Walk & Talk: Bob and Mid & North Powys Mind

Mid and North Powys Mind Walk and Talk group features in a new video from Mind Cymru and Sports Wales, in which Bob (a regular member at Mid & North Powys Mind) shares his experience.

Bob says:

The thing that I have found so surprising about Mid and North Powys Mind has been the richness and variety of their programme. In a little over twelve months I have been fruitfully involved in, among others, Mindfulness and Meditation classes, a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) course, a couple of creative writing courses, an al fresco poetry course at the Oriel Davis Gallery, a cyanotype printing course at Clywedog, a Building Self Worth course as well as the Good Grief support group and the continuing Walk and Talk meetings. All in the space of a year. And this doesn’t address all that was on offer that I didn’t take up.

Living alone, one of the spin-off positives in all this is that you meet a wide range of people, a pool of potential contacts and friends, people with cognate interests, and from this you get to know folk who you come to relate closely to and informal support groups form, more or less independent of MNP Mind, and these have become quite important to me.

I particularly like Walk and Talk because it’s always there. That may sound odd but, over time for me it has become a sort of base, a place you return to and feel comfortable in. It’s never the same twice, people come and go but there’s a constancy about it. I miss it on the occasions when I can’t go. It’s very low key, undemanding, but you take the opportunity, if you want to, to share the good and bad experiences of your week so there’s always a gentle ‘letting go’, which is nice. And you meet people who do the same and sometimes you stay on after twelve and chat, or just listen if somebody wants to have a bit of a moan about life, or get something off their chest. And then you feel good if you get the sense that you might have given something back.

The Newtown Walk and Talk group meet every Monday morning, 11am – 12pm, in the Back Lane car park near the footbridge across to Parc Dolerw. Mid & North Powys Mind have since started two new Walk and Talk groups – one in Llandrindod Wells that meet Mondays 10am - 11am at the lake, and one in Builth Wells that meet Mondays 11am – 12pm at the Stone Circle in the Groe.

Mid & North Powys Mind are also starting a 12 week beginners’ running group in Llanidloes beginning on the 28th February.

If you’d like to come along, or find out more details about the Walk and Talk or running groups, or any of the other services available at Mid and North Powys Mind, do get in touch on 01597 824411 or admin@mnpmind.org.uk