Self-Help Group for Mothers

New Self-Help Group For Mothers — Mama Tribe

Launching at 12.30pm on Monday 22 November is a NEW service for mothers and their early-years children. It’s a FREE service for the Manchester community.

Run by Annabel Newfield, the group offers a supportive, nurturing, and empowering community for women.

Who Is The Group For?

This group is for mothers who live in Manchester and their early-years children (4 years and under).

Raising children and coming into motherhood during lockdowns has been isolating for many. Mothers learn so much from each other — find a community of other mothers here. Lockdown mamas, more than ever, need to feel connected with other mums.

What Help Can I Expect?

The sessions include Developmental Movement Play — Baby Boogie. This supports children’s physical, emotional and social development. And it’s fun — a massive boost for mental health!

After the play part of the session, it’s time for the mothers. Annabel will share useful parenting support, self-care, and nurture skills that will help you.

Be seen and heard — with your struggles, joys, and questions about motherhood. This is a safe and confidential space.
Self-care and nurture skills — including mindfulness, breathing and meditation, dance, stretching, and relaxation. These skills are for you, but they also work for your children.
Connect with your body and find acceptance and love for it — it’s been through many changes.

More About Annabel

Annabel is an experienced teacher of developmental movement play and somatic bodywork. She works with a large variety of women’s groups. She has supported women in prison, runs local support groups, teaches on retreats, and has a one-to-one therapy practice. Her focus is to help women achieve positive body image, mindfulness, and self-care.

Annabel is all too aware of the challenges facing mothers, especially those with fragmented communities and families. As a single mother, she’s been through her own burnout journey. In her words, she ‘scraped herself off the floor and learnt how to ask for support and resource herself as a woman and mother’. Her lived experience fuels her passion to support mothers — especially now when many mums are navigating the isolation of parenting through lockdowns.

How Do I Join The Group?

Be Well Manchester will refer mums to this self-help group. If you live in Manchester and think these sessions are what you need, either contact Annabel directly at [email protected] or contact Beylai at Be Well Manchester. Come and meet Beylai in the Sanctuary on Monday between 12pm and 3pm or email her at [email protected].

The sessions start at 12.30pm (and finish at 2pm) on Monday 22 November. They then run on Monday 22 November, 29 November, 13 December and 20 December.

Please share this information with anyone you think it might help.