This week at our Community Correspondents meeting, we did something a little bit different. We had a visit from @gillianlambie who is part of the @100facesvoices project. A hundred faces, a hundred voices wants to create a big, smiley mosaic of Scotland today. They want to tell a hundred stories about a hundred people in […]
A post from our Community Correspondent John Dane This week I spent an exciting morning having a guided tour and taking part in a workshop at the Turner Prize Exhibition at the Tramway. This was a great opportunity as this is the first time the exhibition has been held in Scotland and only the second […]
There’s a popular myth, in every public service from nurseries to psychiatric hospitals, that it’s against the rules for staff to hug the people they support. It’s one of those things that makes for a good story, but this excellent piece from Anna Fowlie of the Scottish Social Service Council dispels it. Of course, touching […]
It’s quite a question: what’s the best decision you’ve ever made? We asked as our theme for autumn and we certainly weren’t disappointed by the answers from our Community Correspondents. Some were big life changes, like quitting your job to travel the world, others were more personal, like deciding to be honest about how you […]
At Mind Waves, we’re passionate about the power of stories (reading and telling them) in promoting wellbeing. If you’d like to learn more about how stories can help, or you’d just like to get together with some like-minded people for inspiration, head East to the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh next Tuesday, Nov 24. The […]
You might remember, back in May, we told you about “My Wellbeing, My Future”, a competition run by the Health and Social Care Academy to find the best examples of creativity around health. Well, the winners were chosen back in August and their entries will make a significant contribution to the Scottish Government’s update to […]
If you have something to say about mental health and wellbeing, come along to one of our free social media workshops, which start on December 3. Whether you have lived experience, you’re a volunteer or carer or your work is related to mental health, we’d love to have you along. At Mind Waves, we meet […]
The National Confidential Forum, or NCF is a new project to hear the truth about people’s experiences as children in Scotland’s institutional care system. We caught up with Ben Lukins at the Forum to hear more . What’s the National Confidential Forum all about? The National Confidential Forum (the Forum) is here to listen […]
A post from our Community Correspondent Faud Alakbarov @DrAlakbarov Not all those who wander are lost. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where […]
At Mind Waves, we spend a lot of time talking and thinking about the connections between technology and good mental health. For a lot of people, social media, using an app to track moods or for guided mindfulness is part of what keeps them well. But how do we know whether apps are actually effective? […]
