Understanding Courses

Together we will understand how to find our individual values and identifying meaning and purpose when our mental health feels difficult.

Course duration: 45 minutes 

This course aims to support understanding and developing skills to live well with personality disorder. Over 3 weeks, we come together to understand the full experience of personality disorder. We will learn ways to navigate emotions, how to guide our actions and acknowledge our relationship with others and ourselves. 

Course duration: Three sessions of 2 hours and 30 minutes

Most of us will have heard of the term ‘ADHD’, but research has found that there are many misconceptions and myths surrounding this common condition. This webinar will help support and offer strategies to those who have ADHD (or individuals who think they may have this condition but not have a diagnosis), supporters and professionals and to understand better this complex condition.

The course covers:

• An understanding as to why ADHD is challenging
• Things you can do now to help
• Recognise some positive aspects of ADHD
• What the future could look like

Course duration: 2 hours

This course provides an insight into the world of Autism. This is led by both lived and learned experts in the field. It offers evidence-based guidance and real-world examples for those currently awaiting their assessment. 

This course covers:
▪ Recognising the Autism spectrum
▪ Effective communication strategies 
▪ Practical interventions for various settings whether at home, school or in the community. 

Course duration: 2 hours

 

This course gives an overview of general sleep difficulties and how sleep impacts mental health and recovery. 

The course covers:

• Recognition and ownership of personal creativity
• Practical examples how to practice creativity as a group to boost confidence
• Identifying obstacles and barriers to creativity and how to overcome them
• Materials required: Blank paper, coloured pens/pencils

This course aims to provide options and information on improving sleep, but it does not look into specific sleep diagnoses such as: narcolepsy, night terrors, sleep apnoea, sleep paralysis or sleep walking. We hope much of the content may still be useful and still encourage you to attend alongside support from your GP with these particular diagnoses. 

Course duration: Two sessions of 2 hours

The course looks at different people’s experiences of psychosis and how they can be inspired to live fulfilled lives. 

The course covers:

• Different views about the causes and experiences of psychosis
• Sharing Recovery stories that inspire and empower
• Helping other people (including family or carers) understand psychosis so they can be part of your journey

Course duration: 2 hours

This aims to help and guide people who have experienced mental health challenges to understand their story.

The course covers:

• How your story can be told
• How to develop your story
• How to tell your story in a safe way and maintain your privacy

Course duration: Four sessions of 2 hours and 30 minutes 

Attend our Recovery College course to explore how you can use the Quality Improvement methodology, skills, knowledge, and tools in everyday life to support your recovery and personal growth journey. Learn how Quality Improvement is used in healthcare settings, how to be involved in Quality Improvement projects in NSFT and how using your lived and learned experience of receiving or supporting someone with treatment and services from NSFT can improve quality of care.

The course covers:

• What ‘quality’ means to you and what quality looks like in mental healthcare services.​
• Explore why Lived experience is important in Quality Improvement.​
• ​Introduction to the Quality Improvement approach used in mental healthcare​.
• Use a ‘real life’ example to understand;​ how to create SMART aims/goals, how to measure improvement​, how to create change ideas and test these.​
• Consider what the benefits and challenges might be for people with lived experience participating in Quality Improvement projects.​
• Explore what it is like to be involved in Quality Improvement projects and how you can join a project and/or support improvement work at NSFT.

Course Duration: 3 hours and 30 minutes including short breaks on Microsoft Teams

To find out more information or book your place follow this link Browse our Recovery College courses and begin your personal recovery journey | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS (nsft.nhs.uk)

This introduces the signs, symptoms and experiences of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and considers different coping and support mechanisms.

The course covers:

• What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
• Symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Managing symptoms and self-care
• Support resources

Course duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes 

Hearing voices that other people cannot hear, can for some be a frightening and distressing experience. This course aims to empower people to live well despite the voice hearing experience (whether positively or negatively experienced).

Session 1: Understanding the experience of voice hearing, why people hear voices and what strategies might help us to live well.

Session 2: Identify further strategies that might be helpful and other resources that can help us to live well despite the voice hearing experience.

Course duration: Two sessions of 4 hours with a lunch break

There is a Webinar and Zoom/Classroom course with the same name. 

ACT stands for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training.

The Webinar course aims to introduce the ideas behind this approach.  Attending this can be the first step before attending the Zoom/Classroom course of the same name.

Course duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes 

The four week Zoom/Classroom course is a more in-depth exploration of the ACT approach. It aims to explore the ideas behind this approach in a teaching, not therapy, format.

The course covers:

• A toolkit for dealing with painful thoughts and feelings
• Explores your personal values and how to live in line with them
• Practice techniques on your own thoughts and feelings – this is voluntary and there is no pressure if you do not want to

Course duration: Four sessions of 2 hours 

Have you ever thought about what it is like to work as a Peer Support Worker or thought about if it is a job you would like to have?

The course covers:

• Exploring what a Peer Support Worker does
• Introducing the skills and tools that are useful in the role
• Thinking about support and training needed for the role
• How to apply for Peer Support Worker jobs

Course duration: Three sessions of 3 hours 

There is a Webinar and Zoom/Classroom course with the same name. 

The Webinar covers:

• What is anxiety
• Causes and triggers
• How anxiety affects us
• What other people can do (family, friends or carers)
• Looking at ways to manage anxiety

Course duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes 

The Zoom/Classroom course looks more in-depth the causes of anxiety and different management mechanisms.

Course duration: Two sessions of 2 hours and 30 minutes 

Explores ways to help men understand their emotional health and develop coping strategies. The course provides a supportive environment in which students are able to share their own experiences of managing their emotional health.

The course covers:

• The recognition of different emotional states
• Managing life stresses
• Analysing unhelpful patterns of thinking
• Managing emotional wellbeing

Course duration: Two sessions of 2 hours

This course would be useful to carers, supporters, service users, professional and employed carers. 

The course covers:

• The Triangle of Care
• Confidentiality in recovery
• Support of carers

Course duration: Four sessions of 3 hours 

This explores how our eating can impact our mood, mental health, and overall wellbeing.

The course covers:

• Understanding what a healthy diet is by discussing the nutritional content found in food
• Discussing how to create a food plan 
• Understanding how diet affects our mood and mental health

Course duration: Two sessions of 2 hours 

Are you travelling through your menopause journey or waiting for its arrival and do not know what to expect? Do you know the difference between being premenopausal, perimenopausal, menopausal, and postmenopausal? Do you support someone going through these stages?

The course covers:

• The different stages of menopause by examining the biological reasons for the menopause and the symptoms
• Ways to live well alongside challenges you may be facing by sharing a wide range of tips, tools and techniques
• Helping other people (including carers/supporters/family and professionals) understand the menopause so they feel better equipped to provide support

Course duration: One session of 4 hours