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1. Sailing Ideas Newsletter

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2. Bipolar Recovery

I experienced extreme mood swings leading to a diagnosis of manic depression (bipolar disorder). On my own journey of recovery from this disorder I am sharing knowledge and experience gained over 19 years of mood swings and now 9+ years of relative stability. Roger Smith

I have been facilitating Self Management Training for MDF the BiPolar Organisation since 2002. I continue to run workshops and be involved in longer courses working mainly with universities and charities to provide training in overcoming mood disorder.

I also continue to be available to talk or run a workshops at self-help groups and for charity staff at special low rates.

 

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3. Freelance Mental Health Trainer

Roger Smith would like to help you with courses, talks or workshops on mental health awareness, recovery, memetics, stress education, stress advice.

 

Roger is a first class facilitator / co-facilitator and can help you make a good course extraordinary and something participants remember forever.

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As well as delivering courses Roger has experience with developing presentation materials including Powerpoint, acetates, posters and 3D models to illustrate important points regarding stress and mental health recovery and with anti-stigma work.

 

Find out more about booking Roger to help with your course

 

 

4. Independent Mental Health Trainer

Although most training Roger provides is now through universities, service user training organisations and charities, it is possible to hire Roger directly.

 

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5. Mental Health Awareness

Stop Paddling can deliver Mental Health Awareness (MHA) training for you anywhere in the UK. We can use your slides and interactive exercises or ours. We can mix and match to deliver a course tailored for your group of participants.,

Here is one way we have developed the MHA theme >

 

 

 

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6. Author

I started writing short stories whist suffering from bipolar disorder and hypomania (mainly experienced as an inablity to sleep due to racing thoughts). Whist in recovery I was fortunate enough to meet others in recovery from bipolar disorder who were able to help with the publication of Stop Paddling/Start Sailing - A journey and some ideas.

I am now involved with several writing projects including a training manual for those needing to understand mood swings.

Also new issues of Sailing Ideas are always underway.

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7. Memetics

The idea of `meme' as a name for any piece of information that can copied accurately and repeatedly has been around since 1976. Even so few people have as yet studied our living and thinking from the memes point of view (memetics).

I have been studying memetics since 1999 and went on to write Stop Paddling/Start Sailing largely to introduce memetics to a wider audience and to introduce, for the first time in book form, the idea that understanding a little about memes/memetics can help some people improve their mental health.

To experience a memetics workshop and have a chance to say, "Wow, so that is how the world works!", Contact Roger. I enjoy explaining about memes so you may be amazed at my reasonable prices.

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8. Networks

I have been involved with the business networking site www.linkedin.com for several years and am interested to link with others who are providing training in overcoming mood disorder, mental health awareness, bipolar recovery awareness and mental health anti-stigma work. Read Roger's CV > Linkedin

 

I joined the Service User Survivor Trainers Network, SUSTN in 2006.

SUSTN supports trainers who are using their experiences of mental distress, providing information, the SUSTN website, new contacts and a buddy scheme. The SUSTN web site gives members the option to have a page of their own to advertise their services or their business. Members may use the SUSTN Logo in their literature.

My page on SUSTN = www.sustn.net/roger

 

Member of International Stress Management Association

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9. Web Design

I have created many pages on www.stoppaddling.com to provide information on bipolar recovery (largely on the news and links pages).

 

In recent times I have been helping new businesses and existing small charities set up and improve web sites at exceptionally low cost.

 

Two of the sites I am currently developing are for South Lincolnshire Mind and the Service User Survivor Trainers Network, SUSTN www.sustn.net.

 

I set up www.bipolarrecovery.org earlier this year - as yet I have not had time to develop this. Would you be interested in the develpment of such a site for people in recovery from mood disorder.

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