Vol 1 Issue 36 August 2010
- 1. Page 2 The Gateway Project is a member led project. Margaret Pyne from the Rehabilitative Training and Guidance GATEWAY MEMBER’S MEETING 15TH JULY 2010 AT 1.30PM Service of the H.S.E, East Coast Area visited Gateway on 8/7/2010 CHAIR: Derek W. Minutes: Fionn to speak about the services they provide. They provide services for Chair opened the meeting and welcomed all present. 1. Sarah Lavin Dublin South FM– email of apology to members read people with disabilities. out. They advise and guide individuals with a disability aged over 16 To reschedule her visit for early August. years and who wish to consider availing of Rehabilitative Training 2. SOS visit, Co Wicklow on 5 July 2010 - Visit was insightful, warm & and Sheltered Work Services. relaxed. A review article has been submitted to the August newsletter. For full details you can contact Margaret Pyne, Guidance Officer 3. Yoga on (01)6699369, Baggot Street Community Hospital or the main Going well & new teacher has a nice, natural approach. branch at 01-2355400 (Dun Laoghaire). 4. Allotment Meeting Community gardening meeting to take place in Mount Drummond on the A new yoga teacher has started with Gateway. Her name is 15th of July 2010. Caroline and her class will take place most Mondays between 5. See Change Discussion of current anti-stigma campaign See Change & Gateway’s 3.45pm-4.45pm. Come along and get fit. development of an event - ideas to be generated & planning organised at separate meeting on 23 August at 1.30pm. In recent Arts & Crafts classes we worked on making 3d pieces 6. Christmas Card request by Chris Andrews TD from flour, salt and water. By mixing these together people created Art group to work on card on behalf of Gateway. a crocodile, flowers and swan to name a few. These were then 7. Tools for Wellness programme painted in various designs. Members discussed usefulness of running a 6 week wellness programme in Also we worked on mixing paints to create still lifes and portraits. October 2010. An outline of the programme to be submitted to newsletter to The class takes place each Thursday 2.30pm-4.30pm. Come along establish widespread interest in potential programme and information and give it a go!! sessions to be held within drop-in. 8. August Outing Welcome to all recent new members to the Gateway Project. Member’s outing to Newbridge Demesne, House and Farm in Donabate next month agreed for Tuesday 24th August, meeting at Connolly Station. Derek There is Indian Head Massage on Monday 30th of August. It is on a to organise outing and find out cost, tour availability & details TBC. first-come-first-served basis. Come along, it’s very relaxing. The following items were tabled due to time constraints: 9. Date for Multicultural Day and organisers There is a contribution box at Gateway. If you can afford a small 10. Blog training amount of money you can leave it there. Please note that this is 11. Speaker for August – Mary Baker on educational options 16th August completely voluntary. Any money collected contributes to Gateway 1.30pm. 12. A.O.B – Swimming. activities such as Yoga and Indian Head Massage. Next member’s meeting to take place 29th July 2010 at 1.30pm. There are members meetings on Monday 9th and Thursday 26th of August both at 1.30pm. Members Meeting 29-7 -2010 at 1.30pm Chairperson: Gerard Minutes : Richard Information on Gateway’s recent activities can be found at: • Chair welcomed those present. www.projectgateway.blogspot.com. • A discussion took place around Dublin South FM Radio Station talk. It is rescheduled for 5/8/2010 at 1.30pm. There are free books and magazines at the drop in so if you have • The allotment group is now closed to new members until any items you don’t need bring them in and you can take others January 2010. A current member spoke briefly about it. away. • A brief discussion took place about a Gateway related event around the “See Change Campaign”. A meeting will occur Please note that the Gateway Mobile Phone is only switched on during around your ideas for an event and to organise planning for drop-in hours or on group outings. You can phone (01)4965558, same. This will occur on 23/8/2010 at 1.30pm. Monday-Friday otherwise. • Those present decided to continue with 2 members meetings Recently we screened “Get off my cloud” at the drop-in. Earlier in a month for now. This can be reviewed again shortly. the year a creative arts course was held on Wednesdays and some • A discussion for the next Gateway Intercultural Day/Party of the participants held a performance event on the final day of the occurred. We hope that this may happen mid-September or course. This was filmed and the performance included chants, in October. Date T.B.C!! meditation, song and many excellent art pieces. • There was a discussion around blog training for members. It Congratulations to all those who took part in the performance. was suggested that many members may need basic computer training before tackling the Gateway Blog. A woman named Valerie Bowe is compiling a book titled, “Stories • Discussed swimming at Markievicz for those with access of Hope” and she is looking for your story. It will be a collection of discs. There will be a review of people’s usage of discs short stories (500 words approximately) of how people have over- soon. come great difficulties and the positive journey they are now on. If you feel you would like to contribute, contact Valerie Bowe on (01) • A.O.B: It was noted that Valerie Bowe contacted us about 2352507/(085)1456340 or valentinebowe@gmail.com members contributing short stories to an upcoming book. Details of how to contact her are located beside these You can also post your We are a partner of the “See Change minutes! contributions to: Mental Health Campaign” and we have • Chairperson concluded meeting at 2pm. Gateway Newsletter, been asked to organise an event over C/O Rathmines Pembroke the coming months focussing on reduc- • Next Members Meeting on 9th August at 1.30pm. Community Partnership, ing stigma around the issue of mental 11 Wynnefield Road, ill-health. We will have a meeting to If any of your contact details change please inform us a.s.a.p so Rathmines, Dublin 6 generate ideas and to organise planning we can update our records. Thanks. Tel: (01) 4965558 on Monday 23rd August at 1.30pm. Tel: (085)7521220 Come along on the day or send in any There is a supply of Gateway Project Leaflets at the drop in. If E-mail: ideas you may have e.g: Quiz, coffee you are visiting your G.P., local library etc.., could you leave a richardgatewayp@gmail.com morning, radio interviews and so on. few of leaflets there . Thank you.
- 2. August 2010 GATEWAY PROJECT Issue 36 MOUNT DRUMMOND COURT The views expressed or otherwise MOUNT DRUMMOND AVENUE stated in this newsletter are the HAROLD’S CROSS, D6W. views of the contributors and are not necessarily the views of the WWW.PROJECTGATEWAY.BLOGSPOT.COM Gateway Project. Our August Monthly Trip is to Newbridge Aware Lecture-August 2010. All are welcome. House and Farm, Hearse Road, Donabate, Theme: Depression in a loved one: Minding them and You. Co.Dublin.www.newbridgehouseandfarm.com Speaker: A panel of speakers. It takes place on Tuesday 24th of August. Date: Wednesday 11th of August at 7.15pm sharp. If interested sign up at the drop-in or Venue: Lecture Theatre, Swift Centre, St Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin 8. ring our mobile (085)7521220. Meet at The Bean and Gone Café, Connolly Gateway Trip to Suicide-or-Survive in Arklow (SOS) Railway Station, Amiens Street, D1 at We set out in the van at 10.30am on a Monday morning. The bus journey to Arklow was very 11am on the 24th. We will be visiting the pleasant. We arrived in Arklow and had a refreshing walk beside the river. We then went up to farm only, walking the grounds and the Suicide-or-Survive treatment centre. The staff at S.O.S were very friendly. There were a having a bite to eat. Come dressed for number of clients of the SOS centre also present. We were then given a talk by the manageress of Irish weather! the centre. She told us all about the foundation of SOS. Afterwards we had a discussion which We are asking for a €5 contribution per took the form of an enlightening sharing experience between members of Gateway and SOS. person. Everyone was very happy to share their experiences. On the journey home we stopped off for shopping at Avoca, where we also had some tea and Sarah Lavin from Dublin South FM coffee. A great day was had by all. I would like to thank An Garda Siochana for giving us a lift to Community Radio Station will be talking Arklow and back through the auspices of their Community Project. Oliver. about her organisation and how you could be involved. This rescheduled event takes Gateway Funding Sub Committee Trip to IMMA place at 1.30pm on Thursday 5th August. During the strategic planning for Gateway it Recently some members of Gateway went on a was found that the project needs long term trip to the Irish Museum of Modern Art at The Mary Baker from Rathmines Pembroke funding to continue to become a stronger Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. We met in The Community Partnership will be chatting community based member led project. Kylemore Café in O’Connell Street taking the about educational/hobby options for At the 20th of July Advisory Committee LUAS to Euston and walking to IMMA. Seven 2010-2011 on Monday 16th August at (which is made up of members and people turned up. 1.30pm. Come along if you are thinking of professionals with an interest in mental We went around the galleries and we had an doing a course this year. health) it was decided that a Funding Sub excellent time. Tools for Wellness Programme Committee be formed to work on securing Afterwards we went to the café in the Royal We are hoping to run a programme to support funding for the project, it was also decided Hospital for some food and a drink. members in their recovery through the that Gateway members should be in on this Thanks to all who attended. development of a personalised plan called sub committee. Michael. Tools for Wellness. The programme is based If you have an interest in funding or in on Mary Ellen Copeland’s Wellness Recovery learning about funding and would like to be Thank you to a Gateway member who gave a Action Plan® which has helped thousands of involved in this sub committee please contact donation recently. The money received was people affected by mental ill health to recover Martha. Our first Funding Sub-Committee used partially towards the purchase of a book and regain control over their lives despite Meeting will be held on the 9th of September on evening classes. having a psychiatric diagnosis. She developed at 3.30 pm in our office at Rathmines This book is for reference at the drop-in if you WRAP® after completing extensive research Pembroke Community Partnership. would be interested in doing a study/hobby on the individual’s experiences of recovery from mental ill health and also resulting from course. her own needs in managing manic depression. A Joke! The goals of the course are to enable A lawyer was driving along a road when he In This Issue participants to develop their own recovery and saw 2 men eating grass. Visit to SOS, Arklow self-management resources for dealing with He stopped the car and invited both of them to ongoing psychiatric symptoms. The course come home with him. “But we have families”, Newbridge Farm Visit will empower participants to take back control the men said. “Bring them too”, said the and responsibility of their individual needs for Aware Lecture lawyer. wellbeing and improved quality of life while They arrived at the lawyer’s house. He Members Meetings Minutes developing a personalised wellness plan in a group setting. The focus of the course will be showed them the back garden. “The grass hasn’t been cut in a few weeks!!!” Tools for Wellness Programme on the follow key areas: Hope, Personal Responsibility, Self-Advocacy, Education & Calling all writers!! Support. It will be delivered through 6-8 Just a general reminder to all members. workshop-style sessions where the emphasis is Bio-Rhythm at Science Gallery Please note that Gateway Project Workers on shared wisdom and interactive group are not medical professionals or carers and Gateway Funding Sub Committee activities. that they are former members of the Fionn and Martha will be providing an A Joke information session in early September where Project. members can find out all about the programme Review of trip to IMMA Gateway Advisory Committee Reps. before taking the plunge – so watch this space! Our current advisory committee New Yoga Teacher Fionn/Martha. representatives are Valerie M, Enda M, Arts & Crafts Please note that the allotment group Gregoria G, Michael H and Paul J. Their photos are displayed at the drop in if you wish Get off my cloud screening is now closed. It will be reopen to new to chat with them on any issues around the members next January. Gateway Project. 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