Self Management Week 2023 – Programme of Events

Events will take place each day from Monday 18 – Thursday 21 September. Browse the events below and sign up!

Monday 18 September

12:00-1:00pm – The Benefits of Nature Connection for Wellbeing

This one-hour session led by Jan Cafearo from Feelgood Forest Bathing is an introduction to connecting with nature for wellbeing. You will learn some of the science revealing the health benefits of the Japanese art of Forest Bathing (immersing ourselves in nature through the senses). We’ll have a short taster activity to experience it for ourselves. And there will be time for questions at the end. You’ll be offered a link to a video, which will guide you through a more in-depth activity to be practised at your leisure, in your own neighbourhood nature. The session is suitable for anyone – beginners to experienced, all abilities, and aims to be fun and engaging.

Join us online on Zoom for this event. To register, please follow this link.

3:30-4:30pm – Ideas to Improve the Impact of our Networks and Support those who Lead them

How many of us attend a meeting as we were told to go, or our organisation needs to be seen to attend but in the grand scheme of things nothing much changes? Or, we go in circles deciding why we are meeting? It’s not that people are not interested or caring, it’s just, in all the things we learned, did we ever really learn about how to make our networks more effective and our roles as network leaders less draining? This 50-minute session led by Hilda Campbell (COPE Scotland) seeks to present a suite of resources to help our networks and ourselves as network leaders as well as a chance to reflect on areas we may like to learn more about.

Join us online on Zoom for this event. To register, please follow this link.

Tuesday 19 September

10:00am-2:00pm – Mental Wellbeing and Self Management: Chat, Connect, Learn

Are you working to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for people living with long term conditions? Do you want to connect and learn from others doing the same?

Join the ALLIANCE and Mental Health Foundation Living Well programme for a morning of networking, connecting and sharing learning. This session will bring together people with an interest in promoting positive mental health and wellbeing for networking, discussion and fun!

To find out more and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

2:00-3:00pm – What if ALISS Could Talk?

ALISS is A Local Information System for Scotland. It helps people in Scotland self manage by putting them in touch with services, groups, activities, and resources which improve their health and wellbeing. This event will feature ALLIANCE Digital Assistant Director Chris Mackie introducing the Democratising Access to Community Services (DACS) project and a pre-recorded ALLIANCE live podcast with Caroline Laurenson of TL Tech talking about the collaboration to develop voice activation for ALISS. ALLIANCE User Researcher, Gillian Duffy and Service Designer, Olivia Sharkey will also be available for Q&A.

Join us online on Zoom for this event. To register, please follow this link.

Wednesday 20 September

9:30am-3:45pm – Self Management Week Celebration Walk

ALLIANCE Community Links Practitioners (CLPs) work from GP Practices across Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire supporting people with issues that affect their health and wellbeing. Health walks, led by CLPs, take place regularly across the city and this event, a celebration of health walks, will take place in Linlithgow Palace Park. All participants will be picked up by bus in Glasgow City Centre on the morning of 20th September and will travel together to the park. We will break into two group walks, one of these a shorter route for those not wishing to attempt a longer walk. Following the walk, all in attendance are invited to West Port Hotel where lunch will be served.

This event is now full.

6:00-8:00pm – Self Management Awards 2023

The annual Self Management Awards celebrate good practice and promote a wide range of self management activity across the country. They also provide an opportunity for nominees and winners to network with others leading the way for self management in Scotland, and to draw the attention of MSPs to the value and impact of self management. This year’s Awards ceremony will be held in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and will see the announcement of the winner of the Public Vote for Self Management in the Community Award, amongst others. We are looking forward to celebrating our shortlisted nominees and winners with you all, with a fantastic night of speeches, winner announcements and fun.

Due to the popularity of this event, and the limited venue capacity, priority registration will be given to friends and family of shortlisted nominees. For those not attending in person, online streaming will be available on the night, follow us at @SelfMgmtScot for updates.

Thursday 21 September

All Day – MAF Glasgow Hub Open Day

The newly established Moira Anderson Foundation (MAF) Glasgow Hub is having an Open Day as part of Self Management Week and you are invited to come along, meet the staff, see the premises and find out about the services on offer. Complementary therapy taster sessions will be available on the day. Tickets are free and spaces are limited.

To find out more and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

12:00-12:45pm – Courage, confidence and collaboration: supporting self management in health professionals’ practice

This webinar, led by Professor Lisa Kidd (Glasgow Caledonian University, Department of Nursing and Community Health) will draw on the learning from a recently completed research study on supported self management in stroke care. It will delve into perspectives on supported self management, challenging our professionally-held assumptions about what it is and isn’t. In particular, it aims to demonstrate how courage, confidence and collaboration are fundamental concepts in supporting people with long term conditions to live well and inspiring practitioners to work differently and flexibly with individuals and their families to align their support with people’s needs and their own priorities and values.

Join us online on Zoom for this event. To register, please follow this link.

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