Tuesdays 2.30 to 3.30pm, 12th April to 17th May 2016
At the Old Fire Station community centre. Call 0207 607 9794 to book your place, or pop-in to the Old Fire Station, 84 Mayton Street N7 6QT. 

The Course is facilitated by Sharon Eva Degen, who is offering a mindfulness approach and has experience
with working with mental health.

Hurry limited places!

​Carol Louvet, Stress Project Manager

The Stress Project will be at the Keep Moving Health and Well-being event organised by Islington Council 
for Islington residents who are over 55.

Wednesday 23 March 2016 12-5pm
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD

Advice on reducing energy and water debt
For more information and to register contact Tamara Awarieta.
020 7527 5148 [email protected]
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Healthy activities will include Chair-based exercise demonstrations, singing and great food.

Complementary therapies, mindfulness meditation and information on health and well-being will be provided by the Stress Project outreach team - Wendy, Phillip and Mina.

Come on down ... we look forward to seeing you there!

Carol Louvet, Stress Project Manager​

 We celebrated International Women's Day at the Andover Estate  in Holloway on Saturday 12th March. The occasion was marked by exceptional women joining together and sharing their cultures. It was a colourful, multicultural event filled with special energy that these diverse and talented women all shared. There was traditional dancing, singing, music, costumes and great food with an amazing sense of community and celebration of womanhood.

The event was organised by the Finsbury Park Women's Group Network, which Holloway Neighbourhood Group helps to co-ordinate. 

Wendy Barnes 
PR and Communications volunteer

​Popping in to the Stress Project for the first time last month took me straight back to the early 90’s and a dingy low ceilinged basement of a grim tower block in Kings Cross.
 
I was just back from a year learning acupressure in San Francisco, and the basement was the home of the Immune Development Trust (IDT), a charity offering complementary therapies to people with immune related conditions – in the main,  cancer, ms, hiv/aids and lupus.
 
When I stumbled down the damp steps on my first day, I had no idea how lucky I was. Over the next years, IDT held me as I found my feet in my new career; it welcomed me into a family of fellow practitioners; and enabled me to get my hands on hundreds of beautiful and extraordinary bodies. Perhaps most important of all, it gave me the chance to work with clients who almost certainly wouldn’t have been able to afford it otherwise. What a gift that was! My nearly 10 years at IDT was a fantastic apprenticeship. It gave me great confidence and a huge passion.
 
So, walking through the doors at the Stress Project it was a treat to be welcomed into an environment that felt familiar. Just like at IDT it felt like home.
 
As a trainer of over 18 years I really appreciate what the Stress Project offers.
I’ve seen so many wonderful practitioners struggle with the transition from training into practice - a journey that takes so much courage and determination. Finding bodies to practice on is very often the first ‘impossible’ obstacle, so for that alone it’s reassuring for me to be able to recommend the Stress Project to my students.
 
More than that though, is the fact that the Stress Project offers the chance to new (and not so new) therapists to gain and share experience in a safe and supportive environment, and in my experience, that more than anything is the best way to lay the foundations for a successful career doing work that you love.

Michael Zimmerman
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For more information on seated acupressure training, email Michael at [email protected]

Multi faith and community service celebration invite you to Assembly Hall Islington  N1 2UD 
 Free- all welcome 9.45 to 2pm - Vegetarian Lunch 1pm
Come along a find out about more about community and faith based organisations in Islington
Live showcases celebrating diversity and creativity of Islington's faith communities and their work.
Wendy will be there on behalf of the Stress Project, look out for our stall.
​Hope to see you there.

Islington Community Wellbeing Development Service
Quarterly Community Wellbeing Conversation
LGBT and Mental Health—Addressing Public Attitudes: Promoting Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion
Was held 29th February 2016 Time: 9.30—2 pm
Venue: Islington Town Hall
Upper Street, Islington
London, N1 2UD
 Panel discussion focussed on:
 Stigma and its impact on Mental Health and Coming Out
 Historic Religious and Medical Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality
Workshops include:
 Intersectional stigma based on sexuality, gender, religion, race, culture and impact on mental health
 Support needs of LGBT people in coping with isolation, stress and improving emotional wellbeing
 Mental Health, Isolation, Families and Coming Out 

The Stress Project marked LGBT month by participating in this lively debate on addressing public attitudes
helping to reduce stigma attached LGBT and mental health.
Stella Fremi from Drayton Park Women's Crisis Centre presented issues on discrimination on sex, gender and sexuality. 

​Watch this space for the full report on the debate.