in Peterborough and Thursday 24th in Cambridge. Lots of brand new courses available for booking and some old favourites too... Please share far and wide! Sharon Gilfoyle Trish Barker-Barrett CPFT

I have no A levels .. but I do have a Degree and I am the Deputy Head of Midwifery .. results don’t define you.. hard work, kindness, passion and drive do😊#ResultsDay2023 📚

What do Peer support relationships look like? 👀 They share power and responsibility. It is not a hierarchical or paternalistic relationship. It is a collaborative and reciprocal relationship, where both people have something to offer and something to gain 🫶 #mentalhealth

Hated school Hated college Hated English and maths Neurodivergent (dyslexia&ADHD) Very creative Very passionate Two degrees / photography / nursing You don’t have to fit in a ‘academic box’ to be successful. Success looks different to everyone 🙏🏼❤️ #ResultsDay2023

Two brains can synchronise with each other - ie match their electrical brainwaves - just through eye contact 🤯 Fascinating interview with Hannah Critchlow about 'collective intelligence' and the latest incredible neuroscience on brain synchronisation youtu.be/5EB1O86fhdI?si…

🗨️ Given the rise in peer support workers trained and employed in mental health services, now is time to consider progress, challenges, and future possibilities. Check out our paper for recommendations below💡 imroc.org/wp-content/upl…

"#WorldHearingVoicesDay is celebrated on 14 September each year. It recognises and values the diversity of those of us who hear voices, see visions or have related sensory experiences. It is a day to promote our right to define our experiences in our own way." - Intervoice

“I’m not brave. I’m not special. I’m not dangerous. I simply hear voices that other people can’t. I see visions that other people can’t. All I ask is that you accept me, accept my experiences and let me be me” Happy #WorldHearingVoicesDay

A friend shared a blog I wrote about the Mad Skills I’ve got from experiencing what gets called psychosis. It prompted me to add it to my website. Hope you enjoy it. Happy #WorldHearingVoicesDay behindthelabel.co.uk/dont-pity-me-p…

My podcast has over 1000 downloads! That’s 1000 people who have heard the unique voices of peers and what they can offer to the nhs

Have a listen to Billy Hardy, Amanda Bueno, Oppi and I talking about talking and having a dialogue about a dialogue. Billy, whom I love, has such a depth of wisdom and a wonderful, gentle, easy to hear voice. I’m so proud of this project openpodpod.buzzsprout.com

22% of 16-year-old girls have been in contact with NHS mental health services during 21-22. Many given the label of BPD. It isnt that girls are suddenly developing PD but that increasingly physically, sexually and economically unsafe girls will try to kill themselves + self-harm.

*Please share* MH professionals & service users, I work in a crisis team and I’m looking at ways we can use more helpful language in meeting with individuals / clinical notes. What are some stigmatising or unhelpful phrases clinicians use and what are helpful alternatives?

Age is a gift, not everyone is given. So with that, Happy 40th Birthday to me 🎂

‼️This week The World Health Organisation and United Nations published new guidance to look at mental health support through an alternative lens, one that steps away from the biomedical model.‼️ (1/5)

Opportunities for restoration/ restorative practice should be written into #mentalhealth legislation. I am exhausted of hearing a car door shut, my gate open, a siren, the dog bark, a call from a number I don't recognise, AND genuinely believing that it is the police, or an 1/4

Really fantastic to see this

Happy New year all :)

Podcasting again soon! #watchthispace