Growing Courses

This course reinforces and builds on the ideas from other Recovery College courses to help students think about change and moving on to a meaningful life beyond services.

The course covers:

• Revisiting what recovery means
• Exploring feelings around change and moving beyond mental health services
• Looking at our values
• Acknowledging the recovery journey and how far each student has come

Course duration: 2 hours 

This explores what we mean by compassion and gives an opportunity to develop or build your own capacity to be compassionate with yourself.

The course covers:

• Understanding what compassion is and what makes it hard to be compassionate to ourselves
• Identifying skills for developing self-compassion and recovery
• A chance to practice these skills together

Course duration: Three sessions of 2 hours 30 minutes

This course explores how autistic people can live well and have meaningful and purposeful lives. Like all the Recovery College courses, this has been co-produced with lived and learned experience. In this instance, by autistic people and people with learned experience of Autism

The course is suitable for people who are autistic, who believe or suspect they are autistic, and supporters and professionals looking to enhance their knowledge further around autism.

The course covers:

• The challenges that go alongside an autistic diagnosis.
• Positive ways autistic people can live well.
• An understanding of some of the traits and features of autism, and how they can impact daily life.
• A specially produced workbook with tools and strategies to help.

Course duration: Four sessions of 2 hours 30 minutes

Many of us have heard of Post-Traumatic Stress and understand the devastating impact trauma can have on our lives. Few people, though, are familiar with the idea of Post Traumatic Growth.

Growth from trauma is a step-by-step process and there is no right or wrong way to do it. While we all have to find our own path through difficulties, there are some things that research shows help people who have experienced trauma to live well and thrive.

The course covers:

• What trauma is
• The effects of living through traumatic events
• Explore how we can help Post Traumatic Growth happen

This is a 'Growing' level course and we recommend that you complete a range of other courses and have a good understanding of your own recovery before enrolling. If you are unsure whether this course is right for you, please contact Recovery College and request a learning support call.

Course duration: This one-day workshop runs from 10:00 and will finish no later than 15:30. There will be breaks during the morning and afternoon, and 30 minutes for lunch. The course also includes 30 minutes of 'camera off' independent working time.

This 4-week course has been written for people living alongside bipolar disorder  as part of their own lives, or as a supporter, carer, or clinician. We offer a space to explore feelings about bipolar disorder  from all these perspectives; this includes reflecting on experiences of living alongside bipolar disorder  and to talk about how to manage the impact of bipolar disorder. Students will be invited to better notice what triggers mood changes and to think about a personalised plan to manage mood episodes earlier and more effectively. We will also explore the role of medication.

We hope that by the end of the course students will have had an opportunity to share their experiences with others in a safe and supportive space as well as learning some evidence-based tools to support themselves on their recovery journey.

 

Course duration: Four sessions of 2 hours 30 minutes

This four-week course focusses on staying safe.

The course covers:

• Revisiting recovery and its drivers
• Understanding the challenges of changing our behaviours
• How we can get ‘stuck’ in traps that keep us in harmful patterns and how to break free from these
• Sharing responsibility for our safety
• Developing skills for independence

Course duration: Four sessions of 2 hours

This is designed for people who want to discover more about their identity and extend their recovery learning.

We advise that you undertake some other Beginning, Building and Understanding courses before you sign up for this one, so that you have a good understanding of your own recovery.

Please contact us and ask for a Course Choices Support Call if you are uncertain if this is the right course for you at this stage of your recovery. As this is a ‘blended learning’ course, which mixes independent and classroom learning, there is an exercise for you to complete before you come to the first classroom session.

Course duration: Three sessions of 2 hours 30 minutes

This course is for anyone who has attended the Recovery College. This blended learning course means you have a booklet to complete in-between sessions. The course is designed to inspire you to research topics that are covered and to implement what you have been learning into your daily life. You are encouraged to be curious about Character Strengths and what yours are or could be.

The course covers:

• Understanding and recognising your own Character Strengths
• How to use your own Character Strengths to support your own recovery and improve your mental health 
• An introduction to Positive Psychology by identifying human strengths and potential rather than deficits and disorders
• How strengths can be used to achieve goals and to flourish 

Course duration: Two sessions of 2 hours and 30 minutes 

The course aims to help people understand attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), whether they have a diagnosis, suspect they have ADHD, or are on the waiting list. The course gives an insight and offers tools on how they can manage their journey through recovery.    

The course covers:

• What diagnosis means
• Emotions
• Co-existing conditions
• The strengths of ADHD
• The challenges of ADHD
• Reasonable adjustments

Course duration : Four sessions of 2 hours 30 minutes