Enrolling as a student
How do I become a student at the Nottingham Recovery College Service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This course is run in partnership with BrightSparks Arts In Mental Health Group.
Is Life taking you too seriously? Discover how the art of making each other laugh can improve confidence, self-esteem, teamwork, literacy skills and in turn aid recovery and reduce social isolation. Classes include creative writing, a variety of games, discussion, a celebration of some of our favourite comics, the biology of laughter and formulas for creating different types of comedy. This course is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Lovely understanding tutors. Small, friendly, safe environment. Fantastic courses with such a wealth of information and strategies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 self-care; 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.
The tutors were very good at helping me understand things I didn't get.