Great Minds is part of West Yorkshire & Harrogate health and care partnership and they have partnered up with State of Mind Sport charity to provide local communities with mental health/fitness awareness programmes for the population of vulnerable men. The role of the pathfinder development workers will be to co-facilitate sessions that include topics that can help men understand issues around their own mental health and emotional well-being. The sessions will include evidence based theory and interactive peer support workshops that will encourage men to share common themes that can have a negative impact on our emotional responses, mental health and physical wellbeing. The Great Minds project will look to deliver initial sessions online that will include sessions that cover basic mental fitness, stress management, building resilience, exploring emotional intelligence and anger management. Former sports people will use their own lived experience in sport to illustrate and harness the best evidence base intervention to help men to manage and improve their mental fitness.

The sessions will run on Monday and Wednesday nights at 6.30pm.

Dates and Topics will be as follows:

Monday 18th January - Stress Management

Monday 25th January – 5 ways to mental wellbeing

Monday 1st February – Anger Management

Monday 8th February - Life Balance mental wellbeing

Monday 15th February - Emotional Intelligence

Monday 22nd February - Resillience

Monday 1st March - Debrief/Celebrations

Monday 8th March - Stress Management

Monday 15th March – 5 ways to

Monday 22nd March – Anger Management

Monday 29th March - Life Balance

Monday 5th April - Emotional Intelligence

Monday 12th April - Resillience

Monday 19th April - Debrief/Celebrations

Wednesday 20th January - Stress Management

Wednesday 27th January – 5 ways to mental wellbeing

Wednesday 3rd February – Anger Management

Wednesday 10th February - Life Balance mental wellbeing

Wednesday 17th February - Emotional Intelligence

Wednesday 24th February - Resillience

Wednesday 3rd March - Debrief/Celebrations

Wednesday 10th March - Stress Management

Wednesday 17th March – 5 ways to

Wednesday 24th March – Anger Management

Wednesday 31st March - Life Balance

Wednesday 7th April - Emotional Intelligence

Wednesday 14th April - Resillience

Wednesday 21st April - Debrief/Celebrations

To book on any of the session, please register through eventbrite or contact us on email; swy-tr.greatminds@nhs.net

Please note the sessions are only for men, aged 18+ and living in West Yorkshire and Harrogate surrounding areas.