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MindCrafting - Fostress wants your help with a new project...
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Hello The Site peeps :wave:
Most of you know me – I used to work at YouthNet and now I do chat modding, mainly on a Sunday evening.
But I’m also working on a new project called MindCrafting (Make and Mend). This is part of a college project but I want to keep it going beyond there if it goes well.
MindCrafting will combine my work in mental health with my interest in craft and creativity. It will be a craft website but it will focus on the benefits of creativity and learning for mental health and wellbeing. It will focus on the process of making things rather than perfect finished projects.
There’s going to be three main sections to the site:
:thumb:Have a go
There’ll be tutorials – and these will be organised so people can search for things to do based on how they feel ‘I need something easy’, ‘I need something repetitive’, ‘I need something to lose myself in’, ‘I’m up for a challenge’.
:thumb:Why craft works
There’ll also be interviews with expert bods who will tell us more about the psychology and science behind creativity as a good way to improve mood/calm us down/distract us.
:thumb:How craft works
This section will be interviews, posts and case studies from people who find that being creative helps their wellbeing. Some of them will be people who are artists or crafters for a living, but most of them will be people who just enjoy it and find it helps them with their wellbeing or with a particular issue they struggle with.
:yes:Please help me!:yes:
If you do any kind of making/crafting/baking/doodling/photographing/colouring etc that helps with your mood/makes you feel better/acts as a distraction/relaxes you then I’d love to hear from you. There are a couple of things you could do:
Easy and quick (2 mins!!)
Send a piccy of your finished product/your work in progress/your messy desk space to mindcraftingmakeandmend@gmail.com. Include a few words about how making that thing made you feel. I’ll be adding the words to the picture and including it on an introductory slideshow to the site.
OR – you can add the words yourself using the OVER app (it's fun!).
There’s an example of a couple I’ve already got attached. You can include a name or username but you don’t have to!
You can also just add them to this post if you prefer.
A little tiny bit more effort…
Send me an email at mindcraftingmakeandmend@gmail.com or post below if you have a suggestion for a tutorial or idea that works for you that you’d like to share.
OR
If you are interested in being interviewed for a case study (either a video, audio or written piece) do let me know. This can be anonymous of course. It's up to you.
OR
Just send me your thoughts/feedback/suggestions/wisdom/TheSite love. It all helps
And keep an eye out for MindCrafting.org….
Thank you very much indeed.
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Most of you know me – I used to work at YouthNet and now I do chat modding, mainly on a Sunday evening.
But I’m also working on a new project called MindCrafting (Make and Mend). This is part of a college project but I want to keep it going beyond there if it goes well.
MindCrafting will combine my work in mental health with my interest in craft and creativity. It will be a craft website but it will focus on the benefits of creativity and learning for mental health and wellbeing. It will focus on the process of making things rather than perfect finished projects.
There’s going to be three main sections to the site:
:thumb:Have a go
There’ll be tutorials – and these will be organised so people can search for things to do based on how they feel ‘I need something easy’, ‘I need something repetitive’, ‘I need something to lose myself in’, ‘I’m up for a challenge’.
:thumb:Why craft works
There’ll also be interviews with expert bods who will tell us more about the psychology and science behind creativity as a good way to improve mood/calm us down/distract us.
:thumb:How craft works
This section will be interviews, posts and case studies from people who find that being creative helps their wellbeing. Some of them will be people who are artists or crafters for a living, but most of them will be people who just enjoy it and find it helps them with their wellbeing or with a particular issue they struggle with.
:yes:Please help me!:yes:
If you do any kind of making/crafting/baking/doodling/photographing/colouring etc that helps with your mood/makes you feel better/acts as a distraction/relaxes you then I’d love to hear from you. There are a couple of things you could do:
Easy and quick (2 mins!!)
Send a piccy of your finished product/your work in progress/your messy desk space to mindcraftingmakeandmend@gmail.com. Include a few words about how making that thing made you feel. I’ll be adding the words to the picture and including it on an introductory slideshow to the site.
OR – you can add the words yourself using the OVER app (it's fun!).
There’s an example of a couple I’ve already got attached. You can include a name or username but you don’t have to!
You can also just add them to this post if you prefer.
A little tiny bit more effort…
Send me an email at mindcraftingmakeandmend@gmail.com or post below if you have a suggestion for a tutorial or idea that works for you that you’d like to share.
OR
If you are interested in being interviewed for a case study (either a video, audio or written piece) do let me know. This can be anonymous of course. It's up to you.
OR
Just send me your thoughts/feedback/suggestions/wisdom/TheSite love. It all helps
And keep an eye out for MindCrafting.org….
Thank you very much indeed.
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Great to hear you're interested in getting involved
I'll try to email you later; I've started a blog about craft and mental health so this is totally awesome :thumb: x
Ooh, and who are Expert Bods? :O Robot Mods? :O #HadTo
Expert bods so far are Bestan from Stitchlinks who does lots of research into knitting therapy, Mitrayabhandu from Bethnal Green Buddhist Centre to talk about reverse motivation and doing things that give you pleasure mindfully, the leader of a Mind art therapy group and hopefully Dr Emma Neuburg who works for Slow Textiles and someone from Sane. But I'm sure there's lots of experts with interesting things to say so this is not the end of the list. I'd like to talk to a GP and a counsellor too for example.
Just thought I'd share MindCrafting - it's early days but here's the site so far. If you don't see your story up there, it's coming!! http://mindcrafting.org/
Would love your thoughts - as always! and if you fancy adding any comments, i'm sure that might help me get some extra marks
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I like the title banner - is that all stuff you've made Fostress?
Yep L1ttle one - that's all craft bits collected from round my house and photographed on the kitchen shelf
I do art journals too!
Fostress this is a really good idea. Love being creative but only draw etc. Would be happy to help
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