The secret world of Glasgow’s sewers #100faces
Listen to Peter’s story As part of our workshop with @gillianlambie of @100facesvoices , our Community Correspondents recorded interesting stories about their lives. We love Peter Leckie’s story about the 30 years he spent working in Glasgow’s sewers. There is a whole world beneath our feet that most people don’t know anything about. Here, he […]
Meet our Community Correspondents: Paula McGuire @pmusttryharder
Where are you from? Where do you live? I’ve always lived in the east end of Glasgow; currently in Riddrie, where the average age is pensionable. Why are you interested in mental wellbeing? Having suffered social anxiety for twenty years, I decided in 2012 to make it suffer me instead. At the time, I was […]
We’re going to be part of #100faces
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 […]
Show me something new
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 is no law against hugging
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 […]
We asked people about the best decision they ever made. Here’s what they told us.
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 […]
Can reading and writing help you manage your wellbeing?
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 […]
Art and health exhibition at Tweedie Hall in Linwood
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 […]
Free social media workshops in Glasgow
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 […]
Were you in institutional care in Scotland? The National Confidential Forum is your chance to be heard
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 […]
