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March group meetings
Wimbledon Group Meeting
Tuesday 10th March, 7:30-9pm
Drake House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4ED
The next Wimbledon meeting will welcome Wendy Reeves. Wendy is a qualified life coach who has her own business specialising in coaching a range of people to achieve their personal and professional life goals. She will be leading an interactive session which will discuss confidence and tips on how this can be improved. She will also introduce some tools to help with building self-awareness. This should be a very interesting session so we hope to see many of you there.
Croydon Group Meeting
*NEW TIME* Wednesday 18th March, 7:30-9pm
*NEW VENUE* Harris Academy Purley, Kendra Hall Road, South Croydon CR2 6DT
The topic for this month’s group will be “identification and management of stress”. We will discuss and identify factors which increase our individual stress levels, think about the ways in which we cope and deal with these stresses, as well as problem-solve possible solutions to prevent stress, and overcome them.
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Richmond group meetings start in April
HSWL is very pleased to announce that we will be starting monthly group meetings in Richmond on 30th April 2015.
If you are able, please come along and help make these meetings a success, and let any friends or family living in Richmond know.
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November Wimbledon Group Meeting
It was great to have such a large turnout at November’s Wimbledon
meeting. We had a group discussion about fatigue; potential triggers,
how to recognise it, factors affecting fatigue and how it can be
managed. We spoke about practical strategies that can be used in our
daily routines and people shared their experiences which were extremely
valuable. Attendees found it reassuring to know that others experience
similar issues following a brain injury and that fatigue can be managed.
See you all in December for a Christmas themed arts and crafts session
with mince pies!
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March group meetings
March’s Wimbledon meeting was about goals, and setting ourselves targets. We met for an evening of discussion and sharing of personal experiences. We discussed the SMART process of setting personal targets to ensure success. There were some interesting discussions about whether goals need to be realistic or whether they need to make you aim high and be ambitious. Everyone was able to involve themselves in the discussion and helped each other to set some detailed, specific and time defined goals. Some members of the group were able to discuss how they had achieved things in the past and some adjusted current goals they have set themselves, to be more detailed. Thank you all for coming and making this such an interactive evening! Let us know your goals by writing to HSWL on Facebook.
At the March Croydon meeting we had a lovely visit from Chris Patterson of the Croydon Carers’ Centre. We discussed the variety of useful services provided by the centre, including day trips and a discount card – which caught much attention! Again, we had a good show of people, many of whom were able to share experiences with Chris, who has first hand experience of caring for a loved one.