Akoma Healing H'Arts

04/12/2025

NHS-funded team at Anna Freud, working in collaboration with a large group of autistic associates and UCL’s GRRAND (Group for Research in Relationships And NeuroDiverisity), has launched a new era for the National Autism Peer Education Programme including a growing multimedia Library -a free resource co-created with autistic people and their families. It’s practical, grounded in real-life insight, and designed to support anyone who lives with, loves, or works alongside neurodivergent people. We’d love your support as we grow!

Our content explores real-life experiences with honesty, warmth, and lived expertise across a range of topics from autistic joy to experiencing mental health crisis, leisure skills, life transitions, and relationships.

If you believe in inclusion, creativity, and ensuring families and professionals have access to supportive, relatable materials, please consider checking, sharing YouTube

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Your support will help us reach our first goal of 1,000 subscribers, enabling us to continue creating free, co-produced content for the community. It truly means the world to us. This way, we can ensure NHS fund flow and improve our resources

Each month, we will be uploading:

🎬 Two+ new videos on a variety of topics
🎨 One new animation
🎙️ One Brand-new podcast episode

Sample of additional free resources you may find useful (We publish 3 blogs per month!)

Blogs
• Words Build Worlds – Responsibility, Harm, and Hope at Autism Central

• “Listen First”: What Neurodivergent Teens Teach Us About Emotion Regulation

Podcast series
• Transitions Podcast – Autism Central

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Autism Central is a peer support programme co-produced with parents, carers, and autistic people of all ages. Commissioned by NHS England and delivered by Anna Freud, Autism Central offers families education, coaching, and connection.

09/05/2025

An art for wellbeing retreat in Morocco 2027 at https://cecu.co.uk/

18/04/2025

David Archer, Thomas Zimmerman and Jennifer Marchand
Join three leaders in the field to learn cutting-edge approaches to EMDR and trauma recovery for work with complex trauma and diverse populations.

Racial trauma, which involves experiences of oppression and discrimination tied to a person’s social identity, presents unique challenges. Clinical experience has shown that many racial trauma survivors actually have present with symptoms that have a high degree of overlap with complex trauma survivors.

In the first of this series of 3 workshops, David Archer will present an overview of his innovative and integrative therapeutic approach called Rhythm and Processing (RAP) Strategies, which combines memory reconsolidation techniques with Afri-centric principles. This framework aims to provide culturally responsive treatment for complex PTSD, identity-based stress, and treatment-resistant disorders.

Rhythm And Processing is a revolutionary model of trauma treatment that teaches how to reset the nervous system and reconnect with the body.

20/03/2025

Free vegetarian meal (3 courses!) prepared and cooked by the Food cycle volunteers this Thursday at 7pm.

This meal is open and available to all regardless of personal circumstances. So whether you need to make your money stretch that little bit further, are looking for some social interaction or care about doing your bit to reduce food waste, there will be a place at the table for you.

20/03/2025

This group is not solely for ND individuals, group members need to be based in the UK

Flyer description
The background of the flyer is a picture of art materials. On top of this is a text box. In the top left there is the HCPC logo. There are further images on the page, two centre images of free flowing drawings. At the bottom of the poster there is an image of laptop and art materials and a piece of art work showing the struggle to find “me time” as a carer. The bottom left there is a QR code that links to my email.
The text on the flyer reads: Friday Evening Online Art Therapy Group for Adults A nourishing, creative, reflective space and time for yourself Group members can be based anywhere in the UK Starting Friday 11th of April 6pm - 7:15pm and running for 10 weeks Cost: £35 per session (payable in 2 x 5 week blocks of £175) This group is suitable for adults who feel they would benefit from ongoing support. For example; those with long term health conditions, life transitions, those with anxiety or depression and carers. These online groups are particularly suitable for those who prefer virtual therapy or struggle to find time for themselves. Facilitated by two Art Therapists; Anne Stegmann and Katherine Heritage. To find out more and book your place please email: katherineheritage@protonmail.com. Places are limited so please get in touch ASAP. Scan the QR code to connect via email.

15/03/2025

I was sent this from a friend of a friend. The Cowrie Scholarship foundation provides full scholarships (tuition and maintenance) for undergraduate black students from *disadvantaged backgrounds. This year the foundation is offering a full scholarship for students at a range of UK universities, including SOAS university of London.

(They’ve only received a handful of applications so far)

Please forward this amazing opportunity to any potential students as it truly is a life changing opportunity.

07/12/2024

Looks like a really interesting and important research. Please share and let's hope we can participate in something that shapes practice and improves assessments as we get older and rely on services for appropriate support.

Hi everyone, I am currently recruiting for my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology research project at UCL, focusing on breaking down cultural barriers in tests…

30/11/2024

I've just been signed by this agency! Had my first portfolio shoot on Friday looking forward to working with them.

"At Zebedee, we are committed to changing the way disability, visible difference and gender identity are represented in fashion and wider media".

We are the UK's leading inclusive talent agency, changing the way disability, visible difference, and gender are represented in fashion and wider media.

30/10/2024

For Black History Month I shared some of my story as part of Black Minds Matter UK - Untold Stories Project of elders experiences of 'mental health' and wellbeing.

"I now understand my difficulties within the context of Autism." In this Untold Story, an older Black woman reflects on her journey with anxiety, depression…

16/10/2024

In December 2023, the world lost Palestinian poet, writer, and professor Refaat Alareer, who was killed in Gaza. His passing has left a profound void, mourned by many across Palestine and beyond. This weekend, the BAATN Midlands Reading Group dedicates space to honour Palestinian creatives, acknowledging the ongoing loss, pain, and resilience of the past year.

Join us on Saturday, 19th October, 2-4:30 pm, to reflect and connect. Free for members, £10 for non-members.

View the reading list and register here: https://bit.ly/4dNHL9K

16/10/2024

Black Mental Wellness is excited to join our phenomenal vendors! We will be selling the workbook, Healing Racial Stress for Black Teens, and the official Disruptor t-shirt at the Disrupting Spaces conference!

Join us to support mental wellness and all the ways people in our community are Disrupting Spaces! ✊🏾✨

16/10/2024

Anyone else feeling inspired by ? Apparently, over 60% of women have been inspired to prioritize their own mental health because of Simone Biles. Thank you sis! We appreciate you!