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The Hope St Team
Below are are some great photos of our staff and volunteers, and a few words about them. This is a great start to get to know about someone before meeting them in person.
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Directors
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READ MY BIO
My name is Sheila Byrne, Hope St CEO and Co-Founder of the mental health and wellbeing organisation.
I suffered a nervous breakdown in 2016, which led to Dom & I to open Ormskirk Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Organisation in May 2018.
Because of my own experiences with mental health disorders, I am extremely passionate about ensuring people don’t reach a point of despair that I experienced. I fully respect and understand from a lived-experience perspective what you are feeling and the symptoms you may be demonstrating.
As a highly qualified teacher with an expertise in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), I write and deliver courses around mental health, which have been successful in helping individuals prevent crisis, aid recovery and sustain mental health and wellbeing.
I believe that every member of Hope St. should have their say in what services they have access to, so I go above and beyond to source and invite services that will aid recovery.
I am the main point of contact for members and potential attendees; therefore, any responses to email or telephone will come from myself and will be treated with your utmost respect and confidentiality.
If you do need an informal chat, then you can find our details at the foot of every page.
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READ MY BIO
My name is Dominic Byrne, Volunteer and Co-Founder of the mental health and wellbeing organisation. In January 2016, when Sheila had her breakdown, I went into autopilot. Although having always been empathetic I had no real understanding of mental health and just tried to get through each day with Sheila, suddenly going from husband to carer, two completely different roles.
I took on every role from helping Sheila shower, drying her hair (I am definitely not Vidal Dom), making sure Sheila took her medication, at times helping her walk just from room to room and doing anything he could to try and put a smile back on her face.
Sheila’s breakdown meant we were both on a path of discovering more about mental health, a path that for a long time had more lows than it did high points.
As I started to understand more about maintaining good mental health, I decided there had to be more support in their local area and that support should focus on the positives. Knowing it’s hard for many people to see the positives I wanted to create an environment where people could hear the stories of others and be inspired, to have their own thoughts validated by those who have been in the same position and be educated in how those people have progressed, to see how they came through their dark periods to live a brighter life.
Most of all I wanted people to know there is light at the end of the tunnel and there is HOPE and Hope St was born.
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READ MY BIO
Hi my name is Liam Thompson and I am one of the directors here at Hope Street. I am responsible for taking care of the company finances alongside many other tasks.
I joined the Hope Street team in October 2019 to assist with the bookkeeping aspect of the business. I am currently studying for an accountancy qualification and this was perfect for me to gain much needed experience in this field. Since joining the team I have taken on a lot more responsibilities within the company.
I became a director for Hope Street in March 2020 when Sheila Byrne, the CEO and founder asked me to take on a more active role within the business.
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Volunteers
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READ MY BIO
So how would I describe myself? as an Entrepreneur ? A Motivator? A Trainer?A Facilitator? A Business / Career Coach? driven by my desire for equality and fairness my belief in lifelong and informal learning. A woman who walks the talk. My main mission and passion in life is to develop people in any way that works for them. whatever their age education or background. I have been lucky enough to study and learn about Emotional Intelligence. NLP, Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring throughout my career. Others might describe me as energetic, confident, conscientious with a good sense of humour. As an experienced trainer with lots of experience across very different environments from the corporate world, education and small local community and charity groups.
A qualified Trainer (CITP) Assesor D32/34/ A1, Business Adviser ( SEFDI) qualified Mentor? Coach and qualified in NLP to diploma level.
I am Currently loving inspiring, supporting and training new entrepreneurs to take that plunge and take their ideas forward whilst working with brilliant existing businesses to help them grow their business.
I have a strong desire to encourage others to take up the option of enterprise as a career choice at any age I started my business at 45 so its never too late. my other passion is to see people grow on a personal level to reach their potential I have developed a wide selection of highly successful and effective Personal Development training programmes over the years using a solution focussed approach from my knowledge of Emotional Intelligence and NLP techniques.
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Hope St Ambassador
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READ MY BIO
I came across hope street by a chance post asking for speakers to talk about mental health. At that time I was looking for an outlet and way to express the trauma id been through with NHS mental health services. I came to hope street not sure what to expect but was welcomed and told my story and sang. Something switched. This was the way forward. Engaging people with my experience but allowing people to talk about their own seemed key..
It was everything i believed in collective healing, social prescribing and relaxed atmosphere. It challenged everything that id experienced before including CBT and medication.
During lock down we reconnected and i did a talk featuring my dad and two perspective. I was a lot further on talking about my experiences had helped solidify what id gone through it had activated my activism and thirst for change in the system. I started to think what the model of support was outside the system the model for me is clear it was Hope Street. I believe that if we can heal ourselves we can help others heal, and the power of healing together. I takes time and it doesn’t have to be a lonely one.
i think I’m suited to the role of ambassador because we become expert by experience. We can share are experience and listen. I am an advocate of wellbeing and have learned from many different types of practice. As Elvis said people will always think you’re crazy if they don’t understand what you’re talking about. So, it comes down to being in a community of like minds with no judgement and amazing support. The medical model is fraught with problems and Hope St to me is the solution. It’s also in the Ormskirk area where my late mother was on the mental health board so I feel it somehow connected to her legacy that Ormskirk now has a forward approach in its mental health, and I know she’s be proud of what Hope St and I am achieving together
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With Special Thanks To….
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