Online events catch up

Don’t miss out on our events this month. It’s as simple as picking the ones you like and signing up via the portal!

Past Events

01 October - Mastering meal planning and preparation with MS

    • This information session, ‘Mastering meal planning and preparation with MS’, is presented by Jenna Cox, a registered nutritional therapist with personal experience of managing life with multiple sclerosis (MS).
  • This informative session is designed to provide people living with MS with the tools and strategies needed to make meal planning and preparation easier without compromising on healthy choices. During this presentation, Jenna will guide you through
    • – Meal planning hints and tips
    • – Smart shopping lists
    • – Food preparation shortcuts
    • – Batch cooking inspiration
    • – Useful gadgets, tools and equipment to make your life easier
    • – Managing cooking with fatigue

10 October - Managing mental health

For World Mental Health Day 2024 (10 October), we invited Karys Matthams from Suffolk Mind, to discuss their Mental Health Toolkit.

This session introduces Mind’s approach to taking care of your mental health and wellbeing. To help you stay well, we review the use of an ‘organising idea’ – that everyone has physical and emotional needs and a set of skills and resources that we’re born with to meet those needs. This is referred to as the Emotional Needs and Resources approach (see here).

While just a snapshot of The Essentials, our Introduction to The Mental Health Toolkit will help you begin to discover more about your emotional needs, and the innate resources we have to get them met. This will improve your confidence in taking steps that help to keep your mental health in check while also dealing with the daily challenges that come with a condition like MS.

16 September - Improving your strength for your MS

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In this session with Dr Gretchen, she’ll first discuss how a tailored physiotherapy approach can help tackle muscle weakness and transfer these improvements into performing daily tasks such as sit to stand and mobilising with reduced effort.

The focus then shifts to look at how a “regular” physiotherapy approach differs from a “MS specific” strength programme and how this will influence the type of exercise practised. Dr Gretchen provides exercises for different problem areas to allow you to tailor your exercise practice, including a review of exercise parameters (e.g. how many reps/sets/holds).

23 September - MS and cognition

In this session, Dr Paul Bradley-Hoffman who is the lead clinical psychologist working at University Hospital of Wales talks to us on the topic of cognition and multiple sclerosis (MS).

You will learn more about options for cognitive rehabilitation and management strategies to improve function and overall wellbeing for people living with MS.

Session overview

  • – What is cognition and cognitive dysfunction?
  • – Assessment
  • – Impact and common symptoms
  • – Cognitive rehabilitation and management
  • – Cognitive Strategies
  • – Accessing Resources & Services
  • – Current Research

24 September - Conversations on loneliness and connection (Part 1)

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This is a three-part series, exploring the concept of modern-day loneliness and its significance for people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS). The three sessions follows on from our session in June, where we discovered people wanted to explore more on the subject of loneliness and have the opportunity to meet others who have had similar experiences.

The first part of this series will start by introducing the concept of loneliness and how it differs from isolation and solitude. You’ll look at the different types of loneliness that exist and explain how it is that we can feel lonely in a crowded room. We’ll discover how loneliness, once the key to our survival, has become one of the biggest harms facing individuals and society today. And we’ll explore how loneliness might once again hold the key to survival in the modern world.