Adults – other resources
NHS Highland’s Health Information and Resources Service (HIRS) http://healthyhighlanders.co.uk/HPAC carries a range of resources, such as games, training packs and displays . Anyone who lives or works within Highland can order these, or download them from the links on the HIRS site. Leaflets don’t have to be returned.
All you have to do is register on the web site then order any relevant titles.
Communicating with our diverse communities
The way we communicate has a huge impact on how our services are perceived. How
welcome a person feels affects their use of services and ultimately their health.
The language we use, whether verbal or written, should give a clear message that we value diversity and respect individual differences. Created by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Dementia – Getting on with living
’Getting On With Living’ is a course that contains sections on ‘What is dementia’, ‘Memory – how does it work’, ‘Money and legal matters’, ‘Looking after yourself’ and ‘Looking to the future’.
The Highland Mindfulness Group is an informal not-for-profit organisation that provides teaching, support and continued training in all aspects of mindfulness meditation to anyone who wishes to learn the techniques of mindfulness or who has already undertaken mindfulness training.
The group provides a variety of services including beginners mindfulness courses, regular group sessions with guided meditations, study days, silent meditation practice sessions, mindfulness walks and retreats.
The group is run by people who have personally experienced the benefits of mindfulness training through the NHS and who wish, as far as is possible, to maintain the NHS ethos of services being free at the point of contact. Donations are requested to meet the costs of room hire and heating but no one should feel obliged to give. Any charges that are made for courses will always be clearly advertised beforehand.
While this is a secular group, unattached to any religious movement, it welcomes anyone with religious beliefs, and seeks to enhance the spiritual experience of people from any religious background.
No formal membership of the group is required. To make enquiries or join our mailing list, please contact highlandmindfulness@gmail.com.
Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
A book that reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that can be incorporated into daily life to help break the cycle of unhappiness, stress, anxiety and mental exhaustion to promote genuine ‘joie de vivre’. Based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) that revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes just a few minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed and MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and it is recommended by NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence). Includes CD of guided meditations in a plastic wallet inside the back cover of book.