Welcome to The Jen Group
We are a collaborative of compassionate humans working together to promote skills and equity in health and wellbeing
We brought over 60 years of combined experience together to incorporate as a business in December 2020, and we started working full-time as The Jen Group LLP in April 2021. When we get to the point that we can support ourselves financially, we plan to become a not-for-profit agency.
When we were seeking a name we came across the word 'jen'. It is a Confucian term, and is pronounced 'wren', although we aren't pretentious enough to say it like that! It means human heartedness; goodness; benevolence; human-to-human-ness; what makes human distinctively human; that which gives human beings their humanity. Jen is a sense for the dignity of human life - a feeling of humanity towards others and self-esteem for yourself. It sums up everything we are about.
To date we have delivered co-produced and bespoke projects and pre-designed/licensed training courses. All of our work is focused on improving skills and equity across individual and population mental and physical health and wellbeing.
Our team
Our core team consists of Joy Goddard and Nell Blane
We collaborate widely with others in order to promote increased skills and literacy for health and wellbeing.
Joy Goddard MRSPH
Trainer and Consultant
I have 30 years of experience in developing businesses, charities and individuals including the set up and implementation of organisation-wide training and quality assurance programmes. I co-managed a young people’s charity for 20 years. I also work in engagement and co-production. My own mental health journey and recovery has fuelled the passion I have for the work I do today.
I deliver:
- Mindfulness
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) - Adult, Aware and Refresher
- Mental Health Skills for Managers
- Suicide First Aid (SFA) - Lite and Understanding Suicide Interventions
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion courses
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC)
- Bespoke training and consultancy
I am a Member of the Royal Society for Public Health.
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Curriculum Vitae
Nell Blane BSc (hons), PGCert, FRSPH, GMBPSS
Trainer and Consultant
I have over 30 years' experience in service delivery, management and training design, delivery and evaluation. I have worked across public, voluntary and private sectors in a range of roles within substance misuse, mental health, homelessness and youth services.
An 'interesting' family and personal history has given me a detailed insight into many of the areas in which I work.
My values centre on two things: Humility and Humanity.
Humility because we are all equal, no-one is better or worse than anyone else. We all have more to learn from each other. I will never put myself above another even if I do have letters after my name! Humanity because people need warm, caring, kind relationships in order to thrive. Without human warmth, we shrivel inside like a plant deprived of sunlight.
I deliver:
- Making Every Contact Count levels 1 and 2, and Training the Trainers
- Suicide First Aid - Associate Tutor Training Development Programme, Lite and Understanding Suicide Interventions
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) - Adult/Youth, Adult/Youth Aware
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Substance misuse
- Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice
-Bespoke training and consultancy
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society.
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Elaine Donoghue
Freelance Administrator
I worked within the live events industry for most of my career and have been lucky to work on some amazing concerts and festivals. As a former “Blockhead” my highlight was meeting the New Kids on the Block! I decided I needed a change when I started a family and have been working in administrative roles within the charity sector. Most recently I supported a team of mental health professionals and have gained important knowledge that has helped me with my own mental health journey.
Our associates
We aim to work with other compassionate humans to increase literacy and skills for health and wellbeing. Get in touch if you'd like to join us.
Here are some of our associates
Olivia Elford
BPA (Hons)
Suicide Prevention Trainer and Mental Health Arts Consultant
Olivia Elford BPA (Hons), MEd Olivia is a Suicide Prevention Trainer and Mental Health Arts Consultant based in the South of England but working across the whole of the UK. After training as a dancer at Northern School of Contemporary dance Olivia completed a MEd in The Psychology of Education. During this time, she focused her research and dissertation on stress in dancers. This research, as well as her own experiences, further fuelled her passion for mental health work. She started working in the charity sector, beginning by teaching ‘Confidence for Work’ courses for those attending peer support groups. She then went on to work in Suicide Prevention – a topic and area of work that she feels very passionate about. Olivia now works as a freelancer, teaching Suicide Prevention courses, writing and delivering talks on Mental Health for Performers and working with professional performers as a Mental Health Arts Consultant. When she’s not working, you’ll find her doing DIY projects that are ambitious for her skill level or roaming around the countryside.
Vas Hirani
BSc (hons) MSc (Occupational and Organisational Psychology)
Trainer and Consultant
I have over three decades experience working in the psychosocial arena and in areas of multiple deprivation, within the UK and overseas. My roles range from working pro-bono to Directorships, from Project Management to Capacity Building and Mentoring. I thrive on cross-sector and multi-disciplinary working within the VCS/Charity, Higher Education, Faith Based, Public Service and Health Sectors. The diversity and complexity of communities across all ages and abilities, continues everyday to fascinate and inspire me.
My current roles include:
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Community Development Management with The Bridge Renewal Trust ( Looking after the Haringey Wellbeing Network and Care Navigation/Social Prescribing programmes)
• Trustee: Collage Arts
• Associate Trainer- Brunel University, and more recently
• Associate Trainer- The Jen Group, whose Values of Inclusion, Diversity and Accessibility resonate. People Matter! I am delighted to be associated with the Jen Group
I deliver:
• Suicide First Aid (NCSPET): Lite and Understanding Suicide Intervention
• Mental Health First Aid (MHFA): Adult (2 and 1 day programmes) and Higher Education (1 day)
• Safeguarding Children, Vulnerable Adults and SEN
• Gender Based Violence, Domestic Violence, Coercive Control and impact on child development
• Gambling, Addiction and Mental Health
• Bespoke Training and Consultancy
Ebele Mogo
Public Health Doctor and Biomedical Scientist.
Ebele Mogo is a public health doctor and biomedical scientist. As Principal of ERIM Consulting (@erimconsulting), her work focuses on data-driven approaches to developing interventions and innovations in public health. Her work often engages with the themes of chronic disease prevention, behaviour change, urban health, child health and health equity. She is also an affiliated researcher at the University of Cambridge Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence.
Lydia Nightingale
Person-Centred Counsellor
Lydia is a qualified person-centred therapist and couples counsellor who has been counselling for over ten years. She trained at the renowned Metanoia Institute in Ealing.
Lydia has supported a diverse range of people with a wide range of life challenges. These include relationships issues; domestic, emotional, sexual, financial and physical abuse; bereavement and loss; and anxiety, depression and stress, including work-related stress.
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Rheian Davies
Mental Health Lawyer
Rheian spent 15 years working as a psychiatric nurse before qualifying as a Solicitor in 2006. In private practice Rheian has conducted many ground-breaking mental health cases, winning Legal Aid Lawyer of the year for her work in Mental Health Law.
Rheian designs and delivers training on the Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, Care Act, Preparing for Court and Types of Tenancy.
Marco Pecher
Life Coach and management consultant
Marco is an experienced and passionate life coach; operational and change manager.
Using several techniques from different psychological theories such as: Transactional analysis, Voice Dialogue, Rational Emotive Behaviour and (family) Constellations he facilitates and accelerates people's personal and professional development.
Marco encourages coachees to use Personal Development Plans, a highly supportive framework for the coaching process, giving clients the freedom and possibility to achieve their goals.
Marco supports teams through a process called Intervision. Intervision is a professional exchange of feedback between employees working in the same field.
An intervision group provides a structured and safe environment, however, is not subject to a hierarchical structure.
Subjects which are typically discussed include: coping with volume of work, working from home, maintaining professional boundaries, limiting feelings or beliefs, responding to organisational changes and personal development issues.
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Russell Coles
Art for Wellbeing
Russell has been sharing his creative skills with groups for over 3 years. His unique delivery of art for wellbeing has opened the doors, for many, of the possibility for recovery through creativity russc783@gmail.com
Jo Robinson
Creative Writing for Wellbeing
After receiving a BA in Creative Writing from Roehampton University at the age of forty, Jo went on to complete a PTTLS Teaching for Adults course and combine these two skills to begin her own workshops which offer creative and self-reflective writing exercises designed to help participants express themselves creatively, build confidence and increase social interaction. Jo is a Life Coach.
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Shantonu Chundur
Founder & CEO, Confluent Energy
In 2012, aged just 31, Shantonu was asked to go to West Africa to take charge of, and turnaround, a troubled billion dollar deepwater offshore oil project. While he succeeded in doing so, it was not without consequences.
A burnout related breakdown at work in January 2013 led to him being hospitalised. What followed was an eighteen month period of recovery that included further residential clinics, intense therapy, varied drug regimes and significant periods away from work.
Realising that he needed to radically change his life, in 2014, Shantonu developed his own model of wellbeing, proactive in nature, evidence based, highly personalisable with a dual focus on self awareness and self care.
CBTEACH® was born!
In late 2014, Shantonu resumed his corporate career and returned to West Africa.
4 years to the month after he suffered his breakdown, Shantonu was appointed to lead the Central & West Africa region, a business generating over half a billion dollars in revenue each year for his company.
Shantonu has always recognised the role of the health professionals in his immediate post breakdown care, but credits his long term recovery and ongoing mental fitness to CBTEACH®.
He now wants to share CBTEACH® and what he learnt with those who want to proactively improve their wellbeing.
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