For: People aged 16 and over attending FDAMH
Cost: Free / Donations welcome
Duration: This course runs for 8 weeks at the same time and day each week, for 1 hour 15 minutes each session.
The course aims to:
- Promote understanding of the key principles of recovery and self-management;
- Cultivate healthy thinking using short CBT interventions;
- Enhance wellbeing through healthy living e.g. exercise, food and mood, relaxation;
- Promote understanding of stress/anxiety/panic/depression and factors associated e.g. low self-esteem and assertiveness;
- Help you in recognising a problem/self-awareness;
- Give you knowledge, skills and ability to manage your wellbeing;
- Introduce you to mindful activities.
For: People aged 18 and over attending FDAMH
Cost: Free / Donations welcome
The adult Seasons for Growth course is suitable for those affected by any type of loss or change. While change, loss, and grief are normal parts of life, they can often leave us struggling to accept what has happened, and unable to move on.
Seasons for Growth aims to help individuals work through this process, enabling them to come out of the other side stronger than before and ready to take charge of the changes in their life.
It will allow participants to:
- Learn about how different people respond to change, loss and grief;
- Understand that it’s normal to experience a wide range of grief reactions;
- Explore new approaches to dealing with change and loss in their lives;
- Build communication, decision-making and problem-solving skills;
- Participate in a support network of their peers;
- Integrate their new learning into relationships with family, friends and others;
- Help restore self-confidence and self-esteem;
- Draw on extensive research in developing a sound educative response to loss and grief.
For: People aged 16 and over attending FDAMH
Cost: Free / Donations welcome
Duration: This course runs for 8 weeks at the same time and day each week, for 1 hour 15 minutes each session.
The course aims to:
- Promote understanding of self-esteem and personal communication;
- Promote understanding of low self-esteem and its impact;
- Cultivate healthy self-esteem;
- Promote self-awareness;
- Enhance wellbeing through self-awareness;
- Promote understanding of self-compassion;
- Gain knowledge, skills and ability to increase self-compassion;
- Gain knowledge, skills and ability to improve communication.
For: People aged 16 and over attending FDAMH
Cost: Free / Donations welcome
Duration: This course runs for 4 weeks at the same time and day each week, for 1 hour 45 minutes each session.
The course aims to:
- Examine and explore a range of sleep problems.
- Introduce participants to cognitive behavioural approaches to managing sleep problems.
- Support participants in setting individual goals to work towards a better quality of sleep.
- Help change participants’ thoughts and behaviours to improve their sleep and their emotional responses.
- Improve understanding of sleep problems
- Develop effective techniques to reduce the causes and impact of insomnia.
- Reduce anxiety surrounding sleep.
- Better understanding of the benefit and use of sleep diaries in identifying and addressing sleep problems.
- Discuss techniques to help participants calculate their sleep efficiency rating and thereby improve their sleep ability.
For: People aged 16 and over attending FDAMH
Cost: Free / Donations welcome
An introduction to Mindfulness in every day living, this beginners course also allows people to develop Mindfulness skills that may have been introduced in our other courses.
