🌿 Mindfulness & Making Friends

A neuro-inclusive social event

📍 Venue: Mindful Therapies Centre, 15 Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
📅 Date: Friday 3rd July 2026
⏰ Time: 5:15 – 7:45pm

Join us for our regular free, stim-friendly, neuro-inclusive social, with a special focus this month on Mindfulness & Making Friends.

Whether you come on your own or with others, you’ll be warmly welcomed.

🧠 Optional Mindfulness Workshop

There will be an optional, neurodivergent-inclusive mindfulness session led by Mark Sidney (Mindful Therapies).
Mindfulness is a gentle practice of staying present in the moment, which can support wellbeing and help manage overwhelm.

🍲 Community “Stone Soup”

We’ll be making a shared stone soup together, served with bread.
If you’d like, bring along a vegan ingredient (such as a vegetable) to add—but please don’t worry if you can’t. Everyone is welcome regardless.

🎲 Relaxed Social Space

• Stim toys, games, and conversation

• Quiet participation always welcome

• Feel free to use your phone, sit quietly, or join in as much or as little as you like

• Bring your hobbies, interests, or activities to share (if you want!)

💬 We love hearing about special interests—but there’s no pressure at all.

💜 What to expect

This is a safe, welcoming, and judgement-free space where you can be yourself.

• 18+ only

• Alcohol-free environment

• Maximum 15 spaces (limited by room capacity)

👉 Registration is essential (via the form below)

Please note that we will be taking a summer holiday in August so there will be no social this month. We’ll be back in September!

Venue: Mindful Therapies Centre: 15 Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6UF

Taking place the first working monday of each month between May-July

Monday 11th May 2026 - 6-7pm

Monday 1st June 2026 - 6-7pm

Monday 6th July 2026 - 6-7pm

Back by popular demand! We will be running a monthly Neurodivergent-inclusive Yoga class with yoga teacher Jasmine Sara, follow her on instagram - @byjasminesara

If classes are successful we will look into continuing them after July.

To cover the costs of this class we are ticketing the sessions at £10 per person but there is also a free ticket option with no questions asked if you need to use this.

NOTE: We will need to have at least 5 full paid tickets bought for a session to go ahead and will confirm if each class is happening the morning before it is scheduled.

Click the button below to book your tickets for each session

If you have any questions please get in touch at stimcafe@gmail.com

Accountability Café Pause — With Exciting Plans Ahead ☕

We’re taking a short pause on Accountability Café for the time being while we find a new venue and build our capacity and volunteer team.

This means that all previously advertised dates will not be going ahead for now.

The good news is that we’re hoping to bring Accountability Café back later in the year, refreshed and stronger, once we have more volunteers to support this space.

If you’d like to help us bring Accountability Café back—or get involved in any way—we’d love to hear from you. Your support can make a real difference!

What is accountability Accountability Café?

This was a neuro-inclusive body-doubling event where people work alongside each other to help stay focused and get tasks done. It’s a friendly, peer-led space where you can set a goal and have gentle accountability while you work.

The event is stim and sensory-friendly. Bring a task you’ve been putting off or struggling to finish — such as paying a bill, sending emails, working remotely, or finishing a creative project. Set your intention, work at your own pace, and support each other.