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My name is Brendan Stone, and I’ve lived with mental health difficulties since about the age of 14. For around 20 years I was usually too unwell to work, and spent time in hospitals, and also had periods of time when I was homeless. At the age of 35 I took an access course for […]
For the recent Flourish competition I suggested a ‘Rock Garden’ in Sheffield city centre to represent the Sensory Hub. I took the inspiration for the Rock garden from the Peak District, a famous National Park in Sheffield (Fig.1). The scenic landscape can provide an everyday sense of wellbeing to the public; especially for people who […]
“But you’re an intelligent woman, I don’t understand why you’re like this!” Frustration, perplexity, and not just on the side of the mental health worker who had just uttered these incredible words. That was maybe 15 years ago. And, while it has never been said to me so starkly, before or since, this is the […]
Charly’s mini-zine was created at one of Sheffield Flourish’s themed events – a mini-zine making session
CAST Mental Health Week Exhibition will be from 10-21 October this year, at 35 Chapel Walk Gallery in Sheffield centre. The theme this year is CAST A LIGHT – and we are hoping that we’ll have many responses from artists this year. As the gallery space isn’t huge entries will be limited to 1 or […]
There is so much beauty to explore in Sheffield’s great outdoors, as the dozen people who took part in a photo walking tour found out. The tour was organised by Sheffield Flourish along with Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust, whose offices are close by one another on Stafford Road near Norfolk Heritage Park. The event […]
Sat in full lotus position, studying Falun Data with two cherished practitioners, the psychosis strikes. I am thinking about the rock band U2, and a live version of the song Bullet the Blue Sky. This is a very powerful song about money, corruption and the arms trade. In the noise and heat and distortion of […]
Maybe being a ‘Silly Buddy’ is part of the answer There are many ways in which Sheffield people are already engaged in making our city more mental health friendly; through increasing awareness and offering education and training, to promoting things such as volunteering, mindfulness and other forms of helpful meditation. Furthermore, a host of creative […]
On a warm, wet June afternoon, we gathered at the Oasis polytunnels for tea and seed sowing. Oasis is one of the community enterprises supported by Sheffield Flourish, who had just been voted Digital Charity of the Year! Flourish is truly flourishing, and helping those of us who contribute to it flourish as well. I […]
How can we build a more mental health friendly Sheffield? Here’s my idea… I’d create a digital network, originally for people using the Sheffield Flourish website but welcoming anyone. I would use social media – perhaps a hashtag/Twitter page and a Facebook group as a way of reaching people and for anyone helping to run […]
AS WE CELEBRATE BEING AROUND FOR A YEAR, WE ASKED OUR COMMUNITY TO SHARE THEIR MILESTONES. THE RESPONSE WAS LOVELY, FROM A WEEK BACK AT WORK TO A NEW BABY 🙂 We got quite excited when we reached our first birthday, and it got us thinking about all the milestones our community will have been […]
We got quite excited when we reached our first birthday, and it got us thinking about all the milestones our community will have been experiencing. So, while we were at the wonderful annual wellbeing festival, we asked our community to share on our tree! The results were beautiful, unexpected and memorable: