Mind Bloggling News

Time for a Change

2008-04-08T05:49:00.000-07:00

Greetings folks,
Welcome to this edition of your Mind Bloggling Team news. I hope you are all well and trying to maintain positive aspects to your life. We realise that our community of bloggers serves a potentially vital purpose in your life. The positive interaction and acknowledgements of each other's blogs helps to empower us.
I have done my best to uphold the empathetic ethos. My enthusiasm for the Mind Bloggling project remains strong and determined. However, it is time for a change. I now pass on the Mind Bloggling Team News updates to someone else.
Please stay positive and keep smiling. Please remember, you have a choice. We can live our lives with positive anticipation rather than negative speculation.
Warm wishes. The Mind Bloggling Team.

Your Thoughts

2008-03-20T04:53:00.000-07:00

Greetings fellow bloggers, future bloggers and visitors to our site. So how has the experience of blogging been for you? Have you found it therapeutic? Has it been a positive resource in your own mental health wellbeing? Does the positive interaction within the Mind Bloggling community make you realise we are all in this together?

Let the empathetic ethos of Mind Bloggling continue to grow in strength. Do you have any suggestions to enhance our community? So what are your thoughts?

Warm regards the Mind Bloggling Team.

Mind Bloggling Team. A Positive Environment.

2008-03-11T15:42:00.000-07:00

Greetings everybody from your Mind Bloggling Team. On behalf of the team I would like to say how encouraged we are by the ongoing and strengthening positive environment we have witnessed in our innovative community.

We are heartened as we watch the positive momentum of the Mind Bloggling project continue to grow in awareness. The world has seen us challenge the stigma. No matter what section of the 'road to recovery' you may be on; you can help alleviate the popular misconceptions of mental health issues. Let us celebrate our varied talents. You have a valid 'voice' and we look forward to your brave, transparent, thought-provoking contributions. Your feedback is most welcome. We thank you for your time. Best wishes, the Mind Bloggling Team.

Mind Bloggling Team News

2008-03-04T05:53:00.000-08:00

Greetings fellow bloggers, future bloggers and visitors to the Mind Bloggling site. As you can see from our previous article; Mind Bloggling has been recognised as an innovative, inspirational project.

We welcome past and potential future bloggers to paticipate in our blogging sessions. The sessions are at the MAGMH office on Tuesdays from 1:00 P.M. until 3:00 P.M. So here is your chance to be involved in the Mind Bloggling community. You will be made most welcome in a warm, safe environment. Oh yeah, before I forget..we supply great biscuits! :-)

Best wishes. The Mind Bloggling Team.

Mind Bloggling Accomplishments

2008-02-26T11:48:00.000-08:00

Hello fellow bloggers, future bloggers and visitors to the Mind Bloggling site.

In the last edition of the Mind Bloggling Team news I mentioned that some of Mind Bloggling's recent accomplishments would be highlighted. As we strive to increase further awareness of mental health issues, it should be noted that the following achievements will have helped alter popular misconceptions about mental illness.

We knew that our empathetic site would be source of therapeutic comfort for people in various stages of mental health wellbeing. We knew that our innovative site could use positive endorsements and publicity from people who understood, or were trying to understand. It was a collective union from decent folks who wanted to do whatever they could to help increase our 'voice'.

One of our 'pioneer' bloggers 'etcb' had the courage and commitment to go on local radio in order to increase the Public's knowledge of our site. Etcb, passionate in our cause, has been an integral part in challenging the unfair stigma that still tries to stereotype us.

We were featured in an article on the 'ICT Hub' website. There was glowing praise of our Mind Bloggling community. Our fellow blogger 'Simon', who is a good friend of mine, was used as an example of our thought-provoking project. So well done to you Simon.

We were promoted by a London journalist named Claire White who goes under the blog name 'White Llama'. To quote Claire White : "Mind Bloggling has also made a good start with a directory of blogs encouraging people to write about mental health issues as well as everyday life. The bloggers in the group are exploring the medium, supporting each other and using blogging to engage in dialogue with each other." So this proves we are getting noticed. Claire also very kindly commented on one of my blogs alluding to what a "great project!" Mind Bloggling is.

Dr. Moira Walker of Bournemouth University had this to say about Mind Bloggling: "Blogging is a relatively recent online innovation and 'Mind Bloggling' is a a positive example of this type of initiative. This is a new project, an online community of blogs, giving a voice to people with mental health issues"...

One other highlight of the past year I would like to mention is that we were given air time on a major British radio station. We were featured on B.B.C. radio 5 Live's 'Up All Night' show during the 'Pods and Blogs' section of the programme. So with the wonderful collaboration of 'blueshawk' (the genius behind the Mind Bloggling project), 'radio man' (our man who did a podcast for Sanity Fair 2007) and 'klahanie' we were publicised around the world.

So how about that! These are just some of the accomplishments that have made our community such a powerful, positive force in our ongoing mission to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health concerns. Everytime one of our community members contributes to our site that is a personal triumph. That is very much an accomplishment.

Until next time. Peace and contentment to you all. The Mind Bloggling Team.

http://computerwizardry.wordpress.com/2007/06/ This is the ICT Hub article about Mind Bloggling. Please refer to the article: "My RSS is working!"

http://whitellama.blogspot.com/ Claire White's article on Mind Bloggling is dated August 7.

Dr. Moira Walker's article can be 'googled' it is an 'Adobe Reader' set-up. The article is on page 27 of 82 from the topic 'Mental Health Treatment Online'.

Mind Bloggling Team Update

2008-02-19T05:40:00.001-08:00

Welcome to this edition of the Mind Bloggling Team news. This shall be an ongoing feature. To all our fellow bloggers in this community of positive possibilities, let's continue to use this positive resource as a therapeutic expression of who we are. To the many visitors of our Mind Bloggling site, you might consider being involved in our thought-provoking site.

Mind Bloggling has been a vital resource, very much condusive to my mental health wellbeing. I know that the positive interaction has been a source of comfort to the good people who participate on our site.

I am pleased to announce that the momentum of Mind Bloggling is gathering pace. We have received encouraging feedback from the 'Changes' site where I posted a link. We now have three recent additions to the Mind Bloggling site via the interest generated on the Changes site. That's what it's all about, all of us working towards the same goal; reducing the unfair stigma attached to mental health issues. We have nothing to be ashamed of. Mental health concerns can happen to anyone.

If you have visited our site because you wanted some comfort. Please know that you are not alone, we are all here for each other. This positive site is our opportunity to challenge negative aspects and embrace a more positive life.

Next week's edition will expand upon some of the recent accomplishments Mind Bloggling has achieved. Until next time. Best wishes, the Mind Bloggling Team.

Mind Bloggling Team News

2008-02-07T15:45:00.000-08:00

Greetings to my fellow bloggers, future bloggers and visitors to this thought-provoking community.

Mind Bloggling prides itself in being a place where folks can 'voice' and display their valid talents. It is a place where people in various states of mental health wellbeing, can realise a sense of empathy and empowerment. Mind Bloggling is indeed a showcase for a wide variety of talents.

On our site you can see inspiring works of writing, poetry, art and music. We are all different, all equal. May Mind Bloggling continue to grow in strength. Let us continue to challenge the unfair stigma that still surrounds mental health issues. Our positive interaction is vital. For when we help each other, we help ourselves.

Mind Bloggling is positive therapy. We are proving that we do not have to 'suffer' from mental illness, we realise that our mental health concerns are only a small part of who we are.

Please take good care of yourselves. You have the right to a happy, peaceful life. Warm regards. The Mind Bloggling team.

2007-12-05T03:19:00.000-08:00

Hello All

We just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has been involved with 'Mind Bloggling'. It has been a pleasure to get to know you all and we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.

As you know, the funding that we had for the project was only for 12 months, so we have sadly had to scale down the activities accordingly, but we are carrying on as best as we can!

Thanks to our voluntary facilitators - Helen and Gary - we are still able to hold one blogging session a week on Tuesday afternoon's from 1.00-3.00pm, and many of you are continuing to work on your blogs from elsewhere, so hopefully our community will continue to thrive!

So once again, many thanks to you all - and we hope that you will all keep on bloggling!

MAGMH

A Big Thank You To Everyone Who Helped Make Sanity Fair 2007 A Success!

2007-06-24T14:57:00.000-07:00

Hello,

We just wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to all the Mind Blogglers who helped out at Sanity Fair 2007. You helped make the day a success and without your help it just wouldn't have been the day that it was!

Thanks Again

Emma & Natalie

Mind Bloggling Post Inspiration - Film Showing

2007-05-23T03:30:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

A few of you have mentioned that you're lacking inspiration for your blogs.

So we've decided to show a film called Pay it Forward on Tuesday 29th May in the 1.00 - 3.00 drop in session.

In the hope of inspiring you with some ideas.

We've added a short synopsis of the film below so that you can see if its your cup of tea or not.

Hope to see you there.

Emma & Nat

Here's the key quote from the film:

'Sometimes The Simplest Idea Can Make The Biggest Difference'

Short Plot Summary:

A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.

'Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward--repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor's efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him.'

Film Theatre - 23rd May - be there!

2007-05-22T03:09:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

We would like to invite you all to The Film Theater at Staffordshire University on the 23rd May at 7.45p.m

There will be a series of short films starring members of the Media Action Group for Mental Health

Hopefully see you there

Nat & M
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Great Day Out

2007-05-15T02:04:00.000-07:00

Hya all,

Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the Trentham Gardens Photographic workshop. Despite the rain it was a fantastic day and got some really great pictures.

Thank You

Em & Nat

Change of time

2007-05-09T00:52:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

Sorry about all the changes to the photogrpahy workshop at Trentham Gardens. However, there is one final change! We will be setting off from MAGMH offices at 12.30pm on Thursday 10th May to arrive at Trentham gardens by 1pm.

If you are making your own way down there, we will meet you at approximately 1pm outside Cadwalders cafe.

Sorry again for the inconvenience.

Please bring a picnic. If the weather is bad, please call the office prior to setting out, just in case we are forced to postpone the adventure!

Hope to see you all there,

Cheers,

Em & Nat

Change of Date!

2007-04-30T09:46:00.000-07:00

The Trentham Gardens photographic trip date has been changed and will be on Thursday 10th May @ 11.00!

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!

Em & Nat

Mind Bloggling Photographic Workshop at Trentham Gardens

2007-04-26T08:31:00.000-07:00

Calling all Mind Blogglers!

A photographic workshop is being planned for the Thursday 10th May weather permitting.

bring a packed lunch 4 pic-nic

please get in touch if you want to come.

watch this space for updates!

Em & Nat

Hello Mind Blogglers!

2007-04-26T03:11:00.000-07:00

Hello,

This is the first post from the Mind Bloggling Team.
We have created this blog as a way of communicating with Mind Blogglers about any news or activities we have planned.

Please keep coming back to this blog to catch the latest Mind Bloggling project news.

Thanks
The Mind Bloggling Team