What is Flourishing Minds?
Flourishing Minds is a community based, tiered service that empowers people to learn self-care and coping skills to enable them to better self-manage their mental and emotional health, alongside other health conditions. 

Lancashire Mind are working in partnership with Age UK, One Voice and The Wellbeing Service to provide a variety of activities and support to Blackburn with Darwen residents. All activities are designed to enable people to better understand their mental health and wellbeing and learn how to look after it.

The overall aim of the service is to improve mental wellbeing across the population of Blackburn with Darwen. The Flourishing Minds project will identify and focus on the strengths and skills that exist in local neighbourhoods and use these resources to support lasting change. This approach will enable local people to discover and share their talents and resources to make long-term improvements to their community and their wellbeing.

Who can access Flourishing Minds? 
Flourishing Minds is funded by Blackburn with Darwen council Public Health. You can access Flourishing Minds if:

You are 18 or older
You live in Blackburn or Darwen
You are registered with a GP in Blackburn or Darwen
You are struggling to maintain positive wellbeing

What support is available? 
Lancashire Mind and our project partners offer a range of different types of support. This includes support groups, wellbeing coaching, social activities, wellbeing checks and signposting. 
As part of the Flourishing Minds project we have two free community workshops available. Our community based workshops are run as 1-hour sessions either on Zoom or at local community venues. The workshops will deliver an introduction to the five ways to wellbeing and how to better self-manage stress. The workshops are interactive, informative and relaxed with the opportunity to ask questions and meet other people in the local community.
To find out more about the support our partners offer, get in touch or visit their websites using the links below.
https://www.lancashiremind.org.uk/pages/205-flourishing-minds
https://refreshbwd.com/