Creating the space to build community by sharing our stories
What is Anam Alba?
dè a th’ ann an anam alba?
Anam Alba exists to create a space for building relationships and community as a salve to loneliness.
In shaping an environment which is warm, welcoming and safe there is a space for the creative discovery and expression of our own and each other’s stories.
Through our core pillars of creative, social, and health, our vision is to build community with each other, in our neighbourhoods, on our doorsteps, and through the world alike.
If you would like to begin your journey with Anam Alba, please feel free to use the button below to get in touch.
Introducing our Tenderness Days
Anam Alba and connected baby introduce our first Tenderness Day in this series; WELCOME
Hello and a special announcement if you are between 0 and 18 months old. Would you like to come along to our Tenderness Day?
Bring your mum or Dad or a special person who loves you to the moon and back and know the most about your journey here and your birth. In fact, bring a second favourite person too and they can help if you get tired or hungry or want to make friends in a really bouncy chatty way.
The people who love you most are going to want to talk about you, play with you and find out more about all the amazing things you can already do. It will be a delight for them, they will be able to boast about you and you will go home still talking about all the fun you had.
Here are some of the things you and your favourite people will be doing;
- Making up and singing your own lullaby
- Playing games to show off all the ways that you can already communicate
- Hearing all about the story of your arrival, it was such a big adventure and it’s a thrilling story!
- Chilling out and breathing with your most loved people, it helps them relax and makes them happy
Does that not sound like an amazing day? Add to that good food, time outside and comfy cushions and blankets and Wow! you should definitely arrange to come and bring along your closest people.
Arrangements for our Tenderness day
Anam Alba will sponsor 2 places for a baby to attend with their chosen adults.
If you are a parent or auntie or a tender adult who wishes to sponsor a baby to come on a Tenderness Day then please get in touch.
Anam alba will also provide 4 volunteer slots for each day. If you wish to be involved, learn more or gain work experience, please register your interest. All places will be on a first come first serve basis and will be subject to PVG approval.
Price of our Tenderness Day including lunch £60
Further details and information about the day will be issued upon registration.
Venue and Dates to be confirmed.
If you wish to join our waiting list, please email info@anam-alba.com
Creative
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From the Glasgow Acting Academy to the Edinburgh Fringe and stages in between, Anam Alba have been able to bring the power of healing to life through the magic of song, dance and storytelling.
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Social
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We specialise in the science of connection with walks for our wellbeing, craft days for our creativity, ceilidhs for our energy, and everything else in between, our social occasions have something for everyone.
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Health & Wellbeing
‘anam sunnd’
Listen to your heart and understand how to regulate your emotional system, understand your triggers and rewire your thinking with our range of health & wellbeing courses, including HeartMath.
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Our vision
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Our Vision is to use the creative arts to restore embodiment post-Covid. We want to help people rediscover a sense of being grounded within themselves and in their surrounding relationships. We will create spaces and opportunities for people to connect, sharing their stories and build community. We want to help people restore confidence, worthiness and value. Creative activities resonate with the embodied self. This ignites a sense of aliveness which in turn nurtures the innate desire to be in mutually, purposeful and fulfilling relationships with others.
We are not focused on making you feel better, we are focused on helping you to be better at feeling.
We want people to find the singer, the musician, the artist, the performer, the writer, the story-teller in themselves. We will facilitate jobs and projects for young people where they will work together and use their enthusiasm and talent to draw people of varying backgrounds and generations together.
As we create these opportunities, we will celebrate and share those experiences. We will encourage the growth of supportive friendships and the formation of intergenerational communities, where embodied Joy is a salve to the loneliness in the world today.
We’ll go on this journey, together.
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We are all entitled to tell our story, to understand our own life, who we are and what we have experienced irrespective of background, age or status. Each one of us is entitled to explore how, and why, we make sense of the world around us the way we do. Understanding our own behaviour and our own patterns, thoughts, feelings and health is a fundamental right for all.
What makes you happy? What makes you sad? What makes you feel afraid? What makes you feel safe?
Each and every person, by virtue of being alive, moves through life wondering, exploring, reaching, making choices regardless of circumstances or geography. Such wisdom, insight, intuition and compassion are the property of all.
Our mission at Anam Alba is to make accessible to you the tools and resources that may help you to make sense of and explore your own life story.
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Diaries from the little bird
Our stories, and the stories of our Anam Cara, told before you.