http://www.mesomoco.org.uk/index.html en-us ℗ & © 2008 MESOMOCO CIC A Community Interest Company in Scarborough, Yorkshire, a Mental Health Social Enterprise in Mobile Phone Computing MESOMOCO™ A series introducing and explaining an exciting idea, an organisation, which aims to help mental distress sufferers, and to be an unemployment busting, peer-support, ... co-operative like, non-profit social enterprise, ... an information technology business trading in the field of mobile and wireless internet and mobile phone based computing, ... which is located in the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire in the UK. In mp3, there will be more episodes, added periodically, following the initial first 10, so stay subscribed ... A series introducing and explaining an exciting idea, an organisation, which aims to help mental distress sufferers, and to be an unemployment busting, peer-support, ... co-operative like, non-profit social enterprise, ... an information technology business trading in the field of mobile internet and mobile phone based or wireless computing, ... which is located in the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire in the UK. In mp3, there will be more episodes, added periodically, following the initial first 10, so stay subscribed ... Richard Alan Cowling richardalancowling@yahoo.co.uk Richard Alan Cowling We're Looking to Help 10 Mental Distress Sufferers ... to Start With ... Why Not Help us to Help This episode focuses on how you can get involved, who should get involved, how people can help this non-profit social enterprise, this mental health community interest company get fully up and running ... off to a good start ... and why? ISP82-010SCARBOROUGH-200810030900 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 6:27 scarborough, yorkshire, welfare, benefits, health, related, information, technology, jobs, employment, manic, depression Richard Alan Cowling A Non-Profit Social Enterprise, a Community Interest Company, a Mental Health Organisation, a Mobile Computing and IT Business Preferring to operate as an eventually self-sustaining, self-funding social enterprise than as a continually needy charity ... meeting social needs by meeting business needs. ISP82-009SOCIALENTERPRISE-200809030900 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 5:42 spirit, impulsive, social, wellbeing, ramifications, mission, principles, values, trusts, charities, asset, locked Richard Alan Cowling Getting Back into Work Together Co-operating in a Mutually Understanding Peer-Support Atmosphere MESOMOCO to be by frustratedly unemployed mental distress sufferers for frustratedly unemployed mental distress sufferers, coming together to help each other in team work and common purpose and common interest. Co-operating in a mutually understanding peer-support atmosphere. Feeling there way back around the work-place ... redeveloping those all important balanced work habits and ... ISP82-008THERAPEUTIC-200808030900 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 4:11 isolation, loneliness, solitary, hermit, life, fear, anxiety, complexity, being, people, empowering, poverty Richard Alan Cowling Poor Mental Health is Exacerbated by Unemployment This episode discusses why and how employment can be important and key in rehabilitation and recovery from poor mental health ... ISP82-007EMPLOYMENT-200807030900 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 4:45 self, confidence, worth, identity, esteem, respect, independence, debt, ego, poverty, occupational, stress Richard Alan Cowling Being Unemployed can Keep You Mentally Ill, or Make You Mentally Ill, but Being Mentally Ill or Having Been Mentally Ill Can Keep You From Being Employed, a Trap This episode discusses the dilemma, problems, issues, social traps and practical realities of mental distress suffer unemployment, job seeking, and job keeping. ISP82-006UNEMPLOYED-200806030900 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 6:03 worker, support, needs, barriers, special, care, sustainable, jobcentreplus, resilience, tolerance, tolerant Richard Alan Cowling Ignorance, Prejudice and Discrimination So, apart from mobile computing, MESOMOCO is motivated by a set of social and wellbeing issues to do with mental health, ignorance, prejudice and people or organisations that discriminate ... but especially ... ISP82-005MENTALHEALTH-200805030900 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 5:17 vulnerable, justice, employment, fairness, equality, exclusion, inclusive, human, rights, insurance, hospital, psychiatrist Richard Alan Cowling There are two missions that feed each other in a symbiotic-ism mutualist kind of way, powering MESOMOCO, one of them is Computing via Mobiles This episode talks about why the MESOMOCO project is driven by a passion for mobile IT, wireless computing and mobile internet ... but that's not all that motivates MESOMOCO CIC ... there are some other concerns too ... ISP82-004MOBILEPHONE-200804030900 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 6:03 battery, media, publishing, digital, content, e-commerce, bluetooth, java, texting, flash, memory, wi-fi Richard Alan Cowling The Original Motivation for Embarking on the Mental Health Social Enterprise in Mobile Phone Computing Taking Responsibility for my situation, and creating employment for myself and others in similar situations with similar needs and dilemmas. And as a Software Engineer seeing entrepreneurial gold in the amazing convergence of fantastical technologies around mobile phones. ISP82-003MOTIVATION-200803030900 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 4:18 experience, meaningful, workplace, work, job, dwp, nhs, occupation, therapy, career, contribution, volunteer Richard Alan Cowling Incorporated as a CIC because Community is Central MESOMOCO belongs to the wider national mental health community and the local Scarborough Community. MESOMOCO is by those people for those people. ISP82-002COMMUNITY-200803020900 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 4:14 self-sufficent, selfless-capitalism, social, enterprise, voluntary, third-sector, charity, shares, investors, not-for-profit, non-profit, regulator Richard Alan Cowling Being A Carer and a Mental Distress Suffer and Frustratingly Unemployed I'm a carer for a manic depressive, I also get the blues and worry, and I'm socially isolated and dependent on welfare, but, I've got an idea, a plan to turn it all around, and a new found sense of purpose, to get my life and career back ... ISP82-001MESOMOCO-200803010900 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT 4:07 depression, bi-polar, community, conscience, entrepreneur, breakdown, incapacity, benefit, rehabilitation, nervous, mood, anxiety