Milton Keynes Talking Therapies, together with community partners, have organised Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust's very first Black Men's Wellbeing Festival.

The festival is an eight-week online series designed to create open and honest conversations about the wellbeing of Black men.

🗓️ Every Tuesday from 7 April - 26 May

🕖 7pm

Join every Tuesday using this link.

Each weekly session will be led by a different community organisation, speaker, or lived-experience voice. Sessions will explore important themes including identity, mental health, masculinity, relationships, fatherhood, physical health, and trust in services.

This community-led initiative creates a welcoming space where Black men can reflect on shared experiences, learn from one another, and hear from professionals and community leaders working to improve wellbeing support. The sessions are informal, supportive and discussion-based, focusing on awareness, connection, and community dialogue, with signposting to relevant support services where needed.

Sessions:

21 April - Identity purpise and direction, with Jeremiah Nyachuru, MK Zimbabwe Association, and Mixed race lived experience with Kalen Spatcher, Assistant Psychologist

28 April - Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and Men's sexual health with Dr H Akintunde, GP

5 May - The weight men carry, with Lloyd Munyavari, L2M Coahing and Faith, religion and mental health with Shepard Samuel Akinyemi, Clergy: UK in Christian Association Mission

12 May - Fatherhood and financial pressures on men with Kudazi Midzi, Founding member of Thrive Men and Brain Zharare, Member of Thrive Men

19 May - Trust, engagement: Black men and UK health services with Wain McIntosh, Friends of the Caribbean and Race and Health inequalities with Dr H Akintunde, GP

26 May - Route to recovery: what does this look like? with Simon Hamza Baptiste, Lived Experinece Practitioner and Closing Poetry/Spokenword with Damon Peart, Lived Experinece Creative writing mentor. 

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