Mental Health Awareness Week - 8th-14th October 2018 - Connect Supporting Recovery
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Mental Health Awareness Week 8th-14th October 2018
Mā te taiao, Monday Rāhina
kia whakapakari tōu
oranga Be Active
Research shows a strong link to physical activity and increased
wellbeing. And, with spring upon us, it’s the perfect time to get
outdoors and enjoy the sunshine.
Take the opportunity today to be active and get outside into
nature. It could be a walk in the bush or as simple as a cup of
Nau mai, Haere mai, Welcome to Mental Health Awareness tea in the garden.
Week 2018!
Other activities on today include:
As a big part of our regular mahi at Connect Supporting Reach Out Art Group
Recovery, mental health and addiction is never far from The exhibition will be open
Come along to the opening of Reach
Out’s Art Exhibition at the Kumeu Arts
PRESENTS
ART
from 12pm Monday 8th
our minds anyway. This week however, we want to take the
October until 12pm 12th
October and is located at
the Kumeu Arts Centre, 300
Centre, 300 Main Rd Kumeu at 12pm.
opportunity to share our collective kete of knowledge with
Main Road, Kumeu, Auckland
(behind the library).
View artwork expressing mental
our wider whānau and make space to get together to nurture health awareness and contribute to
and celebrate our mental wellbeing. Exhibition our ‘shared canvas’.
Celebrating Mental
Health Awareness Our very own Jan Heath will be
Check out the following pages for inspiration on how you can Week leading a harakeke raranga (flax
spend your Mental Health Awareness Week. Each day has a weaving) session at 12.30pm.
theme in line with the Mental Health Foundation’s Five Ways Reach Out Peer Support Group is proud
to host an art exhibition to celebrate and contribute
to Mental Health Awareness Week! The exhibit is a
Please RSVP to Sam.Farr@connectsr.
to Wellbeing: Be Active, Keep Learning, Take Notice, Give,
chance to express mental health awareness through
the creativity of art. org.nz if you would like to come
and Connect.
The exhibit will feature works of art created by the Reach Out Art Group and from
other services involved with Connect Supporting Recovery. along and participate.
As well as coming along to view the art, we want everyone to have a chance to
contribute to a ‘shared canvas’ – a place where you can paint, draw, write what mental
health awareness means to you!
The exhibition will be open until 12pm
We also have fun activities on offer throughout the week, and Have an idea and want to contribute or participate?
on Friday.
some useful resources you can make use of now! Contact: Reach Out Peer Support OR sam.farr@connectsr.org.nz
Annual General Meeting
It’s also our AGM. Come along for some delicious food, incredible speeches
and the opportunity to vote for your favourite Board candidates. 4pm
onwards. East Coast Bays Rugby and Cricket Clubrooms, 493 East Coast
Road, Mairangi Bay, Auckland.
Tuesday Rātū Wednesday Rāapa
Keep Learning Take Notice
Learning, remaining curious, and setting goals is important for Appreciate the little things and savour the good moments.
all ages. Unfortunatley, our brains are wired to focus more heavily on
the negative. It’s important to take time to appreciate all the
Whāia te mātauranga hei oranga mō koutou good stuff in our lives and what we are thankful for.
Seek knowledge for the sake of your wellbeing
We want to invite you to appreciate the beauty
Check out some useful resources below that can help you keep in your life. Take a picture of something that
learning: improves your mental wellbeing and send it to
• Learn about yourself - take the free VIA Survey to discover your our IT and Communications Alchemist Regan -
character strengths and how to skillfully apply them to make a positive (regan.burt@connectsr.org.nz) - who will put the
impact on your life. snaps on Facebook for everyone to enjoy!
(https://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths)
• Learn more about Te Ao Maori - There are heaps of fantastic resources
out there to learn more about Maori language and culture. One great Other activities on today include:
one is Te Wānanga o Raukawa - which offers several fees-free courses.
(https://www.wananga.com)
Mental Health Awareness Day
DRIVE in collaboration with Connect
• Expand your support system - Hearts and Minds has a brilliant support &
Supporting Recovery and Cycle
services directory where you can find help and advice on a range of
Blend are putting on a fabulous day
topics including mental health and addiction. Present
(http://www.heartsandminds.org.nz/information-support/support-services-directory) Mental out at Totara Park. Activites include:
40 minute bush walk, cycle blend
• Get more involved with us - Reach Out peer support service runs
groups on art, music, womens empowerment and more. Get in touch Health cycles that make smoothies, play
with their Team Manager Sam Farr at Sam.Farr@connectsr.org.nz or on Awareness music and create art, and talks about
ways we can improve our mental
021 049 9672 for more information about how you can get involved.
Day wellbeing.
10am - 1pm Wednesday October 10th
Totara Park Everybody is welcome so come on
Other activities on today include: down!
Come and join us at Totara Park to help celebrate Mental
Walk around the Lake
Health Awareness Week. There will be heaps of fun activities,
including:
10am-1pm at Totara Park, 90 Wairere
Road, Manurewa, Auckland.
• a 40 minute gentle bush walk
Our Hamilton Whānau would like to invite you to join them on a stroll Make smoothies, play • Cycle blend cycles that make smoothies, play music and
music and create works of paint
• Talks from David Cutten and Edith Moore on topics such a
art with pedal power! mental health and nutrition and ways that we can support
around lake Rotoroa before stopping for a coffee. They will be meeting at our mental wellbeing
• Delicious and healthy snacks
10.30am at the Pavilion - Hamilton Lake Domain, Rotoroa Drive.
Everybody is welcome, so bring your friends and whānau. We
look forward to seeing you there! For more details contact DRIVE at
Please RSVP with Wendy Voeroes if you would like to come along at
For more details contact DRIVE at hello@drivedirection.org.nz
or on 09 263 6508 hello@drivedirection.org.nz or on 09
Wendy.Voeroes@connectsr.org.nz or on 022 3925 974 263 6508
Thursday Rāpare Friday Rāmere
Give Connect
Getting involved and helping your community by sharing your Feeling close to others and valued by them is a fundamental
skills and resources has been shown to increase feelings of human need and key to positive mental wellbeing.
self-worth and produce a positive emotional effect.
We want to encourage you all to take five this Friday and
Since the official theme of Mental Health Awareness Week this connect with each other. What better way to do this than over
year is ‘Let Nature In - Strengthen Your Wellbeing’ we thought it a cup of tea? Whether you are a staff member, service user, or
only right to give back to our Papatūānuku - our land. We are family and whānau - we want you to find some time between
going to do this by taking half an hour to clean up the litter in 12pm and 1pm to have your own ‘Mad Hatters Tea Party’ - a
our local community. time to kōrero with others about the highs and lows of life!
Perhaps you can join us by picking up rubbish at your service, Other activities on
home and/or neighbourhood? today include:
Other activities on today include: Reach Out Music Group
Come connect with your inner
Reach Out Art Activity rockstar - and the wonderful
Reach Out art group Facilitators will be people of the Reach Out
leading an interactive art activity at the Music Group. Bring your
Kumeu Arts Centre, 300 Main Rd Kumeu, favourite instrument (even if
from 1pm -3pm. Everyone is invited, so it’s just your voice) and jam
come along and make a work of art that you with us from 1.30 - 3.30pm
can perhaps GIVE to a loved one! in the training room at our
Head Office - 49B Apollo Drive
Head Office Clean Up Rosedale.
Some folks at Connect Supporting
Recovery’s Head Office (49B Apollo Drive, Breathe Out
Rosedale, Auckland) will be heading out to You’ve reached the end of
the streets at 10.30am for half an hour to MHAW 2018 - Go you!
clean up the rubbish in our neighbourhood. We hope this week has
helped you reflect on your
Come and join us or get some friends and mental wellbeing and gain
whānau together to do your own street some new skills and insights
clean. to add to your wellbeing kete.
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