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Wellbeing

Weekly crafting session to help your wellbeing

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A selection of crafts done at Oakhaven Wellbeing

Join our crafting session to boost your wellbeing!

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Our weekly crafting session offers more than creativity; it provides a gentle, supportive space where people can meet together. Through meeting, chatting, and connecting, participants find comfort, self-expression, and shared understanding.

Join Karen to have a go at an array of different crafts in the Art Room at Oakhaven. Crafting is personal and a wonderful time to express your individual style. It’s great for mindfulness and wellbeing. Karen has crafted for many years, her passion is to create individual pieces of craftwork - she will guide and support your creativity!

Mondays from 1.30pm until 3.30pm in the Oakhaven Art Room (Day Hospice entrance).

Suggested donation £5. Spaces limited, booking essential. Please book your space today using the form below.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

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Live well – join our art session to help your wellbeing

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Oakhaven art room

Join our art class to boost your wellbeing!

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Our weekly art group offers more than creativity; it provides a gentle, supportive space where people can meet together. Through meeting, chatting, and connecting, participants find comfort, self-expression, and shared understanding. Art can help people navigate the challenges of illness and loss by creating moments of calm, sparking conversation, and building connections that serve as a reminder that none of us are alone on this journey, all with a paintbrush in hand.

Mondays from 10am until midday in the Oakhaven Art Room (Day Hospice entrance).

Suggested donation £5. Spaces limited, booking essential.

Please book your space today using the form below.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

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Chair yoga at the Coates Centre

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Chair yoga

A new chair yoga class at the Coates Centre

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Enjoy gentle seated movement, visualisation and breathing with yoga teacher Diana. Chair yoga helps improve mobility and wellbeing. We recommend that you wear comfortable clothing.

Our next course starts on Wednesday 14th January and costs £5 per session. The sessions take place from 2pm to 3pm in the Coates Centre.

14th January
11th February
11th March
8th April

Book today!

Spaces limited and booking is essential to attend the classes. Please use the form below to book your place.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

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Boost your wellbeing with Sing for Joy!

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Sing for Joy at the Coates Centre

Sing for Joy at the Coates Centre to boost your wellbeing!

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Unlock your inner joy by coming along to this friendly singing group, led by Leigh - no prior experience required! Learn ways to warm up and use your voice, meet new people and discover some of the great benefits of singing together.

'Sing for Joy' takes place on Mondays at the Coates Centre, from 1.30pm to 2.30pm.

The cost is £5 per session. Spaces limited, booking essential. Please book your space today using the form below.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

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Mindfulness maintenance: fortnightly session at the Coates Centre

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Continue your mindfulness practice fortnightly at the Coates Centre

If you are affected by a life-limiting illness, are a carer or are living with a loss or bereavement, we are here to support you.

This session is for experienced meditators who are familiar with a regular sitting practice and that have completed Oakhaven's 6-week Introduction to Mindfulness course. Our fortnightly session, facilitated by our trained volunteer Gillian, is aimed at continuing your mindfulness practice.

The benefits of mindfulness

This skill of developing moment to moment awareness brings benefits to both our physical and mental wellbeing. Mindfulness training has been shown to help reduce stress and anxiety, help better cope with physical and emotional pain, increase cognitive ability, help with memory and improve relationships.

How it works

We can easily be triggered to react to stressful situations in well-worn habitual ways, often our reactions are not helpful in the long run and can lead to further stress.

Through mindfulness practice we will develop greater awareness of thoughts, feelings, and associated bodily-sensations that are normally out of the ordinary field of perception. These can trigger these stressful patterns of thinking and reaction. We learn the skill of not reacting as we usually would and in doing so we break the cycle of triggered reactions.

What you will learn

On the course you will learn a range of formal and informal mindfulness practices which include some meditations, some gentle yoga movement practices and some cognitive exercises. This helps bring greater awareness, concentration and choice to our experience. Being part of a supported learning group is also an important aspect of learning mindfulness.

Together we will be working to change the patterns of mind that have been around for a long time and have become well-worn habits. We will only make progress with this if we put in the time and effort to learn these skills and to practice them on a daily basis. This relies on your willingness to practice regularly at home between class sessions.

The course is held every other Friday from 10am to 12.30pm, at the Coates Centre, Oakhaven Hospice.

Book your space now!

Book your space today by using the form below:

Alternatively, please contact either Lee Rand, Wellbeing Coordinator, or Sally Woods, Complementary Therapy Coordinator, by emailing wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk or telephone Sally Woods on 01590 638497 or Lee Rand on 01590 613025.

We look forward to warmly welcoming you to Mindfulness Maintenance!

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Christmas tips when your loved one has dementia

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Christmas tips when your loved one has dementia

Admiral Nurses are specialist dementia nurses who provide free, expert advice, support and understanding to help families care for their loved one.

Dementia can be devastating for the whole family. Too often, people are left to cope alone with ever-changing and relentless challenges. Families often have to take on caring responsibilities that push them to their physical, emotional and financial limits. Admiral Nurses are there to help when people need them most.

Oakhaven's Admiral Nurse, Janet, has shared some suggestions from Dementia UK to consider over the festive period if your loved one has dementia.

  • Plan ahead: order prescriptions early, shop in advance, and note emergency contacts
  • Share information: let family and friends know about your loved one's dementia
  • Keep meals simple: serve familiar foods, smaller portions, and finger foods if needed
  • Reduce overstimulation: limit loud music, crackers and competing noises
  • Stick to routines: maintain familiar mealtimes, daily habits, and favourite activities
  • Include them: involve your loved on in decisions and activities without overwhelming them
  • Take care of yourself: arrange respite if possible or carve out small moments for yourself
  • Ease transitions: plan departures for daylight and make the return welcoming
  • Keep communication simple: encourage guests to smile, make eye contact, and speak clearly
  • Be kind to yourself: don't aim for perfection and accept help
  • Manage loneliness and loss: connect with loved ones virtually and seek support if needed.

For more information, visit https://www.dementiauk.org/news/christmas-activities-for-people-living-with-dementia/

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