4. To Get this New Idea Moving...Join Me?

My name is Richard Alan Cowling, and MESOMOCO CIC is my idea, my project ... 

First things first ... to get this idea moving, I need more people. People like me; ...like you?

My non-profit social enterprise is to be founded by people who are unemployed, who have suffered from mental health problems, such as depression, or nervous breakdown, (or any kind of mental distress or illness) ... and the various associated issues and difficulties.

My idea is to get together with others, who may have experienced the same issues and difficulties; who are in a similar situation; who share my circumstances; who are like minded; and perhaps have the same rehabilitation, career or work needs.

I want others like me, in the Scarborough North Yorkshire area, to get involved, to join me.

Facebook users, click here to visit our Facebook page, if you like what we're trying to do, click 'Become Fan' whilst there!

Teaming-up and co-operating in the pursuit of a common purpose with common interest  is a great way to get going again after a period of illness. It can be an excellent way to pick yourself up, and progress your rehabilitation. Come & volunteer with me. Let's build MESOMOCO CIC together.

I see MESOMOCO CIC as several things: a self-help group, a team, a workers co-operative, a social enterprise, a training scheme, a job creation scheme, a mental health awareness initiative, a local benevolent organisation, a competitive international business, a software house, a wireless digital content provider, an internet expert and a specialist in computing via mobiles.

If you can get enthusiastic about computing, information technology, the internet, mobile phones, and the idea of developing software and other digital content for mobile phones and the mobile internet. (You don't need to be an I.T. professional, ... as enthusiasm, a problem solving nature, and computer literacy is good enough ... but if you are an I.T. professional, who can still get passionate about this type of work, and also meets the following criteria, then, fantastic!); 

The most important aspect though is: sustained rehabilitation; and improving our mental health, and, ... to do our best, ...all we can, ...to set ourselves up to stay well. In this way, we're also, a self-help group.

I aim to create, (with you?), the kind of circumstance and environment that promotes psychological well-being . Our socio-economic circumstances, our sense of self-worth, our sense of safety and security, our self-esteem, self-respect, and self-confidence, our sense of belonging, our feeling of camaraderie... our friendships, relationships, ... our rapport with those around us ... our work-life balance, our habits, our fears and phobias, our coping mechanisms, our motivation ... ... all these factors are involved in our mental health and psychological well-being. They are all factors that can be improved by getting involved in, and joining a mutually supportive, friendly, tolerant, understanding, focused, purposeful team ... in an enterprise designed around its people, by its people, for its people ... that provides the time and space to contribute, and to make progress ... doing something rewarding, challenging, and enjoyable.

To find out more, read the leaflet I sent out , it is included here ... on the right hand side of this page, in the margin, as two .jpg images(click on them to view full size, in new windows, and then zoom in). Also, you could watch and listen to the talking head video presentations/blog on YouTube, or the audio only MP3 version of the same thing via iTunes for syncing with your iPod, or downloading to your MP3 player, ... or alternatively, with a favourable data and surfing tariff you could download them to your WAP enabled, audio, video enabled mobile phone from wap.mesomoco.org.uk.

The FAQ pages of this site can also be consulted to find out further background, or back story.

All personal details 'as a matter of principle and policy' are kept private, and all correspondence is handled with care, and in the strictest confidence. We are careful with your personal information and won't share it with anybody, ever.

   Above: Working together in a team, with a common purpose. Could this be us. Merry Software Developers and  I.T. Technicians. Why not?

    A puzzle solved. Perhaps, you're good at working stuff out. Not necessarily this particular puzzle. I personally never had the patience for it - a little boring. But, on a good day, ...could you imagine sitting down to enjoy working out how something is put together?

     You don't need to be conventionally good at mathematics, but, perhaps, you can think! At least, when you're not down in the dumps and filling your head with negativity ... you can use it to understand 'average to above-average' complex concepts and ideas. Don't under sell yourself. If you're already fairly fluently computer literate, you're likely to be not too shoddy at using your grey matter ...

    Maybe, you already have some technical competency, and are desperate to prove it, but you don't feel like you ever really get the chance, either because of mood fluctuations, or illness generally, or intolerance, or a lack of confidence, or misconceptions about who you are and how you'll behave or ... ALTERNATIVELY if you haven't got fully developed technical competency - don't panic - we going to invest a lot of time in training, in 'programming skills', general core competencies, and 'wireless/mobile' specific skills and technologies - and in general business skills, personal development & self improvement.

Click the above image to view the front of our leaflet ... we put it around town and through letter boxes. Zoom in to read it.

Click the above image to see the inside of our leaflet full size.

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                                                                                        MESOMOCO C.I.C. is a non-profit, asset locked, limited liability Community Interest Company, limited by shares, (opportunities for non-profit investors only), reg'd in England & Wales, # 6427238