{"id":2575,"date":"2015-04-28T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2015-04-30T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:46:58","slug":"mental-health-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2015\/04\/28\/mental-health-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Awareness Week @ Imperial College 11\u201315 May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Health Awareness Week was created by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/our-work\/mentalhealthawarenessweek\/\">Mental Health Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0is celebrated every year from the 11th &#8211; 17th May. The aim is to get the public to talk more openly about the issues that surround mental health and to raise awareness of the issues people face. It is also a time to get people thinking about their own mental wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2578\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2015\/04\/MHAW1-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"MHAW\" \/>This year the theme is\u00a0<strong>Mindfulness<\/strong>, which is all about focusing on the here and now; to forget about the past or worrying about the future, and only concentrate on what is happening in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate MHAW this year, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/portal\/page\/portallive\/96F98C557163D6EDE040C69B4739143A\">Equality &amp; Diversity Unit<\/a> alongside the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/portal\/page\/portallive\/0FDF9D28087943D0E0440003BACD13A5\">Learning &amp; Development Centre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/portal\/page\/portallive\/0FDF9D27B26E43D0E0440003BACD13A5\">Occupational Health<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/portal\/page\/portallive\/ACBDACCA227C07DFE040C69B47390594\">Ethos<\/a>\u00a0have put together a range of activities, training and events.<\/p>\n<p>During this week we also encourage you to wear green to support our campaign and take part in our twitter competition where we ask you to tweet us at Imperial_LDC a photo of your lunch break \u2013 the most creative lunch break will win a prize. To find out more about our #reclaim your lunch Twitter competition for Mental Health Awareness Week visit our webpage.<\/p>\n<p>We will keep you updated with tweets, emails, newsletters and posters with ways you can get involved in Mental Health Awareness week.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/mhaw2015\">Mental Health Awareness Week<\/a> webpage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celine Jaquet<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Operations Manager &#8211; Occupational Health Service<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Imperial College London<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Health Awareness Week was created by the\u00a0Mental Health Foundation\u00a0and\u00a0is celebrated every year from the 11th &#8211; 17th May. The aim is to get the public to talk more openly about the issues that surround mental health and to raise awareness of the issues people face. It is also a time to get people thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}