Wellbeing Week 2025
The Services Team are delighted to announce our annual Wellbeing Week.
Monday 3rd February - Friday 7th February
Join us as we offer a range of FREE virtual workshops designed to increase your emotional & physical wellbeing as we enter the new year. All of the workshops will be free, online and everyone is welcome to attend.
Donations are welcome! (Please scroll to the bottom of this page)
If you have any questions about Wellbeing Week, please get in touch with the Services Team - volunteering@ataxia.org.uk
We hope to see you there!
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Take a look below at the sessions offered and follow the links below to register. Please note space is limited for some activities, so register soon!
Once registered for the event/s you'd like to attend, an email with the meeting link will be sent to the email address you have provided. Please check your junk/spam folders.
Monday 3rd February
Speech Therapy with Jo Lewis @ 11:00-12:00
Register for this event here: https://bit.ly/3XQq9FG
I am Jo, a speech and language therapist. I am passionate about supporting individuals and their families with communication difficulties as a result of neurological disorders. My career spans 27 years working in a range of specialist neurological settings but mostly in community neuro rehabilitation supporting individuals to achieve their potential for the things that matter to them, whether that is within their home, their communities, employment or education.
Ataxia can often impact speech - making it hard to make ourselves understood in the usual way, but speech is only one part of communication.
Communication is so important for wellbeing - allowing us to connect and share with others, as well as ensure our needs are met.
Join us on the 3rd as we discuss speech therapy & ataxia.
Tuesday 4th February
All About Ataxia+ Exercise & Movement with The Services Team @13:00-14:30
Register here: https://bit.ly/3zfMmnj
Join us for a session on Movement and Exercise with the services team. Where we will listen to videos by Suzanne Booth, our Ataxia Specialist Nurse and APPI Pilates instructor and Genny Hart, Specialist Physiotherapist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Wednesday 5th February
Managing Symptoms with Dr Michael Parkinson @10:00-11:00
Register for this event here: https://bit.ly/4e9ojWd
Join us for a session on Managing Symptoms with Dr Michael Parkinson, a specialist neurologist from the London Ataxia Clinic. He will discuss how best to manage the different types of ataxia symptoms over time. If you would like to submit a question, please send your question beforehand to volunteering@ataxia.org.uk before the end of the day on 24th of January 2025.
Thursday 6th February
All About Ataxia: Your Mental Health with the Services Team @ 13:00-14:30
Register for this event here: https://bit.ly/47yyrVP
We invite you to join us for the next instalment of our All About Ataxia+ series, which focuses on the vital topic of Your Mental Health. Developed in partnership with RareMinds, this session promises an insightful presentation by Zubyda as well as an opportunity to ask questions.
It is so important that we engage in meaningful conversations about our mental well-being and explore strategies for its care and maintenance. Please do join us for this exciting and enlightening session!
Friday 7th February
Mindfulness with Lucy Holland @1:00pm-2:00pm
Register for this event here: https://bit.ly/3TEn4pQ
The benefits of yoga and mindfulness have been a constant in Lucy’s life for over 20 years and she has been sharing her experience through her teaching since 2017. Ataxia UK is a charity close to her family's heart and she has organised several fundraising yoga and mindfulness classes.
The session will combine breathing techniques with visualisation and meditation, as well as yoga “nidra” (“yogic sleep”) with stretch and release exercises, body scan and positive affirmations. Meditation can help take your mind to a place of inner peace and relaxation. It is an exercise of the entire body; neural highways, circulatory and respiratory system. The aim is to provide a “toolkit” to help deal with the challenging situations and frustrations that may arise in daily life by relaxing the body and central nervous system and calming the mind.
If you have any queries, please contact the services team at: volunteering@ataxia.org.uk