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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.

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.
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.
SiS Statement on Serenity Integrated Mentoring & High Intensity Network

A statement from Self-Injury Support about Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) model and the High Intensity Network (HIN) approach
What is self-harm? Signs and causes
Guide to support students through COVID-19
Were you involved with the Bristol Crisis Service for Women between 1986 and 2014?

Get involved with our heritage project! Over the next 18 months we will be recording oral histories of the women who founded, worked and volunteered at the pioneering Bristol Crisis Service for Women. We want to capture as many memories of being involved with this groundbreaking organisation from as many women as possible, so if you or someone you know have got something to share, please get in touch.
Women Listening to Women

We are recruiting volunteers to help us research and record the story of how feminist activists created the Bristol Crisis Service for Women, a groundbreaking peer-led organisation for women in distress.
Free to self-injure? Should self-harm be prevented?
The interpretive difficulties of self-harm in “Sharp Objects”
Seeing Self-Harm as an embodied social practice

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.