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Mind in Haringey is looking for a Reiki healer preferably grade 11 or master to volunteer for 4 hours a week to offer reiki healing to our clients at Mind in Haringey. Mind in Haringey is a mental health charity offering support to all residents of Haringey for over forty five years. We get no funding from local authority or the government all funds are raised through donations, private bids, or fundraising opportunities. So if you would like to offer your services to Mind in Haringey and volunteer for 4 hours a week please get in touch with Dave.forrest@mih.org.uk or call 02083402474 ext 207 and ask to speak with Dave
Mind in Haringey is looking for a Reiki healer preferably grade 11 or master to volunteer for 4 hours a week to offer reiki healing to our clients at Mind in Haringey. Mind in Haringey is a mental health charity offering support to all residents of Haringey for over forty five years. We get no funding from local authority or the government all funds are raised through donations, private bids, or fundraising opportunities. So if you would like to offer your services to Mind in Haringey and volunteer for 4 hours a week please get in touch with Dave.forrest@mih.org.uk or call 02083402474 ext 207 and ask to speak with Dave
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It was an excellent idea although I think the funding got pulled so it stopped, what a shame.
@mindinharingey you could get in touch with Integrated Body Dynamics on Ferme Park Road, they have a range of therapists who may be willing to offer some time. Some of their practices are more based in reality than others.
Yoga would be better and is proven to improve mental health, do they already offer that?
I bought a nice signed first edition of Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' at Mind a few weeks ago. Two pounds! Bargain.
I find the simplest way to make a list of books is to pile them up and Instagram the titles......
I cannot be bothered with instagramming or listing the books and I'm not bothered about making money from them as I get them free. I just want to leave them somewhere every month, neighbours and passers by spirit them away quickly enough.
I don't know Haringey Mind that well, but like other Mind organisations they operate on a coproduction basis. Services are provided in conjunction with users, not just organised by 'credulous', staff for powerless clients. I guess Mind is working more at the sharp end of mental health and a lot of their users will have a mental health assessment which gives them a personal budget to spend on well-being activities. Haringey Mind charge a membership I think for their well-being activities, which includes head massage, tai chi, yoga etc. A lot of Mind's in London now have no funding and just get paid through user's personal budgets, acting like a market. Given the clientele is from North London it's little wonder there are a few users probably asking for Reiki. Integrated Body Dynamics 30 seconds down the road offer crystal healing. They are just providing what people want and what makes them feel good.
Increasingly there's evidence that it isn't so much the talking therapy itself, but the connection with the therapist, the fact that they are being listened to and thought about, the routine and structure etc which is beneficial to people suffering with mental illness.
I had Cognitive behavioral therapy instead and was cured.
I no nothing about Reiki but would rather try life force energy then anti-depressants!
Years ago, people would have thought it odd to suggest meditation helped mental illness, but now mindfulness is everywhere.
Treatment as usual now is normally a depot injection every fortnight, possibly a group therapy group once a week to go to and a care coordinator who will ring a couple of times a week asking about your eating, sleep and if you have any suicidal thoughts.
If you have any serious type symptoms, CBT, delivered through the IAPT service won't touch you.
If you got a lot of medics in a room it is unlikely they would agree on what effective treatments were. Some would say they know that what they're doing really isn't working and they want to give up or dramatically change the way they work. The interest in the Scandinavian system of Open Dialogue is one example of an alternative treatment that that some London trusts are trialling as a result of this realisation.