
Children’s Mental Health week workshops update
Last month I was privileged to run 2 workshops for over 500 primary school children as part of the Now and beyond Inside out day during Children’s Mental Health Week. Beyond were founded by the brilliant Jonny Benjamin MBE and Neil Laybourn and the organisation exists to challenge and change the mental health status quo.
One of the aims of the festival was to remind young people to be kind always and think of others as no one knows how someone is feeling inside. I was so impressed by the observations from the children, including one child who said they had learnt that what matters isn’t what you can see but inside us. Another child said she couldn’t wait to tell their parents to make a happy plan (one of the activities I had given the children to do). One of the teachers who was at school with a class said that in her group the children were giggling, smiling, laughing...