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About Us

Our Mission

 

We are affiliated with the SEJ Organisation, a passionate not-for-profit organisation dedicated to empowering you with the skills to stay mentally healthy and reach your true potential through our SMH Hubs. We provide free and affordable self-help services that prioritise recovery and prevention. By fostering positive emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health, and collaborating with enthusiastic and committed Delivery Partners, service providers and like-minded organisations, both locally and nationally, we create healthy and vibrant communities through our SMH Hubs, services and initiatives. Our comprehensive and holistic approach ensures we deliver high-quality services that enable individuals to maintain their mental health and unlock their true potential.

Our Stay Mentally Healthy Hub Vision

Our vision is to provide accessible self-help services to empower individuals and organisations. In turn we will create a mentally healthy world, where everyone lives to their true potential!

Our Values

Our core values are our guiding principles.

Compassion - we aim to understand and meet community needs with service, awareness and kindness.

Inclusivity - openness, inclusion and collaboration are central to our growth and success.

Integrity - we act with honesty, personal responsibility and transparency in all our relationships and services.

Perseverance - we never give up! Finding solutions to problems through our own practice of the SEJ Process.

Creativity - we embrace an open-minded approach, continually developing our skills to ensure excellent practice.​

Service - we work with an open-hearted approach providing a meaningful experience for those we support.

Jacqueline Mary Phillips

Founder of the SEJ Organsation and Stay Mentally Healthy Initiative

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Mary (as she prefers to be known) is the founder of the Stay Mentally Healthy organisation. She is responsible for ensuring that the vision of the organisation is realised and oversees the flagship Stay Mentally Healthy Hub in Bridgnorth.

 

About Mary

"I originally worked in the corporate world for many years whilst simultaneously experiencing mental health challenges; including depression, anxiety, and self harm, culminating in attempted suicide. I spent over 14 years in and out of psychiatric hospitals and was eventually diagnosed with complex PTSD. During this time I suffered several recurring bouts of depression, some mild, others severe culminating in a life changing event at the age of 28 when the SEJ Process was born out of my experiences.

 

I have now been depression free for over 28 years, despite being told by the health professionals that I would most likely suffer with recurring depression for the rest of my life, and that I would need to learn how to manage it. I never did learn how to manage it, instead I learnt how to stay mentally healthy. Now we have the Stay Mentally Healthy Hubs and services, because I truly believe we do not need to learn how to manage depression, we can be depression free, free of all psychological suffering.

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I have shared the SEJ Process training and services with people from all walks of life, the Armed Forces, Police, Clergy, Sports Professionals, Education and in Business. It is my firm belief that if we can educate everyone about their mental health and at the same time give them the life skills required to stay mentally healthy, then they will go on to live empowered lives, reach their true potential and become productive members of society."

Carol's Bio

Carol Blakemore

Head Volunteer and Executive Assistant for 'The SEJ' organisation.

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Carol is the Head Volunteer and Executive Assistant for the Stay Mentally Healthy organisation. She has been volunteering for the founding organisation for over 19 years, working closely with Mary, and has a wealth of experience with her primary focus on service. Her daily function in the organisation is to help support all volunteers with their work, and to work collaboratively to ensure the organisation fulfils its aims.

Carol says...

Part of my Head Volunteer role is to provide leadership to the function of volunteering. To promote and enable a positive culture of engagement and the values of work for the organisation, ensuring that volunteering is understood and respected throughout the organisation which reflects on the day to day work.

Being a volunteer has given me a deepened sense of empathy and compassion, it allows me to connect with people on a deeper level. The smallest act of being in service can make an enormous difference to the lives of others."

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Our volunteers perform a variety of activities and tasks to benefit the organisation and their communities. Without them we would not be able to continue our work. 

Thank you to all our volunteers!

Our Volunteers

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