Mental Health Awareness Run
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Speak Up is a group formed by Aaron Thiara, Ryan Campbell & Jason Buchanan focused on raising mental health awareness particularly in young men. We are choosing to raise money for the Young Minds charity who are devoted to working together to look after young people’s mental health and get early help to all young people who need it through their "Act Early" campaign.
Our ethos at SpeakUp is to encourage men of all ages to be in touch with their vulnerabilities. To embrace them with sensitive confidence that unites us all together to be brave enough to bring our individual issues to the forefront of our conversations.
‘’Motion creates Emotion’; a tool the SpeakUp Team uses to clear their minds of the anxieties we face on a daily basis. In times where we may feel static and low on morale, getting up and getting active for a brisk walk or doing the house cleaning can within moments increase motivation and focus helping to wash away any negative thoughts resulting from idleness.
At SpeakUp we identify that growing up we can feel terribly restricted to embrace and flourish as the people we are yearning to enlighten the world with. Whether that’s enforced by society pressures, family or feeling as though we are unable to follow our dreams; the list is endless that could inevitably mount to blurred vision of who we identify ourselves as.
With this in mind we have deliberately devised a challenge, 4 in 4. A challenge in which we have undertaken very little preparation for igniting sheer intimidation of fear into us as to how we’ll be able to overcome the task at hand.
AND this is exactly why we are doing it.
We aim to complete 4 half Marathon run’s over a 4 week period from the 13th October to 3rd November. Though this is a physical challenge it is arguably a bigger mental exercise as very little training has gone into prepare for this and both Ryan and Aaron have never ran a half marathon.
4 in 4 is a symbolic point of thought, to clear your mind of the fears and take control! Smashing down the barriers we may give ourselves of the success’s we can achieve in the world.
Unfortunately, life obstacles can and will come at you unexpectedly and it’s important that we aim to condition ourselves to be able to overcome these situations with authenticity, dignity and belief. Hopefully leading to a un-panicked mindset for when issues do arise and we feel as though we can tackle it with clear vision.
We will be running at the following half marathons on the followings dates/locations:
13th October 2019 - Birmingham Half Marathon
19th October 2019 - Sutton Half Marathon
27th October 2019 - Wimbledon Half Marathon
3rd November 2019 - Location TBC
Contact info:
Instagram:
aaronthiara_
Keepitmoving18_
Email:
[email redacted]
Spotify Podcast:
SpeakUp
Our ethos at SpeakUp is to encourage men of all ages to be in touch with their vulnerabilities. To embrace them with sensitive confidence that unites us all together to be brave enough to bring our individual issues to the forefront of our conversations.
‘’Motion creates Emotion’; a tool the SpeakUp Team uses to clear their minds of the anxieties we face on a daily basis. In times where we may feel static and low on morale, getting up and getting active for a brisk walk or doing the house cleaning can within moments increase motivation and focus helping to wash away any negative thoughts resulting from idleness.
At SpeakUp we identify that growing up we can feel terribly restricted to embrace and flourish as the people we are yearning to enlighten the world with. Whether that’s enforced by society pressures, family or feeling as though we are unable to follow our dreams; the list is endless that could inevitably mount to blurred vision of who we identify ourselves as.
With this in mind we have deliberately devised a challenge, 4 in 4. A challenge in which we have undertaken very little preparation for igniting sheer intimidation of fear into us as to how we’ll be able to overcome the task at hand.
AND this is exactly why we are doing it.
We aim to complete 4 half Marathon run’s over a 4 week period from the 13th October to 3rd November. Though this is a physical challenge it is arguably a bigger mental exercise as very little training has gone into prepare for this and both Ryan and Aaron have never ran a half marathon.
4 in 4 is a symbolic point of thought, to clear your mind of the fears and take control! Smashing down the barriers we may give ourselves of the success’s we can achieve in the world.
Unfortunately, life obstacles can and will come at you unexpectedly and it’s important that we aim to condition ourselves to be able to overcome these situations with authenticity, dignity and belief. Hopefully leading to a un-panicked mindset for when issues do arise and we feel as though we can tackle it with clear vision.
We will be running at the following half marathons on the followings dates/locations:
13th October 2019 - Birmingham Half Marathon
19th October 2019 - Sutton Half Marathon
27th October 2019 - Wimbledon Half Marathon
3rd November 2019 - Location TBC
Contact info:
Instagram:
aaronthiara_
Keepitmoving18_
Email:
[email redacted]
Spotify Podcast:
SpeakUp
Organizer
Ryan Campbell-Coleman
Organizer