The Mental Health Revolution

Applying TPM was developed by Kevin George. After years of seeing at first hand, the hurdles clinical therapy and mental health workshops faced. TPM has been delivered in schools, prisons, across Premier League football clubs and corporations internationally.

He created a solution that not only by-passes those hurdles, but also equips attendees to proactively build a therapeutic lifestyle and shift group culture.

I call this page my real bio.

I appreciate that credentials are important however, I believe why I do what I do and for it to be written by me, more important.

Below I’ll go into my experience, the problems with and my solutions for mental health offerings, gangs, schools, parents, football clubs and corporates.

Staff

(facets of staff)

The best culture within the work place can still have staff highly stressed and not performing. Developing their understanding of mental health not only benefits them, it also helps them to understand and support their children better.

Being at work and having a child that tells you that school is too stressful, get excluded,….

Gangs

I grew up in a rough are and most of my friends were in a gang. It would be in possible to be closer than I was to a gang without officially being a member. My neighbours, classmates, team mates and mum’s friend’s children were in gangs.

Although my home life was safe, by the age of 10 I had witnessed my friend’s dad beating his mum and high levels of violence in my community centre and borough. The rapper Black Thought summed it up perfectly when describing his environment, ‘ a grain of salt can tip the scales, it never fails, walk on egg shells, sleep on a bed of nails’. Anxiety was the default.

My proximity to gangs alone, lets you know that ‘gang culture’ isn’t exclusive to members. There are social rules within the culture, as a means to survival. One example being strategies for when you get jumped by a group of boys.

My friends who joined the gangs joined to receive the support they lacked at home and protection on the streets. When I was young and now as a therapist, ‘grooming’ was not the main reason for boys joining gangs, because boys were begging to join. They would volunteer to what we would call a ‘Sen’ Out’, which is go out to rob for older gang members to have the association and be their ‘younger’.

People who join gangs do not come from safe and healthy backgrounds, so when they’re given the opportunity to experience a rebirth (join a gang), and be given their new name, protection, community and status. It’s an attractive solution to their current lifestyle.

Society stigmatises their lifestyle, in doing so stigmatising the person, pushing them further into their commitment.

Schools

I loved school for the wrong reasons

Mental Health

Therapy

A lack of access, engagement and understanding of clinical support services costs the UK £41.8 million in mental health bills, prison, loss of productivity at work and more. The mental and emotional price? Incalculable.

Kevin created the emotional literacy service after years of working with students on the verge of exclusion, adults in prison, players who struggled to adjust to the professional football environment and staff wellbeing in the workplace. He found that there would be greater success, health and happiness, if there was an intricate, engaging and proactive service that focused on the inner world. More specifically, an emotional literacy programme.

The programme for greater good:

Provides clinical support to those from low socio-economic backgrounds.

• Decreases of participation in risky behaviours and gang memberships.

• Alleviates pressure from CAMHS and the NHS.

• Offers an alternative to those who struggle to build relationships with the traditional Clinical support, or engage in the intimate intensity of therapy.

• Reduces substance abuse and violent crime.

The programme for your organisation:

• Schools: A reduction in exclusions and raises attainment levels.

• Workplace: An increase in staff attendance and productivity

• Prisons: A reduction in reoffending.