East Kent Mind Wellbeing Activities Timetable

Mondays

09:00-10:00 Yoga Online
09:30-10:00 Meditation Practice Online
11:30-12:00 Goal Setting Online
12:00-13:30 Creative Writing Online
19:00-20:00 Mental Health Bank Whitstable
18:15-19:15 The Self-Care Hour/Drum and Movement Online (Rotating weeks)

Tuesdays

09:30-10:30 Tai Chi Online (The first 3 weeks of the month)
10:00-11:00 Cuppa Club Whitstable
10:00-15:00 Chatty Tuesday Whitstable
10:00-12:00 Make, Mend and Motivate Whitstable
10:30-12:30 Wellbeing Walk Herne Bay
10:30-12:00 Men’s Group Online
12:00-12:45 Pilates Online
13:30-15:30 MenTalk Herne Bay
17:15-18:45 Singing for Mental Health Whitstable
18:00-18:45 Yoga Online
18:00-20:00 Stress and Anxiety 3-week course online
19:00-20:00 Mental Health Bank Whitstable

Wednesdays

09:30-10:30 Photography For Fun Online
10:00-11:30 Women’s Wellness Group Whitstable
10:00-14:00 Gardening at Kent Community Oasis Garden Canterbury
10.00-11.30 Chatty Wednesday Ramsgate
11:00-13:00 Make, Mend and Motivate Online
12:00-13:30 Wellbeing Walks Various Thanet locations – until 29th October
14.30-16.30 Creative Art Ramsgate
16:00-17:30 Together We Can Online
19:00-20:30 MenTalk Whitstable

Thursdays

10:00-12:00 Confidence and Assertiveness 4-week course online
10:30-12:30 Make, Mend and Motivate Herne Bay
12:00-12:45 Pilates Online
14:00-16:00 Coping with Anxiety 6-week course online from 9th October to 13th November
15:30-18:30 Young Revival Whitstable
17:00-21:00 Sounds Revival Whitstable The first Thursday of the Month
18:00-20:00 Creative Space Whitstable The last Thursday of the Month
18:30-21:00 Revival Lates Whitstable

Fridays

09:00-09:45 Yoga Online
10:00-14:00 Gardening at Kent Community Oasis Garden Canterbury
10:30-12:30 Make, Mend and Motivate Ramsgate
13:00-14:00 Test Your Brain Online
14.30-16.30 Creative Art Herne Bay (Margate from October 3rd)
15:00-17:00 Music For Fun Online

Sundays

10:00-11:30 Walking for Wellbeing Whitstable

Information on Activities

Face-to-Face Groups and Courses

Pop in for a chat from 10-3pm, our friendly staff and volunteers are extra aware today of anyone dining alone and will turn up the talk to brighten your day.

If you know someone living alone, new to the area, retired, lonely or in anyway needing a friendly face and chat do point them in our direction, quietest times are before 11 and after 2pm (open 10-3pm)

It’s also a good opportunity to make the time to meet the friend you have been meaning to catch up with – see this as your reminder – make the time to talk

Revival, where community blossoms on the High Street in Whitstable.

Pop in for Chatty Wednesday from 10am-11.30am, our friendly staff are there to help brighten your day.

It is also a good opportunity to make the time to meet the friend you have been meaning to catch up with – make the time to talk.

If you know someone living alone, new to the area, retired, lonely or in any way needing a friendly face please point them in our direction.

Location: 34 King Street, Ramsgate CT11 8NT

Combat mental health challenges like loneliness and isolation, anxiety, and depression through the power of art and creative activities.

Find peer support in a safe and welcoming creative community. Let’s create together and build a path to brighter days.

Please register for these sessions.

The Ramsgate group takes place at: 34 King Street, Ramsgate CT11 8NT

The Herne Bay group takes place Weekly every Friday at EKM Umbrella, 54 William Street, Herne Bay CT6 5PBZ

Informal meet and chat circle to connect, make friends and be part of your community. Free Tea, Coffee and biscuits.

Thursday 18:00-20:00 Revival Whitstable

The Kent COG garden is a multiuse, accessible, safe space that provides opportunities for students, staff and the community to engage with sustainable food, biodiversity, gardening, community action and mental health and wellbeing activities, whilst making new friends, getting some time outdoors, building up skills, confidence and making new links.

We offer 2 weekly sessions on Wednesdays and Fridays for participants to engage with general gardening activities. Individuals can just turn up and spend between 1 and 4 hours per session outdoors, working with a facilitator or other professional in a group setting, taking part in growing activities, sharing knowledge and learning new skills. In addition, we offer monthly Saturday sessions focused on developing and maintaining wellbeing for all, and seasonal Sunday sessions, promoting sustainability and exploring our connection with the natural environment.

KentCOG are eager to liaise with individuals to make the programme appropriate for their needs. We are experienced in working with a variety of needs and our site is partially accessible for wheelchair users. We are working towards creating a fully accessible site and any feedback is welcome. We are happy to show students and staff around the garden and discuss their particular needs or requirements, as well as offering additional sessions to try out activities and to discuss ideas.

The programme can be accessed by visiting the garden on a regular basis throughout the year, or by liaising with staff at the University or via Mind to agree a specific block of sessions for individuals or groups which can be delivered on site.

Come and join our Mood Menders at our Face To Face two-hour workshops. A welcoming space to learn, share new skills, meet or make new friends. Restore and relax.

Locations: Herne Bay, Ramsgate and Whitstable

MenTalk is a drop-in for men where you can unwind, talk, listen and make local connections in a friendly supportive social space.

Social late night café for young people.

Music based social group

Improving mental wellbeing through music and movement.

Walking for wellbeing is open to all. It is a friendly relaxed group helping you to connect with nature, the community and your local area. You can walk and talk, walk and watch or just walk your way knowing you are not alone.

We meet in various locations within the Canterbury District and walk for about an hour from 10am every Sunday, details can be found on our Facebook events – Walking for Wellbeing Revival East Kent Mind

Join our friendly and relaxed groups helping you to connect with nature, the community and your local area.

You can walk and talk, walk and watch, or just walk with us knowing that you are not alone.

Please register online and book your place.

The Thanet walks are as follows:

Wed 6th August – 12pm-1.30pm | Birchington – Railway Station | Station Approach, Birchington CT7 9RD
Wed 13th August – 12pm-1.30pm | Margate – outside Morrisons | College Square, Hawley Street, Margate CT9 1PR
Wed 20th August – 12pm-1.30pm | Ramsgate – East Kent Mind office | 34 King Street, Ramsgate CT11 8NT
Wed 27th August – 12pm-1.30pm | Broadstairs – Broadstairs Railway Station | Lloyd Road, Broadstairs CT10 1HZ
Wed 3rd September – 12pm-1.30pm | Westgate – by the bus stop Westgate Railway Station | Station Road, Westgate on Sea CT8 8QY
Wed 10th September – 12pm-1.30pm | Birchington – Railway Station | Station Approach, Birchington CT7 9RD
Wed 17th September – 12pm-1.30pm | Margate – outside Morrisons | College Square, Hawley Street Margate CT9 1PR
Wed 24th September – 12pm-1.30pm | Ramsgate – East Kent Mind office | 34 King Street, Ramsgate CT11 8NT

The group is a friendly, welcoming female space for all ages to come together to chat, listen, share wellbeing journeys and support each other. See our social media for details:

Facebook Group: Women’s Wellness Peer Support Group (Revival)

Providing a safe social ‘café’ and creative space for young people under the age of 25. Activities include creative workshops, craft circles, board games, PS5 gaming, cinema nights and more.

Online Groups

Our Creative Writing group is every Monday from 12pm-1.30pm

Would you like to experience gentle learning and give time to developing your writing skills? Maybe you sense you have a short story or poem you would like to write. Learning new skills can improve our mental wellbeing giving us a sense of purpose and helping us connect to others.

In this group, there is guided learning such as an inspiring thought or theme or discussion and a variety of activities to help us express ourselves. These may include reading a story, sharing a poem or playing word games.

This is an online group so, for your own writing, either have pen and paper or laptop at the ready.

You are invited you join our fortnightly six-session online group where we will be using our bodies as a drum and bringing light movement into our evening.

Drumming and movement have great benefits for our minds, bodies and souls.

By joining this group, you will improve your strength, balance and resistance – all while having fun using your creativity.

We will be using drumming and movement holistically to explore new ways of meditating, using affirmations, clearing our chakras, gaining confidence, feeling alive and so much more.

All skills and abilities are welcome, as you can do it all sitting down if you prefer. All you need is a quiet room where you can move around.

Do you remember in school, when you had to find a space, and you put your arms out and turned in a circle to check you didn’t bang into anyone or anything?

That is all the space that you need.

Join Goal Setting to build on changing your week.
Together we will turn your goals into plans and your plans into actions by thinking big but acting small.
You will be asked what it is you would like to achieve over the coming week and then through discussion with your peers, we will find what method would suit you best. So, you can come back the next week for the celebration of:

“YOU DID IT”

Join us bi-weekly to learn many different ways you can journal; it is not just dear dairy!

Journaling is such an important part of looking after our mental health. Have a safe space to explore our emotions and let out some creativity is essential to be well. All you need is a journal (a notebook)

Rotating weeks Wednesday 6-7pm

This group is your time to put aside two hours for arts, craft, making, mending and DIY. Grab a cup of tea and the project you are working on to meet like-minded crafters for inspiration, tips and giggles. Don’t know what to bring? Still come along to get the motivation.

Creating is a form of self-care, it benefits you and those around you. It can help you feel more able to cope with situations.

Think you can’t meditate, discover that it’s not all about imagining yourself in a forest or listening to waves on a beach. Join this weekly group where we will practice together many different ways to meditate so you can find your perfect methods.

Weekly 9.30am-10am Monday and rotating weeks Wednesday 6-7pm

The Men’s Group is an informal, friendly and supportive group where you meet others to talk about a range of topics including your own wellbeing.

This group helps to build good supportive relationships which are important for our mental wellbeing. These friendships can build a sense of belonging, give us opportunity to share positive experiences and provide emotional support.

Please register and book your place online.

Music for Fun is an opportunity for people to come together and pick a piece of music.

Every participant gets a chance to select a song of their choice to be played to the group and are given time to talk about their selection.

This is a relaxed group with great discussion.

Please register and book your place online.

In this group, we encourage each other to take notice of what is around us by taking photos on a theme. Taking notice enables us to be in the moment and can help you to feel more positive about life.

Each week we start by looking at the photos of those attending the group have taken during the week. We enjoy talking about the photos, where these were taken and exploring the different styles.

Then a different theme is suggested for the next week such as animals, doors, weather, ‘why is that there’, food. During the week you notice what is around you and take photos on the theme.

No photography skills are needed and you can use a camera or your mobile phone. Please register and book your place online.

Pilates, pronounced “Puh-Lah-Tees”, takes its name from Joseph Pilates who was born in Germany in 1880.

Pilates believed mental and physical health were closely connected. His method was influenced by western forms of exercise, including gymnastics, boxing and Greco-Roman wrestling. He immigrated to the US in the 1920s and opened a studio in New York, where he taught his method – which he called Contrology – for several decades. Pilates mat-work classes are not only fun, they are designed to help you improve flexibility and strength. Small equipment such as bands, toning circles and balls are used during mat-work classes to help you achieve better movement patterns and provide you with more awareness of your body – and of course to challenge you! Our instructors cater to each individual, offering alternative movements if required so there is never a reason to feel worried about your ability.

Be kind to yourself and join our once a fortnight Self-Care group.

Each session, the group discusses a wide variety of different performative and transformative self-care methods. The sessions start with a 5–10-minute calming activity which you can use anytime to bring back balance to your mind and emotions.

We then learn one or two different self-care methods that the group does together, that you can practise at home.

The group sessions always finish with a song that will uplift everyone

You are invited to join us on online for quizzes, memory games, spelling tests, Boggle, spot the difference, maths problems and much more…

All you need is a pen and paper. No scores are read aloud, this is all for fun!

Please register and book your place online.

In this group, we are going to encourage each other to get those jobs done!

Whatever is on your To Do List – bring it along (with a cup of tea) and get tips from your peers on the best way to achieve what you want, as you are doing it!

From sorting your bills/benefits, decluttering, craft projects, homework from another group or a course you are doing, DIY, selfcare/glow ups, housework, journaling, planning, creative writing, gardening, shopping lists and so much more…
Please register and book your place online.

A gentle but energising all levels practice. Focusing on mindful movements, connection to breath, refreshing stretches and some strengthening poses, this practice will set you up for whatever your day brings. Open to all, including beginners.

The benefits of practicing Yoga include, but are not limited to:

  • Reduction in anxiety, stress and worry
  • Increased strength and flexibility
  • Take time for yourself
  • Increase focus
  • Prepare the body and mind for your day
  • Connection to breath and calming techniques

Please register and book your place online.

Online Courses

The course aims to increase group members’ self-awareness, coping mechanisms in stressful situations and teach techniques to enable individuals to plan positively for the future.

The course is in modules and covers:

  • Building confidence
  • Self-awareness and building positive self-image
  • Stress management
  • Assertiveness
  • Goal planning

The course runs for six weeks. Thursdays 10am–12pm

Anxiety and stress cause more sick days, illness and presenteeism than physical ailments. Discover the difference between stress and anxiety and why in combination they are the single biggest cause of concern for the working population.

Aims of the workshop:

  • Provide participants with a better understanding of stress and anxiety
  • Equip participants in techniques for coping with stress and anxiety
  • Enable greater self-awareness
  • Support wellbeing

Course content:

  • Typical causes of anxiety
  • How to become familiar with triggers
  • How to select coping strategies that work for you

The course will help you develop a better understanding of depression by looking at the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that can cause depression. You will be able to identify warning signs and risks of depression; identify the effects and symptoms of depression, and learn coping strategies.

Participants will develop skills that will help them to change their emotional cycle and learn how to effectively use a range of cognitive coping tools and mechanisms to deal with times when they are feeling low. The course involves group work and exercises that look at identifying the cause of their own depression and how this can be positively managed, with the aim of working towards sustained recovery.

A positive self-image is key to living a happy and healthy life.

Research shows that people who feel confident in themselves can problem solve and make better decisions, take more risks, assert themselves and strive to meet their personal goals.

Aims of the workshop:

  • Provide the participants with a better understanding of what is positive thinking, how it impacts and how to develop it
  • Enable a greater self-awareness
  • Equip the participants in effective techniques for changing attitudes
  • Support wellbeing

Course content:

  • What is positive thinking?
  • Why is positive thinking the key to a successful life?
  • How to develop the skill of positive thinking

Anxiety and stress cause more sick days, illness and presenteeism than physical ailments. Discover the difference between stress and anxiety and why in combination they are the single biggest cause of concern for the working population.

Aims of the workshop:

  • Provide the participants with a better understanding of what is positive thinking, how it impacts and how to develop it
  • Enable a greater self-awareness
  • Equip the participants in effective techniques for changing attitudes
  • Support wellbeing

Course Content:

  • Typical causes of anxiety
  • How to become familiar with triggers
  • How to select coping strategies that work specifically for you

Course Content:

  • Typical causes of anxiety
  • How to become familiar with triggers
  • How to select coping strategies that work specifically for you

Online Workshop Timetable

September

24/09 Wed 10:00–12:00 Understanding Anxiety and Panic
29/09 Mon 12:00–14:00 Online Safety and Avoiding Scams
29/09 Mon 17:00–18:00 Money Management

October

06/10 Mon 10:00–11:00 Money Management
06/10 Mon 17:00–18:00 Routine Builders
07/10 Tue 10:00–12:00 Suicide Awareness
09/10 Thu 17:00–19:00 Emotional Intelligence
13/10 Mon 10:00–11:00 Routine Builders
13/10 Mon 17:00–18:00 Visualising Intentions And Affirmations
15/10 Wed 10:00–12:00 Mental Health in the Workplace
16/10 Thu 17:00–19:00 Overcoming Loneliness
20/10 Mon 10:00–11:00 Healthy Mind and Body
20/10 Mon 17:00–18:00 Money Management
21/10 Tue 10:00–12:00 Low Mood and Depression
23/10 Thu 17:00–19:00 Anger Management
27/10 Mon 12:00–13:30 Online Safety and Avoiding Scams
27/10 Mon 17:00–18:00 Healthy Mind and Body
28/10 Tue 10:00–12:00 Understanding Anxiety and Panic
29/10 Wed 10:00–12:00 Sleep And Relaxation Techniques

November

03/11 Mon 10:00–11:00 Money Management
03/11 Mon 17:00–18:00 Routine Builders
04/11 Tue 10:00–12:00 Low Mood and Depression
06/11 Thu 17:00–19:00 Understanding Self-Harm
10/11 Mon 10:00–11:00 Routine Builders
10/11 Mon 17:00–18:00 Visualising Intentions and Affirmations
13/11 Thu 17:00–19:00 Mental Health in the Workplace
17/11 Mon 10:00–11:00 Healthy Mind and Body
17/11 Mon 17:00–18:00 Money Management
18/11 Tue 10:00–12:00 Body Image (Week 1)
20/11 Thu 17:00–19:00 Understanding Anxiety and Panic
24/11 Mon 17:00–18:00 Healthy Mind and Body
25/11 Tue 10:00–12:00 Body Image (Week 2)
26/11 Wed 10:00–12:00 Overcoming Loneliness
27/11 Thu 17:00–19:00 Emotional Intelligence

December

01/12 Mon 10:00–11:00 Money Management
01/12 Mon 17:00–18:00 Routine Builders
02/12 Tue 10:00–12:00 Autism Awareness
04/12 Thu 17:00–19:00 Suicide Awareness
08/12 Mon 10:00–11:00 Routine Builders
08/12 Mon 17:00–18:00 Visualising Intentions and Affirmations
10/12 Wed 10:00–12:00 Anger Management
11/12 Thu 17:00–19:00 Sleep And Relaxation Techniques
15/12 Mon 14:30–16:00 Online Safety and Avoiding Scams
15/12 Mon 10:00–11:00 Healthy Mind and Body
15/12 Mon 17:00–18:00 Money Management
16/12 Tue 10:00–12:00 Understanding Self-Harm
18/12 Thu 17:00–19:00 Low Mood and Depression
22/12 Mon 10:00–11:00 Money Management
22/12 Mon 17:00–18:00 Healthy Mind and Body
23/12 Tue 10:00–12:00 Understanding Anxiety and Panic
25/12 Thu 10:00–12:00 Christmas Day Group – New
26/12 Fri 10:00–12:00 Boxing Day Group – New
29/12 Mon 17:00–18:00 Routine Builders
31/12 Wed 14:00–16:00 New Year’s Eve Music Fun – New

Online Workshop Descriptions

This workshop helps people to understand the cycle of anger and when certain types of anger become problematic.

During this workshop you will identify the causes of anger, the effects of anger on your health and your relationships and most importantly a variety of coping strategies to deal with anger. We help promote the use of self-awareness and self-reflection to aid anger management. Sometimes the simplest coping strategies are the most effective!

The workshop also promotes group participation and interaction with discussion points aimed to encourage participants to grasp a better understanding of the thoughts and patterns that surround anger.

This workshop is designed to explore and understand how autistic people experience the world, including the differences in perception, communication, and interaction compared to non-autistic individuals.

It will also provide insights into the challenges autistic people may face in a predominantly non-autistic society, as well as the strengths and unique perspectives they bring.

This workshop will run over a two-week period, split into two two-hour sessions. It will try to adjust your way of thinking about body-image and challenge the images of idealised bodies shown throughout the media that can negatively impact people’s perceptions of themselves.

The course aims to help you achieve:

  • An improved self-image
  • A more realistic approach to body-image

During the course we explore:

  • Body image and how it is affected
  • How external/internal factors influence how we think and feel
  • Body image in men and women
  • How to accept your body and not aspire to unrealistic ideals
  • How not everything in the media is as it seems
  • How body image affects mental health
  • Ways to overcome negative body image
  • How to build self-esteem and body positivity

You are invited you join our fortnightly six-session online group where we will be using our bodies as a drum and bringing light movement into our evening.

Drumming and movement have great benefits for our minds, bodies and souls.

By joining this group, you will improve your strength, balance and resistance – all while having fun using your creativity.

We will be using drumming and movement holistically to explore new ways of meditating, using affirmations, clearing our chakras, gaining confidence, feeling alive and so much more.

All skills and abilities are welcome, as you can do it all sitting down if you prefer. All you need is a quiet room where you can move around.

Do you remember in school, when you had to find a space, and you put your arms out and turned in a circle to check you didn’t bang into anyone or anything? That is all the space that you need.

This workshop aims to give you the ability to distinguish between helpful and unhelpful thinking patterns and how to manage negative emotions effectively. The hoped outcome is that you will become more self-aware, be able to regulate your emotions more effectively and to develop your social skills including empathy and understanding different perspectives.

Overall, the suggested tips and coping strategies should help you to start challenging your learnt behaviours; become more in tune with your emotions and in time build up your resilience.

This workshop promotes group participation and interaction with discussion points aimed to encourage participants to grasp a better understanding of emotional intelligence.

In this one-hour workshop, you will be given ideas, inspirations and encouragements to help you live a more balanced lifestyle. Achieving optimal health and wellbeing requires taking care of both your body and mind.

We will look at what we can do and can avoid doing to bring balance into our lives.

We all need to exercise, eat well, get enough sleep and practise self-care and in this workshop we will help you discover what methods suit you best.

This workshop looks at the key differences between low mood and depression and the psychological, physical, emotional, social and behavioural symptoms linked to both.

The main focus is looking at the many causes of depression and understanding them fully and the most effective coping strategies to help manage depression in daily life.

The workshop promotes group participation and interaction with discussion points aimed to encourage participants to grasp a better understanding of low mood and depression.

In this workshop, we explore the relationship between mental health and work, focusing on how to create a mentally healthy workplace and how to be supportive of colleagues while still looking after oneself. We will look at why mental health is just as important as physical health, and share information about local mental health services.

Mindfulness is a way to incorporate calmness into your life to support your wellbeing. This mindfulness workshop encourages a positive mindful approach.

Through practical tools to gain understanding, it helps us develop an open mind and forgiveness of and acceptance towards ourselves and others.

The workshop includes a short guided mindful breathing meditation which can be used as a coping strategy when under stress or pressure from life, work or relationships.

In this workshop you will learn the importance of knowing where your money goes each month.

We will look at many ways to save on spending, how to budget our money, how to manage debt and where to seek help.

We are living through “the cost-of-living crisis”, Mind in Bexley would like to offer you the information you need to get your money in order and control your debts.

This workshop will define what is meant by loneliness, including the causes of loneliness and how it relates to mental health problems. There will also be advice on how to manage the feelings of loneliness and things you can do to develop yourself and feel content in your own company.

Want to start making the most of your time?

But don’t know how or where to start?

This workshop is for you!

You will be shown the benefits and importance of having a routine. We will then discuss methods for building and sticking to the routine that you really want.

Researchers have found that sleep and relaxation are important for us because it can support us in achieving:

  • Better productivity and concentration ● Lower weight gain risk ● Better calorie regulation ● Greater athletic performance ● Lower risk of heart disease ● More social and emotional intelligence ● Preventing depression ● Lower inflammation ● Stronger immune system

Aims of the Workshop

  • Simple relaxation methods, that promote health and general wellbeing ● The scientific background of why we sometimes can’t sleep ● Practical implementation in daily life ● How to relax yourself

This workshop is an interactive 2-hour online session. The subjects we will cover include:

  • What is Suicide
  • Suicide Statistics
  • Terms to describe suicide and the current arguments
  • Myths surrounding suicide
  • Potential causes of suicide
  • Coping with suicidal thoughts
  • Support Resources

The aim of this workshop is to enable you to better understand suicidal feelings, the causes of suicidal feelings and the support available.

Be kind to yourself and join our once a fortnight Self-Care group.

Each session, the group discusses a wide variety of different performative and transformative self-care methods. The sessions start with a 5–10-minute calming activity which you can use anytime to bring back balance to your mind and emotions.

We then learn one or two different self-care methods that the group does together, that you can practise at home.

The group sessions always finish with a song that will uplift everyone

This workshop is for those who would like to learn more about anxiety and panic.

We learn about different types of negative thinking patterns and share our own experiences of how we can relate to these.

We will explore different ideas on how we can turn negative reactions and thought patterns into positives by incorporating different healthy ways to wellbeing into our lives.

This workshop is a group where you will learn to use visualising skills to set intentions and affirmations using practical tools and guided meditation.

What do you intend to change in your life?

In this workshop, you will look at tools and meditation to help you set intentions and choose affirmations to help bring about positive change.