At our Launch Event in December 2022, spoken work poet Oneda wrote this poem for our project.

What music makes you feel good?

We started a playlist - send us the music that makes you feel good and help build the Mindset Revolution Playlist

Video by Lee Kahlo (Mindset Revolution researcher/ filmmaker)

I wrote this short poem to encapsulate the state of the current mental health system and how the Mindset Revolution's digital participation group are combating it by building a platform and creating dialogue surrounding mental health in the city.

Were open

We are creating space

Soft warm and delicate in taste 

Unlike the sour medicinal one we’ve become accustomed to

We will no longer savour wood covered in lukewarm vanilla

Can you not acknowledge that for the brain these white walls and green chairs are killer?

We are creating, curating and...
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by The Mindset Revolution Team

The Optimistic Minds’ actors. Pictures by Ingrid Turner.

“Je participe, Tu participes, Ils profitent”[1] recites a famous French student poster from May 1968. The rhetoric on citizens participation has since become more sophisticated, but despite much work designing and testing new forms of public engagement and public dialogue over the past three decades, the space for democracy seems to have actually shrunk. Our democracies are constrained by a neoliberal ideology that prioritises healthy markets over healthy people and sacrifices the wellbeing of the planet for ...
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