An evening of wellness: your mind, your health – Mental Health Awareness Week May 2014

Posted: May 16, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Audio / video / reflections / talks, Recovery College, Southwark | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Matthew Mckenzie attend “An evening of wellness: your mind, your health”. This event ran as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, and together we can hosted an evening of talks and performances to showcase some of the projects supported by Maudsley Charity for the benefit of service users and the local community.

We heard from 4 projects being the

The SLaM Recovery College
Hearing Things
Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014
Mind and Soul Choir

Matthew covered the event for us and has done great audio and video blogs and has also taken photos.

You can watch his video blog here:

Listen to his audio blog here:

Look at his photos here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.726210024088433.1073741889.476820022360769&type=3

Great job as always Matthew – Thank you

 

World Bipolar Day – 30th March 2014

Posted: April 1, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Audio / video / reflections / talks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The 30th of March 2014 was #WorldBipolarDay. Matthew Mckenzie has done this video to help raise awareness of Bipolar disorder and give some info on who backs World Bipolar day. Matthew also mentions what research is being done at Institute of Psychiatry – King’s College London.

Matthew has done a really great and informative video – it is well worth a look.

 

 

Brain Awareness Week – Event on 15th March 2014 at the Maudsley Learning – ORTUS

Posted: March 18, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Audio / video / reflections / talks, Recovery College | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

An event for Brain Awareness Week 2014 was held by Maudsley Learning at the ORTUS. There were lots of activities, stalls and learning about the mind and the Brain. Matthew Mckenzie met many people there in order to help raise awareness about the Brain.

Matthew has done a great video blog about the event.  It is really interesting and informative and well worth a look!

Matthew also took some lovely pictures which you can find on our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.696744227035013.1073741885.476820022360769&type=1

Thank you Matthew for covering this event so well.