email: contact@micamontana.uk
Workshops
Workshops are spaces to learn about mental health and emotional wellbeing through mindfulness, psycho-education and creative expression. All workshops are designed to meet the needs and aims of the company and organisation we work with, and include mindfulness practise and creative exercises.
We offer poetry based workshops and lived experience based training focused on the experience of psychosis.
School workshops suitable for both Primary and Secondary schools have been developed to meet PSHE requirements. Please download the school flyer below. Please note that programs up to 8 weeks can also be offered.
Price:
1 hour £180
2 hours £250
Recent/Previous Workshops
Maintaining wellbeing while job searching with Mindfulness
Aston University, October 2021
Workshop exploring the impact of job searching on student wellbeing and the mindfulness techniques and principles that can support us
Introduction to Mindfulness for creatives x2
YardArtHouse, September 2021
Workshops introducing creatives to mindfulness techniques as part of a wellbeing initiative
Mindfulness and aromatherapy workshop
Black women's project leadership program @ University of Wawrick, July 2021
Workshop exploring the role of aromatherapy in wellbeing and using aromatherapy techniques to develop sisterhood
Staying well during busy times
Niyo Enterprise Black Codeher Program, December 2020
Workshop for black women on a coding program to support them in managing their wellbeing, exploring their experiences of stress and coping strategies
Preparing to feel
Black women's project leadership program, July 2020
Workshop preparing women on a leadership program for the emotional challenges of leadership and exploring how we manage experiences of doubt, failure, grief, frustration and joy
Stress and mindfulness
Breaking Barriers LSE conference, February 2020
Workshop exploring stress in the black community, psycho-education on stress and how mindfulness can help us manage stress
Poetry for wellbeing
Blackgirl Festival, October 2019
Workshop exploring how creative writing can be used as a tool for wellbeing. Understanding creative writing as a practise of self-expression, self-acceptance and empowerment
Understanding anger
Community Workshop for black women, October 2019
Workshop exploring anger in the black community, what anger is, how to manage it and how we can use it to pursue our passions and enact change
4 week psychosis recovery program
Birmingham Early Intervention team, May 2019
Program exploring experiences of psychosis, different models of understanding, how to manage the experience, learn from it and integrate it into our lives through creative exercises
Understanding psychosis through poetry
'Psychosis: Origins, Experience and Meaning' conference in Brighton, June 2019
Interactive poetry based workshop for professionals, carers of people experiencing psychosis and people with lived experience of psychosis, exploring misconceptions of psychosis and reflecting on the experiences of psychosis outside of the frame of diagnosis to aid better understanding