In the run-up to World Mental Health Day (10 October 2024), join us for a twilight session dedicated to managing mental health and finding boundaries in your work. This session will equip you with tools to hold healthy conversations around mental health while prioritizing your own wellbeing.

As music practitioners and arts professionals, we navigate a world that can be stressful, insecure, and emotionally challenging, whilst also balancing personal pressures. Working with young people in challenging circumstances adds another layer of complexity. This training is designed to help you take care of yourself as well as the young people you work with.

The session will be delivered by Soundcastle, experts in grassroots community music and Mental Health First Aid Training. Making music happen in education, social care and health care contexts means Soundcastle facilitators have needed to hone the tools that support the mental health of practitioners and participants in practical, open and approachable ways.

This session will guide you through recognising stress, setting boundaries, and creating more resilience in your practice. You’ll gain strategies to manage your own wellbeing, support others, and foster open, honest conversations about mental health.

Ticket prices:
– £15
– Free to young people aged 16-25, students and unwaged
We want to ensure our training events are fully accessible and that cost is not a barrier. We therefore have a limited number of bursary places available to those who are unable to pay (subject to availability). Please email emily@sound-connections.org.uk to discuss the options.

For more information visit www.sound-connections.org.uk/events/managing-mental-health-and-finding-boundaries-in-the-arts/