We’re excited to announce that we’re hiring! Mind Waves has secured funding to hire a Doctoral intern to work on a project with us in 2023. We’re looking for a skilled researcher to work with a group of people with lived experience of mental ill health and create animations on this topic. Our Chief Executive, […]
This week on the blog, we’re sharing a piece of writing from Catherine, one of the members of our series of Creative Writing and Wellbeing workshops run in collaboration with The Alliance and Humans of Scotland. These workshops are open to people living with a long term condition or disability, and even though we’re only […]
We’re running another series of Creative Writing and Wellbeing workshops in collaboration with the ALLIANCE and Humans of Scotland. These workshops are open to people living with a long term condition and disability and will focus on Creative Non-fiction and life writing. The workshops are aimed at any level! It doesn’t matter if you have […]
This week on the blog we have a short piece of writing from Lynn about swimming in the ocean. It’s about the shock of cold that wakes up your senses, sharing the wonders of life with someone you love and grabbing life with both hands. When asked what this piece was about, Lynn said I […]
Mind Waves is delighted to host this FREE podcasting course, fully funded through GCVS Wellbeing Fund. The course will run over four weeks, with the first three taking place via Zoom and the final workshop taking place face to face. Click here to learn more about the workshops and sign up. The first three Zoom […]
This week on the blog we’re hearing from me! (Maddy) I’ve been working at Mind Waves since May 2021, and during that time, a lot of things have changed for me. Over the past year and a bit, I’ve graduated, started and finished a masters, facilitated my first series of creative writing workshops here at […]
This week on the blog we are sharing an extract of a long poem written by Derek Read, one of our community correspondents. Derek came to our recent creative non-fiction writing workshops and contributed some beautiful poetry, as well as trying his hand at personal writing. At these workshops, Derek shared his long poem, ‘Journey […]
This week on the blog, Laura is sharing her experience of going to Kelvingrove Art Gallery in the West End of Glasgow. Laura attended an exhibition curated by GAMH about mental health and lived experience. In her post, as well as describing the day, Laura discusses re-entering society after the past few years of lockdowns, […]
On Wednesday 3rd August, Mind Waves ran the final workshop from our four week creative non-fiction series, funded by GVCS Wellbeing Fund. We met face to face, over snacks and cups of tea, and tried some writing prompts. The afternoon was full of interesting chat about mental health, creative non-fiction and using personal writing to […]
We are happy to announce that, ‘A Chance for Change’, the newest animation we made for the Scottish Recovery Network, is available to watch now. The animation provides an overview of what you said you wanted from the new Scottish Government Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. Watch the animation below For more information on the […]
