Description

Thanks to funding from Livewell Kent, and working in partnership with our colleagues at West Kent Mind, we are offering a range of different mental health for people who are over the age of 17.  

This support includes a mixture of specifically tailored one-to-one support, and also group-based support. All of these services aim to provide positive interventions which will benefit the mental health and wellbeing of clients who participate. Full details on each programme can be found below. 

Please use the booking form found on this page to book your space on any of the courses or services which are listed on this page. 

Recovery Action Plans 

Our Recovery Action Plans are available Kent-wide (excluding Medway). 

Adult RAPs are being offered to increase the wellbeing and improve the mental health of those who have been adversely affected by the pandemic. These one-on-one sessions with Mid Kent Mind’s wellbeing workers will provide people with structured support as they begin to return to life under the ‘New Normal’. 

Over the course of a Recovery Action Plan, people will have the opportunity to identify areas where they may have struggled during the pandemic and will be encouraged and supported as they take proactive steps to manage those areas in the future. 

The Recovery Action Plan consists of the ten following areas: 

• Managing Mental Health 
• Life Skills 
• Physical Health and Self-care 
• Relationships 
• Social Networks 
• Aspirations 
• Responsibilities 
• Addictive / Challenging Behaviour 
• Identity  
• Self-esteem 

These RAP sessions are available free of charge – and can be booked by using the form below. These sessions are available for people who are over the age of 17. 

Sessions take place virtually via ZOOM.

Sessions are one hour per week for six weeks. For more details, you can complete the booking/enquiry form found on this page. 

Life Skills 

Life Skills is a 5-week virtual psychoeducational course to help you challenge unhelpful thinking, behaviour and make positive changes to your life. By the end of the course, you will have a better understanding of: 

• Anxiety, depression, and related problems
• How your thinking affects your mood and behaviour
• How negative moods and behaviours are maintained
• How to challenge unhelpful thinking
• How to develop and use a range of strategies to help you manage mood and behaviour

Please note that this is not a therapy group, so we will not ask you to disclose sensitive or personal material. All of the examples used throughout the group are Case Studies. 

To book a space on this programme, please complete the booking form found to the side of this page and a member of our team will be in touch to confirm your booking. 

Peer to Peer Support Group

The aim of the peer to peer support group is to provide additional support to individuals to help manage their wellbeing coming out of the global pandemic and help manage the ‘new normal’. We will do this by increasing social contact, confidence, and improve mental wellbeing through weekly sessions, connecting you with peers, facilitated by a Wellbeing Worker on a virtual platform. 

The support group will be an ideal opportunity for you to connect with others to decrease social isolation and loneliness, providing you with a safe space to talk with others and increase your social support network using creativity in the form of artistic elements and creative writing. 

This safe space will be hosted virtually – meaning you can access it at a time and place which suits you. For more details on this group, including when it will take place and how you can access it, please complete the form found below. 

Runs on Mondays weekly (6 week blocks) 2pm-3.30pm. This group will run for 6 weeks per cohort and the creative element will be in the form of creative writing and art.  

Please note that spaces on this group must be booked in advance. You can register your interest by completing the booking form on the side of this page. 

If you have any questions about the COMF programme, then you can e-mail our team via recoveryplanning@midkentmind.org.uk for more details.