email: contact@micamontana.uk
MICA MONTANA
Helping you make space for mindfulness, mental wellbeing, self-awareness, relationships, creativity and community
UPCOMING EVENTS
ABOUT MICA
Mica Montana is a researcher, wellbeing practitioner, workshop facilitator, writer and poet passionate about creating systems of care and safe spaces for people to grow it their wellbeing. Mica's passion for this work was born out of her personal experience of being sectioned due to an episode of psychosis at the age of 21 during her final year of University.
Mica completed her degree in Philosophy and Psychology and went on to complete a Masters in Cognitive Neuroscience and to train as a mindfulness facilitator. Through her mental health experiences she discovered creative writing as a tool for healing and self-published her first poetry collection ‘When Daisies Talk’ which saw a sold out launch event. After the books release, Mica began to offer poetry based workshops exploring mental health that combined her lived experience with the knowledge from her academic and professional background and started delivering workshops.
She has so far worked with the Red Cross, Aston University, the Black women's project at the University of Warwick, Niyo Enterprise, the ISPS and the Birmingham Early intervention service delivering a creative arts based psychosis recovery program. She's also been a guest lecturer at the University of Leicester and has performed spoken poetry across the UK and last year she was nominated for the creative impact award of best mental health influencer.
WORK
WORKSHOPS & FACILITATION
Bespoke workshops for your businesses, conferences, events, organisations and schools that make space for mindfulness, wellbeing, discussion and improving mental wellbeing.
MINDFULNESS E-RESOURCES
Bespoke mindfulness based e-resources for your organisation, school, company or community to improve company wellbeing, team building and relationships
1:1 MINDFULNESS COACHING
Mica provides 1:1 mindfulness coaching for up to 4 weeks making space for you to explore mindfulness techniques to help support with stress, pain, depression or anxiety
NEWSLETTER
Monthly newsletter championing spaces that make space for our wellbeing and growth and exploring what it looks like to make space for our own and others wellbeing
OTHER WORK
WRITING & POETRY
Mica published her debut poetry collection 'When Daisies Talk' in 2019. She has been commissioned to write poems for various art projects and has performed poems at mental health events across the UK. In 2018 anthology the 'colour of madness' exploring the mental health experiences of minoritized people in the UK. She has also written articles for Sky News, BlackBallad and other publications
TESTIMONIALS
Workshop attendee
In the time of a pandemic with a young family and limited support the themes of being present, self-care and addressing my own needs were timely and extremely helpful. Mica was insightful and delivered activities which taught us to be present in addition to helping identify areas of growth.