A course that introduces:
- Personal Recovery
- The CHIME factors (Connectedness, Hope, Identity, Meaning and Empowerment)
- Spirituality & Recovery
- Positive Psychology
- The Five Ways to Wellbeing
This course is available for guest users to get a taste of the courses we have on offer for enrolled students.
This course provides an overview of the 5 factors, known as CHIME, that both service users and professionals have created together to improve personal wellbeing.
This course, Dealing with an Existential Crisis, aims to help you understand and cope with the challenges and uncertainties that arise when confronting the fundamental questions of existence. It will provide you with ideas and strategies to support you through periods of existential questioning and to find meaning or purpose and a sense of acceptance in your life.
Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to reflect on the ideas presented which can encourage personal exploration and growth. The aim is to provide you with skills and insights that can help you navigate an existential crisis and foster a deeper sense of meaning and fulfilment in your life.
A 6 topic course, informed by evidence and research, exploring the topic of positive psychology. This includes personal strengths, positive experiences and relationships and the theory of wellbeing. Learners will have the opportunity to develop their knowledge, and practise using the skills and tools that positive psychology has to offer. It will involve a mixture of knowledge, practical exercises and will promote individual reflection.
The Spirituality and Recovery course will give you the opportunity to learn about spirituality and the role it can play in mental health recovery. This course does not promote any particular belief system or religion. Rather, it will give you the chance to explore what spirituality means to you and how you can develop your own sense of spirituality.
There are five topics in this course, these are:
- Introduction to Spirituality and Recovery
- Spiritual Explorations
- The Spirituality Flower
- Unusual Experiences
- Spiritual Practices and Resources
This course explains the different aspects of the biopsychosocial model and how this can be used by mental health professionals.
This course considers how a mental health crisis may present itself and what you can do to help yourself cope with a crisis and looks at ways you can prepare yourself and develop resilience in the longer term, as well as how to respond and support someone who is experiencing a crisis right now.
This course can help you learn more about ways to improve your wellbeing. You will be able to learn about the Five Ways to Wellbeing (researched by the New Economics Foundation). You will be able to read examples about each of the five areas and will be able to find out about tasks that you can try.
The course also has examples from people who have used these five ways to help keep themselves well. You will learn about how to manage things that get in the way of improving your wellbeing. The course
has a positive focus and is a good space for you to think about what you are already doing to keep yourself well. It is a good course for anyone to try, whatever difficulties you may experience.