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Find Support

Find safe, compassionate and empowering spaces, projects and support organisations for people experiencing mental and emotional distress - experiencers, and for those who support them - holders.

Online peer support groups

 

Safely Held Spaces (SHS) offers online peer support groups for family members and friends supporting people experiencing extreme mental and emotional distress, often diagnosed as psychosis.

These online groups provide regular safe, compassionate and empowering spaces where holders (parents, siblings, friends, partners) are able to express their own experiences and needs, and find support from those who have been, or are going through, similar experiences.

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Our online groups aim to hold an expanded worldview - kind, open, curious, non-judgemental and accepting of uncertainty.  We allow space for holders to expand and evolve their own ways of understanding extreme mental and emotional distress in dialogue with one another.

The groups are open-ended and free of charge, meet one evening per week online on zoom for 1.5 hours, and have 5-6 members. The peer group space is supported by a facilitator with therapeutic skills and their own lived experience as a holder.

If you would like to find out more, or to join a group please contact Joanna at info@safelyheldspaces.org

HubOfHope

Hub of Hope

 

The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health signposting tool and lists local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS support and services for experiencers and holders. Since we all experience some kind of mental or emotional distress at some point in our lives, the Hub of Hope is really for all of us.

 

Safely Held Spaces has provided support for the development of the Hub of Hope, and has worked with the Hub of Hope team to try to ensure that the language used on the site is inclusive, so that all of us – no matter what we are experiencing, or how we see and understand our experiences – feel welcome.

We are keen to grow the Hub of Hope, so please click here to add mental health support and services that you know. 

Hub Of Hope

Further resources and support

 

Below you can find some of the compassionate and inspiring projects, events and organisations who we are working alongside to support and create change for people experiencing mental and emotional distress, and for the people supporting them.

A Disorder For Everyone

A Disorder For Everyone

Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis, exploring trauma informed alternatives

Dialogue First

Dialogue First

Dialogue First is an Open Dialogue informed non-crisis community mental health service that accepts referrals from across the UK

ISPS UK

ISPS UK

ISPS promotes psychological and social approaches to psychosis

Soteria Network

Soteria Network

A network of people in the UK promoting the development of drug-free and minimum medication therapeutic environments for people experiencing ‘psychosis’ or extreme states

Working To Recovery

Working To Recovery

Providing a more holistic approach to recovery from 'psychosis'

CHARM

CHARM

Communities for Holistic, Accessible and Rights-based mental health in Manchester

Emerging Proud

Emerging Proud

Reframing Mental distress as a transformation process

Mad In The UK

Mad In The UK

Fundamentally re-thinking UK mental health practice and promoting positive change

Spiritual Crisis Network

Spiritual Crisis Network

Email support and online forum for information on spiritual crisis

Compassionate Mental Health

Compassionate Mental Health

Transforming the way we live and work with mental health crises and distress

Hearing Voices Network

Hearing Voices Network

A peer support group for people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual sensory experiences

Soteria London

Soteria London

Creating compassionate alternatives in London for people in crisis and distress and to establish alternative housing for inpatient care

Voice Collective

Voice Collective

UK-wide, London-based project that supports children and young people up to 25 years old who hear voices, see visions, have other ‘unusual’ sensory experiences or beliefs, and the people that support them.

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