Learning and adopting tools, strategies and skills that can help combat difficulties such as anxiety, lack of self compassion and connecting with others or ‘living the best life I can’.
There are six tools based courses, one runs each half term.
Tools
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
This course will enable you to think about, and make, your own personal plan in order to help you take control of your life and manage your own well-being and recovery. You will also learn to identify what keeps you well and the early warning signs that you and others may notice when you start to feel unwell. Through the WRAP programme you will develop your own individual wellness plan which can become part of your routine.
Course duration: The course is four, weekly, two and a half hour sessions
Timing: 10am until 12.30 pm
Student comment "I think it's the most important course that you run"
Assertiveness, Self-Esteem & Assertively Saying No.
This four session course will help you to understand the basics of assertiveness and self-esteem and how, by improving them, you can raise your quality of life and relationships with others.
Time: 10am - 12:30pm
Venue: Broadway House
Anxiety Management Course
This 4-week course considers anxiety, what is normal and what is unhelpful. It will look at practical ways to help manage anxiety using physical, cognitive and behavioural techniques. It will be exploring in more detail the information given in three of our nano courses, Anxiety Management 1 & 2 and Positive Thinking. It is essential that these courses are watched before the workshop. They are available on the Recovery in Mind website in the section called “Tips &Tools.”
Time: 10am - 12:30pm
Venue: Broadway House, Newbury
Pre-course preparation: Watch three nano courses Anxiety Management 1 & 2 and Positive Thinking you can find them on the website under 'Tips & Tools'.
Recovery Street
Our Recovery Street course is back! This course offers the opportunity for students to reflect on their own recovery journey using photography as a way of exploring this.
Each week students take pictures around Newbury for around 45 minutes (on foot) using a digital camera (which we provide) to consider a weekly theme such as: where you are now in your recovery, the barriers and challenges, my goals and aspirations, and how I might go about achieving them. Then we all return to the training room here at Broadway House to share those images and consider how they relate to the weekly theme of our personal recovery journey.
Our course leader, Alex, will put together all your chosen images into a photo book which will be yours to keep at the end of the course.
This course is open to all students who have completed our Welcome to Recovery course and, ideally, at least one of the following additional courses: WRAP, Assertiveness and Self-Esteem, Five Ways to Wellbeing or Self Compassion, or two or more workshops. If you are in doubt as to whether this course is for you please do get in touch and the RiM team will be happy to advise you.
Please note: No photography experience is necessary and cameras will be provided.
Course duration: Six weeks plus an additional 7th session for you to collect your own photo book and share it with your fellow students if you so wish!
Course dates: Thursdays 18th, 25th, April and 2nd, 9th, 16th May 10am - 12:30pm. 23rd May to put your book together with Alex, times to be confirmed. Book collection 27th June, time to be confirmed
Self Compassion Workshop
Since starting Recovery in Mind in 2016 we have met dozens of students who struggle to show themselves ‘Self Compassion’ – the ability to be your ‘own best friend’ and share the kindness and wisdom that they are able to show others but not give to themselves. This is a common human trait – not just experienced by people with mental health challenges. This 4-week Self Compassion course will provide an understanding of why humans struggle with it, how we can learn it and a set of very useful tools to develop it within ourselves.
Self-Compassion isn’t about stopping bad things from happening. It’s about carrying on when they do happen – (resilience) – so you can bounce back.
Course Time: 10am - 12:30pm
Course Venue: Broadway House, Newbury
Please bring your own pen/paper.
