• Balmy Army: a Contact takeover
  Join a cabaret-style sharing of work by madchester’s semi-notorious Balmy Army – featuring protest, poetry, song and more.
  Dates: Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th July, 7pm
  More information and tickets (pay what you can): https://contactmcr.com/events/balmy-army-a-contact-takeover
• HeartTouch Online Course – Embodied Mindfulness for Well-being & Vitality
  Dates: Monday evenings 7.15-8.45pm London Time; Monday 7th July – 6 Part Course 21/7-25/8
  A transformative online course for people experiencing chronic stress, emotional / mental distress or chronic pain & illness.
  For more information: https://www.easternpeace.com/events/heart-touch-online-course
• ISPS (International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis) – monthly online reflective space for staffA space to talk about moral injury, system breakdown, bullying and silencing, alienation. For further information, please see
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reflective-space-tickets-1383756546079Next meeting: Wednesday 9th July, 6.30-9.30pm
• Biodanza – new weekly movement class in Heaton Moor – see flyerDate: Tuesdays
  Time: 7.30-9.30pm
• Soteria Network UK webinar recording: https://youtu.be/dGuRr-iIMjUAttached are the GMMH research slides presentation including the unique community led research aims, preliminary findings and what’s happening next.Reminder Soteria Network UK are currently looking to recruit a Chair and a Secretary to build our capacity. Please let them know if you are interested or share with anyone you think may be interested.https://www.soterianetwork.org.uk/get-involved/chair/
  info@soterianetwork.org.uk
• Call for Contributions! Share your story about life with voice hearingThe Trafford and Women’s Hearing Voices Groups are collaborating to invite everyone in and around Manchester affected by or living with voice hearing to participate in a new project. They want to create and publish a booklet with stories and poetry about hearing voices and similar experiences. The hope is to create more understanding and offer hope to people struggling with their experiences.Get in touch to express your interest in contributing by emailing hearingvoicesmanchester@gmail.comIdeally to submit by Tuesday 15th July
• Making Hearing Voices Groups Work – National Hearing Voices NetworkDate: Saturday 5th July
  Time: 10:30am–5:00pm
  Location: online and in person, LondonJoin us to share wisdom on how to make Hearing Voices Groups work!
  In this one day event, we invite you to connect with others who attend, facilitate or are just interested in HVGs! We are aiming to share our wisdom and experiences on how to set up and successfully run these unique groups. There will be an opportunity to share your own reflections and experiences, and to hear from those working with youth, in religious communities, and those facilitating groups online.
  The precise agenda is still being set, but confirmed speakers include Neil Caton (Chorley Hearing Voices Group), Fiona Malpass (Mind in Camden), Safia Aslam (Muslim Women’s Hearing Voices Group) and Alison Branitsky (University of Manchester).ONLINE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-hearing-voices-network-making-hearing-voices-groups-work-online-tickets-1306630720659?aff=oddtdtcreatorIN PERSON https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-hearing-voices-network-making-hearing-voices-groups-work-tickets-1296061818789?aff=oddtdtcreator
• Black Unity Bike Ride – see details https://www.blackunitybikeride.com/manchester/ticketsDate: Sunday 17th August 2025£5.00/pp. Registration from 10am. Starting and finishing at Alexandra Park. Includes BUBR Fest.
• Hearing Voices Group Facilitation Training
  London Hearing Voices NetworkDate: Monday 21 July 2025
  Time: 10:00 AM – Wed 30 July 3:30 PM BST, onlineThis online training course, run across 3 days, is open to people who would like to develop or sustain a Hearing Voices Peer Support Group. Suitable both for professionals and for those with lived experience of voices, visions or beliefs. The training caters to those working across a number of settings including community settings and secure or forensic settings, and to those working with diverse populations including young people.https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mindincamden/1683291
• The myth of anti-racism in British mental health care
  Healing Justice LDNDate: Tuesday 22nd July
  Time: 6.00–8.30pm, onlineWhat Palestine reveals about the politics and racism of British mental health care
  Join us as we launch a new research project exploring how Palestinian solidarity is silenced, disciplined or managed in British mental health care. We will share the sensitive and underrepresented stories that demonstrate racism’s presence inside our health care institutions and the therapy room – and why we need to clearly see and name it.As we co-create a future with life-affirming health and healing infrastructures, it is our responsibility to witness the harms in our existing systems. This project bridges the interpersonal with the systemic while collapsing the idea of neutral or apolitical care infrastructures. Mental health care is political. We need to re-politicise how antiracism is practiced in our health and healing spaces.
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-myth-of-anti-racism-in-british-mental-health-care-online-tickets-1441078146529?aff=oddtdtcreator

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