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We offer a number of services at Rainbow Mind:
Radical Self-Care Courses:
These are group sessions led by our experienced LGBTQIA+ practitioners, aimed at teaching mindfulness and self-care skills that are specific to the LGBTQIA+ experience. These courses run for 8 weeks and offer a supportive peer environment.
Find out more about Radical Self-Care
1 to 1 Support Options:
These include options such as IAPT sessions based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and counselling sessions. These services operate on a 1 to 1 basis and can support LGBTQIA+ people experiencing common mental health issues such as stress, low mood, anxiety and/or depression.
Find out more about 1 to 1 support
Online Support:
Our online support options are ‘open door services’. This means anyone can attend, providing you identify as LGBTQIA+, or, are exploring gender, sexuality, identity, and relationship diversity. These offer a supportive peer environment for LGBTQIA+ people.
Find out more about online support
Move with Pride:
This includes online & in-person sessions that promote mindfulness through physical activity, such as boxing, walking, and swimming. Our sessions are open to anyone who identifies as LGBTQIA+, and to those exploring gender, sexuality, identity, and relationship diversity. Each session is run by a practitioner who identifies as LGBTQIA+.
Queer Connect (Youth Programme):
This is our online LGBTQIA+ community for queer young people: a regular, welcoming and accepting space for LGBTQIA+ people aged 18-25 to drop-in, share and explore mental health and wellbeing through mindfulness, creativity and conversation. Our team is experienced in creating safe online spaces for young LGBTQIA+ people to meet, connect, share and support each other. We even have a youth volunteer during each session to make you feel welcome. Oh, and we really like music, dance, art, movement – so expect some of that too!
The group is temporarily on pause, but we hope it will resume later this year. The usual schedule is twice a month on Wednesday evenings (6:30pm-8:30pm).
Specialised intersectional programmes for People of Colour & other minority communities:
Inspired by the words of Audre Lorde, Rainbow Mind offers Radical Self-Care workshops aimed at promoting self-preservation as an act of political resistance, especially designed for racialised and marginalised communities including BAPOC and neurodivergent communities and work with lesbian, bisexual and trans women, and non-binary people seeking asylum. These workshops provide safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals to explore and practise self-care techniques, acknowledging the importance of mental well-being.
For any additional enquiries, you can contact our teams :
- rainbowmind@mindchwf.org.uk (London/Southern England)
- rainbowmind@mindinsalford.org.uk (Greater Manchester/Northern England)
For more information and latest events, visit us at Instagram , Eventbrite & Linktree.
