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Journal
We like to think a lot and share our thoughts to inspire, educate and start vital conversations. Here are some of our reflections, including our behind the scenes!
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(Inspiration: diversity, anti-racism, empowering women, identity, mental health, climate, poverty, leadership)
STORIES: Shamelessly Celebrating Bengali Diversity
Various identities of the Bengali community in the UK will be explored and celebrated through a wonderful collection of blogs and podcasts. We will facilitate an open exchange of ideas and give voice to views, some of which may otherwise not be heard.
BLOG: How couples yoga helps us grow together
Yoga didn’t make sense to me at all. I couldn’t understand how so many saw it as exercise. To me it’s a spiritual practice and one that wasn’t for me until I started practising with my wife.
BLOG: I am a mother. I am a leader. I am a feminist. I'm an activist…And I'm a citizen of the world that's got a lot of curiosity about the world
“I'm a 4’11’’ British-Bengali, little tiny brown woman.” Her mission is clear: she wants to be a role model for other women and show them what they can do through what she has done. We talk about not diminishing your achievements, and “being brave, not perfect.”
PRESS RELEASE: Climate crisis is a global health crisis.
CEO MESSAGE: #ThisLittleGirlIsMe
ARTICLE: Why the construction industry needs to factor in mental health as part of their Heightened Risk Assessments.
Re-Balance are calling for all construction companies to include at least one Heightened Risk Assessment around suicide prevention with support from Collen Construction LTD.
PODCAST - Brick Lane Past & Future
PODCAST: Bangladesh Independence & the Importance of Identity in Diaspora
Hear Co-Founder and CEO of Diversity and Ability, Atif Choudhury, chat to our Co-Founder Poppy Jaman OBE about the history of Bangladesh, family memories, what it's like being part of a diaspora community and looking at the strength of inclusion through intersectional lenses.
BLOG: The Compass for Courage
PODCAST: Belonging | Growing up British Bengali
Poppy Jaman OBE shares her experience from an arranged marriage at 17, her first child and experience of post-natal depression by 20, and how work was actually a saviour for her mental health, and how these experiences have shaped her overall career and thinking.
CEO MESSAGE: Racial justice and breaking down structural racism is embedded in our working ethos.
We’re interrupters where we’ll challenge the status quo through empathy and action, we’ll hold the mirror up to ourselves and others and we will tackle the seen to be taboo and difficult subjects head on so that society doesn’t get too comfortable with accepting the unacceptable.
PODCAST: Managing Mental Health When Working For A Mission.
In this episode, host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Poppy Jaman OBE, the CEO of City Mental Health Alliance, a network of thought leaders from London-based organizations committed to improving and raising awareness of mental health in the workplace. They discuss the difference between empathetic and compassionate leadership, the therapeutic joy of being silly, and what it’s like to devote your career to mission-driven work, while caring for your mental health.
PODCAST: Having A Voice.
Ever felt like you should be better at feminism?
Join comedian Deborah Frances-White and her special guests for their new comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience.
Having a voice with Sindu Vee and guests Poppy Jaman and Amrit Kaur.
PODCAST: Mental Health, Identity & Confidence.
Hear Business and Career Coach, Sunita Harley, chat to Poppy Jaman OBE who is a global ambassador for mental health in the workplace and the CEO of City Mental Health Alliance. They discuss everyday wellbeing strategies, their own stress indicators, identity as a British South Asian woman, confidence and belonging and the love of wearing something that makes you feel good.
BLOG: I Have A Right To A Voice - There Are More Options Open To Me Than Reductive Stereotypes.
I enjoy being kissed. I like being called 'lovely'. But not when I'm at work, and not by a man I've never met before during a business meeting. A man that has just shaken the hands of my male colleagues before holding me by the shoulder and kissing me.
PODCAST: Why Mental Health At Work Matters.
Re-Balance’s Jaan Madan Talks to the Financial Times about mental health at work. ’Why mental health at work matters
BLOG: Fostering Multilingualism for Inclusion in Education and Society.
On the 6th of March 2018, Poppy Jaman received an OBE. Here are her thoughts in the lead up to the day, in conjunction with Mother Language Day.