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Vanessa Bennett

@nessbennett.bsky.social
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Creating safe, #compassionate spaces & partnership approaches to support change #psychology, #psychiatry #coproduction, #Involvement, #Health #Social research #ethics #evaluation #youngpeople PPIE specialist/Patient Partner/Med Comms

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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Days like these… Easter at Fistral Beach, Cornwall
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Life feeling better with the sun out today. Widemouth Beach… #painting #art @mindful.nessart
Acrylic painting of a sunset (with blue, cream and red sky), light glistening on the water and rocks in shadow
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Latest abstract painting… Ambivalence #art #bskyart #abstract #painting #compassion
Painting with different bands of colour starting with intense dark blue at the top with lighter blue highlights fading to turquoise gradient. A band of yellows and reds cuts across the middle of the turquoise gradient. The lower third of the painting includes a band of greys and white gradually blending into a band of greens and gold.
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Thought I’d pop a painting here that feels a little more at peace than the world around… few more on insta at @mindful.nessart
Painting of a beach and sea in Cornwall
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Drop me a message to arrange a chat or for copy of CV and keep me in mind when planning 😊
Painting called 'Hope' with concentric circles of different colours painted with a knife - colours from outside to centre are: turquoise, bronze metallic, blue, flashes of orange and pale blue, different reds and pinks, fluorescent yellow and bright green in the centre
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Mother-daughter co-production❣️ Young people curate SM best - music, words, sentiments! More to add... www.instagram.com/mindful.ness... #soothing #mindfulart #madart #art #collaboration #coproduction #mentalhealthmatters #involveyoungpeople
Painting: Guide from Beyond - Hope
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Wishing everyone a peaceful 2025!
Drawing of a white-booted racket-tailed hummingbird
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
For those arriving here, listen to learnings from our 8 funded teams (and our team), and join conversations about measuring complexity of 'learning by doing' co-production across contexts (in the UK) <Dec 5th> Welcome to anyone: #involvement #coproduction #livedexperience #evaluation
Slide with names of each of the eight funded projects in the Measuring Success Programme. These are: Co-production from the inside-out; Assessing the impact of co-production in fostering equality and diversity in mental health and wellbeing research; symptoms of diagnostic labelling - re-evaluating the language used in mental health; Exploring neurodivergence and maintaining and acting on eco-hope; Closing the loop beyond the loop: reflection and learning in the co-production process; Improving student mental health: University of Warwick; Co-producing an evaluation of the Aphasia New Music Group; Tri-diagnosis: raising the profile of dual diagnosis and homelessness
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Just starting… too early to say but it seems more entertaining than it sounds!
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Vanessa Bennett @nessbennett.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Keeping in mind what/who helped this week (esp after awful last week)… Hope everyone else has found something too
4 wonderful kind female young people sitting on a wall by the beach at Bude watching the sun set over the sea
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