Focusing on mental health volunteering, we delve into the success stories and strategies that have proven effective in sustaining and expanding this impactful initiative. Retaining and including single parent volunteers for long-term impact.

Communication is the cornerstone of any relationship, and we all have different communication types and styles. Knowing your own preferred way of communicating is the first step in understanding; when someone communicates with you in a way that is unhelpful to you, so that you can translate it, and respond rather than react to what is a negative interaction for you.  

Do we recognise our responses? Do you fight, flight, freeze or fawn?

Any event which is life threatening, highly distressing, or which we believe/ perceive to be so, has the potential to be traumatic.

This grey rock method has been tried and tested by one of our single parent members, who has summarised all the best bits from everything that she has read and put into practice. This amazingly powerful resource is for people dealing with difficult and toxic people and the writer found it invaluable along with the services of Atal y Fro.