Intuitive Thinking Skills

Back in Cardiff!💙

We’re all set up and are ready for another year at The Mental Health & Wellbeing Show, joining organisations, speakers, and professionals who are all passionate about promoting positive mental health and wellbeing.🙌

Events like this are a fantastic opportunity to connect, share ideas, and continue building more inclusive, recovery-oriented spaces for people and communities alike ✨

We’re looking forward to another meaningful day of conversations, learning, and collaboration! Mental Health & Wellbeing Show

No two experiences are the same!

We asked recent Intuitive Recovery graduates to reflect on what the course meant to them and the moments that stood out most. 👏🎓

Here’s what they shared. 📢

In the heart of Portsmouth, something meaningful is growing 🌱💙

Our B.More group is transforming a local space into a Memorial Garden, a place for reflection, connection, and remembrance for those who have lost loved ones to drink and drugs .

With support from Portsmouth City Council , Men’s Shed, and Together Space, this project brings staff, volunteers, and the community together to create something shaped by remembrance and care.

Look closely, and you’ll spot seed pods from the UK Connect event already taking root. 🔍

Founded in March 2024 by Portsmouth residents with lived experience of recovery, B.More was created to challenge stigma, strengthen support networks, and improve access to recovery across the community.

Today, as a thriving Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO), B.More continues to bridge the gap between people, services, and the wider Portsmouth community.

🔗Click the link to learn more: https://zurl.co/u7S5D

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Over the coming weeks, we’re shining a spotlight on our Intuitive Recovery Programme, sharing real stories, honest reflections, and the lived experiences of those who’ve completed the course.

Intuitive Recovery is a lived-experience delivered recovery programme built on education, self-help, and cognitive behavioural principles. This programme was first piloted in 2005 and has since grown into a nationally recognised programme.

👉 Follow along to learn more about how Intuitive Recovery is helping people say no to drugs and alcohol, happily and with confidence.

📫 Sign up to our mailing list here: https://zurl.co/LBOLz

As promised, here are the finished wood sculpture pieces from last week’s session with Project W and Creatful !🎨

Participants really connected with this activity, and it was wonderful to watch their ideas gradually take shape. Each piece is completely unique and reflects the imagination and individuality of the person who made it.

Creative sessions like this highlight how hands-on creativity can open up new ways for people to express themselves, experiment with ideas and build something they’re proud of👏

Project W is a community-based programme supporting women with diverse and complex needs. Through weekly sessions, the programme provides holistic support including mental health care, substance use support, counselling, domestic abuse and sexual health services, practical cost-of-living advice, childcare, clothing, and meals, all within one safe space.

🔗Click the link for more information about our Project W service: https://zurl.co/AuH1t

This Thursday, Project W crafted miniature houses and villages using repurposed wood collected from the local community. What started as reclaimed materials is already taking shape as something thoughtful and detailed. 🏡

Together with Creatful , these hands-on workshops offer more than creative expression. They create space for reflection, skill-building, and shared stories.🎨

The final details come together next week. We’ll share what they’ve created✨

We want to wish a blessed Ramadan to all our learners, colleagues, friends and partners who are observing this holy month🌙

May this month be filled with reflection, peace and compassion for you and your loved ones✨

Every Thursday morning, Project W teams up with Creatful to unlock creativity through hands-on art sessions that encourage expression, reflection, and connection.🎨

Recently, they explored imperfect self-portraits, celebrating individuality, embracing flaws, and redefining what it means to truly see yourself.

Project W is a community-based programme supporting women with diverse and complex needs. Through weekly sessions, the programme provides holistic support including mental health care, substance use support, counselling, domestic abuse and sexual health services, practical cost-of-living advice, childcare, clothing, and meals, all within one safe space.

How do you encourage creativity in your work or community?

We were incredibly proud to see Lucy Canning Price, a recent graduate of the Intuitive Thinking Skills Ambassador Programme, share her story with ITV News.👏

Our Ambassador Programme supports people with lived experience to turn their insight into positive action, building skills and confidence to co-design service improvements, inspire others, and strengthen their communities.

Not long ago, Lucy and her son were living in a single hotel room, just a bed and a sink, during a period when, as she described, “waking up was a struggle.” Today, she is moving forward, living temporarily in a flat she can finally call home.

Having completed the Ambassador Programme, Lucy now aspires to support others facing homelessness, combining her lived experience with the skills, confidence, and training she gained through the course. Her goal is simple but powerful: to help people in similar situations realise that change is possible.

Ran in collaboration with North Wales Police, the Denbighshire Homeless Prevention Team, deliver boxing-based wellbeing sessions for women experiencing homelessness. These sessions focus on improving both physical and mental health, while building confidence, connection, and a renewed sense of purpose within a supportive community.

Lucy’s story is a reminder that when lived experience meets the right support, transformation can happen, not just for individuals, but for entire communities.

⏯️Watch Lucy’s full interview here: https://zurl.co/ij504

🔗Find out more about our Ambassador Programme and how it supports community-led change here: https://zurl.co/lAUDv