Spirituality Forum

Welcome to our website, we hope you enjoy it and find it helpful. We are a group of people who are passionate about mental health and spirituality.

Why?
People’s lives can be devastated by poor mental health. They may be in touch with mental health services and they may not. In either case our experiences show us that acknowledging one’s spiritual self can be a force for change/good, aiding recovery from debilitating and milder distress.

But spirituality and mental health are both very complex. This website goes some way to illuminating some of these complexities.

You can use this website to:
=>    Explore some of the meanings of spirituality and mental health
=>    Find out who we are and what we are about
=>    Read notes of talks given at Forum meetings
=>    Find helpful forum-related publications – strategies, leaflets, policy and research reports
=>    Find links to other helpful publications and web sites

Membership of the forum is free of charge and you can join here. We currently contact members regarding details of meetings and events and plan to develop this website as a means for people to share resources, news and ideas, so please send us yours.

Forum Team and Speakers at the National Conference held in Derby May 2011

For a report of the conference, talks given at the event and other related material click here

The Forum invites mental health service users, carers, workers, faith community leaders and representatives to learn from each other, develop working relationships and share good practice in spirituality and mental health care. We seek to do so in the spirit of gentle curiosity and with courage and compassion.

with thanks to our sister Forum, 'spirituality in mental health north east' (www.simhne.co.uk)

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