An increasing number of people, groups and organisations are concerned with the current paradigm of pathologising and labelling human reactions to adversity. In this one day event the Hearing Voices [...]
There's 'Them' and there's 'Us'. We are well, happy and safe. They are mentally ill and dangerous. Is this really true? Or is the uncomfortable truth that there's a continuum, [...]
We must move away from the disease model, which assumes that emotional distress is merely symptomatic of biological illness, and instead embrace a model of mental health and well-being that [...]
Loneliness is a health risk, but having empathic listeners is good for you. Read the article here http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/op-talk/2014/07/29/how-loneliness-can-make-you-sick-and-might-even-kill-you/
Talk for Health as a solution to our silent plague of loneliness. Read the article here http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/20/loneliness-britains-silent-plague-hurts-young-people-most
Author and broadcaster Wendy Jones interviews Talk for Health Founder Nicky on 'Interesting Conversations'. You can listen to it here (The first 30 seconds is music but you'll hear the [...]
Talk For Health’s founder Nicky Forsythe won an award from the Lloyds TSB/ School for Social Entrepreneurs programme to develop Talk For Health. Nicky graduated as a Fellow of the [...]
We are glad to have four fantastic board members. Philippa Perry – author of How to Stay Sane and Couch Fiction, Lionel Joyce OBE CBE, Harriet Spicer, a co-founder of [...]
Talk For Health is excited about its recent forthcoming work with RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). A Talk For Health programme trained key members [...]
After delivering a recent Talk For Health programme, 11 out of 11 respondents said they were “very satisfied”, while 9 out of 9 stated they “very likely” to recommend the [...]
