From Disconnection to Connection

14/05/2025

Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2025

14/05/2025

Creativity and Wellbeing festival next week :)

Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2025

15/04/2024

Want help in stepping out of auto-pilot and coming into awareness of the present moment? Leeds Recovery College run wellbeing courses, and has a free 8-week Mindfulness course starting Monday afternoon. (22nd April) at the Quaker Meeting House near the Parkinson building. Please follow the link to book a space.

Mindfulness can help you feel more able to cope with life’s challenges and it can be useful if you’re looking to bring more meaning to your life or relationships. It can enable you to recognise things which happen, that then trigger unhelpful feelings -so you’re better prepared to deal with th...

15/12/2023

Mother nature was doing her thing tonight in Leeds. What a red sky, what a sunset. Did you manage to see the sky ?
Connecting to our beautiful natural environment ❤️

04/12/2023

This is the arts organisation where our project was conceived, and they are delivering a new course for 2024.

04/11/2023

John Donne talks about connection in 1624, in his poem: No Man is an Island.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

02/11/2023

During our conversations with people around creativity and connection, it was mentioned more than once that people were discouraged from doing art or being creative following an experience at school, or at some point in life, when they were made to feel that they were not good at it.
Creativity is part of being human, and we believe everyone is creative - it's not about how good you are, it's about expressing yourself, it can be joyful and healing.

I'd like to share this fantastic clip, thank you

https://fb.watch/o3l6_L4Zwt/

17/10/2023

Hello there
We would like to invite you to these creative sessions focusing on self-compassion and self-care that one of our participants will be guiding in Headingley.
Please do share if you feel it can be of interest to someone else.
Thank you so much 💜
Have a lovely day ✨

12/10/2023

This is such a powerful image.

18/08/2023

We caught up with Morley North My Leeds Summer participants. Their event is tomorrow (Saturday 19th August) starting in the White Rose Centre with the Model Railway.
I found them all so interesting and learned so much about their experiences of connection and disconnection..

A short film, where we interviewed participants of Leeds 2023, My Leeds Summer Morley North, about their feelings, experiences of connection. They also took...

18/08/2023

One of our members is the Host for Morley North Leeds 2023 and this is happening tomorrow. We interviewed some of the participants about they're experiences of connection and got to know them a little bit. There's the Model Railway guys who are bringing their Model Railway to the White Rose centre in the morning (Saturday) Hilary the artist, 1950s dancing, Rhythm Time for kids, Memory cafe for people with dementia and so much more .. and our film is in the film festival in the evening! (Not the final documentary though)

Upcoming event! Join Morley North Neighbourhood LEEDS 2023 host and UNION Leeds alumni this Saturday for 'Mingle and Mix in Morley North Community and Cultural Festival'

As part of Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, every ward throughout the City is holding their own My Leeds Summer events in conjunction with the local community.

On Saturday 19th August, the ward of Morley North is staging a series of events for all ages and abilities, and an opportunity to take part in some activities the visitors may never have tried before.

How about having a sketch done by a local Morley artist in the White Rose Centre?

Or, what about Hula Hooping or gardening at Gildersome Meeting Hall?

Sound baths and Creative Writing at Gildesome Library?

Or, if you’re feeling a little more active, what about joining the skaters and skateboarders at Adwalton Moor skate park?

And, there’s loads more. And, it’s all free!

For more details contact: Lisa Tobin, Morley North Neighbourhood Host Leeds 2023

Email: [email protected]

Web: https://leeds2023.co.uk/whats-on/my-leeds-summer-mingle-and-mix-in-morley-north-community-and-cultural-festival

04/08/2023

Some more pics from our workshop on Wednesday at Heart in Headingley. Smiles and concentration :)