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Why not use them as templates and then add yours to the collection

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Education as the practice of freedom (image courtesy of Yin Wah Kreher)

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...can change the world.

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We're happy to help you upload!

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A picture paints a thousand words...

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with care

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who course graduates will remember

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What more could you want...

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Never mind a cat cafe, what about a cat hotel?

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Never mind a cat cafe, what about a cat hotel?

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I am sure you have your own favourite, but here's a cheeky one that joined me in a hotel on one of my project visits.

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presented oh so visually

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My beach (sorry)

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Nationally, we are using the hashtag #ADayinthelifeMHinFE

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What about images from your CLMH photography or art course?

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What about images from your CLMH photography or art course?

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Would your learners like to contribute (copyright free) images for your publicity?

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It doesn't matter if the cute dog is yours or ours - it's the emotional connection that matters

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Help yourself to our CLMH and summer collection of images

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Help yourself to our CLMH and summer collection of images

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It's Ramadan until Saturday 24 June 2017 

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It's Ramadan until Saturday 24 June 2017 

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i.e. 'Do not pass Go, do not collect £200 ...'

(Note: we removed the link to upload here as it's no longer live)

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#happydays

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Cats still rule the internet and it seems they can persuade people to do anything.

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Well really this is Daisy's studio, but you get the idea...

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The final report by the Centre for Mental Health 

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The final report by the Centre for Mental Health 

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What happens when you ask people who live with mental health difficulties to write about their everyday life?

Mark Brown and Geena Saini

March 2016

To date, the wellbeing of people who experience mental health difficulties has been an under-explored area in terms of policy and practice. Interactions between researchers and people who experience mental health difficulties have often centred around either service improvement, the development of treatments or the understanding of symptoms. What has been missing to date is a sense of what everyday life with mental health difficulty is actually like.

A Day in the Life was a one-year crowdsourcing project conceived and carried out by Social Spider CIC that asked people living with mental health difficulties one very simple question: What was your day like? What made your mental health better and what made it worse?

On four calendar days between November 2014 and August 2015 via an open appeal, the project asked people who identified themselves as living with a mental health difficulty to write up to 700 words about what their day was like. Over the year, 893 different days were written by participants, or nearly half a million words, giving a window into the everyday lives of people with mental health difficulties.

These accounts of ordinary days lived with mental health difficulties were then published on the internet, unedited for anyone to read. They represent the largest single collection of accounts of the everyday lives of people with mental health difficulties.

With funding from Public Health England, Centre for Mental Health and Social Spider CIC carried out a limited content analysis of 782 of the uploaded days seeing what, if anything, all of these days told us overall about what affects the day-to-day wellbeing of people living with mental health difficulties.

The report explains the findings of this analysis, including which issues were most frequently identified as having a negative or positive effect on the wellbeing of the writers. It notes that mental health services were the most commonly discussed theme among writers, followed by work and home life. A Day in the Life brings to the surface numerous issues raised by people living with mental health difficulties, and indicates areas for further research.

"Against a background of challenging budget settlements, it has become clear that we must collectively find ways of helping people who experience mental health difficulties to have lives where it is possible to feel fulfilled, secure, supported, alive to new possibilities and able to resume old interests, relationships and activities that may have been interrupted by being unwell. Treatment is vital, and improvements in support and treatment are similarly of great importance, but that is not the total sum of life".

A Day in the Life offers valuable insight into life with mental health difficulties, showing that it is possible to harness these conversations and to build something from them that has both intrinsic value as a record of everyday life, and wider value for commissioners and policy makers.

Free to download below:
A Day in the Life - full report (1.73MB) A Day in the Life - executive summary (1.7MB)

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Mark Brown and Geena Saini March 2016 To date, the wellbeing of people who experience mental health difficulties has been an under-explored area in terms of policy and practice.

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If someone asks you 'what's it all about?' 

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If someone asks you 'what's it all about?' 

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Here's the link to the original 'Day in the Life Mental Health website

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A Day in the Life | A Day In the Life is a collection of daily experiences written by people of all ages from around the UK. The project aims to shed light on what positive and negative experiences we share.

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A Day in the Life was a year-long project to collect the everyday experiences of people who experience mental health difficulties in England. People who experience a mental health difficulty signed up to share with the world what their day was like on four calendar dates across the length of the project.

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Host a picnic/ cafe/lunch/tea as an extra refresh session, where learners and staff can create and upload their contributions

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Host a picnic/ cafe/lunch/tea as an extra refresh session, where learners and staff can create and upload their contributions

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3 caveats:

Do not use until after the General Election result.

Do  not include the upload URL in public posts - we  only want people who have been involved in CLMH to respond

You must not undermine the official Ipsos MORI evaluation in any way

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Use your tablet to make your own version of Mark's vlog (it takes about 2 minutes) and the power in a message is greatest when it comes from someone people know and trust.

Don't forget phase 1 learners and staff.

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by creating and uploading their Day in the Life... 21 June 2017 at: http://mhfe.org.uk/content/adayinthelife

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A Day in the Life FE 2017 Guidance for Projects

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We made one

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Mark's vlog for project leads/ managers/tutors/volunteers and other frontline staff involved in your CLMH project.

Don't forget, we want you to contribute your day in the life too on 21.6.17

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Invite to CLMH staff to promote and join in creating A Day in the Life... on 21 June 2017

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Mark OneinFour asks tutors and other staff who have been involved in the DfE community learning mental health research, for their help in encouraging and supporting learners and colleagues to contribute their Day in the Life on 21 June 2017- and to share their own Day in the Life too.

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Get tutors to involve  learners, and staff and join in themselves

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Get tutors to involve  learners, and staff and join in themselves

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Mark's vlog explains what we want them to do.
NB. For clarification, we want everyone who has been involved in CLMH to join in regardless of whether they or not they have mental health problems.

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Mark Oneinfour, who came up with the idea for the original "A Day in the Life Mental Health', explains what  'A Day in the Life in Adult Education...'  is about and how to  join in.
https://youtu.be/fCLtLq3Svog

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Mark OneinFour vlog for research volunteers about A Day in the Life...

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In this vlog Mark invites people who have been involved in the DfE community learning mental health research 2015-17 to join in as we create a snapshot of the lives, and mental health and wellbeing of people who are learning and working in adult education in England on a single day - 21 June 2017.