Social Prescribing

We are proud to be part of the social prescribing movement, collaborating with local communities, GP’s surgeries and link workers to offer a range of creative activities for all ages. These range from movement, singing and storytelling to grief coaching, mindfulness and creative writing.

It is estimated that stress, anxiety and loneliness account for 60-80% of GP visits in the UK - as is 50% of all disease. Taking part in art, music, movement and creative activities in a group has been proven to benefit mental, physical and emotional health. Giving people the time and space to share their experiences while encouraging their creativity, boosts confidence and self-worth as well as a sense of connection and belonging. Research shows that this can lead to a more proactive approach to health and Social Prescribing now plays a significant role in helping to ease the pressure on the NHS.

Compassion and kindness are the cornerstones of our work, combined with the shared vision that creativity, connection and community are an essential part of the solution.

Below are our current Social Prescribing practitioners.

While all of the activities may have therapeutic effects, our practitioners are not therapists.

 
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Mary Louise Morris
Mary Louise Morris

I have been working as a mindfulness teacher and mentor with adults, children and teens for 11 years privately, and in the workplace, schools and colleges for 15 years. My mental and emotional wellbeing sessions include practical techniques to manage anxiety and stress, and simple strategies for self-care and self-compassion. Over the years, companies and corporations that I have given talks and workshops to include: Citibank, Rabobank, Deutsche Bank, The Mirror Group, Reuters and the Royal College of Nursing.

Mary Louise is offering Mental and Emotional Wellbeing sessions for adults, teens, children and families. These group sessions include storytelling, art and movement as well as practical techniques to manage anxiety and stress.

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Raquel Aguado
Raquel Aguado

Raquel is a well-established teaches of Pilates and yoga, working in the local community at K&C Leisure centre, the Moberly, the Venture centre, the Westway centre, and Dalgarno. She also runs workshops combining Pilates, movement and playfulness. According to Frontiers in Psychology people with higher levels of playfulness are better equipped to cope with life’s challenges. They also experience deeper levels of mental engagement and joy.  

Raquel is offering Movement and Playfulness sessions

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Maryline Favreliere
Maryline Favreliere

Maryline is a dedicated grief recovery specialist and transformational life coach with over 20 years of experience in the field of personal development. Her practice combines several different disciplines including the Human Givens framework, which focuses on the innate needs and resources we possess as human beings and psychosynthesis, a therapeutic approach that integrates the spiritual and psychological aspects of the human experience. She also includes the transformative practice of shadow work, which helps us to address and integrate the hidden parts of our psyche that often influence our behaviours and emotions.

Maryline is offering grief coaching either 1-1 or for small groups. She also offers 20 minute walks outside in nature, 1-1, where many people find it easier to share their problems.

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Micky Pallant
Micky Pallant

Micky Pallant is a musician and actor and has run the Portobello Live! Community Arts festival and the Portobello Live! Choir for several years. He works as an activities coordinator at local care homes, working with residents who suffer mainly from dementia and a wide range of disabilities. He teaches guitar and ukulele, running groups for both adults and children.

Micky is offering individual and group guitar and ukulele lessons as well as the chance to sing in our One Day community choir. He will also be organising tea dances for the over 50’s.

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Lee Carter
Lee Carter

Lee is a yoga teacher and physical theatre performer. Since training as a Sivenanda yoga teacher in 2005, she has been teaching private clients, companies and institutions including the BBC, The London School of Economics and Wandsworth Prison. As a physical theatre performer she has performed with Ockham’s Razor and Tilted. Lee also works alongside the charities Aching Arms and Sands, creating physical theatre and storytelling workshops that give voice to those who have experience loss through miscarriage or stillbirth.

Lee is offering movement and storytelling sessions as part of her ‘Every Body tells a Story’ practice. These are open to everyone.

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Hattie Edmonds
Hattie Edmonds

After a ten year career as a music journalist for a German pop magazine, Hattie became the first in-house writer at Comic Relief, working in a team on comedy projects with Richard Curtis, as well as interviewing project users including Rwandan widows, women experiencing domestic violence and child carers. Her first novel Cinema Lumiere topped the Amazon fiction charts and her second The Spectacular Vision of Oskar Dunkelblick was described as “a beautifully crafted tale about a young man’s spiritual transformation.”

Hattie is offering sessions on: ‘Writing for Wellbeing’ and ‘Writing from the Heart'.

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