Our Zoom sessions are available for all Eye Matter members to access wherever they live. Support can be provided to assist access and all members are expected to read our terms and conditions to ensure. The importance of using Zoom in respect of other people.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Be kind
No isms/no discrimination
Be on time, mute yourself if not on time and leave quietly
No talking over others
No politics/religion/football
Always treat our staff and volunteers with respect
Zoom schedule for week starting 17th March
Dear Eye Matter Members,
On Tuesday, join a fun and friendly social followed by Neurobics with Steve Wax, a lively brain and body workout designed to challenge the mind, boost memory and lift the heart. On Wednesday, Eye Matter Natter with Queen Sarah provides a welcoming space for conversation and connection. We round off the week on Friday with a fun and friendly social followed by cathartic creative writing with Joanna Williams, exploring how writing can support wellbeing and self-expression.
Everyone is welcome – we’d love to see you.
Tuesday 6pm
fun and friendly social followed by Neurobics, (aerobics for the memory) is a fun brain workout facilitated by Steve Wax. These sessions have been generously funded by The National Lottery.
Neurobics Brain & Body Fitness – is a preventative and rehabilitative treatment programme which supports people to “Challenge the Body, Stimulate the Brain & Lift the Heart.” These sessions aim to recognise that, “Brain & Body Fitness has become a vital element for lifelong well-being, and Neurobics can help you to manage, postpone or eliminate cognitive decline as well as support those recovering from brain injury.”
Members are engaged in a variety of games designed to stimulate their brains including writing words and numbers simultaneously, memory word games in different subjects, and number games.
Wednesday 11am
Eye Matter Natter with Queen Sarah
Friday 11am
Fun and friendly social followed by cathartic writing with Joanna Williams
Release your inner writer in these cathartic creative writing sessions. We will meet on zoom once a month and discuss a different theme each time. Facilitator Joanna will share pieces of writing on the theme, from selected works of fiction, memoir, or creative nonfiction, and we’ll discuss how we feel about the pieces. Then, you’ll be invited to use the class as inspiration to create your own piece of writing in the intervening weeks, to be shared at the next class if you so choose. You can send the writing to Joanna in advance or read it yourself. There is no obligation to write or to share; if you prefer to just listen, that’s fine, too.
Joanna Williams is a qualified counsellor and also a novelist (published under the name Joanna Barnard). She is very interested in the intersection between creative writing and mental health and has been facilitating writing for wellbeing classes for over seven years, as well as using therapeutic writing tools in her counselling practice.