Singing: discover Your Voice

Come and discover your singing voice in a small friendly workshop with Richard Hartley Wilson.

Fully booked

Improve Your Wellbeing Through Acting

Increase your physical and emotional well-being through playful and fun acting exercises. Connect, take notice, be active, learn new skills, become more present and engaged with others using tools drawn from actor training.

Fully booked

Mindful self-care for mind and body

How often do you make time to take care of yourself? This session provides simple, practical tips and techniques that will help you take better care of yourself. Learn ways to relax your body, calm your mind and enhance your well-being.

Fully booked

Embracing Midlife: An in-depth conversation

We have been fed the message that midlife can be a rough and difficult time! However… it can also be the absolute OPPOSITE: A time to break free and thrive. This in-depth conversation openly examines difficult topics and provides REAL science-backed, feel-good solutions to help empower you on your journey.

Whether you’re experiencing symptoms yourself, want to support co-workers or family, or simply want to learn how to biohack your way to looking and feeling amazing, please join us for what promises to be an incredible and enlightening conversation with Stefanie Daniels, a Menopause Coach who provides personalised support to employees in the workplace.

Connect Through Storytelling

Since long before we could write, the most effective way of describing events and experiences has been through Storytelling.

Fully booked

Meditative mark-making at The National Gallery

Find calm, peace and balance through the restorative practice of mark making. Join Gallery Educator and artists Emily Motto for an immersive workshop designed to refocus the mind and promote wellbeing. Using a range of mark making tools on various surfaces (coloured papers, tracing paper, mirrors), we will be paying close attention to texture and line in paintings in Room 34, collecting moments, marks and gestures.  

Making Connections: Reviewing Film Remakes

Film remakes often get a bad press, but there is frequently more to them than meets the eye. Whether a remake of an older classic, as in the case of Gus van Sant’s reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, for example, or the Hollywood remake of a cherished European film, these types of film reveal a set of complex cultural, national, industrial and perhaps even psychological connections. Join us to explore what makes a remake and to critically analyse some filmic examples.

Connect Through Dance

Introduction to learning how to focus on deepening one’s awareness of the body and connect with the processes going on within through engaging with internal physical perception and experience.

Fully booked

Feldenkrais: mind-body connection through gentle movement

Learn how to reduce tension and move with more ease, and notice improvements in your mobility, posture, breathing, balance, coordination and quality of life. In this session you will experience Awareness Through Movement (ATM), which is based on slow and mindful movements. You will learn how to become more aware of how you move, and how to focus your attention on one thing at the time. 

Conversations with paintings at The National Gallery 

With Gallery Educator, artist and art historian Marc Woodhead, this session will provide a calm space in which to compare and converse about two Madonna and Child paintings.

We will invite you to look slowly and explore the differences in the two interpretations and the artistic approaches, whilst also reflecting upon how we individually respond to the paintings, and how we feel about each representation, memories, and experiences that are evoked by colour, line and design, as well as questions that arise. These can all become starting points for conversations with the paintings

Zine-making Workshop with The Bridge

Reflect, create and connect! Our zine making workshop is a space to creatively explore your relationship with health and wellbeing. You’ll create your own zine with space for discussion around your experiences and journeys with health and wellbeing. Open to all – no zine making experience necessary.

Join The Bridge for their zine-making workshop at City Lit!

Being bi-polar in a Deaf world

Richard D France presents his unique take of being bipolar in a Deaf world with poetry, songs, and philosophical thoughts. Using humour and alternative perspectives on mental health, Richard delivers a unique insight in surviving bipolar and the journey his bipolarity has taken him on. Presented in his communication blend of BSL, SSE and voice. There will be a Q&A opportunity at the end of the show. Due to suicide references, this event is only suitable for those aged 16+. 

Fully booked

Frazzled Cafe Online

Join us for an online version of Frazzled Cafe facilitated peer support meetings. Frazzled Cafe meetings are designed to provide confidential and non-judgmental peer support, where people who are feeling overwhelmed by the stresses of life can talk openly, connect and feel heard. If this is your first time attending one we encourage you to have a look at the website which will tell you a bit more about what to expect: https://www.frazzledcafe.org/about/

Men's Mental Health: Connection & Creativity Panel Discussion

Join an expert panel of speakers and mental health campaigners as they discuss men's mental health in contemporary society, the possible factors that impact men's wellbeing, and explore the ways in which authentic social connection and creative activity can support psychological health and healing. This panel discussion will take place via Zoom Webinar.

Speakers: Jon Salmon, Stu Mills, Tom Davies, Yashoda Rodgers and Luke Ambler.

Host: Ian Tucknott.

Monday 9 October

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Thursday 12 October

Friday 13 October

Saturday 14 October