Soothe Socials

Lydia and Olivia from the Open Door Charity will deliver this pilot series of in person stress-busting workshops over Michaelmas and Hilary Terms. 

Event Description

The Soothe Social is a 1 hour 50 minute session focusing on empowerment, building resilience, and gaining insight into managing stress. The aim of the social is for individuals to openly discuss their well-being, exchange personal experiences, learn more about their responses to stress, and connect with others in a safe space.

Key Focus Areas:

• Understand your own personal “stress score"
• Reflect on causes of external and internal stress
• Understand and identify “thought distortions”
• Discover tools to achieve homeostasis in times of stress
• Identify different protective factors to contribute to our mental health and how to improve them

Locations and Accessibility

12 March 2024 - The Community Works, 21 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HH (Google Maps)

The entrance, venue and toilets are fully accessible.

13 March 2024 - Seminar Room, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX (Google Maps) 

Step-free entrance but stepped access to seminar room on the first floor. 1 accessible toilet. For further access information please click here. 

Booking

12 March 2024 - The Community Works

Registration Closed

13 March 2024 - Department of Psychiatry

Registration Closed

About the speakers

Lydia

Olivia

The Open Door Charity is one of Merseyside’s most dynamic and progressive independent charities.

At the Open Door Charity, we reimagine what mental health support looks, sounds, and feels like using innovation, arts, and culture as catalysts for change.

We shape change by offering unique, evidence-based programmes in non-clinical settings, using shared lived experience as a driving force in the creation and implementation of our support options.

For more information visit their website: Open Door Charity - Shaping Change

Additional Information

Format will be long tables with participants facing one another. A key skill will be shared with the group, which pairs then discuss and make real for themselves, before they then move onto the next skill and work with a new member of the group. This will make conversation and shared experience the key tool within the learning, whilst also allowing participants to harness the power of being social and engaging with new people with similar lived experiences. 

The nature and degree to which people share in the sessions is completely up to them. There is no pressure to share anything which you are not comfortable sharing. Transparency about lived experiences and the application of the skills learnt are key to Soothe Socials. However there can be just as positive an impact if you take the skills away and apply them to your own thinking after the session. We are happy to accommodate any individual needs such as somebody who wished to simply attend and not engage in the conversations, but just participate in the learning of new information. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss this via email at lydia@opendoorcharity.com.

Contact

For event enquiries, please contact wellbeing@admin.ox.ac.uk.

For enquiries regarding the workshop content, please contact lydia@opendoorcharity.com.