Activate Mental Health

Come down to Dome Cafe EVP and join in for a coffee/hot drink, a social chat and bring your crotchet or knitting projects with you. If you're open to teaching others these skills would be great, so please bring spare needles & yarn. Look for Sandie clumsily trying to crotchet!

Why should we be part of a community? According to the Huffington Post, five benefits of being part of a community include: access to new knowledge, new personal connections, a source of inspiration, access to resources and a support network (read more here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-chan/the-5-benefits-of-communi_b_10390826.html). The Victoria Park Community Games Night is brought to you by a collaboration of three like-minded community centred organisations, being the Victoria Park Community Centre, the Perth Active Depression Support Group and Befriend Inc. Community is the foundation that these three groups are built upon and although they all operate in different ways, they all share the same goal to form strong connections and communities, thereby improving the lives of their members. The board games featured in the monthly games nights have all been crowdfunded and sourced from donations by the community. Our Complete games list is here: - Monopoly Perth Edition - Uno - Telestrations - Cards against humanity - Settlers of Catan - Trivial Pursuit - Balderdash - Jenga - The logo game - Exploding Kittens - Imploding Kittens - Sequence - Man bites dog - True of false card game - 5 second Rule - Guess who card game - Jenga - Mastermind - Pictionary - Scrabble - Quoits - Family charades - Code names - The irrational game - Taboo - Ludo - Chess, Checkers & Backgammon - Smart ass card game - The game of things - Connect 4 - Monopoly Deal - Yahtzee - Cluedo travel edition - Upwords - Scattergories - Cranium - Battleship - Concept - Split Second - Dumb ass - Fact or Crap Entry is $5, which goes to the Victoria Park Community Centre to fund more games for the nights. Feel free to bring your own food and drink, but no alcohol is permitted inside the venue. This event repeats on the 4th Saturday of every month. We’d love for you to be a part of this community-focused event. For more on the Victoria Park Community Centre please check their website here: http://vicparkcc.org.au/ For more on the Activate Mental Health please check their website here: https://www.activatemh.com.au For more on Befriend please check their website here: https://befriend.org.au/

Now that the weather is starting to warm up. let's enjoy being outdoors! Wembley Golf Course has a fun and challenging 18 hole course to play on. We can meet at the pro shop cafe and afterwards can stop for a coffee or for lunch. The course costs $20 for adults and $14 for a concession ticket. Did you know that the feeling of loneliness is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes per day? https://bit.ly/2DMqoXU. We fully understand the challenge that loneliness has on wellbeing. Our goal is to connect like minded people with fun and engaging activities so that you create friendships with others to reduce that feeling of isolation. We want you to feel part of our welcoming community and have an avenue where you can improve your mental health and wellbeing in a safe and fun setting. Our values: Acceptance: we provide a safe and inclusive environment for our members to be socially engaged irrespective of their background Community: we endeavour to give each and every one of our members and event organisers a community to belong to and friends to connect with Fun: we keep things fun because they say laughter is the best medicine! Connect with us: We’d love to hear from you www.meetup.com/activatemh www.meetup.com/activatemhnorth www.meetup.com/activatemhsouth www.facebook.com/activatemh instagram.com/activate_mh www.activatemh.com.au [masked] Event disclaimer While we tend to identify as peers with a lived experience of mental health issues and also love promoting the values of acceptance, community and fun for mental health, we are not a complete substitute for professionals in helping you with the mental health issues you face. Please be mindful that the service we offer is complementary to other treatments you may be undertaking in your recovery journey. If you are in need of immediate health services please visit this link here: https://www.mhc.wa.gov.au/getting-help/helplines About the event host: Rahul Seth is a Chartered Accountant turned mental health change maker and is the founder of this group. Rahul has learned over the years the importance of social connection and community for mental health recovery, and has connected with others through the pursuits of tennis, volunteering and photography despite his battle with bipolar disorder. After working in the accounting sector for 9 years, Rahul switched into working in the mental health sector which was inspired by creating this meetup group and obtained a certificate IV in mental health. In his spare time Rahul follows Formula 1, listens to music, and does adult colouring books for relaxation. Read Rahul’s thoughts on the importance of community here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/notion-community-mental-health-recovery-rahul-seth/ Follow him on twitter @RS_au or instagram @RahulSethau or feel free to message him on meetup.

This event started of as just a small event, but the format has proven to be quite a popular format so I have decided to keep it as a fixture every 2 weeks on a Tuesday night and have got the assistance of Andrew as a cohost to allow us to run 2 small groups instead of one big one. In this meetup I will bring the following games: 1) The art of conversation (conversation cards, it's not a game but merely a way to get to know one another) 2) Sequence (think connect 4 meets playing cards) 3) Uno 4) Monopoly deal (card version of monopoly, takes 20 minutes to play) 5) Cards against humanity 6) Joking Hazard 7) Man bites dog 8) Blokus 9) Standard playing cards I’d encourage people to bring their own games if possible to encourage variety at these nights. This meetup is limited to 12 people as I am only bringing these games and I don't want to overload the venue with too many guests. We'd love to see you there. Why should you come to this event? Did you know that the feeling of loneliness is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes per day? https://bit.ly/2DMqoXU. We fully understand the challenge that loneliness has on wellbeing. Our goal is to connect like-minded people with fun and engaging activities so that you create friendships with others to reduce that feeling of isolation. We want you to feel part of our welcoming community and have an avenue where you can improve your mental health and wellbeing in a safe and fun setting. Our values: Acceptance: we provide a safe and inclusive environment for our members to be socially engaged irrespective of their background Community: we endeavour to give each and every one of our members and event organisers a community to belong to and friends to connect with Fun: we keep things fun because they say laughter is the best medicine! Connect with us: We’d love to hear from you www.meetup.com/activatemh www.meetup.com/activatemhnorth www.meetup.com/activatemhsouth www.facebook.com/activatemh instagram.com/activate_mh www.activatemh.com.au [masked] Event disclaimer While we tend to identify as peers with a lived experience of mental health issues and also love promoting the values of acceptance, community and fun for mental health, we are not a complete substitute for professionals in helping you with the mental health issues you face. Please be mindful that the service we offer is complementary to other treatments you may be undertaking in your recovery journey. If you are in need of immediate health services please visit this link here: https://www.mhc.wa.gov.au/getting-help/helplines About the event host: Rahul Seth is a Chartered Accountant turned mental health change maker and is the founder of this group. Rahul has learned over the years the importance of social connection and community for mental health recovery, and has connected with others through the pursuits of tennis, volunteering and photography despite his battle with bipolar disorder. After working in the accounting sector for 9 years, Rahul switched into working in the mental health sector which was inspired by creating this meetup group and obtained a certificate IV in mental health. In his spare time Rahul follows Formula 1, listens to music, and does adult colouring books for relaxation. Read Rahul’s thoughts on the importance of community here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/notion-community-mental-health-recovery-rahul-seth/ Follow him on twitter @RS_au or instagram @RahulSethau or feel free to message him on meetup.