In certain parts of the UK, waiting times to receive help for mental illness can be as long as two years. In the areas that claim to have the shortest wait lists, it takes six months to access support. 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 8 children and young people have a diagnosed mental illness; this doesn’t account for those struggling in silence. Half of them say that the associated isolation and shame is worse than the condition itself. At PoetsIN, we won’t turn anyone away – minds matter – and we appreciate how hard it is to reach out for help.
It’s because of this that PoetsIN are committed to provide a number of services to communities across the UK to combat the waiting times, the stigmas, the shame, the isolation – along with the mental illnesses and their symptoms themselves.
We have a number of services available to cater for the needs of individuals and organisations, regardless of their location across the globe. It is our aim to help as many people as possible with their mental wellbeing – educating, empowering, understanding, and inspiring everyone to keep their minds healthy.
Below is our current list of services and how you can access them:
PoetsIN Creative Mental Health Programme™
Suitable for: Adults, Children (aged 8+), and Young People.
Method: In-person or online using video conferencing software. Licensing is available, please contact us for more information.
Impact: Reduced symptoms of mental illness, improved mental wellbeing, tools and information for maintaining good mental health, increased confidence, reduced social isolation and loneliness. For more information on the impact of our programmes, please visit our impact page.
Environment: Schools, Community, SME’s, Large Business, Third-sector organisations, NHS, Prisons.
We have two creative mental health programmes based on the needs of the individual. Basic and Advanced. Each programme is specifically designed to empower, inform, and provide the individual with tools and confidence to manage their mental health and wellbeing.
Our Creative Mental Health Programme™ runs for either six or ten weeks, with a 90 minute session each week. This is supported by optional tasks set at the end of each session to help solidify the principles and techniques taught in each session.
We cover a plethora of topics within our programme, with each week focusing on a different entity such as – Depression, Anxiety, Worry, Stress, Confidence, Mindfulness, Free Thought, setting boundaries, saying no, and more. Each member is given a programme manual that will guide them through each session with additional tools and information within. We also provide signposting to resources on our website and within our community.
Each session has eight participants and is led by a PoetsIN trained and DBS checked Project Worker. Each Project Worker will guide participants through each session which is made up of group discussions, solo activity, and group activities.
At the start and end of each programme, participants are asked to complete a Mental Wellbeing Assessment which allows us to measure our impact and ensure we continue to be effective with our programme.
Please note: Our programme is suitable for everyone, including those who want to better their mental wellbeing, but who don’t have a mental illness.
NEW: PoetsIN Wellbeing Workshop™
Suitable for: Adults, Children (aged 8+), and Young People.
Method: In-person or online using video conferencing software. Licensing is available, please contact us for more information.
Impact: Improved mental wellbeing, tools and information for maintaining good mental health. For more information on the impact of our programmes, please visit our impact page.
Environment: Schools, Community, SME’s, Large Business, Third-sector organisations, NHS, Prisons.
Our newest addition to our services is our Wellbeing Workshop™.
Catering for ten people, our wellbeing workshops are a one-hour interactive session that equips participants with vital skills for life covering the following areas:
Mindfulness
Worry
Stress
Free-thought™ Technique
It’s an informative and engaging workshop that has been utilised by NHS staff members and teaching staff during the COVID crisis to help provide them with tools to manage the increased anxiety and stress. We have since provided this within the community with excellent results and feedback.
PoetsIN Online Creative Mental Health Community™
Suitable for: Adults and young people 16+
Method: Online
Impact: Reduced social isolation and loneliness, increased support and understanding.
Our Online Creative Mental Health Community™ is a truly inclusive community like no other. A place of support and understanding, laughter and friendship, along with a place to share, create, and purge all under one safe and private digital roof.
100% of our members say that PoetsIN is valuable to their mental wellbeing. It is hosted as a private Facebook Community with a team of support staff on hand, 24/7, 365.
To join this community, please head here and answer the three questions, then request to join.
The Buddy Service™
Suitable for: Adults and young people 16+
Method: Online
Impact: Reduced isolation and loneliness, increased support and understanding.
The Buddy Service™ is an exclusive service for our PoetsIN Online Community Group™ members. Get matched with two trained PoetsIN Buddies within a private, open-ended chat where you will receive support and understanding between the hours of 9am-10pm 365 days a year.
To access this support, please join the Online Mental Health Community™ (details above) and then contact one of the admin team and ask for the PoetsIN Buddy Service™
Mental Health Menu™
Suitable for: Adults, Children, and Young People
Method: In person or online using video conferencing software
Impact: Reduced symptoms of mental illness, improved mental wellbeing, tools and information for maintaining good mental health, increased confidence, reduced social isolation and loneliness. For more information on the impact of our programmes, please visit our impact page.
Environment: Schools, SME’s, Large Business, Third-sector organisations, NHS, Prisons.
Not everything fits in one neat box, which is why we offer a totally bespoke package, tailored to the needs of your organisation. Whether you’re an organisation with 500 staff/pupils, or an organisation with 5 staff/pupils, we have something for everyone.
Our mental health menu offers a series of topics that you can choose from to build your own specialised programme based on the needs of your teams/classrooms/service users. This can then be provided in modular 90 minute sessions per selection, or we can provide this within half or full day sessions. We pride ourselves on flexibility and the ability to person-centre our packages.
To build your bespoke package, let’s talk about the needs of your organisation. Click here to contact us.
Additional Services
Motivational Speaking:
The co-founders of PoetsIN both have experience with mental ill-health, along with tremendous journeys that include a lot of pain and turmoil, which ultimately, lead them to start PoetsIN.
They are both open and brutally honest about their lives, their mistakes and addictions, their achievements, and their motivation to make a difference in the world today, one mind at a time; and are now taking bookings to come and talk to your organisation about their lives and how to find your way when everything feels dark.
To book or to make an enquiry, please email bookings@poetsin.com ensuring that PoetsIN Motivational Speaking and the name of your organisation is within the subject line.
PoetsIN Postbox:
During our IN-Person Creative Mental Health Programme™ we use a technique we created called Free Thought Writing™. We won’t go into detail here about why it works, but we have many service users that know it does. To cut a long explanation short, we’ll tell you that Free Thought Writing™ is a brain dump of sorts. It is proven with our research, trials, and ongoing use of this technique that spending 5 minutes purging (freeing) your thoughts can help dramatically reduce the intensity of an emotion. Cue, PoetsIN Postbox™.
During our in-person sessions we encourage members to destroy what they just wrote and throw it away – or, if they’re at home – burn it, safely. It’s a visual representation of you saying goodbye to the pain, anger, intense emotion you were just feeling. We decided that by having the PoetsIN Postbox, it is another way of waving goodbye to those unhelpful thoughts – in a controlled and safe way.
So, how does it work?
Write your rant, write until you feel empty. It doesn’t need to make sense. It doesn’t need to be grammatically correct. This is about getting the inside out. Then email it to freethought@poetsin.com – that is the equivalent of you burning your thoughts. Our support team will monitor this inbox. We will not reply to you if you do not request it. However, if you want someone to reply, please make it known and one of the team will respond to you.
Get help
In certain parts of the UK, waiting times to receive help for mental illness can be as long as two years. In the areas that claim to have the shortest wait lists, it takes six months to access support. 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 8 children and young people have a diagnosed mental illness; this doesn’t account for those struggling in silence. Half of them say that the associated isolation and shame is worse than the condition itself. At PoetsIN, we won’t turn anyone away – minds matter – and we appreciate how hard it is to reach out for help.
It’s because of this that PoetsIN are committed to provide a number of services to communities across the UK to combat the waiting times, the stigmas, the shame, the isolation – along with the mental illnesses and their symptoms themselves.
We have a number of services available to cater for the needs of individuals and organisations, regardless of their location across the globe. It is our aim to help as many people as possible with their mental wellbeing – educating, empowering, understanding, and inspiring everyone to keep their minds healthy.
Below is our current list of services and how you can access them:
PoetsIN Creative Mental Health Programme™
We have two creative mental health programmes based on the needs of the individual. Basic and Advanced. Each programme is specifically designed to empower, inform, and provide the individual with tools and confidence to manage their mental health and wellbeing.
Our Creative Mental Health Programme™ runs for either six or ten weeks, with a 90 minute session each week. This is supported by optional tasks set at the end of each session to help solidify the principles and techniques taught in each session.
We cover a plethora of topics within our programme, with each week focusing on a different entity such as – Depression, Anxiety, Worry, Stress, Confidence, Mindfulness, Free Thought, setting boundaries, saying no, and more. Each member is given a programme manual that will guide them through each session with additional tools and information within. We also provide signposting to resources on our website and within our community.
Each session has eight participants and is led by a PoetsIN trained and DBS checked Project Worker. Each Project Worker will guide participants through each session which is made up of group discussions, solo activity, and group activities.
At the start and end of each programme, participants are asked to complete a Mental Wellbeing Assessment which allows us to measure our impact and ensure we continue to be effective with our programme.
Please note: Our programme is suitable for everyone, including those who want to better their mental wellbeing, but who don’t have a mental illness.
NEW: PoetsIN Wellbeing Workshop™
Our newest addition to our services is our Wellbeing Workshop™.
Catering for ten people, our wellbeing workshops are a one-hour interactive session that equips participants with vital skills for life covering the following areas:
It’s an informative and engaging workshop that has been utilised by NHS staff members and teaching staff during the COVID crisis to help provide them with tools to manage the increased anxiety and stress. We have since provided this within the community with excellent results and feedback.
PoetsIN Online Creative Mental Health Community™
Our Online Creative Mental Health Community™ is a truly inclusive community like no other. A place of support and understanding, laughter and friendship, along with a place to share, create, and purge all under one safe and private digital roof.
100% of our members say that PoetsIN is valuable to their mental wellbeing. It is hosted as a private Facebook Community with a team of support staff on hand, 24/7, 365.
To join this community, please head here and answer the three questions, then request to join.
The Buddy Service™
The Buddy Service™ is an exclusive service for our PoetsIN Online Community Group™ members. Get matched with two trained PoetsIN Buddies within a private, open-ended chat where you will receive support and understanding between the hours of 9am-10pm 365 days a year.
To access this support, please join the Online Mental Health Community™ (details above) and then contact one of the admin team and ask for the PoetsIN Buddy Service™
Mental Health Menu™
Not everything fits in one neat box, which is why we offer a totally bespoke package, tailored to the needs of your organisation. Whether you’re an organisation with 500 staff/pupils, or an organisation with 5 staff/pupils, we have something for everyone.
Our mental health menu offers a series of topics that you can choose from to build your own specialised programme based on the needs of your teams/classrooms/service users. This can then be provided in modular 90 minute sessions per selection, or we can provide this within half or full day sessions. We pride ourselves on flexibility and the ability to person-centre our packages.
To build your bespoke package, let’s talk about the needs of your organisation. Click here to contact us.
Additional Services
Motivational Speaking:
The co-founders of PoetsIN both have experience with mental ill-health, along with tremendous journeys that include a lot of pain and turmoil, which ultimately, lead them to start PoetsIN.
They are both open and brutally honest about their lives, their mistakes and addictions, their achievements, and their motivation to make a difference in the world today, one mind at a time; and are now taking bookings to come and talk to your organisation about their lives and how to find your way when everything feels dark.
To book or to make an enquiry, please email bookings@poetsin.com ensuring that PoetsIN Motivational Speaking and the name of your organisation is within the subject line.
PoetsIN Postbox:
During our IN-Person Creative Mental Health Programme™ we use a technique we created called Free Thought Writing™. We won’t go into detail here about why it works, but we have many service users that know it does. To cut a long explanation short, we’ll tell you that Free Thought Writing™ is a brain dump of sorts. It is proven with our research, trials, and ongoing use of this technique that spending 5 minutes purging (freeing) your thoughts can help dramatically reduce the intensity of an emotion. Cue, PoetsIN Postbox™.
During our in-person sessions we encourage members to destroy what they just wrote and throw it away – or, if they’re at home – burn it, safely. It’s a visual representation of you saying goodbye to the pain, anger, intense emotion you were just feeling. We decided that by having the PoetsIN Postbox, it is another way of waving goodbye to those unhelpful thoughts – in a controlled and safe way.
So, how does it work?
Write your rant, write until you feel empty. It doesn’t need to make sense. It doesn’t need to be grammatically correct. This is about getting the inside out. Then email it to freethought@poetsin.com – that is the equivalent of you burning your thoughts. Our support team will monitor this inbox. We will not reply to you if you do not request it. However, if you want someone to reply, please make it known and one of the team will respond to you.