Your Feedback, Comments and Experiences
Has Start2 benefited you? Tell Patient Opinion about us. Patient Opinion is the UK's leading independent non-profit feedback platform for health services.
You can contact Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust about Start2 here.
excellent resource
Start2 is an invaluable resource. It helped me immensely to feel a lot more positive, and feel that setting goals isn't a waste of time, and that they are even achievable. The way the activities are structured, breaking them down into easily doable steps helps you feel capable of tackling life's problems by approaching them the same way and breaking down things which seemed too huge to tackle previously. It's not just helpful, it's really enjoyable too, most people are creative, but just lack the ideas or push to get stuck in.
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Andy
Start2 Response
Thank you for your feedback. We're very pleased to hear about how enjoyable and helpful you are finding Start2.myers
A very useful and helpful product
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Anonymous
Start2 Response
Glad to hear that and thank you.online gallery
I came across a painting by John Brett whilst looking at the Start2 Gallery online and I love his paintings. I'd never heard of him before but have now been looking at other works of his online in Wikipedia, BBC and the Tate. They are beautiful and really inspiring.
Has also sparked my desire to trace my great great grandfather's family as he too was a Brett and both my grandmother and mother were very artistic.
Thank you Start 2
Has also sparked my desire to trace my great great grandfather's family as he too was a Brett and both my grandmother and mother were very artistic.
Thank you Start 2
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Michele de Broglio
Start2 Response
It's a very peaceful painting isn't it? We're delighted you've been inspired by Start2, and we wish you all the best with your exploring (For anyone else who'd like to see the artwork on our Wellbeing Art Tour you'll find it here: http://www.start2.co.uk/course/be-curious/wellbeing-art-tour/the-norman-archipelagoWell being
I find the activities such asan you bottle happiness and making a flower and writing good things on the petals, very helpful, they help me focus on the nice things and that it's not all dark and scary.
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Colette dutton
Start2 Response
Very glad to hear that. We hope you get a lot out of exploring Start2 activities. have you tried the Recipe For a Good Mood animation, or creative writing yet? http://tinyurl.com/mpoa9prStart2
I found Start2 just before the new year and had been feeling depressed and demotivated for months. I started using Start2 and felt better within a few days - more motivated and happier. I set goals for the new year which I succeeded in completing, used the mindfulness tools, have sent postcards and animations to friends and family and tracking my mood I find it has continued to improve. I particularly enjoyed doing creative writing activities and used the same format to do a piece using a local museum - it has been amazing and long may it continue. Have you thought of lottery funding?
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Michele de Broglio
Start2 Response
We're very pleased to hear how Start2 has been benefiting you, and all the activities you've been using and sharing. As an NHS funded service - through Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust - we're often not able to gain certain pots of funding, often for charities/third sector. We do however work with partner organisations in order to work within the community, which on occasion has been funded by other bodies. Thank you very much for your feedback. Best wishes the Start2 teamStart 2
After being initially not drawn to the idea of sitting in front if a computer I've found Start2 to be interesting,absorbing and relaxing. Really valuable 'me time'. Hope it continues!
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Cheryl Kelly
Start2 Response
Great to hear that - thank you very much for your feedback. Happy exploring. Best wishes the Start2 teamwellbeing
I came along to see my counsellor as I had lost my motivation and have been feeling depressed. She passed me the Start2 details as I said I really enjoy being creative and I study Media. Start2 is really easy to use, it has lots of choice and I feel better knowing I am doing something for myself. It has helped me to get back into creating things, seeing things differently and given me some new ideas and I don�t feel quite as stuck in a rut as I did.
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Anonymous
wellbeing
My counsellor gave me a postcard for the Start2 service. I thought it would help my sister as she has been depressed. We looked at it together and I found lots of activities that were enjoyable and really helped me to overcome my issues too. It was great to help me relax from all the stress of Uni and I loved cutting and sticking, I felt like a little kid again!
Student. Edge Hill University.
Student. Edge Hill University.
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Anonymous
Edge Hill University
�As a counsellor working in a busy University Student Services department, I regularly pass on information to students about Start2. Start2 offers a great choice of creative activities students can select for themselves, this allows them to feel an element of choice in their own therapeutic process and empowerment as greater self-awareness is developed, independently. This can also be explored later within a therapeutic environment, if they choose.
I have witnessed remarkable results from a number of students who have accessed the website and enjoyed utilising their creative skills. Simple exercises such as The Ten Minute Walk, taking a photo a minute of their local surroundings, helps to reinforce the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction techniques I offer to students, allowing them to incorporate it into daily life in an easy way, it encourages students to get out walking, which is hugely beneficial to their physical and mental wellbeing and really helps new students to notice more about their unfamiliar surroundings, utilising our beautiful campus and local area, which is great for helping Freshers and International students overcome homesickness.
The marketing materials are nicely designed, the service looks inviting and not too clinical, which is appealing to students. I offer information during 1-1 counselling sessions, where it feels appropriate, and also at roadshows and events we hold regularly for the wider student body.
Start2 is simple to use, the instructions are clear and it is easy to navigate. I really value the focus upon positive thinking and wellbeing.�
I have witnessed remarkable results from a number of students who have accessed the website and enjoyed utilising their creative skills. Simple exercises such as The Ten Minute Walk, taking a photo a minute of their local surroundings, helps to reinforce the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction techniques I offer to students, allowing them to incorporate it into daily life in an easy way, it encourages students to get out walking, which is hugely beneficial to their physical and mental wellbeing and really helps new students to notice more about their unfamiliar surroundings, utilising our beautiful campus and local area, which is great for helping Freshers and International students overcome homesickness.
The marketing materials are nicely designed, the service looks inviting and not too clinical, which is appealing to students. I offer information during 1-1 counselling sessions, where it feels appropriate, and also at roadshows and events we hold regularly for the wider student body.
Start2 is simple to use, the instructions are clear and it is easy to navigate. I really value the focus upon positive thinking and wellbeing.�
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Nichola Holden, MBACP Counsellor, Edge Hill University
Future Finances
Really sorry to hear that your activities are being restricted by financial constraints. I have found your promotion material really useful and have used it on our website, our blog and via twitter to promote upbeat wellbeing messages and ideas to people. www.powysmentalhealth.org.uk
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Laura
Start2 Response
Thank you for your feedback. We're very pleased that Start2 has been useful for you and your service. Best wishesThankyou
I love being able to dip into the Start2 site as and when I feel a need. It has helped me by giving me creative ideas that I can use as a starting point because I find my creativity is one of the first things that goes when I have low mood and trying to motivate myself is very difficult. By following a 'plan' it helps me to be creative without me pressurising myself plus there are some great ideas on this site - Thankyou xxx
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Lisa Niccolls
Start2 Response
You're very welcome. Thank you for your feedback. It's very important to us and great to hear what you get out of using Start2.Financial Constraints
I read, with true sadness, in the May newsletter that "Due to financial constraints the Start2 project management and staffed functions will be significantly restricted in the future. Start2 will still be available to use online for the present."
I find Start2 an invaluable tool to help maintain, and improve, my mental health. The possible loss of Start2 causes me very great concern. Without Start2, my mental health will worsen.
Please do not withdraw such a wonderful tool.
I find Start2 an invaluable tool to help maintain, and improve, my mental health. The possible loss of Start2 causes me very great concern. Without Start2, my mental health will worsen.
Please do not withdraw such a wonderful tool.
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Anonymous
Start2 Response
Thank you very much for your feedback. It's very valuable to us and great to hear that Start2 is benefitting you. Start2 will still be available online for the time being, and we'll keep people updated via newsletters about any funding news etc. If you're registered (free, quick and private) you can download and save/print activities to do anywhere at any time. Best wishes The Start2 team.start2 training day
The training was very useful and good that it was tailored to an in-patient setting. I am more confident with craft and art ideas.
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Start2 training participant
Start2 training day
the whole session was very colourful and creative. I learnt how to be creative and resourceful in restricted ward settings.
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Start2 training participant
Start2 training day
The training helped me to realise that I am doing activities within the inpatients group that are relevant and has given me confidence to share more ideas with my colleagues.
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Start2 training participant
Start2 training day
The training helped me to realise that I am doing activities within the inpatients group that are relevant and has given me confidence to share more ideas with my colleagues.
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Start2 training participant
Start2 training day
This has given me many ideas not only for the inpatients group I am involved with but my ideas for creative writing.
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Start2 training participant
Start2 training day
The training was interactive and enjoyable with lots of ideas for my inpatients groups and the work I do on a daily basis. I am sure it will assist me with my future practice and I feel more confident to explore and be creative!
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Start2 training participant
Start2 training day
The best thing about today was the group was very interactive which is my style of learning.
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training workshop participant
makes a big difference
Thank you Start 2 for inspiring me at my most difficult times as a Carer and a person with several disabling long term illnesses. Looking at the start 2 pages and trying some of the suggested ideas can really take me "out of myself" and make me feel better. I have told others in a similar position and always had good feedback from them. I am very sorry that your funding has been cut and hope a way can be found to keep it going.
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Em
Start2 Response
Thank you for posting your feedback to us. We�re very glad to hear of the support you�ve gained from using Start2. Start2 is being used more and more widely, and we do hope to be able to continue to make it available to the public, and to develop it in response to feedback and usage.Your note re financial cut-backs
Please could you clarify for me that the above means that there will be NO MORE Start 2 AT ALL to access? If so, I shall be very sad - and I am sure many others will be so, too. I'll await hearing from you. Many thanks.
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Dorinda MacDowell
Start2 Response
Thank you for your feedback to us. We do hope to be able to continue to make Start2 available to the public, and to develop it further. The Start2 project management and staffed functions will be significantly restricted in the future though Start2 will still be available to use online for the present.Start2 in retirement
In retirement it�s easy to become despondent. With Start2 I have found new and renewed old interests. It�s inspirational.
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John
great for GP referral
Start2 is a therapeutic tool for patients struggling with mental wellbeing and I welcome the focus on positive activities.
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GP, M16
Start2 Website
Really enjoyed the activities I've done so far. Some require no special materials others are more of a challenge and encourage me to go out into the world to gather things. Having something to motivate me to interact in the world is a positive.
Have found the mood charting very easy to do as there are not so many questions. I have found others quite triggering of feelings of hopelessness and dispair. The feedback on compleationa nd suggested activities is sensitively done too.
Hope this site continues to grow in popularity and number of activities. The approach is very non stigmatising and encouraging. I feel valued after being here.
Have found the mood charting very easy to do as there are not so many questions. I have found others quite triggering of feelings of hopelessness and dispair. The feedback on compleationa nd suggested activities is sensitively done too.
Hope this site continues to grow in popularity and number of activities. The approach is very non stigmatising and encouraging. I feel valued after being here.
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Rifkah
Start2 Response
Thank you for your feedback. We're glad you've enjoyed the activities on Start2 and continue to use Start2 to benefit you. all the best Start2 teamStart2 for carers
�As a carer it's important for me to have 'time out' but it's difficult for me to unwind. Whilst doing some of the activities with Start2 I have managed to not only switch off but also create things that absorb me and help me to relax. I recommend carers use Start2 to enable a sense of calm and well-being and to tap into an often unrecognised artistic streak.�
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Lindsey Cree - Carer of son with severe mental illness, Chair of Rethink Manchester Carers In Action (RMCIA)
Start2 workshop
You were right about a creative activity being able to reduce feelings of anxiety. I�ve spent all afternoon creating collages and I was able to focus and concentrate on what I was doing, rather than what I was feeling. It really helped me to relax.
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workshop participant
Start2 partnership
Working with Start2 was a very positive experience - one which we would like to repeat. The workshop was popular and clearly benefited those who took part. The philosophy of using creativity to enhance emotional health is one that we strongly promote as part of our online early intervention service. Working together allowed us to benefit from the Start2 expertise and add value to the service we provide for people experiencing emotional and psychological health problems, as well as raising awareness of a great resource.
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Ann Dix - Editor, Big White Wall
Start2 workshop
Very enjoyable and theraputic. Thank you.
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workshop participant
Start2 workshop
Very enjoyable and theraputic. Thank you.
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workshop participant
Start2 Architectural Photography workshop
The workshop was excellent. It was very well thought out, planned and implemented, delivered in a very relaxed and informal atmosphere. The workshop was tailored for our client group and fit the bill perfectly. The clients were very enthusiastic about the it, learned some new skills and had fun."
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Barrie Plaiter - Early Intervention Team, Manchester
Start2 online wellbeing resource
It's always quite challenging to think of new exciting and engaging ways to encourage service user's creativity and improve their wellbeing. I was really pleased to welcome Start2 to one of our events, and the activities introduced were very popular. I have no artistic background myself, but I'm always really keen to try new things and Start2 really inspired me to try new things within my role.
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Kate Hardy - Wellbeing Officer, Lesbian and Gay Foundation Manchester
Start2 workshop
It has been one of the most relaxing and inspiring workshops I have attended. Everyone can discover new abilities through this workshop.
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workshop participant
creative problem solving
I found the creative problem solving technique used today a useful way to gain clarity on ideas. Having explored some of these methods in previous Start2 workshops I have since used at home to good effect.
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Workshop participant
Start2 workshop
It�s the most relaxed I�ve felt in a long time.
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Workshop participant
Start2 workshop
After doing the Start2 workshop I realise that I need to make time to do (creative) things like this more often.
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workshop participant
Start2 workshop
After doing the Start2 workshop I realise that I need to make time to do (creative) things like this more often.
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workshop participant
I think it is great and am impressed by the activities, I just wish I could focus long enough to do them!
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Anonymous
It is a very good resource to support clients' self esteem and emotional wellbeing. Also good as a springboard to discussion
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Anonymous
Wonderful
Have just discovered this site via SoundSense as I am a community musician. I think it is wonderful and intend to use it myself as well as sharing with others. Brilliant idea. Thank you!
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Anonymous
I will definitely recommend it to my clients
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Anonymous
I really like this site and after christmas I am going to start doing some exercises regularly
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Anonymous
You and me!
I have headed this "you and me" because I want to share with YOU! I have just come through a period of depression, and am speaking with a marvellous counsellor and have had a change of medication. I am, as a result, much more positive, I am happy with myself, I am coping as I used to do. I want to encourage YOU to remember that, with this excellent site and professional help if needed, you can come through whatever battles you are currently facing! I really do know that it's not easy - I've been there! - but do be encouraged! - life really is worth living: one day (and I hope it is soon) you will look back and say "yes, I was poorly, but now I am well again, and I feel GOOD!" I hope this will help someone out there; if so, then my day will have been happily productive!
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Anonymous
Start2 Response
Thank you for sharing your experience. We're very happy that you've been using Start2 as part of your recovery, and we hope that you'll continue to use it to maintain your wellbeing. Best wishes Start2
At the moment I use Start2 personally and hope to use it professionally when obtain a new job.
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Anonymous
Start2 has helped me to indicate a way to get intouch with family and friends using E-card, mindfulness to help with daily tasks.
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Anonymous
Thank you for introducing start2 in my life, and will introduce it to friends and others.
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Anonymous
Fantastic resource
Hi there
Just want to say how much I love this site and it's activites, it helps me and I have recommended it to lots of people, friends and work colleagues. Thank you for this, creative activity really help my mood and well being.
Just want to say how much I love this site and it's activites, it helps me and I have recommended it to lots of people, friends and work colleagues. Thank you for this, creative activity really help my mood and well being.
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Anonymous
I am looking forward to using this as a regular resource.
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Anonymous
perfect tool for everyone.
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Anonymous
Start 2 is an excellent site and deserves to be more widely known
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Anonymous
Keep up the good work, it is a valuable resource that anyone can tap into at any time, from anywhere in the world, to help maintain their wellbeing.
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Anonymous
Overall view on the site.
"I started to look round the Start2 website with the usual trepidation & before I'd looked I'd convinced myself it wasn't for me & couldn't help me. However, I was pleasantly surprised that not only could I derive pleasure from the easy to use exercises & techniques, I realised that they could help me bloom, enliven me & hopefully help me find a fresh lease of life. I am not in any way a computer expert so I was further inspired by the site being exceptionally easy to use."
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Pam Wilby
I have enjoyed using the site and I'm glad that I found it. Maybe it would be nice to have a reminder/newsletter to encourage people (i.e. me!)to continue. I'm a bit forgetful.
Thank you for the site.
Thank you for the site.
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Anonymous
Personally. I like saving any activities that appeal to me to favourites so I can come back to them easily. It is laid out well.
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Anonymous
It gave me something positive to think about and to work towards, things that seem achievable and able to do in little chunks, enjoyable, worthwhile and creative.
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Anonymous
This is a gem of a site, a real find! So many craft activities look too difficult. I love the way activities are put in to chunks and you are encouraged to do it at your own pace, and that there are templates etc to print out for of you are not very confident. The word really needs to be spread about this website. Great idea for children, teens and adults, anyone who wants creative ideas weather or not they feel creative, good for people with fairly low energy, mental or physical illnesses. Just thinking about doing t he activity is ra positive thing.
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Anonymous
I have already recommended it to friends, students and young people I work with
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Anonymous
Fantastic site and resource
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Anonymous
I liked the sound map the best and will be highlighting that to my colleagues
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Anonymous
I really like the site and the look of the site. It makes me feel inspired to do something and to appreciate just how important this area is in my life.
Than you
Than you
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Anonymous
I use the goal setting for myself and intend to use when offering workshops or mentoring. I also use the projects as a starting or moving on point for my own art & creative writing projects or incorporating them into workshops or as fun projects with friends
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Anonymous
I was already familiar with some of the ideas (eg the recipe poem, which I have used in workshops before). What I find particularly useful is that each project is self contained, adaptable to use it as a quick exercise or a more extended activity and the way each project is broken up into easy stages, maintaining focus on every step.
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Anonymous
Useful resource for service users.
Fun for me!
Fun for me!
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Anonymous
I have been recommending it to appropriate students I work with in my job as a counsellor and also used it with a Creative Therapy group where I work with small groups of students, encouraging them to be creative to relax, improve mood etc etc
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Anonymous
I am an art teacher in a psychiatric hospital and have found the website an excellent resource for ideas, thank you.
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Anonymous
great resource, and look forward to using it more extensively in the future!
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Anonymous
Running the Start2 pilot has allowed us to show our members that we care about them on a personal level and they aren't just a number to us.
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Anonymous
this is a greayt approach. it has inspired me to be more positive with people adn start to thnk about wellbeing not just problems. Keep up the good work and get the arts out there
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Anonymous
Start 2 as a whole
Excellent, inspiring site: something for everyone! - I have recommended it to several friends.
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
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Dorinda MacDowell
Your site
Only recently found your site. It is a great idea and hope there is plenty of new ideas to keep everyone coming back.
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John S
Fresh, innovative approach to wellbeing. Well done
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Anonymous
Creative Enablement
Anyone who has lived with symptoms of schizophrenia for a considerable length of time will recognize the perspectives given here: the diagnosable symptoms of sz may be incurably lodged within us and May be a part of our make up, but that does not in itself present a grim or hopeless predicament. This is because our disabilities are also our Attributes. Maybe unwittingly, the psychiatrist's diagnosis undermines these attributes and sets them in a grim light. But really it is a matter of impact, intensity and degree, whether we languish in despair or set about engaging the symptoms as evidence of rare qualities which mark us out as having gifts to be expressed and applied creatively.
What I am saying is: with the right help, a low maintenance dosage of appropriate medication to reduce the intensity of symptom's extremes -one which does not pile on a burden of disability which excessive medicating is apt to do- and some vocational and training guidance, we can be the creative artists that nature intended us to be, using our gifts to master the medium which is best suited to our attributes.
My 'pathway to progress' has been photography. I find that a modicum of seeing things which 'are not there' enables me to apply a creative imagination, to use my mind's eye to envisage the optimal conditions to develop an awareness of the imaging possibilities of any scene I encounter and with my best endeavour, maybe reproduce that on camera.
Well that is photography and visual hallucinations. What then of reconstructing the Dramatist and Playwright, the writer and novelist from auditory hallucinations? Musicians, composers, singers and lyric writers are also only a step away from the same level of creative attribute and giftedness.
The lesson from this is never to underestimate the extent to which we all have gifts to express and with the right opportunities, can re-emerge as part of our restitution after the excesses of ill-health have run their course. Facilitators who work in mental health, please take special note!
What I am saying is: with the right help, a low maintenance dosage of appropriate medication to reduce the intensity of symptom's extremes -one which does not pile on a burden of disability which excessive medicating is apt to do- and some vocational and training guidance, we can be the creative artists that nature intended us to be, using our gifts to master the medium which is best suited to our attributes.
My 'pathway to progress' has been photography. I find that a modicum of seeing things which 'are not there' enables me to apply a creative imagination, to use my mind's eye to envisage the optimal conditions to develop an awareness of the imaging possibilities of any scene I encounter and with my best endeavour, maybe reproduce that on camera.
Well that is photography and visual hallucinations. What then of reconstructing the Dramatist and Playwright, the writer and novelist from auditory hallucinations? Musicians, composers, singers and lyric writers are also only a step away from the same level of creative attribute and giftedness.
The lesson from this is never to underestimate the extent to which we all have gifts to express and with the right opportunities, can re-emerge as part of our restitution after the excesses of ill-health have run their course. Facilitators who work in mental health, please take special note!
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Rambuie
Animation gallery
Hi,
I really enjoyed creating my animation and adding the various themes, music and sound effects.
However, the animation gallery does not show other peoples animations that they have created. It just shows jpg photographs.
Apart from that the site is a useful resource and easy to use. Keep up the good work!
Joe Lee
I really enjoyed creating my animation and adding the various themes, music and sound effects.
However, the animation gallery does not show other peoples animations that they have created. It just shows jpg photographs.
Apart from that the site is a useful resource and easy to use. Keep up the good work!
Joe Lee
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Joe Lee
Start2 Response
Thank you JoeWe aren't showcasing the Recipe For a Good Mood animations as our server would need to be gigantic. The jpegs which you can see in the gallery currently are photos of the Recipe For a Good Mood magnetic words which people have shared. You could take a screen grab of a favourite section of your Recipe and upload that. (prnt screen for PC and shift + cmd + 4 for mac) Best wishes Start2
I work with young people 6-16 and am always looking for activities to engage them as part of the theraputic programme and model I use. This site has given me additional material to use and adapt.
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Anonymous
Great approach, exciting resources!
I�ve really enjoyed exploring the Start2 website- it's really interactive and fun! I look forward to showing our student committee your activities. I�m sure it will inspire many of the students that we work with to think creatively about mental health promotion. Well done to everyone involved with the project!
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Rosie Tressler, Development Officer, Mental Wealth UK
My Ten Minute Walk
Loving the Ten Minute Walk exercise.
I'm currently uploading my pics to my media album adding sound effects and such.
I like how easy the site allows you to navigate through and what with the the example videos you can't go wrong.
I intend to carry on with my media album for now
and what's great is I can do it in my own time.
Thank you Start2! : )
I'm currently uploading my pics to my media album adding sound effects and such.
I like how easy the site allows you to navigate through and what with the the example videos you can't go wrong.
I intend to carry on with my media album for now
and what's great is I can do it in my own time.
Thank you Start2! : )
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Francesca Maria Webb
Great site!
Wonderful resources, beautifully designed site, welcoming, fun, interactive and attractive. I will be fully recommending the site to all my followers and website users.
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Charlotte Fantelli
Fantastic resource for everyone!
Brilliant resource for any age and ability. I especially like the extensive multi-media; virtual 360 degree museums, instruction videos, streaming music, illustrations etc. It makes for a great level of engagement and is easy to navigate. A vast amount of information is given on a wide range of artistic ideas. Well done to all involved, a great resource!
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Becca Williams
Congratulations
Fantastic. Well done to all involved. It looks great and flows really well.
Steve
Steve
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Steve Pashley
Start2 Response
Thank you SteveGreat Resources!!
I have that the resources have been very useful for the work I do with my clients. I found the site very vibrant and full of energy it is also easy to use. I will be forwarding the link to other friends and work colleagues. Its great!
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sharon Harris
Start2 Response
Great to hear how you're using the Start2 resource and thank you for spreading the wordBrilliant :)
I have really enjoyed playing around on the Start2 website. It is obvious a lot of time and though has gone into designing it. It is easy to use and as activities are broken down into small sections it was easy to break off and return to it later (something very useful having a little one). I like the focus on finding yourself, connecting with nature and generally working on becoming (or perhaps going back to) being a more grounded individual. The website somehow manages to be friendly and welcoming, allowing you to feel that you can be creative even if you would not necessarily think of yourself as an 'arty' individual. I will definitely be recommending it to friends and colleagues.
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Charlotte Walker
it's nice to find something that aims to help people achieve creativity as a way to help with mental health and use the elements of poor mental health for good, rather than just trying to 'fix' everyone
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Anonymous
I am responsible for anf facilitate some support groups aimed at LGB people, and often struggle finding new exercises to improve their wellbeing and encourage creatvitiy. This is a really useful tool to use and is very eye catching!
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Anonymous
A vital service
I think this is a great resource and really important for people who want a positive, calming influence and take steps to improve their mental wellbeing. Well done to all those who have contributed and I'm sure this will be a godsend for many people.
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Ben
Start2 Response
We do hope so! Thank you Benresources
great resources, useful to use with the young people we work with in LGBT youth clubs, thank you!
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Amelia
Start2 Response
Good to hear how you might use the resource Amelia - let us know how you got on and which were your favourite activitiesGreat resource!
Hello
I really like this resource. I think the E-card section is great and I like the competitions. - Maybe the next competition can involve chocolate ;)
I like that you can log in and keep track of your development. I am really looking forward to trying out more features of the site and watching the progress of my wellbeing.
I really like this resource. I think the E-card section is great and I like the competitions. - Maybe the next competition can involve chocolate ;)
I like that you can log in and keep track of your development. I am really looking forward to trying out more features of the site and watching the progress of my wellbeing.
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Lisa
Start2 Response
Thank you Lisa for your feedback. Maybe if you complete the ten-minute photo walk and submit a photo to the e-card competition, then you could reward yourself with a chocolate treat! Or you could write a Recipe For a Good Mood to include chocolate :)Best of fun on your well-being journey
Something for absolutely everyone
It's hard to express just how wonderful this website is. When life gets hard it's sometimes impossible to see a way forward. Negative thoughts race through your head and the simplest tasks feel like climbing a mountain. Yes, counselling can help a lot but there is nothing more beneficial than learning to take control of your own life and well-being. I believe this website does just that; it empowers you. The content is staggering and there truly is something for everyone. I can only speak from my own experience but the exercises I've completed so far have both calmed my mind and put a big smile on my face and for that I thank you so very much. I will be recommending this website to everyone. Thank you again. xXx
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Anonymous
Start2 Response
Thank you very much for your feedback about Start2. We are very pleased that you have been using Start2 as a resource for maintaining positive well-being and hope that you continue to do so. Best wishes
This is an excellent resource. The exercises and links to further research/reading around individual topics are really good. Well done.
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Anonymous
Amazing creation
I'd just like to say that the start2 website is an amazing creation and you should all be very proud of yourselves for producing such a fantastic wellbeing resource. I'm so impressed and can't wait to get stuck in
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Kar
Brilliant creative resource
Had a look at the website and it is very good! It might even be getting me being creative. All in all a very good website and one I will use.
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Anonymous
Start2
I think what the site has to offer is fabulous and trying to educate people in to understanding how to read emotions and to empathise rather than criticise is one of life's essential tools we should all have. I also like how it subtly involves spiritual practices without preaching.
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Gordon Jackson
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