Local Health Service

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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Community Anchor

We're now undertaking a Locality Survey. The purpose of this survey is to get to know the local community, find out what interests and skills local people hold, and begin the process of bringing people together for a better Southgate. The survey will be casting out for opinion & interest in a number of initiatives, including the Sunday Street Market and Local Health project, and we'll also be encouraging local resident and worker attendance at the forthcoming series of Community Anchor meetings. The first of these to be held on Tuesday 20th and Sunday 25th May.You can read more about the concept of a Community Anchor, here.
For more information about these meetings, or if you'd like to receive a copy of the survey in Word to comment on and/or fill in and return, please email us at greenpeaproject@gmail.com

Update

As some of you know, we've a host of initiatives in the pipeline, and we're now awaiting the outcome of different meetings before we move forward further, specifically about the Health Project & Street Market, but also about funding streams and use of TfL land (at Mayfair Terrace) for a Community Garden project.

This site will updated soon to let you know where we're at in some more detail. In the meantime, please scroll down to read more, and thanks for your patience.