Self Management Week 2024 – Events schedule

Registration for Self Management Week 2024 is now open - browse our events and sign up!

Events will take place each day from Monday 23 – Thursday 26 September. Browse the events below and sign up to secure your place. A communications pack with events timetable can also be found at the bottom of this page.

Monday 23 September

11:00am-12:00pm – Self Management Week 2024 Launch Event

Join us for networking, catching up with old friends and new and a warm welcome to Self Management Week 2024. Whether you’re a long-time network member, or interested in joining, our theme for the week is self management journeys so we’ll be kicking off with a networking session focussing on just that. The Self Management Network Scotland is composed of over 900 healthcare professionals, third sector staff and individuals living and working to support self management.

For more information and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

1:30-3:30pm – Connect & Create: A Nature-based Therapeutic Art Workshop

Join last year’s Self Management Awards winners Spider Arts (Self Management through the Arts) at House for an Art Lover Studio Pavilion for a therapeutic art workshop in the surroundings of Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The session will facilitate relaxation and enjoyment of nature and creativity; encouraging attendees to reflect upon how a personal connection with nature and independent artmaking may aid their own wellbeing and self management journey.

For more information and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

2-4pm – Pain Concern’s Pain Education Session

This two-hour online Pain Education Session can help anyone who has had pain for 12 weeks or more, their family, even employers. This session will give you a better understanding of your pain to help you manage it more effectively in the long term. Topics covered include what is pain, managing activity, managing stress, sleep, managing flare-ups. Please note, this session is open to people aged 18+.

For more information and to sign up for this event please follow this link.

Tuesday 24 September

10-11:30am – Conversation Café for women’s health: peer support and supportive discussion

Join us in The Hidden Gardens in Glasgow for a Conversation Café on women’s health. This will be a space of learning and discussion where people can come together to learn from each other, and to share what works well for them. There will be an opportunity to meet new people, to access information about different areas of women’s health, and to gain confidence in using the Conversation Café toolkit in the future with your own friends, families, colleagues or community groups.

For more information and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

12:30-1:20pm – ALISS in Action: Transforming Self Management Support for Community Wellbeing

Join us online for an engaging and informative workshop on ALISS in Action, featuring ALLIANCE staff from the ALISS programme and the Digital Links Project in Glasgow. You will discover how ALISS can be a game-changer in your professional toolkit, helping you support individuals in the community to better self manage their health and wellbeing through accessible and tailored local resources.

For more information and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

2-3pm – Mindfulness as a self management tool

This 60-minute session looks at how those living with chronic illness and/or a disability and those caring for them can use mindfulness techniques to help manage and improve wellbeing. The session will outline what mindfulness is and its benefits and limitations. It will include a relaxing guided meditation practice, followed by a discussion about the practice. No experience of meditation is necessary, and no props are needed.

For more information and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

Wednesday 25 September

10am-12pm – Tackling Mental health stigma and discrimination in healthcare

We all have a legal right to have our voice heard in how our healthcare is delivered, including to challenge experiences of stigma and discrimination as people with lived / living experiences of mental health challenges. This event launches an exciting new resource open to all to support people to influence change and improve these services.

For more information and to sign up for this event, please follow this link.

6-8pm – Self Management Awards 2024

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 Garden Lobby of the Scottish Parliament 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. Online streaming will be available on the night.

Please note, this event is now FULL.

Thursday 26 September

10:30am-12pm – Sporting Memories Club Open session

Sporting Memories Scotland is a charity that welcomes anyone aged 50 plus, including those facing isolation and loneliness, people living with dementia, their carers and loved ones, to their regular free community club sessions. The clubs provide an opportunity to discuss all things sport, be active and create friendships in a warm, fun and friendly environment. At this open event at their Corstorphine Sporting Memories Club in Edinburgh, Sporting Memories will be offering a taster session to anyone who wants to attend. You’ll be welcomed with a cuppa and will join their regular members to talk and reminisce about sport.

For more information and to sign up for this event please follow this link.

12:30-1:30pm – Embedding Supported Self Management at the heart of Scotland’s biggest health charity

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland is one of Scotland’s biggest health charities. Join this webinar to find out how it is embedding supported self management at the heart of its No Life Half Lived 23-28 strategy and what this means for service delivery. Hear how the charity has introduced a new six-week evidence based supported self management programme, originally developed at Stanford University.

For more information and to sign up for this event please follow this link.

2-3pm – Self Management Workshop: Navigating Uncertainty with the Diamond Model

Join Eat, Sleep, Ride for an interactive virtual workshop where you’ll be introduced to the Diamond Model of Shared Leadership, a powerful framework for leading oneself through uncertain times. Participants will learn to apply the principles of attention, energy, direction, and congruence to enhance their self management skills both professionally and personally. Engage in breakout sessions, case study analyses, and practical discussions designed to equip you with actionable strategies for navigating uncertainty effectively.

For more information and to sign up for this event please follow this link.

3-4:30pm – IFIC Scotland Webinar: Self Management Journeys

This webinar will bring together international speakers who will share their self management experiences and examples of what is working well in practice from personal journeys of self management of long term conditions, to what it means for healthcare professionals to adapt their practice to support self management and to wider organisational journeys as health and social care services adopt more person-centred ways of working. We will have the opportunity to discuss and explore common themes that run through self management journeys and reflect on why self management matters.

For more information and to sign up for this event please follow this link.

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