In an attempt to tackle the connected mental, emotional and community health problems prevalent in modern society Green Pea aims to pilot an arts based, free-to-use and local community-driven health clinic.
Essentially, we believe the best health solution will be found in small, independent and innovative health clinics, permanently situated and offering local patients community resident driven mental health services.
Patient feed will be from GPs and other local clinical referrals [*], and the services (which will be neither private, nor state provided, but administered independently) to involve a variety of effective therapeutic activities, provided daily in a local community-based setting, with detailed scheduling in advance.
Therapies will involve a sustained process to improve the state of each individual's overall mental and emotional well-being, encouraging personal healing in the context of the motto 'physician, heal thyself' (encouraging each individual to discover the practices that are most appropriate for them) whilst also encouraging a natural process of participant and community friendship building through the very local nature of the project.
This process will take local patients out of the usual ineffective treatment loop for patients with mental and emotional health issues (drug/one off psychologist referral before being left to their own devices) and instead put them into a healing setting that actively looks at the root causes of eg addiction, depression, obsessive compulsive behaviour, anxiety, anomie and other modern mental health ailments.
We are now recruiting a team to provide a regular programme of activities such as meditation, music, art, dance and yoga therapies, CBT, NLP, Karuna, martial art, sport/physical activities, local walks, intellectual/academic presentations, life coaching for skills such as career and debt/money management, job hunting and relationships etc etc.
[* aside from GPS, other professional individuals who might refer to us could include youth workers, occupational therapists, psychologists and nurses]
If you would like to get involved in this exciting project, either as a therapist, youth worker, local GP, potential funder/networker or patient, please contact Mark, Arul, Illi & Mahdi via
greenpeaproject@gmail.com or
0785 439 0408
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9 comments:
readers will be happy to know that in spite of NHS retracting their kind offer to LHS that would have allowed us to heal free at point of use via meditation sessions in the Crown Lane Mental Health Clinic waiting room (just one eve a week, after hours when building unused) for reasons that are best known to the officials involved nonetheless LHS got off to an unofficial & beautiful, effective start yesterday eve in Grovelands Park under a big oak! more sessions in the pipeline, watch this space for more info..
Lovely :-)
We sat again today, and our number grew plus a guitar and singing was involved. Same oak, but this time we were serenaded with bird song and footballers near by shouting 'Wake up!'.. very apt!
Sue has suggested we do art aswell next time, so we will. Lovelyx2
Art Attack waas good & more to follow! Next one scheduled for Sunday. Love, the Southgate Insight Security Unlimited (IS U) Arts Team
:-)
i'm new to meditation and have had great meditation sessions with the friendly group in the park. After a couple of sessions with mark who gently guided us, i experienced my first deep, relaxing meditation which i thought would be difficult to achieve. At first i felt a bit self conscious doing something intimate with a group of people i didnt really know but it became au naturelle as we all seem to be like-minded hippies deep down. For me, my meditation with mark is very life affirming especially with a bit of painting afterwards. The way mark guides it, its easy to access the technique during your every day life when you most need to ground yourself. its a shame crown lane clinic refused us use of their space but it means i can share my art gallery type flat with my co-meditators when the weather gets bad. thanks mark
Vipassana Insight Meditation Sessions are presently running every Monday evening from 7pm. Call/text 0785 439 0408 for more info. All welcome, noe experience necessary.
You are also invited to join our Meditation each Friday evening at Healix Wellbeing Centre (3 Chase Side, just above the sandwich bar and 1 second from the tube). Hosted by Veena this is a friendly group and you are welcome to come and spend time at 7.30pm each week. No charge but donations warmly accepted.
Really good to get your newsletter and I look forward to supporting your ventures; particularly health aspects and the Sunday market. I can't for the life of me find the 'comments' link where I can email my support so perhaps this could be made more clear and obvious.
Thanks
Helena (Healix Wellbeing Centre, 3 Chase Side)
Far out, man. You people are reliving the 60s aren't you? Forty, fifty years after the crappola here in the States. It's sad, really. That you silly, hippy-dippy types just keep showing up to perform for the rest of us, whether we want to see it or not. Hurry along to Shambala now and don't bother us.
Hi Helena
You can put your name to the market by going to the comments section at the bottom of here
I'm sorry I missed your Healix session today but aim to be there soon and look forward to meeting you!
Cheers
Mark
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