Our aim is for people to share and gain ideas of how to achieve good mental health through creativity. The website also signposts organisations that can support and save lives.
Imagine yourself with good mental health, what would you have in your life?
If you currently have good mental health, what helps you to maintain it?
The rethinkyourmind project is aimed at both children and adults. We aim to encourage everyone to discuss mental health issues openly while focusing on positive ways forward.
Georgina delivers presentations to a wide variety of audiences. Her work has led to her being awarded honorary lecturer status within the Institute’s Section of Mental Health Nursing. She also works for various Universities and NHS Trusts.
Georgina has said: “For many years I felt afraid to say ‘my son suffers from Schizophrenia’ due to the negative perception all too often portrayed by the media. We will continue to campaign for all those who have been unlucky enough to develop a mental illness something that is no more than a tragic life event.”
Georgina is an accomplished public speaker and has spoken at many conferences nationally. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry where she has delivered “The Carers Perspective” through three short courses for the past 10 years.
FREE DVD
To the left is the front cover of the DVD “Schizophrenia The Whole Picture”. This DVD is now available as a free resource (only the postage and packaging is payable) to mental health carers and professionals in fact anyone who would like to learn more about Schizophrenia. To obtain a copy send a SAE padded envelope with 2 first class stamps to:
ChildLine ChildLine on 0800 1111 or www.childline.org.uk is the UK’s free, confidential helpline dedicated to children and young people. Whenever children need us, ChildLine will be there for them – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year.
Georgina teaches on the three clinical short courses at the Institute of Psychiatry, providing both carer and user perspectives of recovering from Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
She is also an examiner for these three courses and runs workshops on the subject.
She delivers presentations to a wide variety of audiences. Her work has led to her being awarded honorary lecturer status within the Institute’s Section of Mental Health Nursing.
She also works for various universities and NHS Trusts.
We create music using your selected artwork, photography or poetry.
Once rethinkyourmind 2014/15 is complete, the 4 music singles will be available for download.
The bands and artists
These are the bands and artists that give up their time for this project. Our sincere thanks to all of them.
As lead singer with The Bluetones Mark enjoyed a 15 year recording career that produced 6 studio albums, 3 of which achieving Top 10 sales in the UK, including the #1 album ‘Expecting to Fly’, 13 Top 40 singles, and a Brit nomination in 1996.
Mark has recorded 2 solo albums and music for various side projects, including the Title and Chapter music for the 6 audio book versions of David Walliams’ children’s stories. Mark was also a judge on the Album of the Year panel for the Ivor Novello Awards.
Lucy Ward is an award winning acoustic artist from Derby. After winning the Horizon Award for best newcomer at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Lucy’s career has gone from strength to strength.
In 2013 it was announced that she had been nominated for the acclaimed “Folk Singer of the Year” at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, making Lucy one of the youngest people ever to be nominated for this most prestigious award.
Her latest album ‘Single Flame’ became MOJO #2 Best Folk Album 2013.
Refuge are an acoustic band with baggage, sporting an appropriate interest in pushbikes & cheesecake!
The latest album ‘Time Together’ and new single ‘Reflections’ have been played on BBC Introducing.
Refuge are currently working on ‘Moving InWards’, with Mark Morriss, former lead singer of ‘The Bluetones’, this project aims to make live music an everyday feature on mental health wards.
Working on ‘rethinkyourmind’ 2012 was an excellent experience for the band and they are looking forward to being involved again!
Olivia Rose Deane is a Leicester based singer songwriter who has long written music and songs for herself and has recently discovered that other people like listening to them too.
As well as a few gigs and performing at Edinburgh Fringe; Olivia has also released her debut single “Sally” and getting ready to record the next.
Gary Hodges – Artist Gary Hodges is the chair of the rethinkyourmind art assessor Panel. Born in South London, Gary is one of the world’s most successful and best loved wildlife artists, publishing his own work, selling over 106,000 personally signed and numbered prints.
Born in Leicester, Jenny has a particular interest in experimenting with photographic and print processes to spur enquiry and evoke emotional response.