Active Minds

Introducing Support Mondays After re-completing our Youth Mental Health First Aid course, we have decided to use our Monday posts, as support options for the rest of the year. We want to use these posts to signpost support options for parents and families, that might not be quite sure where to turn to. We re-learnt, and learnt so much from our course, that we wanted to share, help and showcase the brilliant work and some of the recommended support out there from the topics that we covered. Todays highlighted support options: Mental Health First Aid England - MHFA England® , the course that helped provide all of these (there are so many more) support options. If you work with children, signing up and joining the Youth Mental Heath First Aid course is a must, in our opinion. The information, guidance, support, and what you learn is phenomenal. Our tutors have been amazing and we cannot thank them enough. Anxiety UK - Anxiety UK - Anxiety UK is a national charity, helping to support people living with anxiety, stress and anxiety-based depression. They offer an extensive range of support services designed to help control anxiety rather than letting it control you. #supportmonday #singposts #mentalhealth #childrensmentalhealthmatters #anxietyuk #mfhaengland

Happy Half Term Everyone at Active Minds would like to wish everyone a happy half term. We look forward to seeing you all next half term and getting stuck into our holiday camps and delivering some Active Minds lessons. #happyhalfterm #octoberhalfterm #october #holidays

Active Minds throw back weeks continues... This time its our Nutrition and Health Eating programme. These were some of our first posts back in February 2022. These were the programme objectives posts created to advertise the programme, and what we focused on. So much has changed in that time with the Nutrition programme. We are proud of the development that the programme has taken. Looking back on the posts we were just getting started and it was real step forward in the opening development of the programme. #throwback #posts #development #activeminds #history #nutrition

Active Minds throw back weeks continues... This time its our Diabetes Awareness programme. These were some of our first posts back in February 2022. These were the programme objectives posts created to advertise the programme, and what we focused on. So much has changed in that time with the Diabetes programme. New partners on board, schools, we had a professional football club delivering in Liverpool, staff, content development and now future plans. Looking back on the posts we were just getting started and it was real step forward in the opening development of the programme. #throwback #posts #development #activeminds #history #diabetes

All set for day 3 of the MHFA England® Youth mental health course this morning. We will be focusing on some really tough topics this morning with some heavy hitting content, however we are looking forward to starting once again #youthmentalhealth #mhfa #onlinelearning #childrensmentalhealth

Active Minds throw back weeks! These were some of our first posts back in January 2022. These were the programme objectives posts created to advertise the programme, and what we focused on. So much has changed in that time with the Mental Health programme. New partners on board, schools, professional football club delivering in London, staff, content development and now Sophias new voice. Looking back on the posts we were just getting started and it was real step forward in the opening development of the programme. #throwback #posts #development #activeminds #history #mentalhealth

It cant be 3 years already!! Great to have our staff back on the MHFA England® youth Mental Health First Aid course this morning with the brilliant Gemma Morgan from About Mental Health Limited. A great refresher first day on the course, but already so much relearnt and learnt again. The world has changed in the past 3 years, and its great to refresh knowledge, review previous practices and talk to others passionate in this field. 4 main aims of the course: Preserve Life where a young person may be in danger to themselves or others Provide Help / Prevent further harm Promote Recovery of good mental health Provide comfort to a young person experiencing a mental health issue Day 1 certainly started this, and we are already looking forward to the next 3 days on the course. #MHFA #mentalhealthfirstaid #mentalhealthengland #childrensmentalhealth #course #qualification

Active Minds throw back weeks! This video was created for our website by a professional filming company. They came in to film and watch one of our early sessions delivering Active Minds. Cant believe this was back in November 2021. So much has changed in that time with the programme. Different partners, schools, staff, content development and more. However looking back at this video was such a highlight, and real step forward in the opening development of the programme. #throwback #filming #development #activeminds #history

Its World Mental Health Day 2024!! On World Mental Health Day, let’s all come together to talk about mental health and show everyone that mental health matters. Talking about our mental health can help us cope better with life’s ups and downs. So, on World Mental Health Day and beyond it, why not check in with your friends, family, peers, or colleagues? World Mental Health Day is celebrated every year on 10 October. This year’s theme set by the World Federation of Mental Health is: “it’s time to prioritise mental health in the workplace”. The theme highlights the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, for the benefit of people, organisations, and communities. #WorldMentalHealthDay #mentalhealth #mentalhealthintheworkplace

Different type of posts this week - school work highlight One of our founders Andy Beeston is currently living in Mexico, and his daughter is in year 2, and attends a Bilingual school in Mexico. In one of the children's classes, called Social and Emotional, they are doing a lot of work on emotions, feelings, attitudes, and who they are. One of their lessons last week was all about Empathy, and how much of an important emotion this was for them, their friends and their family. "Hi my name is Empathy, i'm here to help you understand the feelings of others, so you can create a connection, and show them you are about them" As both a parent, and a creator of a Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing programme, this is such an important lesson to be teaching, and talking with children about. Sophia, our character, touches on empathy in her journey towards creating an action plan, however, as reviews are always important, we will look to add more work on empathy into our lessons #empathy #emotions #emotionaljourney #development #social #emotional #schools