We offer an exciting range of groups and courses to support people to improve their mental wellbeing, physical health, social networks and daily living skills. Browse below to see what’s on offer and if you would like to find out more or get booked on please make a referral using the button on our header. Please note that the our service operates two pathways within it to meet the needs of people we work with, some courses are only available to a specific pathway and your named network coordinator will discuss which courses you can access based on your needs.

Monday 26 May

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Hearing Voices Group – 14:00 – 15:00 (started on 24/04/2025)
Event Type: Mental Health,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

This group is aimed at anyone who has experienced hearing voices and is looking to explore ways of coping with distressing voices, emotions and overwhelming beliefs. Sources of support, advice and information.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQEiAAO
 
In Progress: 24/04/2025, 20/05/2025, 26/05/2025
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Sleep Hygiene 14:00 – 16:00 (started on 28/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

These include boosting our mood, reducing stress, and helping with anxiety. If you're having trouble sleeping, knowing how to sleep better can make a huge difference


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000INGzZIAX
 
In Progress: 28/04/2025, 26/05/2025, 30/06/2025

Tuesday 27 May

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Wellbeing Within- IRIE Women`s Group, 11:00 – 13:00 (started on 25/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a Homerton Row London E9 6ED

A monthly drop-in group for Black women in Hackney to support social connection, a sense of belonging and to promote joy and wellbeing.

 
Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq000006T3yMIAS
 
In Progress: 25/04/2025, 30/05/2025, 27/05/2025

Thursday 29 May

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Pampering Group – 13:30 – 16:00 (started on 03/04/2025)
Event Type: Daily Living,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

This is group is designed for pure indulgence, feet /back massage, targeted towards pampering in helping to reduce stress, enhance your mood ,promote better sleep ,help with better circulation and general overall to promote ones wellbeing. Open to Men and Women.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DYSWAA4
 
In Progress: 03/04/2025, 10/04/2025, 17/04/2025, 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025, 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, ACT for Racial Trauma – 10:30 – 12:30 (started on 24/04/2025)
Event Type: Mental Health,
IRIE Mind
Irie Mind, 6a Homerton Row E9 6ED

Group will explore and unpack what Racial Trauma really is, what it looks like, how it feels, and how it shows up in out daily lives. We'll share real-live stories and examples to explore how race is about more than just a skin colour. If you or someone you know has experience racial trauma-or you are unsure if you have it, this group will provide insight and understanding through the lens of Black experiences.

Click here to register to the group waiting list Please complete the registration form adding the code 7018d000000DYSCAA4
In Progress: 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025

Friday 30 May

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Wellbeing Within- IRIE Women`s Group, 11:00 – 13:00 (started on 25/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a Homerton Row London E9 6ED

A monthly drop-in group for Black women in Hackney to support social connection, a sense of belonging and to promote joy and wellbeing.

 
Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq000006T3yMIAS
 
In Progress: 25/04/2025, 30/05/2025, 27/05/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Front Room , 10:30 – 12:45 (started on 04/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe space to “cool off”, “labrish”. Share and learn about those things that are of everyday importance for you.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQExAAO
 
In Progress: 04/04/2025, 11/04/2025, 18/04/2025, 25/04/2025, 02/05/2025, 09/05/2025, 16/05/2025, 23/05/2025, 30/05/2025, 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025

Monday 2 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Black Men’s Group – 14:00-15:00 (started on 07/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe non-judgemental space for Black African & Caribbean men to connect, meet, greet and discuss the things that matter.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQEsAAO
 
In Progress: 07/04/2025, 21/04/2025, 05/05/2025, 19/05/2025, 02/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 30/06/2025

Tuesday 3 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 5 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Pampering Group – 13:30 – 16:00 (started on 03/04/2025)
Event Type: Daily Living,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

This is group is designed for pure indulgence, feet /back massage, targeted towards pampering in helping to reduce stress, enhance your mood ,promote better sleep ,help with better circulation and general overall to promote ones wellbeing. Open to Men and Women.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DYSWAA4
 
In Progress: 03/04/2025, 10/04/2025, 17/04/2025, 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025, 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, ACT for Racial Trauma – 10:30 – 12:30 (started on 24/04/2025)
Event Type: Mental Health,
IRIE Mind
Irie Mind, 6a Homerton Row E9 6ED

Group will explore and unpack what Racial Trauma really is, what it looks like, how it feels, and how it shows up in out daily lives. We'll share real-live stories and examples to explore how race is about more than just a skin colour. If you or someone you know has experience racial trauma-or you are unsure if you have it, this group will provide insight and understanding through the lens of Black experiences.

Click here to register to the group waiting list Please complete the registration form adding the code 7018d000000DYSCAA4
In Progress: 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025

Friday 6 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Front Room , 10:30 – 12:45 (started on 04/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe space to “cool off”, “labrish”. Share and learn about those things that are of everyday importance for you.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQExAAO
 
In Progress: 04/04/2025, 11/04/2025, 18/04/2025, 25/04/2025, 02/05/2025, 09/05/2025, 16/05/2025, 23/05/2025, 30/05/2025, 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Cook & Eat June- Recipes of Life, 13:30 – 15:30
Event Type: Daily Living, Social Networks, Mental Health,
Shoreditch Trust
Waterhouse restaurant, 10 Orsman Road, N1 5QJ

EXACT DATES TO BE CONFIRMED (extension possible). 4 weeks Cook and Eat course based on Recipes of Life, to learn explore the value of food and culture, try new recipes and meet people. We cook as a group and eat the food we have prepared together. All dietary requirements are catered for, no experience needed.

 
Please click here to register to the waiting list : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000NXHJNIA5
 
In Progress: 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025

Monday 9 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 09/06/2025 to 14/07/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025

Tuesday 10 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 12 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Pampering Group – 13:30 – 16:00 (started on 03/04/2025)
Event Type: Daily Living,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

This is group is designed for pure indulgence, feet /back massage, targeted towards pampering in helping to reduce stress, enhance your mood ,promote better sleep ,help with better circulation and general overall to promote ones wellbeing. Open to Men and Women.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DYSWAA4
 
In Progress: 03/04/2025, 10/04/2025, 17/04/2025, 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025, 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, ACT for Racial Trauma – 10:30 – 12:30 (started on 24/04/2025)
Event Type: Mental Health,
IRIE Mind
Irie Mind, 6a Homerton Row E9 6ED

Group will explore and unpack what Racial Trauma really is, what it looks like, how it feels, and how it shows up in out daily lives. We'll share real-live stories and examples to explore how race is about more than just a skin colour. If you or someone you know has experience racial trauma-or you are unsure if you have it, this group will provide insight and understanding through the lens of Black experiences.

Click here to register to the group waiting list Please complete the registration form adding the code 7018d000000DYSCAA4
In Progress: 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025

Friday 13 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Front Room , 10:30 – 12:45 (started on 04/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe space to “cool off”, “labrish”. Share and learn about those things that are of everyday importance for you.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQExAAO
 
In Progress: 04/04/2025, 11/04/2025, 18/04/2025, 25/04/2025, 02/05/2025, 09/05/2025, 16/05/2025, 23/05/2025, 30/05/2025, 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, DIY Jewellery Making, 12:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks, Mental Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our short course and learn basic jewellery making techniques. Practice using proper tools and make bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Relax and enjoy working along other creative people.

 
Click here to register to the group waiting list  : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000PLKx3IAH
 
In Progress: 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Cook & Eat June- Recipes of Life, 13:30 – 15:30
Event Type: Daily Living, Social Networks, Mental Health,
Shoreditch Trust
Waterhouse restaurant, 10 Orsman Road, N1 5QJ

EXACT DATES TO BE CONFIRMED (extension possible). 4 weeks Cook and Eat course based on Recipes of Life, to learn explore the value of food and culture, try new recipes and meet people. We cook as a group and eat the food we have prepared together. All dietary requirements are catered for, no experience needed.

 
Please click here to register to the waiting list : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000NXHJNIA5
 
In Progress: 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025

Monday 16 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 09/06/2025 to 14/07/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Black Men’s Group – 14:00-15:00 (started on 07/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe non-judgemental space for Black African & Caribbean men to connect, meet, greet and discuss the things that matter.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQEsAAO
 
In Progress: 07/04/2025, 21/04/2025, 05/05/2025, 19/05/2025, 02/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 30/06/2025

Tuesday 17 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 19 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Card Making with Maths- 13:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks,
African Community School
African Community School, Lawson Centre

Join us for an exciting Card Making course with a Maths twist! Over three sessions, you'll learn to create beautiful cards using recycled materials while exploring the wonders of mathematics. What You'll Do: Design your own DIY Maths set. Draw shapes and create intriguing patterns. Learn papercraft techniques for making collages, pop-ups, and puzzles. Make cards for various occasions that are as unique as they are beautiful.


Please click here to register to the waiting list Please complete the registration form adding the code 701Sq00000PNwy3IAD
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 03/07/2025,17/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Pampering Group – 13:30 – 16:00 (started on 03/04/2025)
Event Type: Daily Living,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

This is group is designed for pure indulgence, feet /back massage, targeted towards pampering in helping to reduce stress, enhance your mood ,promote better sleep ,help with better circulation and general overall to promote ones wellbeing. Open to Men and Women.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DYSWAA4
 
In Progress: 03/04/2025, 10/04/2025, 17/04/2025, 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025, 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025
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Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 19th and 26th June 14:30 to 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Children’s Books Doodle Illustration: 19/06/2025 – 17/07/2025, 10:00 to 12:00
Event Type:
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our free 5-week course 'Children's Books Doodle Illustrations'. Explore famous story illustrators and understand visual storytelling through composition. Discover ways of creating atmosphere using various colour schemes. Learn how to draw simple cartoon characters and scenes. Practice transforming simple drawings into colourful illustrations for a children story. Have fun working along other creative people and relax making art to express yourself.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000Pp9O1IAJ
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025, 03/07/2025, 10/07/2025, 17/07/2025

Friday 20 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Front Room , 10:30 – 12:45 (started on 04/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe space to “cool off”, “labrish”. Share and learn about those things that are of everyday importance for you.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQExAAO
 
In Progress: 04/04/2025, 11/04/2025, 18/04/2025, 25/04/2025, 02/05/2025, 09/05/2025, 16/05/2025, 23/05/2025, 30/05/2025, 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, DIY Jewellery Making, 12:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks, Mental Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our short course and learn basic jewellery making techniques. Practice using proper tools and make bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Relax and enjoy working along other creative people.

 
Click here to register to the group waiting list  : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000PLKx3IAH
 
In Progress: 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Cook & Eat June- Recipes of Life, 13:30 – 15:30
Event Type: Daily Living, Social Networks, Mental Health,
Shoreditch Trust
Waterhouse restaurant, 10 Orsman Road, N1 5QJ

EXACT DATES TO BE CONFIRMED (extension possible). 4 weeks Cook and Eat course based on Recipes of Life, to learn explore the value of food and culture, try new recipes and meet people. We cook as a group and eat the food we have prepared together. All dietary requirements are catered for, no experience needed.

 
Please click here to register to the waiting list : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000NXHJNIA5
 
In Progress: 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Free Zumba, 10:30 – 11:30
Event Type: Physical Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Estate Community Hall 38 Marcon Pl, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Take part in our Zumba classes, have fun and improve fitness Zumba is a fun dance and exercise workout featuring different types of steps, including salsa and meringue, which have easy-to-learn instructions and are combined to create a workout for the entire body. Suitable for complete beginners.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000OoweGIAR
 
In Progress: 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025

Monday 23 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 09/06/2025 to 14/07/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025

Tuesday 24 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 26 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Client Forum – 14:30 – 15:30 (started on 15/05/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

All IRIE Mind Clients are welcome to attend and get involved in how we run our Service, Know what we have to offer and how best to serve you. Come and Have Your Say!


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000IRogPIAT
 
In Progress: 15/05/2025, 26/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Pampering Group – 13:30 – 16:00 (started on 03/04/2025)
Event Type: Daily Living,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

This is group is designed for pure indulgence, feet /back massage, targeted towards pampering in helping to reduce stress, enhance your mood ,promote better sleep ,help with better circulation and general overall to promote ones wellbeing. Open to Men and Women.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DYSWAA4
 
In Progress: 03/04/2025, 10/04/2025, 17/04/2025, 24/04/2025, 01/05/2025, 08/05/2025, 15/05/2025, 22/05/2025, 29/05/2025, 05/06/2025, 12/06/2025, 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025
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Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 19th and 26th June 14:30 to 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Children’s Books Doodle Illustration: 19/06/2025 – 17/07/2025, 10:00 to 12:00
Event Type:
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our free 5-week course 'Children's Books Doodle Illustrations'. Explore famous story illustrators and understand visual storytelling through composition. Discover ways of creating atmosphere using various colour schemes. Learn how to draw simple cartoon characters and scenes. Practice transforming simple drawings into colourful illustrations for a children story. Have fun working along other creative people and relax making art to express yourself.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000Pp9O1IAJ
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025, 03/07/2025, 10/07/2025, 17/07/2025

Friday 27 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Front Room , 10:30 – 12:45 (started on 04/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe space to “cool off”, “labrish”. Share and learn about those things that are of everyday importance for you.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQExAAO
 
In Progress: 04/04/2025, 11/04/2025, 18/04/2025, 25/04/2025, 02/05/2025, 09/05/2025, 16/05/2025, 23/05/2025, 30/05/2025, 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, DIY Jewellery Making, 12:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks, Mental Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our short course and learn basic jewellery making techniques. Practice using proper tools and make bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Relax and enjoy working along other creative people.

 
Click here to register to the group waiting list  : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000PLKx3IAH
 
In Progress: 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Cook & Eat June- Recipes of Life, 13:30 – 15:30
Event Type: Daily Living, Social Networks, Mental Health,
Shoreditch Trust
Waterhouse restaurant, 10 Orsman Road, N1 5QJ

EXACT DATES TO BE CONFIRMED (extension possible). 4 weeks Cook and Eat course based on Recipes of Life, to learn explore the value of food and culture, try new recipes and meet people. We cook as a group and eat the food we have prepared together. All dietary requirements are catered for, no experience needed.

 
Please click here to register to the waiting list : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000NXHJNIA5
 
In Progress: 06/06/2025, 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Free Zumba, 10:30 – 11:30
Event Type: Physical Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Estate Community Hall 38 Marcon Pl, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Take part in our Zumba classes, have fun and improve fitness Zumba is a fun dance and exercise workout featuring different types of steps, including salsa and meringue, which have easy-to-learn instructions and are combined to create a workout for the entire body. Suitable for complete beginners.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000OoweGIAR
 
In Progress: 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025

Monday 30 June

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 09/06/2025 to 14/07/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Black Men’s Group – 14:00-15:00 (started on 07/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

A safe non-judgemental space for Black African & Caribbean men to connect, meet, greet and discuss the things that matter.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 7018d000000DQEsAAO
 
In Progress: 07/04/2025, 21/04/2025, 05/05/2025, 19/05/2025, 02/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 30/06/2025
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Sleep Hygiene 14:00 – 16:00 (started on 28/04/2025)
Event Type: Social Networks,
IRIE Mind
15a, Homerton Row - Hackney, E9 6ED, London

These include boosting our mood, reducing stress, and helping with anxiety. If you're having trouble sleeping, knowing how to sleep better can make a huge difference


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000INGzZIAX
 
In Progress: 28/04/2025, 26/05/2025, 30/06/2025

Tuesday 1 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 3 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Card Making with Maths- 13:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks,
African Community School
African Community School, Lawson Centre

Join us for an exciting Card Making course with a Maths twist! Over three sessions, you'll learn to create beautiful cards using recycled materials while exploring the wonders of mathematics. What You'll Do: Design your own DIY Maths set. Draw shapes and create intriguing patterns. Learn papercraft techniques for making collages, pop-ups, and puzzles. Make cards for various occasions that are as unique as they are beautiful.


Please click here to register to the waiting list Please complete the registration form adding the code 701Sq00000PNwy3IAD
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 03/07/2025,17/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Children’s Books Doodle Illustration: 19/06/2025 – 17/07/2025, 10:00 to 12:00
Event Type:
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our free 5-week course 'Children's Books Doodle Illustrations'. Explore famous story illustrators and understand visual storytelling through composition. Discover ways of creating atmosphere using various colour schemes. Learn how to draw simple cartoon characters and scenes. Practice transforming simple drawings into colourful illustrations for a children story. Have fun working along other creative people and relax making art to express yourself.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000Pp9O1IAJ
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025, 03/07/2025, 10/07/2025, 17/07/2025

Friday 4 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, DIY Jewellery Making, 12:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks, Mental Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our short course and learn basic jewellery making techniques. Practice using proper tools and make bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Relax and enjoy working along other creative people.

 
Click here to register to the group waiting list  : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000PLKx3IAH
 
In Progress: 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Free Zumba, 10:30 – 11:30
Event Type: Physical Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Estate Community Hall 38 Marcon Pl, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Take part in our Zumba classes, have fun and improve fitness Zumba is a fun dance and exercise workout featuring different types of steps, including salsa and meringue, which have easy-to-learn instructions and are combined to create a workout for the entire body. Suitable for complete beginners.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000OoweGIAR
 
In Progress: 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025

Monday 7 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 09/06/2025 to 14/07/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025

Tuesday 8 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 10 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Children’s Books Doodle Illustration: 19/06/2025 – 17/07/2025, 10:00 to 12:00
Event Type:
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our free 5-week course 'Children's Books Doodle Illustrations'. Explore famous story illustrators and understand visual storytelling through composition. Discover ways of creating atmosphere using various colour schemes. Learn how to draw simple cartoon characters and scenes. Practice transforming simple drawings into colourful illustrations for a children story. Have fun working along other creative people and relax making art to express yourself.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000Pp9O1IAJ
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025, 03/07/2025, 10/07/2025, 17/07/2025

Friday 11 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, DIY Jewellery Making, 12:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks, Mental Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our short course and learn basic jewellery making techniques. Practice using proper tools and make bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Relax and enjoy working along other creative people.

 
Click here to register to the group waiting list  : Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000PLKx3IAH
 
In Progress: 13/06/2025, 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Free Zumba, 10:30 – 11:30
Event Type: Physical Health,
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Estate Community Hall 38 Marcon Pl, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Take part in our Zumba classes, have fun and improve fitness Zumba is a fun dance and exercise workout featuring different types of steps, including salsa and meringue, which have easy-to-learn instructions and are combined to create a workout for the entire body. Suitable for complete beginners.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000OoweGIAR
 
In Progress: 20/06/2025, 27/06/2025, 04/07/2025, 11/07/2025

Monday 14 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 09/06/2025 to 14/07/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025

Tuesday 15 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 17 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Card Making with Maths- 13:00 – 15:00
Event Type: Social Networks,
African Community School
African Community School, Lawson Centre

Join us for an exciting Card Making course with a Maths twist! Over three sessions, you'll learn to create beautiful cards using recycled materials while exploring the wonders of mathematics. What You'll Do: Design your own DIY Maths set. Draw shapes and create intriguing patterns. Learn papercraft techniques for making collages, pop-ups, and puzzles. Make cards for various occasions that are as unique as they are beautiful.


Please click here to register to the waiting list Please complete the registration form adding the code 701Sq00000PNwy3IAD
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 03/07/2025,17/07/2025
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Event type: Coached Access, Children’s Books Doodle Illustration: 19/06/2025 – 17/07/2025, 10:00 to 12:00
Event Type:
African Community School
Aspland & Marcon Community Hall 38 Marcon Place, Amhurst Road, London E8 1LP

Join our free 5-week course 'Children's Books Doodle Illustrations'. Explore famous story illustrators and understand visual storytelling through composition. Discover ways of creating atmosphere using various colour schemes. Learn how to draw simple cartoon characters and scenes. Practice transforming simple drawings into colourful illustrations for a children story. Have fun working along other creative people and relax making art to express yourself.


Please click here to register to the waiting list - Please complete the registration form adding the following Group Course Code 701Sq00000Pp9O1IAJ
 
In Progress: 19/06/2025, 26/06/2025, 03/07/2025, 10/07/2025, 17/07/2025

Monday 21 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec General, 18:00 – 20:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on. The group consists of 10-14 participants.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 02/06/2025, 09/06/2025, 16/06/2025, 23/06/2025, 30/06/2025, 07/07/2025, 14/07/2025, 21/07/2025

Tuesday 22 July

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Online: RadSec LGBTQ+, 18:30 – 20:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Online via Teams

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 03/06/2025, 10/06/2025, 17/06/2025, 24/06/2025, 01/07/2025, 08/07/2025, 15/07/2025, 22/07/2025

Thursday 4 September

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 04/09/2025 to 09/10/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 04/09/2025, 11/09/2025, 18/09/2025, 25/09/2025, 02/10/2025, 09/10/2025

Thursday 11 September

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 04/09/2025 to 09/10/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 04/09/2025, 11/09/2025, 18/09/2025, 25/09/2025, 02/10/2025, 09/10/2025

Monday 15 September

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Event type: Coached Access, Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 15th and 22nd September 14:30 to 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 15/09/2025, 22/09/2025

Thursday 18 September

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 04/09/2025 to 09/10/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 04/09/2025, 11/09/2025, 18/09/2025, 25/09/2025, 02/10/2025, 09/10/2025

Monday 22 September

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Event type: Coached Access, Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 15th and 22nd September 14:30 to 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 15/09/2025, 22/09/2025

Thursday 25 September

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 04/09/2025 to 09/10/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 04/09/2025, 11/09/2025, 18/09/2025, 25/09/2025, 02/10/2025, 09/10/2025

Thursday 2 October

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 04/09/2025 to 09/10/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 04/09/2025, 11/09/2025, 18/09/2025, 25/09/2025, 02/10/2025, 09/10/2025

Thursday 9 October

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 04/09/2025 to 09/10/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 04/09/2025, 11/09/2025, 18/09/2025, 25/09/2025, 02/10/2025, 09/10/2025

Thursday 6 November

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 06/11/2025 to 11/12/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 06/11/2025, 13/11/2025, 20/11/2025, 27/11/2025, 04/12/2025, 11/12/2025

Monday 10 November

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Event type: Coached Access, Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 10th and 17th November, 11:00 to 13:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 10/11/2025, 17/11/2025

Thursday 13 November

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 06/11/2025 to 11/12/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 06/11/2025, 13/11/2025, 20/11/2025, 27/11/2025, 04/12/2025, 11/12/2025

Monday 17 November

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Event type: Coached Access, Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 10th and 17th November, 11:00 to 13:00
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 10/11/2025, 17/11/2025

Thursday 20 November

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 06/11/2025 to 11/12/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 06/11/2025, 13/11/2025, 20/11/2025, 27/11/2025, 04/12/2025, 11/12/2025

Thursday 27 November

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 06/11/2025 to 11/12/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 06/11/2025, 13/11/2025, 20/11/2025, 27/11/2025, 04/12/2025, 11/12/2025

Thursday 4 December

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 06/11/2025 to 11/12/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 06/11/2025, 13/11/2025, 20/11/2025, 27/11/2025, 04/12/2025, 11/12/2025

Monday 8 December

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 8th and 15th December 14:30 to 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 08/12/2025, 15/12/2025

Thursday 11 December

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Event type: Coached Access, Understanding and Managing Anxiety (UMA), 06/11/2025 to 11/12/2025, 14:30 – 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 06/11/2025, 13/11/2025, 20/11/2025, 27/11/2025, 04/12/2025, 11/12/2025

Monday 15 December

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Event type: Coached Access, Event type: Independent Access, Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions (MADE), 8th and 15th December 14:30 to 16:30
Event Type: Mental Health,
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
12 Orsman Road, Haggerston, N1 5QJ

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.


Please speak to your Mental Health Coach to be referred to this group
 
In Progress: 08/12/2025, 15/12/2025