The Gathering

Sound Minds is a multi award winning user led social enterprise that uses the arts and peer support to improve the lives of people experiencing mental health problems.

Sound Minds

A day bringing together mental health service users/survivors from BaME backgrounds, their families, supporters and carers

Battersea Central Methodist Mission Church and Centre

The conference will be essential to anyone involved in mental health peer support who lives in Wandsworth, particularly people from BAME backgrounds. Keynote speakers are Dr. Elaine Arnold, Founder and Director of Supporting Relationships and Families and Dr. Carlis Douglas Director of the Hope Atrium. Along with workshops to gather ideas about how we might meet future need, this is also a celebration of what has been achieved so far, and includes live music from Breathe Music and the Sound Minds Community Choir and a theatre performance. Food will be serveddraft running order (subject to change)1.45 Registration 2.00 Welcome from Mia Morris OBE (Canerows) and Chas de Swiet (CEO Sound Minds)2.15 extract from the play 'Take Control' (Devon Marston and Saffron Sydeki)2.30 Dr. Elane Arnold - The Windrush Generation and Peer Support2.45 Dr. Carlis Douglas - the value of peer support - 10 years of the Hope Project3.00 Wandsworth EMHIP and peer support (speaker tbc)3.30 Focus groups and round table discussion4.00 Sound Minds Community Choir performance4.20 Breathe Music performance4.50 Coping with Covid - launch of the new publication from Sound Minds/Canerows5.15 Refreshments and networking

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