This year Mental Health Awareness Week has a focus on five ways to improve your wellbeing. These are five super simple actions to give your mental health a boost. In the spirit of this kaupapa, here are five suggestions for ways you can find community, take notice, get active, give back and keep learning.
1. Connect with others at the UFO group at Auckland Library
If you’ve got a craft project that you’ve been wanting to complete for ages, the Unfinished Objective (UFO) Group is a space where you can finish any personal project, no matter how big or small, while being in the company of others, forging connections, and banishing the loneliness that sometimes creeps in when living in a bustling city.
Katie Richards, who facilitates the UFO Group, says that the concept behind the group – finishing unfinished…