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Our volunteers are amazing!

It’s been a little over two years since our first Mind Waves Community Correspondents meeting. Since then, our amazing volunteers have shared their wisdom and experience to produce over 300 blog posts about mental wellbeing. All of our Community Correspondents have something to say about mental health, whether it’s because of their lived experience, or […]

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Join the #MentalHealthTimeOut twitter chat on July 26

12.30-1.30 – July 26 #MentalHealthTimeOut There’s been a lot of talk about mental health in the workplace here in Scotland, with campaigns such as See Me recently shining more light on the subject through their recent “The Power of Okay” film. If you work or volunteer in the third sector you’ll know that charities and […]

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There will never be a statue for me. Celebrate the invisible women on #IWD2016

Community Correspondent Lorna Cosh speaks up for every invisible woman. This is the Mind Waves contribution to Women’s Protest 2015: a celebration of 100 years since the Glasgow rent strikes. It’s International Women’s Day on March 8. We’d like to celebrate all the women who’s stories have never been heard. Some of the women who […]

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Learn to make memes, GIFs and inspirational messages at our free graphics workshop

Simple social media graphics- March 17, 1.30-4.30 We want to empower people to talk about mental health and wellbeing online. As part of that, we’ve been running a series of free workshops for anyone who has something to say about mental health and wellbeing. We’ve looked at using social media, blogging and simple video and […]

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Blogging and mental wellbeing

Thanks to everyone who came along to our blogging about wellbeing workshop this week. A special thanks to our Community Correspondent Paula McGuire for talking about how the difference that blogging has made to her mental wellbeing. If you couldn’t make it (or even if you could) here are the slides so you can catch […]

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