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Olivia Bradbury is a  musician and performer, who uses music as a therapeutic tool,  who recently moved to Powys from London. She has considerable experience of working with people in mental distress. She tells us more about her past work, her play 'Finding Frank' which will be staged in Hay-on-Wye in June 2015, and her hopes for the future. Olivia leading an orchestra About me I am a musician and creative facilitator working for the past few years mainly in mental health settings. This is where I am most interested in working and where I feel music is badly needed. Music workshops provide a way to connect with people who, for whatever reason, struggle with communicating their feelings. I have found that if patients and service users can find ways to speak through making music, they generally feel happier and consequently feel more motivated to take a positive, proactive approach to improving their mental health. Olivia conducting the Crisis Choir My workshops My wor...

Last week I attended an event in Llandrindod Wells organised by my colleague Jane Cooke to update the Wellness & Recovery Learning Centres (the Mind centres and Ponthafren) about dementia services in Powys. As this week is Dementia Awareness Week it seemed appropriate to share some of the information, so here is what I found out (in brief, but check out the links) from some of the people speaking at the event. Rhiannon Davies – Brecon Dementia Friendly Community Rhiannon gave up her full-time job to set up Brecon Dementia Friendly Community as a volunteer two years ago – and the inspirational work that is being carried out in Brecon is now a model to other communities across Wales. She explained that a dementia friendly community (DFC) is a community that has a high level of understanding and awareness of dementia and the issues that it brings to people living with the disease. “Most people with dementia just want to get on with as normal a life as possible. They don’t want to b...

AKA my “Mental Health Awareness Week” blog post!  At two PAVO events, (in Brecon and Newtown) a couple of weeks ago we invited people in contact with mental health services and those close to them to join us. It was billed as “your opportunity to come and meet your individual representatives, learn what’s new with mental health services across Powys and give your opinions.” I went along to the event in the North and enjoyed a day of debate and information sharing (not to mention some amazing art exhibits and a Laughter Workshop) at the Maesmawr Arts Centre in Caersws. Freda Lacey, PAVO’s Participation Officer, introduced the day and gave an overview of the mechanisms through which people can feed in their views about mental health services in Powys. Feedback is taken to the Powys Mental Health Planning & Development Partnership run by the health board, also to the National Service Users & Carers Forum, and finally to the National Partnership Board . You can read more ab...

Shakira holding an owl at the Llandysil Dragon Festival Volunteering at Ponthafren Association age 8! Shakira volunteers at Ponthafren Association in Newtown. As many readers of this blog will know,  Ponthafren Association is a registered charity in North Powys for people with mental health issues or those that feel lonely or isolated. The charity has an open door policy (meaning anyone is welcome). It is based in Newtown with an outreach centre in Welshpool and also a weekly drop-in session in Llanidloes. Ponthafren provides a range of courses from arts and crafts to basic skills to anger management. A lot of these courses are Open College Network (OCN) qualifications. The organisation  has approximately six hundred members.  Shakira was only 8 when she started volunteering (she is 11 now), and we decided to find out more about what she does and why she enjoys it so much. I first started going along to Ponthafren when I was eight years old as both my Nan and ...