WELCOME

Hello and welcome to our wellness kit!

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Brighter Futures have created this kit for practitioners working with young migrants. This set of exercises are designed to help support young peoples mental health and wellbeing.

This toolkit has been designed with all young migrants in mind, whether they have a mental health diagnosis or not. It is important to note that this is not a therapeutic guide, but a collection of activities that introduce ways of staying well to young people.

The following activities are short, practical and focused, and have tangible outcomes that allow young people to feel that they have gained skills from the sessions.There is a focus on the future, not the past.

There is a strong emphasis on choice, and the young people should be encouraged to only follow up on techniques they feel suit them in order for them to have choice and control throughout.

You can use the kit however you like, whether as a series of workshops, or just the odd activity that you feel would work well with your group.

This Toolkit has been created and designed in partnership between Praxis and Kazzum Arts


aCTIVITIES

WARM UP GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

The following games and activities are a great way to start a workshop or session. They get young people moving, talking, thinking and focused and can be tailored to any theme, issue or area of work you are planning to cover.


KNOW YOURSELF

It’s important for both young people who feel well and for those who are struggling to keep a record of their experiences and learning. This enables new knowledge and learning to be used beyond the life span of your workshops.


CREATIVE EXPRESSIOn

Using activities that focus on creative expression is a great way to approach subjects or themes in an indirect way, allowing young people to safely talk about themselves or their own experiences through an external character or story.


PEER SUPPORT

We know that peer support is important within wellbeing and found that the main barriers to this happening were people not knowing how to communicate and listen. The below activities focus on ways to listen and share.

RELAXATION

Relaxation is a valuable component of life that really can improve our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, yet we found that sometimes it can be difficult for young people to know how to relax. So the activities below are focused on simple techniques that enable participants to relax and that they can use anywhere.