About Us
Our Mission
The Self Empowerment Journey (SEJ) organisation is dedicated to empowering you through the SEJ Process, to learn the skills to stay mentally healthy, find purpose and direction and reach your full potential. We are dedicated to fostering self-empowerment and mental wellbeing, enabling everyone to unlock their true potential through the SEJ Process, events, services, and initiatives.
Our Vision
Our vision is to empower everyone to reach their true potential with the SEJ Process, events, services, and initiatives.
Our Goals
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To train SEJ Consultants and SEJ Trainers enabling expansion of our services and initiatives, serving more people.
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Integrate the SEJ into the curriculum in education, providing innovative solutions to the mental health crisis faced in education.
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Empower employers and employees to learn the skills to 'stay mentally healthy', find purpose and direction, and reach their full potential.
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Development of all our initiatives to ensure accessibility, social impact, community, diversity, and inclusion.
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To provide accessible education, resources, and support to individuals facing mental health challenges enabling them to reach their full and true potential.
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To educate, support and guide disadvantaged groups to re-train and use their lived experience in service to others.
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To work collaboratively with local businesses and educational settings to create mentally healthy communities and empowered individuals.
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To campaign for change, listen to the voices of our communities; local, education and organisational.
Our Values
Our core values are our guiding principles.
Compassion - we aim to understand and meet community needs with service, awareness and kindness.
Inclusivity - openness, inclusion and collaboration are central to our growth and success.
Integrity - we act with honesty and transparency in all our relationships and services.
Perseverance - we never give up! Finding solutions to problems through our own practice of the SEJ Process.
Creativity - we embrace an open-minded approach, continually developing our skills to ensure excellent practice.
Service - we work with an open-hearted approach providing a meaningful experience for those we support.
Jacqueline Mary Phillips
Founder of the Self Empowerment Journey and Stay Mentally Healthy Initiative
Mary (as she prefers to be known) is the founder of the Self Empowerment Journey organisation. She is responsible for ensuring that the vision of the organisation is realised.
About Mary
"I originally worked in the corporate world for many years whilst simultaneously experiencing mental health challenges; including depression, anxiety, and self harm, culminating in attempted suicide. I spent over 14 years in and out of psychiatric hospitals and was eventually diagnosed with complex PTSD. During this time I suffered several recurring bouts of depression, some mild, others severe culminating in a life changing event at the age of 28 when the SEJ Process was born out of my experiences.
I have now been depression free for over 28 years, despite being told by the health professionals that I would most likely suffer with recurring depression for the rest of my life, and that I would need to learn how to manage it. I never did learn how to manage it, instead I learnt how to stay mentally healthy.
I have shared the SEJ Process training and services with people from all walks of life, the Armed Forces, Police, Clergy, Sports Professionals, Education and in Business. It is my firm belief that if we can educate everyone about their mental health and at the same time give them the life skills required to stay mentally healthy, then they will go on to live empowered lives, reach their true potential and become productive members of society."
Carol Blakemore
Head Volunteer and Executive Assistant
Carol as Head Volunteer, has been volunteering and working closely with Mary for over 19 years, she has a wealth of experience with her primary focus on service. Her daily function in the organisation is to help support all volunteers with their work, and to work collaboratively to ensure the organisation fulfils its aims.
Carol says...
“Part of my Head Volunteer role is to provide leadership to the function of volunteering. To promote and enable a positive culture of engagement and the values of work for the organisation, ensuring that volunteering is understood and respected throughout the organisation which reflects on the day to day work.
Being a volunteer has given me a deepened sense of empathy and compassion, it allows me to connect with people on a deeper level. The smallest act of being in service can make an enormous difference to the lives of others."
Elliot Hughes
Head of Fundraising
Elliot has studied the SEJ for over 10 years and is also a qualified SEJ Consultant and Trainer.
In his role as Head of Fundraising he brings over 25 years experience of working in the corporate world, to help support the organisation to raise funds for its initiatives. Elliot also brings a passion for helping people to reach their full potential.
Elliot says...
“Having studied the SEJ Process under Mary for over 10 years, this process has helped me in many arears of my life, including work, dealing with grief, and helping me reach my full potential. I am very honoured to be part of the team helping to share my experiences and supporting as many people as I can.
My aim is to raise funds for our initiatives so that we can share the powerful and innovative SEJ Process with as many people as possible. My passion is and always has been to help people become the best version of themselves.
There is no better way to do this than to be in service to the local and wider community. I want to pass on what I have learned"
