Awareness to Action – Unlocking Community Power for Mental Wellness
Inside Out kicking off MentalHealthWeek with a powerful start!🌱Awareness to Action – Unlocking Community Power for Mental Wellness 🌱
Our Awareness to Action Day, hosted by the amazing team at Rider Levett Bucknall RLB, was nothing short of transformational. We are deeply grateful for their generous hospitality and commitment to community empowerment. 🙏🏾
The Inside Out Clothing Project proudly began the afternoon with an inspiring design workshop in collaboration with the brilliant Trash Gxng https://trashgxng.co.uk/ a creative collective doing phenomenal work to support and uplift young talent. Huge shoutout to founder 💫 Tayo Adesina and their creative participants for bringing their full selves into the space!
As always, shoutout to Greg McKenzie and the Inside Out designers for leading such an impactful workshop and showing the power of creativity and purpose in action. 💥
We brought together young, talented creatives to co-create and explore pathways into construction and architecture. Special thanks to:
💫 Alice Odeke – Architect, Lecturer at the School of Architecture & Cities, University of Westminster
💫 Anthony Effah-Yeboah – Architecture Student
💫 Maurice Yiu – Architecture Student
Your stories and energy truly inspired.
✨ The evening continued with our expert panel discussion:
“ 📢 Awareness to Action – Unlocking Community Power for Mental Wellness.”
In too many underserved communities, young people full of promise face barriers from limited opportunity and unaddressed mental health struggles. But when mental wellness, employment opportunities, and creative expression meet mentorship, transformation is possible.
🔊 Thank you to our brilliant moderator:
Audrey James – Psychodynamic Psychotherapist & Counsellor
And our incredible experts:
Chris D. – Interim Executive Director of Operations, Care Quality Commission | Life Coach | Men’s Mental Health Advocate
Rob Pierre – Co-founder & former CEO, Jellyfish | Investor & Philanthropist | Funder/Director, Inside Out Clothing Project
Tom Vernon – Founder & Former CEO, Right to Dream | Dyslexia & Education Reform Advocate
Vanessa Boachie – BABCP Accredited CBT Psychotherapist | Founding Director | Speaker
Together we tackled:
-The state of youth mental health
-Community-based interventions
-Creativity as a tool for healing
-Turning awareness into action
💥 To our experts and moderator—thank you for saying YES. Your presence created deep impact. **More pics coming soon!
A heartfelt thank you as well to Lorraine Williamson and Bianca M. of RLB. Your unwavering support made this day possible—we couldn’t have done it without you.
💥 With Grace, we were able to bring this to life in less than two weeks.
Where there is a VISION—take the step forward, and you will be amazed to see how fast the doors swing open.
