Josh Elton is a Group Facilitator for Standing Together Cymru – a project which aims to improve mental health, wellbeing and build community connections through peer support groups.
Here, he shares some insights into the role that kindness has played in these groups since lockdown: Once at a peer support group, a newly widowed woman looked to an older widow for advice.
She was told “you need to find your new normal”. To me this is incredibly more powerful. than any intervention I can make as a paid member of staff.
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