控制住

These are free workshops and weekends for 10-18 year olds with arthritis or related conditions.Find one near you.

控制住, part of our Young People and Families Service, is a project for 10-18 year olds with arthritis or related conditions. The project includes Joint Creativity - our arts workshops - one day workshops on pain management, sleep, and relationships as well as an activity weekend. Every event is free and travel costs will be covered.

For more information contact: Gill Meens atG.Meens@versusarthritis.org, Young People and Families Manager.

If you are interested in signing up for an event contact: Izabela Mertowska-Shand at I.Mertowska-Shand@versusarthritis.org, Take Control Development Officer.

To find out about our project for 16-25 year olds visit our Joint Potential page.

• The Workshops
• Joint Creativity
• The Activity Weekend
• The Self-Care Sleepover
• Kids Have A Say
• Parent/Carer Sessions
• Work in Clinics

Pain Management

The pain management workshop will help you to understand your pain better, gain new skills to cope with pain and practical tips to help you live better with arthritis.

"Pain management is more than just meds I can do things to help myself"

"I enjoyed it. The topic is interesting, and I feel that I have learnt how to better manage pain."

Sleep Workshop

The sleep workshop looks at what helps you get a good night’s sleep and the barriers to getting a good night’s sleep as well as giving you information to help to improve quality and length of sleep and time to reflect on what works well for you.

"Most people completely misunderstand the importance of sleep to holistic health."

“来学习，同时与像你这样的其他人玩得开心。”

CHAT workshop

C.H.A.T.（沟通，幸福，自信和过渡）研讨会着眼于通过学习自信来建立信心并传达您的需求。今年，我们专注于从儿童到成人服务的过渡。

"It’s nice to have people to talk to that can relate."

"Reminds me I’m not alone and boosts my confidence."

Joint Creativity is an art project that gives young people the opportunity to get together and put the ART into ARThritis. During our events there are group activities to create collaborative artworks, and workshops where participants can sculpt, paint, draw and print their own individual pieces and each year we also run a drama workshop.

"It was great fun and very messy (in a good way)"

研讨会结束后,所有的艺术品curated into a public exhibition called ARThritis, which culminates in a final private viewing where friends and family can come and admire the work. We run four workshops across Scotland and have one exhibition a year. In 2020, we are delivering our workshops a little differently including holding our first ever arts camp residential!

"It makes me feel like I’m not the only one going through arthritis and gets me out of the house and socialising."

Our activity weekend is held at an activity centre. This weekend begins on Friday evening and finishes Sunday afternoon. Like all our events it is relaxed, unpressurised and participants can choose the activities they want to do – from gorge walking to kayaking, archery to abseiling, mountain biking to canoeing. There is always something that each young person is enabled to succeed in.

We stay in comfortable lodges, and there’s usually fun and games, plus a campfire – with marshmallows of course!

"It was such a fun-filled inspirational weekend and a great way to meet lovely, lovely people who have had similar experiences to me regarding arthritis."

"The gorge walking was my favourite – a real challenge. And the abseiling was super scary but gave me a chance to push myself! Thank you so much."

"Very, very, very fun want to do it again"

Our self-care sleepover is a residential weekend event where we talk about what self-care means to us and try some techniques for managing stress and looking after our overall wellbeing. Last year we talked stress management, went for a walk, ate and made delicious food together, practiced gratitude journaling, talked about what works for us and even made our own face masks and pillow sprays! (not obligatory!)

"Enjoyed being able to eat food that we helped make or that was made as a team."

“自我护理不仅仅是泡泡浴和冥想。”

孩子们有发言权（khas）是我们的儿童论坛。在这个地方，年轻人可以告诉我们他们对我们的活动和研讨会的真正看法。他们让我们知道他们喜欢或不喜欢什么，他们想要什么以及想要什么。我们将始终采取此反馈，并使用它来改善我们的活动和研讨会。

We embed these forum workshops into our events so there's no need to sign up to anything extra in order to take part.

我们知道，成为关节炎的人的父母/护理人员可能具有挑战性。我们为父母/照顾者的会议与我们的活动一起向年轻人奔跑，并为您提供我们给年轻人提供的一些相同的学习和信息，以便您可以为他们提供超越我们的活动的学习。与其他人交谈，经历一些相同的经验并分享您的学习，从他人那里获得一些新的想法和支持，这也很棒。

我们在苏格兰各地的诊所工作，为您提供支持，并与您的医疗团队合作。您会定期在格拉斯哥，法夫和阿伯丁找到我们。

有关我们在诊所工作的任何疑问，请联系Klaire Connor。k.connor@versusarthritis.org.