Stop Paddling - About Us
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." Henry Ford
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Hi, I'm Roger. My recovery started in February 1998 when I was diagnosed as having manic depression. For a long time I had been quite successful, as a chemistry graduate, working for multinational companies, married with children, owning our own house and car. In the background I was suffering from stress related mood swings that my work colleagues, neighbours and so on were unaware of. Then I became very ill and had to spend time on various psychiatric wards (7 stays of various lengths in total) and take some pretty nasty medication. |
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Getting the diagnosis was life changing because from then on I started finding out all I could about this disorder I had been suffering from. I joined the Manic Depression Fellowship (now the Bipolar Organisation) where I learnt to facilitate their 3 day self management course. Learning that bipolar is a stress related illness I then trained to be a stress adviser and continue my studies in stress advice. I have also trained to deliver Wellness Recovery Action Planning courses. On these web pages I mainly write about "us" because I have tremendous support from so many people wanting my unique mix of stress advice and mental health recovery to succeed. Here are just a few of my supporters, who help on a voluntary basis:
Stop Paddling's greatest supporter is my wife, Sandra, who learned a great deal about the effects of stress and mood disorders in a short time when I became seriously ill. Sandra is also well aware that making this unique business work for everyone takes a lot of hours including evenings and weekends.
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Over the past 18 months the business has been supported
(free of charge because he believes in mental health recovery) by Andrew
Halfacre who works with managers and their teams creating opportunities
for them to improve their performance. He is a powerful results coach
and the author of 7 Ways To Figure
Out What You Want. Sign up to receive regular management
coaching tips or read a sample tip at the web
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Mukesh Bhatt - Trained Self Management Training Facilitator based in London. One of the editors of the Sailing Ideas series. Continues to support the business whenever I am working in the London area.
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Ann Norman provided the original artwork (two boats and seagull logos) and continues to support Stop Paddling. Ann divides her time between her interests in textiles and illustration. She is a self-employed ropemaker and is developing the closely-associated, newly-researched craft of ply-splitting with her own ropes; she is involved with teaching these subjects and many other textile crafts. She has illustrated several major textile books in partnership with her husband Ralph – on braiding by Rod Owen and ply-splitting by Peter Collingwood – and has produced the artwork for Des Pawson's Ropecraft and her own book on The Tibetan Twister. She and Ralph (as Sagaman) also work together as graphic designers, publishers and printers. |
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| Brenda Herzog BSW as a personal and family counselor in Alberta, Canada, provides encouragement on an almost daily basis. As well as being a kind and understanding person, Brenda is a great networker and has supported many of my clients. See:www.helpinghandcounselling.com |
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Contact any of us through: info@stoppaddling.co.uk
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