Face-to-face courses
If you are choosing to do your courses face to face, at your enrolment or review appointment you can choose up to 4 courses from the prospectus which have been timetabled. All face-to-face courses take place at Nottingham Recovery College. Click here for directions and contact details.
In this section:
Assertiveness
Building Self Confidence
Creative Wellbeing
Discover Your Potential
Emotional Resilience
Getting Well Staying Well
Managing Your Anger
Hold That Thought
Beyond Substance Use
Living Well with Anxiety
Living well with Depression
Navigating Change and Uncertainty: How to Adapt and Thrive
Positive Self Care
Assertiveness
This course runs in partnership with Nottingham College.
Assertiveness can benefit us by helping us to communicate confidently and effectively. It is about putting your point of view across without impacting negatively on others and affirming your rights without ignoring the rights of others. This course explores: strategies that enable people to build and maintain their own assertiveness skills; being able to say no; give and receive feedback as well as make requests effectively and assertively to help build inner confidence and self-esteem.
- Every Tuesday, 7 January to 11 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Tuesday, 25 February to 1 April 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Wednesday, 26 February to 2 April 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
The answer to question one is they don't need to choose course on the expression f interest form as we book them an initial appointment when course choices are made with a member of the team.
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Building Self Confidence
This course runs in partnership with Nottingham College.
Knowing ourselves and having confidence in ourselves is not only important but is helpful in living well. Focussing on inner confidence rather than behaviour, this course explores: your understanding of the importance of self confidence for your wellbeing; how to build confidence; how values and beliefs affect your self-confidence; strategies that enable you to identify your strengths and qualities; body language; what affects our confidence and finally ways to communicate more effectively.
- Every Wednesday, 8 January to 12 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Thursday, 27 February to 3 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Creative Wellbeing
This course looks at how we can express ourselves in creative ways to support our emotional health and wellbeing by exploring: mindful doodling - theory and practice; journaling basics - first steps to get started; zines - how to make them and their benefit to our wellbeing; mind maps - for keeping well and problem solving; positive self-affirmations - challenging your negative bias and finding inspiration from others. Finally, we will learn about the creative process and theory.
- Every Tuesday, 7 January to 11 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Tuesday, 25 February to 1 April 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Discover Your Potential
We all have dreams, aspirations and hopes for ourselves. However, we can also find it difficult and challenging at times to realise our potential, achieve our aspirations and fulfil our dreams. This course explores: what a goal is; cycles of behaviour; fixed mind-set vs growth mind-set; what motivates us; what procrastination is; creating new habits; goal setting methods and celebrating achievements. The course will provide you with an opportunity for you to think about your own hopes and ambitions.
- Every Wednesday, 8 January to 12 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Wednesday, 26 February to 2 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
Lovely understanding tutors. Small, friendly, safe environment. Fantastic courses with such a wealth of information and strategies.
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Emotional Resilience
This course hopes to build your emotional resilience to help you feel more confident to manage everyday pressures enabling you to roll with it to increase your bounce-backability . This course explores: what emotional resilience is; self-awareness and how to build it; values and beliefs - how they can help us be resilient; purposefulness - and how it links with resilience; empathy and self-compassion; self-esteem, self confidence and self-reliance; strategies to manage stressors; adaptability and its benefits.
- Every Thursday, 9 January to 13 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Monday, 24 February to 31 March 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Getting Well Staying Well
Recommended for 2nd or 3rd term
It is useful to have your own wellness plan. This course explores: what wellness planning is and how it might be useful in recovery; what we are like when we are well and unwell; the concept of triggers and how to develop an action plan to manage them; how to identify early warning signs and use the traffic light system to raise awareness of personal signs; advanced statements and how they may be useful in wellness planning culminating in creating your own wellness plan.
- Every Tuesday, 7 January to 11 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Thursday, 27 February to 3 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Managing Your Anger
This course is run in partnership with Nottingham College.
What is anger? Why do we feel it? Does anger affect your wellbeing and quality of life? This course explores: what anger is; the anger cycle; physical and emotional responses to anger and feelings and thoughts hidden behind anger. The course could help your wellbeing and recovery by improving relationships and self-awareness of yourself and others and give you strategies to manage challenging situations and events more productively and communicate more effectively.
- Every Thursday, 9 January to 13 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Thursday, 27 February to 3 April 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Hold That Thought
What is a thought? We all think differently and are all affected differently by our thoughts, but just how much do our thoughts affect our lives? This course explores: the negative and positive impacts our thoughts and beliefs can have on us; the most common unhelpful thinking patterns; techniques to re-frame these thoughts; language and the impact of positive and negative words; positive psychology and why it is helpful for wellbeing; taking your thoughts to court and ABC techniques; the benefits of optimism/hope, gratitude and positive self-talk.
- Every Thursday, 9 January to 13 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Wednesday, 8 January to 12 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Tuesday, 25 February to 1 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Beyond Substance Use
Substance use can impact on many aspects of our lives, including; our physical and mental health and wellbeing, our social life and relationships and even on the wider community and society. When addiction and unhelpful habits keep us stuck, we can feel lost, demotivated and uninspired. Using strategies to build motivation and find inspiration can help us to focus on personal responsibility and identity and work towards realistic goals to make positive changes that help us work towards a recovery journey that works for us.
- Every Tuesday, 7 January to 11 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Tuesday, 25 February to 1 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Living Well with Anxiety
This course is run in partnership with Nottingham College.
If you feel anxious and want to look at how anxiety affects the mind and body, how to change anxious thinking cycles and relax more effectively, as well as suggestions on how to deal with feelings of anxiety then this course could be for you. The course explores: what we mean by anxiety; the anxiety cycle; how thoughts and responses might impact our anxiety; techniques and coping strategies for self-management to improve wellbeing.
- Every Tuesday, 7 January to 11 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Thursday, 9 January to 13 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Wednesday, 26 February to 2 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Living well with Depression
This course is run in partnership with Nottingham College.
During this course we will understand what depression is and how it affects us. The course explores: how lifestyle and physical exercise affects depression; early warning signs and strategies that will enable you to improve your wellbeing; how different styles of motivation help to manage depression; how managing thoughts can be helpful to improve our wellbeing. The course is not about stopping depression but about strategies to allow you to self-manage to gain some control in your life and identify sources of support.
- Every Wednesday, 8 January to 12 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Tuesday, 25 February to 1 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Navigating Change and Uncertainty: How to Adapt and Thrive
We all experience changes in our lives. This course explores: common life changes; the process of change; barriers to accepting change; how change in life can affect us; the benefits of acceptance and letting go; our stress capacity bubble and how to inflate it; how to use routines and anchors when things don't feel normal; the rumination trap and how to escape it; looking at our inner compass and finding ways to focus on the good stuff.
- Every Monday, 6 January to 10 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
- Every Wednesday, 26 February to 2 April 2025, 1pm to 3pm - 6 sessions
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
Positive Self Care
In this course we will be looking at what good emotional and physical health is, and how improving self-care can be beneficial for our health and wellbeing. This course explores: the five ways to wellbeing model, the concept of selfcare; the importance of sleep and strategies to getting a good night's sleep; finding new activities and hobbies; identifying what matters to you for your wellbeing and finally creating your own 30-day self-care calendar to keep you focussed to reach your self-care goal.
- Every Wednesday, 8 January to 12 February 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
- Every Wednesday, 26 February to 2 April 2025, 10am to 12pm - 6 sessions
The recovery college has provided structure and routine to my week and has given me something to focus on after my hospital admission. All the tutors are kind and understanding, and their own lived experiences really enhances their teaching.
When we receive your expression of interest to enrol via the online form or call on 0115 956 0827, we will check your eligibility.
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