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Past Event: Women Listening to Women: A History of Self-Injury & Mental Health Activism

Find out about the gendered stereotypes of self-harm, and how pioneering women-led services like Self Injury Support have countered them.
Making Gentle Activism

Gentle Activism uses the oral histories collected by the Women Listening to Women project to explore the history of Bristol Crisis Service for Women. But what was the process of creating these podcasts like?
Women Listening to Women website, podcasts and exhibition launched!

Our Women Listening to Women oral history project has launched a host of new resources including an exhibition, podcasts and a brand new website. Find out about the history of the incredible women who made the organisation what it is today, and used empathy and listening to change understandings of self-injury.
In It Together: Resources

A selection of resources to support you making change in the world. Put together by Charlotte Randomly, these resources compliment our In It Together: Skills for Listening and Change workshops.

Experience-led Self-Help Resource

Our self-help resources are all based on the collective experiences of peers who use self harm, and the strategies they found helpful to cope. You can also read the resources in Cantonese, Polish and Punjabi.
About the Self injury Support Library

The Self-Injury Support Library is a one-stop collection of useful, reliable and up to date resources on self-injury from around the web.
Rainbow Journal - Personal Self-Help Diary
Self Help Resources for People with Learning Disabilities
Creative Self Help Ideas and Strategies
Mental Health and Traumatic Experiences
Wounds, scars and medical aid
Getting Help
Managing thoughts and feelings
Understanding your self-injury

Women's Self Injury Support Services

Please don't hesitate to contact us for free, confidential, non-judgemental support around self-injury and related issues. All services open Tuesday and Thursday from 7pm - 9.30pm. Please click here for details of how to access our support services.
UK Support Groups and Other Services

Comprehensive listing of local and national self-harm and self-injury support groups and organisations
Rainbow Journal - Personal Self-Help Diary
Helpful responses to self-injury

Short and long term helpful responses to self-injury
What if I don't want to stop self-harming?
Distractions and alternatives
About Us - Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Values

Read more about our vision that anyone who uses self-injury knows they are not alone; that everyone understands that self-injury is a complex and important issue we should all care about and that together we tackle both the causes and stigma of self-injury.
What is self-injury?

Understand more about self-harm and self-injury
Why does it happen?

Find out some of the reasons behind self-harm and self-injury
New and Updated Self-Harm Training

Self injury Support has 30 years’ experience in delivering high quality self-harm training to a wide variety of settings and participants. Our approach is participative and reflective, and is focused on bringing the voice of people who use self-harm into the room, building empathy and confidence for supporters.