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Mental Health – Imagining Beyond

Mental Health – Imagining Beyond

A collaborative project between The Community Wellbeing Collective, Westerhailes and Mental Health Data Scientists at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by Research Data Scotland.

  1. Mental Health – Imagining Beyond
  2. CWC’s Reflections

Category: CWC’s Reflections

Workshop 2: Generating Questions

What makes us feel safe? The second workshop began with a check-in to say a few words about how we are feeling and what makes us feel safe, before having a conversation about how to create emotional safety as a group when working in mental health research. Ideas included:  no lone working, collective understanding of […]

26th August 2023

Workshop 1: Beginnings

Words of Kindness In our first workshop one of our members offered to lead an activity at the beginning of the session in which we were invited to write ‘words of kindness’ and place them in a bowl nearby to us. At the end of the workshop each of us took some ‘words of kindness’, […]

26th August 2023

Foundations: Meeting our collective needs

As a collective, there are some foundations that allow us to carve out time for togetherness, reflection and learning around mental health and collective work. These include: Check-ins and check-outs (opportunity for each person to say a little about how they are at the start and end of each session) Because when working together we […]

25th August 2023

The Community Wellbeing Collective – ways of working

The Community Wellbeing Collective The CWC are a growing group of 30+ people from, and connected to, Wester Hailes – practising mutual care, responsibility, vulnerability, and solidarity. Together we run a Community Wellbeing Space in Westside Plaza shopping centre, which is by and for the people. The group is always growing and changing but as […]

25th August 2023

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