Time To Talk Day is an opportunity for us all to encourage people to appreciate the benefits that conversations can bring when it comes to mental health and wellbeing. Encouraging conversations amongst our peers, with our friends and families – and even with strangers all helps to make a difference and helps to remind people that it’s OK not to be OK.
We’ve outlined why Time To Talk Day is so important, but we also wanted to share a little bit more about the day itself. Below you’ll find more details from the Time To Talk Day website:
Time to Talk Day 2022 is run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness in England, in partnership with Co-op. The campaign runs UK wide, with SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) and See Me in Scotland, Inspire and Change Your Mind in Northern Ireland and Time to Change Wales.
The day is all about creating supportive communities by having conversations with family, friends, or colleagues about mental health. We all have mental health, by talking about it we can support ourselves and others.
This year we aim to support communities up and down the country to have more mental health conversations than ever before.
We know that conversations about mental health have the power to change lives. Our recent research shows how important open conversations in communities are to support everyone’s mental wellbeing.
So – how can you get involved? Well, it’s simple – we want to encourage you to advocate for conversations on the 3rd of February so that together, we can make a difference. To make this easy we’ve created a resource pack – including Social Media Graphics, Posters and other resources – which you can download below. We hope that the contents of this resource pack will help to enable you to raise awareness.
There are also additional resources which you can get from the Time To Talk day website by clicking here: https://timetotalkday.co.uk/download-a-pack/
If you’d like to encourage further conversations about Mental Health, then please do get in touch with us so we can explore opportunities to amplify our messaging together. You can get in touch via community@midkentmind.org.uk to discuss opportunities with our Community Team.