Children's Rights Thematic Webinar Series - Session 4
Practical Mindfulness and Wellbeing for Positive Mental Health
Online via Teams
Our Children’s Rights thematic webinar series draws on key strands of Welsh Government’s Children’s Plan and Programme for Government. Each session will focus on a different topic affecting children and young people, and aims to give a better understanding of the opportunities and barriers that exist in realising children’s rights in Wales. This webinar will focus on positive mental health.
The incidents of mental health amongst young people is on the increase, along with self-harm and eating disorders. This webinar will give an overview of the various difficulties young people experience with mental health and look at how to build resilience, maintain and improve wellbeing.
The webinar will examine different types of mental health, the behaviours that can accompany them and how to support young people.
The webinar will:
* Raise awareness of mental health issues
* Give you a better understanding of mental health such as depression, anxiety
* Look at what works in building resilience, increasing wellbeing and offering support to young people
Speaker biography:
Mike Mainwaring is one of Children in Wales' senior Training Officers and has worked with children and young people for nearly 30 years. He delivers a range of training around mental health issues, including themes of anxiety and depression, obsessive compulsive disorders, eating disorders, substance misuse, self harm and suicide. He is qualified as a trainer and a mental health first aider and instructor.
Mike is currently in his second year of a third year Masters in Art Psychotherapy. He has been interested in mindfulness and wellbeing for several years, having worked in quite difficult situations with young people from prisons to youth homeless projects to mental health settings.
He has worked with a range of children and young people offering techniques that help with mindfulness and wellbeing, giving young people the tools they need to maintain good mental health.
“Thank you, Mike made the event such fun and was very knowledgeable.”
Cyfres Gweminar Thematig Hawliau Plant: Sesiwn 4
Ymwybyddiaeth ofalgar a llesiant ymarferol ar gyfer iechyd meddwl cadarnhaol
Arlein trwy Teams
Mae ein cyfres gweminar thematig Hawliau Plant yn tynnu ar linynnau allweddol Cynllun a Rhaglen Plant Llywodraeth Cymru. Bydd pob sesiwn yn canolbwyntio ar bwnc gwahanol sy'n effeithio ar blant a phobl ifanc, a'r nod yw rhoi gwell dealltwriaeth o'r cyfleoedd a'r rhwystrau sy'n bodoli wrth wireddu hawliau plant yng Nghymru. Mae'r gweminar hwn yn canolbwyntio ar iechyd meddwl cadarnhaol.
Mae nifer yr achosion o iechyd meddwl ymhlith pobl ifanc ar gynnydd, ynghyd â hunan-niweidio ac anhwylderau bwyta. Bydd y gweminar hwn yn rhoi trosolwg o'r anawsterau amrywiol y mae pobl ifanc yn eu profi gydag iechyd meddwl ac yn edrych ar sut i feithrin gwydnwch, cynnal a gwella lles.
Bydd y gweminar yn archwilio gwahanol fathau o iechyd meddwl, yr ymddygiadau sy'n gallu cyd-fynd â nhw a sut i gefnogi pobl ifanc.
Bydd y gweminar yn:
* Codi ymwybyddiaeth o broblemau iechyd meddwl
* Rhoi gwell dealltwriaeth i chi o iechyd meddwl fel iselder, gorbryder
* Edrych ar yr hyn sy'n gweithio o ran meithrin gwydnwch, cynyddu lles a chynnig cymorth i bobl ifanc
Bywgraffiad siaradwr:
Mae Mike Mainwaring yn un o uwch Swyddogion Hyfforddi Plant yng Nghymru, ac mae wedi gweithio gyda phlant a phobl ifanc am bron i 30 mlynedd. Mae'n darparu ystod o hyfforddiant ynghylch materion iechyd meddwl, gan gynnwys themâu gorbryder ac iselder, anhwylderau gorfodaeth obsesiynol, anhwylderau bwyta, camddefnyddio sylweddau, hunan niwed a hunanladdiad. Mae'n gymwys fel hyfforddwr ac yn gynorthwyydd a hyfforddwr cyntaf iechyd meddwl.
Ar hyn o bryd mae Mike yn ei ail flwyddyn o drydedd flwyddyn Meistr mewn Seicotherapi Celf. Mae wedi bod â diddordeb mewn ymwybyddiaeth ofalgar a lles ers sawl blwyddyn, ac mae'n gweithio mewn sefyllfaoedd eithaf anodd gyda phobl ifanc o garchardai i brosiectau digartref ieuenctid i leoliadau iechyd meddwl.
Mae wedi gweithio gydag amrywiaeth o blant a phobl ifanc sy'n cynnig technegau sy'n helpu gydag ymwybyddiaeth ofalgar a lles, gan roi'r offer sydd eu hangen ar bobl ifanc i gynnal iechyd meddwl da.
"Diolch, gwnaeth Mike y ddigwyddiad yn llawer o hwyl ac roedd yn wybodus iawn."