We are only a few days away from the one year anniversary of our blog platform — our first blog was published on the 1st of March 2019 — and we could not be happier for our success.
We have published more than 60 blogs, and reached more than 45 thousand readers. We have talked about mental health in its broadest possible remit: from medications to psychotherapy, from life-style to cinema, from stigma to politics, from culture to lived experience.
We have had blogs written by researchers, clinicians, students, activists, journalists, artists, musicians.
We have had personal accounts and interviews to celebrities, scientific discussions and creative pieces — and embedded original photos, videos, and podcasts.
And this is why we are changing the logo!
Because our old logo, as much as we love it, it is now ‘too small’ to represent everything that we are doing.
We loved the idea of a human being observed in their entirity ‘under a microscope’.
It did convey our initial focus on being scientifically-evident while respectful of the complexity and holistic nature of people’s mental and physical health.
But the breadth and depth of the blogs that we have received — and published with great pride — has convinced us that the time has arrived to fly even higher, above the clouds.
We firmly remain a science-based blog platform, hence the brain at the centre of our logo, and the cartesian axes that symbolise our ambition to measure, to study, to understand.
But we are also a floating brain, flying high between the clouds.
With a helicopter view on everything that is going on in mental health.
But also a little bit ‘with our heads in the clouds’ — open to be creative, personal, and , of course, inspiring.
But our announcements today do not stop with a new logo.
Of course, we will also continue to publish our blogs on Medium (update: since March 2023 we moved).
And, talking about activities, we are also announcing our first InSPIre the Mind Course: Using Creativity to Talk About Mental Health.
This is a two-day event in London, to inspire creative approaches for talking about mental health effectively and truthfully.
Targeted to activists, artists, aspiring journalists and people with lived experience, the course will have interactive lessons and practical sessions led by experienced tutors and will cover photography, public speaking, blog writing, and podcasting.
Targeted to activists, artists, aspiring journalists and people with lived experience, the course will have interactive lessons and practical sessions led by experienced tutors and will cover photography, public speaking, blog writing, and podcasting.
So, keep watching this space, read our blog here on or our new website, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to know about our courses and future initiatives.
It’s time to be even more inSPIred!