Women’s Forum: Navigating Support Systems
The Maya Centre Women Leaders’ Group came together to host the Women’s Forum on Navigating Support Systems. The conversations centred around barriers to accessing support,
The Maya Centre Women Leaders’ Group came together to host the Women’s Forum on Navigating Support Systems. The conversations centred around barriers to accessing support,
The Maya Centre has partnered with GP and British Menopause Society (BMS) Menopause Specialist Dr Claire Phipps to deliver a series of four standalone group workshops on navigating the menopause. With the final session planned for 12:30pm – 2:00pm, 14 June, ‘A Second Spring: Journey of the Menopause’ gives a guide on how to spot symptoms, speaking with your GP, the impact and variety of physical and emotional symptoms, the risks and effectiveness of different holistic and medical approaches and how to embrace menopausal changes.
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The Women’s Forum will be heralded by a team of volunteer leaders who will guide both the design of our future services and our strategic influencing work. Four annual meetings will provide an opportunity for in-person overviews of discussions and events carried out over the year.
A new partnership with MamaSuze to deliver free art therapy, psycheducation, talking therapy and creative arts workshops to 100 refugee and asylum-seeking women over the next two years.
Running from 14 May to 28 May 2024, our upcoming Big Give campaign, ‘The Cost of Being Kind 2 Your Mind’, will be raising funds to support low-income and minoritised women manage their mental health amid a cost-of-living crisis
From Monday, 29 January 2024, The Maya Centre will run a series of free loss, grief and bereavement workshops for Black women to explore the diverse circumstances of loss and how to best cope. Whether this loss shows up as the death of a loved one, the end of a significant relationship, unemployment, separation from your home or something else, we are here to support the grieving process.
Our Archway headquarters will be closed during the festive period, reopening on 3 January 2024. We understand that many women will still require mental health support during this critical time, and we’re here to highlight various resources to help you get through this season.
As 2023 comes to an end, The Maya Centre looks back on what’s been achieved this funding year, including exciting additions to the team. 14
With 10 December marking Human Rights Day, CEO Gona Saed shares a touching story of migration, loss and the endless fight for women’s rights. 10
An emotional emancipation circle (EEC) is a psychoeducational space for Black women to understand the role of cultural values specific to the Black diaspora in their emotional wellbeing and mental health. In January 2023, The Maya Centre launched a series of EECs as part of our expansion of the Black Women’s Project (BWP), which was formerly the Black Women’s Therapy Group.
The Irish Women’s Service (formerly the Irish Women’s Project) is a specialist mental health initiative that helps Irish women and women of Irish descent to explore issues relating to their culture and heritage. As our longest-running specialist service, this support includes those from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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