Tag: Mental Health

Mental Health Month

Joondalup Libraries are holding three free community Discovery sessions as part of Mental Health week in October.

Boost your wellbeing
Tuesday 8 October, 10am
Joondalup Library
No cost. Register online.

Join this workshop to discover practical tools for enhancing mental fitness, building resilience, and finding coping strategies for stress and burnout. This session includes interactive activities and insightful videos to learn coping strategies. Gain tips to support loved ones through a mental health challenge and access available support services.

Raising resilient teens
Monday 14 October, 6pm
Woodvale Library
No cost. Register online.

This workshop presents information on what mental health challenges look like in teenagers, how to identify the risks and protective factors associated with resilience, developing supportive strategies and resilience-building activities.

Therapeutic mindfulness techniques (for carers only)
Thursday 17 October, 10am
Joondalup Library
No cost. Register online.

Join our wellness session, presented by Helping Minds, to explore mindfulness and meditation for carers. You will learn what mindfulness is, its benefits, and how to introduce it into your life to help you destress and experience increased wellbeing.

Embrace Social September at Joondalup Libraries

To promote the mental health benefits of being socially connected, this September, Joondalup Libraries is supporting Act Belong Commit’s Social September initiative to encourage our members to increase social connections through activity.

Relationships and social connections provide us with a sense of belonging, which is essential for our mental health and wellbeing.

Belonging to groups, whether formal or informal, large or small, local or even international, contributes to our identity and who we are.

Belonging helps define our sense of identity and satisfies our psychological need for friendship.

Follow Joondalup Libraries on Facebook or Instagram for ways to become involved with Social September.

Act Belong Commit

The City of Joondalup has partnered with Mentally Healthy WA to help promote the Act-Belong-Commit message. Act Belong Commit is a comprehensive health promotion campaign that encourages individuals to take action to protect and promote their own mental wellbeing and encourages organisations that provide mentally healthy activities to promote participation in those activities.

Why Act Belong Commit?

Prevention and early intervention, including engaging in activities that keep us mentally healthy, are the most effective ways to improve individual and
community mental wellbeing. The good news is there are things we can all do to promote our mental wellbeing and create a stronger, more resilient
community. Being active, having a sense of belonging and having a purpose in life all contribute to happiness, good mental health and stronger
communities.

How to Act Belong Commit?

The core message of the campaign focusses on:

  • Act: Do something. Keep active – mentally, physically, socially, spiritually, and culturally.
  • Belong: Do something with someone. Keep connected – to friends, family, community and your culture. Join a book club, join a sports team, take a cooking class, go to community events.
  • Commit: Do something meaningful. Do something meaningful, important and valuable to you. Volunteer, learn something new, take on a challenge, take up a cause, help a neighbour.