REACH Recovery College

Learn about the stress response in our bodies and anxious thoughts in our minds, and how they can affect our quality of life. We also explore some practical techniques and different thinking strategies to help you cope.

Looking at the different tools & techniques we can use to help with managing anxiety. How anxiety presents and simple tools to manage it.

What is the difference between Self Confidence & Self Esteem,
what factors have impact them, and what can we do to start working on improving both? This session can be attended as a taster for the 4-week Confidence Building course or to refresh knowledge

A course exploring change and how it can affect us as individuals. We discuss the ‘Stages of Change’ model and how to approach making positive changes in our lives and what to do when we have setbacks.

Covering: Why do people have panic attacks, The panic cycle, triggers, thoughts, and feelings, exercises to help during an attack, long term strategies to help prevent attacks

Learn practical gardening skills, meet new people and experience how gardening can enhance your wellbeing

We explore seven ‘Sleep Hygiene’ tips to provide ideas for changes that can be made to promote better sleep.

Mindfulness is about being present, in the moment, noticing your experience of the now. In this workshop we look at how we can use Mindfulness in our daily lives.

Discover the ancient path of the labyrinth for stress relief and self-reflection, learn a little about the history of the labyrinth and how they are used across the world and then experience walking the mindful path for yourself!

A six week course including: What is the difference between Depression and Low Mood, and what are our protective factors? How food, physical activity & sleep can affect mood. Becoming aware of our thinking patterns. Core beliefs and Self compassion

Over the next 4 weeks, we shall be exploring what Mindfulness is and how Mindfulness Meditation can improve our mental and physical health by incorporating the practice of Meditation into our daily lives

Journaling is an important tool in your recovery, it allows you to track your mood and stress triggers. In the course we explore different approaches to journaling that helps you to find something that fits you.

A course focusing on understanding our different communication styles and how we can more effectively communicate with others and behave more assertively.

How can we start thinking more positively? We look at how to recognise our achievements, skills and strengths as well as how to re-evaluate more negative thoughts.

What is resilience and how can you build your resilience muscle? Learn about the 4 S’s of resilience and how having a new perspective can be helpful as well as build healthy coping mechanisms and routines