JOURNEYS’ VALUES

Responsibility – Everyone is responsible for the choices they make and the consequences of their decisions.  Taking responsibility for your own life and your health is the first step to overcoming depression.

Self-help – Recovery is possible and sustainable only when people take an active part in managing their lives.

Mutual support – Although self-help is about doing things for yourself, you do not have to do these things alone.

Recovery – We believe that people affected by depression can achieve recovery.  This belief underpins all our activities, services and resources.

Hope – We believe that people affected by depression can be empowered by the message that recovery is achievable, and motivated by the hope that this brings.

Informed – People affected by depression are ‘experts by experience’ and their expertise informs everything that we do.

Respect – Everyone affected by depression is entitled to be treated with respect.

Capable – Everybody has the ability to manage, change and improve their lives.

Equality & Diversity – We recognise the value of every individual, and a commitment to advancing equality and diversity underpins all our activities.

Enabling – We believe that people need to find their own road to recovery rather than to be told what to or not to do.

Choice – We believe that people have a right to information about all possible treatments and services.

Open-minded – Different things help different people achieve recovery, and we will not deny or judge peoples’ experiences.

Non-prescriptive – What helps one person achieve recovery may not help another.  Therefore, we will not promote one route to recovery over another.

Togetherness – We believe that no-one affected by depression is on their own and by working together we can bring about change, making a real difference to peoples’ lives.