Courses

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

A four week course. A new version of the Understanding Relationships Group, we will explore what happens in our relationship to ourselves and how this impacts our wider relationships. We will think about how we can regulate the flow of emotions within them using tools and tips taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

A new version of the Understanding Relationships Group, we will explore what happens in our relationship to ourselves and how this impacts our wider relationships. We will think about how we can regulate the flow of emotions within them using tools and tips taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).

The 5 ways to wellbeing are 5 aspects of life that if we increase them have been found to help with imrpoved wellbeing. They are - Take Notice, Connect, Learning, Keep Active & Give. Each week we will focus on one of these topics, learn about how and why they improve wellbeing, do excercises to help understand the topics, discuss ideas of how to bring more of these things into your everyday life and you can choose to set yourself mini challenges each week to practice.

Painting is known for promoting stress relief, cultivating emotional growth and stimulating optimistic thoughts. Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colours by exploring painting animals, plants, flowers and landscapes. With plenty of hands on exercises, this course will introduce you into all what you need to know when you sketch, or paint from observation. You will learn specific techniques by looking at watercolour artists so that by then end of the course you will have the skill-set that allows you to continue independently with your work. These live Online Zoom sessions offer an excellent platform for a supportive small group environment, to connect with a creative community and receive feedback and inspiration.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.

A 6 week course. Take part if a creative activity each week by exploring a different topic and using elements of Mindfulness.

During this time of pandemic, we are called to care for ourselves and others, but many of us are experiencing fear, anxiety and unease. In the 6-week online course we will learn essential skills that help us settle, steady and build our inner resources. With kindly awareness we learn to be with how things are with an attitude of gentelness, care and respect. Each week there will be guided meditations, an exploration of Mindfulness principles and an opportunity to share.

Group cook and eat sessions, bringing people together to prepare and eat a meal together, taking part in discussions and activities on nutrition and cooking topics and building social connections, confidence, peer support and sharing of community knowledge.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

A 4 week, information & support group. Each week a different topic will be discussed Session 1- The history of Sleep Session 2 - The Myths of Sleep Session 3 - Sleep and the Body Session 4 Sleep and the Mind. The second hour of the session will be a space for anyone to raise any issues that have been facing with sleep as a place to learn tips and be supported. People are welcome to reattend the group, or join at the midway point as a drop-in for the support space if they have attended previously.

Studies show that Drawing can help support our wellbeing. Benefits include reducing stress levels, promoting positive emotions, releasing hidden emotions, improving memory and as a form of mindful meditation. Our Drawing course, Inspired by the Everyday opens up an opportunity to develop new skills and explore a new creative outlet in a small, supportive groups environment. The course is suitable for complete beginners and those who would like to build on their existing skills. If you enjoy the idea of drawing but don't quite know where to start, this course is for you !

Working with ceramics is know to reduce stress and boost self-esteem, and has been seen to reduce negative moods, lower anxiety levels as well as helping people heal from trauma. Develop your creativity and pottery skills by exploring techniques to make a japanese vase, bowls for preparing and making tea.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies Living with, rather than suffering with Pain Improving functioning  By using act and mindfulness.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

A four week course. A new version of the Understanding Relationships Group, we will explore what happens in our relationship to ourselves and how this impacts our wider relationships. We will think about how we can regulate the flow of emotions within them using tools and tips taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

A new version of the Understanding Relationships Group, we will explore what happens in our relationship to ourselves and how this impacts our wider relationships. We will think about how we can regulate the flow of emotions within them using tools and tips taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).

The 5 ways to wellbeing are 5 aspects of life that if we increase them have been found to help with imrpoved wellbeing. They are - Take Notice, Connect, Learning, Keep Active & Give. Each week we will focus on one of these topics, learn about how and why they improve wellbeing, do excercises to help understand the topics, discuss ideas of how to bring more of these things into your everyday life and you can choose to set yourself mini challenges each week to practice.

Painting is known for promoting stress relief, cultivating emotional growth and stimulating optimistic thoughts. Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colours by exploring painting animals, plants, flowers and landscapes. With plenty of hands on exercises, this course will introduce you into all what you need to know when you sketch, or paint from observation. You will learn specific techniques by looking at watercolour artists so that by then end of the course you will have the skill-set that allows you to continue independently with your work. These live Online Zoom sessions offer an excellent platform for a supportive small group environment, to connect with a creative community and receive feedback and inspiration.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.

A 6 week course. Take part if a creative activity each week by exploring a different topic and using elements of Mindfulness.

During this time of pandemic, we are called to care for ourselves and others, but many of us are experiencing fear, anxiety and unease. In the 6-week online course we will learn essential skills that help us settle, steady and build our inner resources. With kindly awareness we learn to be with how things are with an attitude of gentelness, care and respect. Each week there will be guided meditations, an exploration of Mindfulness principles and an opportunity to share.

Group cook and eat sessions, bringing people together to prepare and eat a meal together, taking part in discussions and activities on nutrition and cooking topics and building social connections, confidence, peer support and sharing of community knowledge.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

A 4 week, information & support group. Each week a different topic will be discussed Session 1- The history of Sleep Session 2 - The Myths of Sleep Session 3 - Sleep and the Body Session 4 Sleep and the Mind. The second hour of the session will be a space for anyone to raise any issues that have been facing with sleep as a place to learn tips and be supported. People are welcome to reattend the group, or join at the midway point as a drop-in for the support space if they have attended previously.

Studies show that Drawing can help support our wellbeing. Benefits include reducing stress levels, promoting positive emotions, releasing hidden emotions, improving memory and as a form of mindful meditation. Our Drawing course, Inspired by the Everyday opens up an opportunity to develop new skills and explore a new creative outlet in a small, supportive groups environment. The course is suitable for complete beginners and those who would like to build on their existing skills. If you enjoy the idea of drawing but don't quite know where to start, this course is for you !

Working with ceramics is know to reduce stress and boost self-esteem, and has been seen to reduce negative moods, lower anxiety levels as well as helping people heal from trauma. Develop your creativity and pottery skills by exploring techniques to make a japanese vase, bowls for preparing and making tea.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on.

Endings are part of the course. Change is a constant. Nothing stays the same. Saying goodbye is rarely easy. However, if we can accept that most if not all experiences come to an end we are better able to manage them and so move on more readily. This does not mean the relationship, support, situation or space that we are losing is not important, isn't significant and no longer means something. It is pragmatically accepting that it is time to draw things to a close. At Mind CHWF, we recognise that endings can evoke distressing emotional, physiological, psychological, and behavioural responses in people but that, by having honest discussions and beginning certain experinces such as time with us as an organisation or with a particular service bearing that end in mind we are likely to fare better when the time to say goodbye comes. During this webinar, we will look to invite you to explore and think about what endings are, what influences our ability to say goodbye, and learn about the various ways in which you could prepare to move on. Interaction will be through the chat facility and the webinar is to be recorded. We hope you can join us if the time is right for you to begin this particular journey.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies Living with, rather than suffering with Pain Improving functioning  By using act and mindfulness.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

A four week course. A new version of the Understanding Relationships Group, we will explore what happens in our relationship to ourselves and how this impacts our wider relationships. We will think about how we can regulate the flow of emotions within them using tools and tips taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

A new version of the Understanding Relationships Group, we will explore what happens in our relationship to ourselves and how this impacts our wider relationships. We will think about how we can regulate the flow of emotions within them using tools and tips taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).

The 5 ways to wellbeing are 5 aspects of life that if we increase them have been found to help with imrpoved wellbeing. They are - Take Notice, Connect, Learning, Keep Active & Give. Each week we will focus on one of these topics, learn about how and why they improve wellbeing, do excercises to help understand the topics, discuss ideas of how to bring more of these things into your everyday life and you can choose to set yourself mini challenges each week to practice.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. RadSec for LGBTQ+ is for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and have lived experience of gender and sexual relationships diversity. The context and lived experience of being LGBTQ+ is taken into account in relation to mental health challenges, for example, the impact of internalised shame and LGBTQ negativity on self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-worth. The RadSec for LGBTQ+ courses are delivered by LGBTQ+ practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence based methodologies that the course is founded on. The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions.

Painting is known for promoting stress relief, cultivating emotional growth and stimulating optimistic thoughts. Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colours by exploring painting animals, plants, flowers and landscapes. With plenty of hands on exercises, this course will introduce you into all what you need to know when you sketch, or paint from observation. You will learn specific techniques by looking at watercolour artists so that by then end of the course you will have the skill-set that allows you to continue independently with your work. These live Online Zoom sessions offer an excellent platform for a supportive small group environment, to connect with a creative community and receive feedback and inspiration.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.

A 6 week course. Take part if a creative activity each week by exploring a different topic and using elements of Mindfulness.

During this time of pandemic, we are called to care for ourselves and others, but many of us are experiencing fear, anxiety and unease. In the 6-week online course we will learn essential skills that help us settle, steady and build our inner resources. With kindly awareness we learn to be with how things are with an attitude of gentelness, care and respect. Each week there will be guided meditations, an exploration of Mindfulness principles and an opportunity to share.

Group cook and eat sessions, bringing people together to prepare and eat a meal together, taking part in discussions and activities on nutrition and cooking topics and building social connections, confidence, peer support and sharing of community knowledge.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

A 4 week, information & support group. Each week a different topic will be discussed Session 1- The history of Sleep Session 2 - The Myths of Sleep Session 3 - Sleep and the Body Session 4 Sleep and the Mind. The second hour of the session will be a space for anyone to raise any issues that have been facing with sleep as a place to learn tips and be supported. People are welcome to reattend the group, or join at the midway point as a drop-in for the support space if they have attended previously.

Studies show that Drawing can help support our wellbeing. Benefits include reducing stress levels, promoting positive emotions, releasing hidden emotions, improving memory and as a form of mindful meditation. Our Drawing course, Inspired by the Everyday opens up an opportunity to develop new skills and explore a new creative outlet in a small, supportive groups environment. The course is suitable for complete beginners and those who would like to build on their existing skills. If you enjoy the idea of drawing but don't quite know where to start, this course is for you !

Working with ceramics is know to reduce stress and boost self-esteem, and has been seen to reduce negative moods, lower anxiety levels as well as helping people heal from trauma. Develop your creativity and pottery skills by exploring techniques to make a japanese vase, bowls for preparing and making tea.

T'ai Chi is a Chinese martial art and movement practice that teaches you how to relaz your mind and body and maintain mental and physical balance in all situations. Through T'ai Chi's slow, graceful and calming movements you will learn to respond to the ups and downs of life in a calm and joyful way. In this introductory course you will learn a set of preparatory Tai Chi exercises, as well as the beginning of the T'ai Chi form. By the end of the course, you will have a daily T'ai Chi practice of your own and an invaluable tool for relaxing your mind and body.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies Living with, rather than suffering with Pain Improving functioning  By using act and mindfulness.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. RadSec for LGBTQ+ is for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and have lived experience of gender and sexual relationships diversity. The context and lived experience of being LGBTQ+ is taken into account in relation to mental health challenges, for example, the impact of internalised shame and LGBTQ negativity on self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-worth. The RadSec for LGBTQ+ courses are delivered by LGBTQ+ practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence based methodologies that the course is founded on. The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions.

Painting is known for promoting stress relief, cultivating emotional growth and stimulating optimistic thoughts. Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colours by exploring painting animals, plants, flowers and landscapes. With plenty of hands on exercises, this course will introduce you into all what you need to know when you sketch, or paint from observation. You will learn specific techniques by looking at watercolour artists so that by then end of the course you will have the skill-set that allows you to continue independently with your work. These live Online Zoom sessions offer an excellent platform for a supportive small group environment, to connect with a creative community and receive feedback and inspiration.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Group cook and eat sessions, bringing people together to prepare and eat a meal together, taking part in discussions and activities on nutrition and cooking topics and building social connections, confidence, peer support and sharing of community knowledge.

Anger is an umbrella term of emotions that can range from mild upset to rage. Anger is not a negative emotion however when expressed in an unhealthy way can affect our emotional wellbeing or those around us; not properly managed can lead to ‘aggressive’ or unhealthy behaviour. This webinar is for anyone that would like to explore what anger is, develop an understanding of how to identify your triggers and identify different tools to be able to manage our anger safely with compassion. Interaction will be through the chat facility and the webinar is to be recorded. We hope you can join us if the time is right for you to begin this particular journey.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

Studies show that Drawing can help support our wellbeing. Benefits include reducing stress levels, promoting positive emotions, releasing hidden emotions, improving memory and as a form of mindful meditation. Our Drawing course, Inspired by the Everyday opens up an opportunity to develop new skills and explore a new creative outlet in a small, supportive groups environment. The course is suitable for complete beginners and those who would like to build on their existing skills. If you enjoy the idea of drawing but don't quite know where to start, this course is for you !

Working with ceramics is know to reduce stress and boost self-esteem, and has been seen to reduce negative moods, lower anxiety levels as well as helping people heal from trauma. Develop your creativity and pottery skills by exploring techniques to make a japanese vase, bowls for preparing and making tea.

T'ai Chi is a Chinese martial art and movement practice that teaches you how to relaz your mind and body and maintain mental and physical balance in all situations. Through T'ai Chi's slow, graceful and calming movements you will learn to respond to the ups and downs of life in a calm and joyful way. In this introductory course you will learn a set of preparatory Tai Chi exercises, as well as the beginning of the T'ai Chi form. By the end of the course, you will have a daily T'ai Chi practice of your own and an invaluable tool for relaxing your mind and body.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies Living with, rather than suffering with Pain Improving functioning  By using act and mindfulness.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

The 5 ways to wellbeing are 5 aspects of life that if we increase them have been found to help with imrpoved wellbeing. They are - Take Notice, Connect, Learning, Keep Active & Give. Each week we will focus on one of these topics, learn about how and why they improve wellbeing, do excercises to help understand the topics, discuss ideas of how to bring more of these things into your everyday life and you can choose to set yourself mini challenges each week to practice.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. RadSec for LGBTQ+ is for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and have lived experience of gender and sexual relationships diversity. The context and lived experience of being LGBTQ+ is taken into account in relation to mental health challenges, for example, the impact of internalised shame and LGBTQ negativity on self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-worth. The RadSec for LGBTQ+ courses are delivered by LGBTQ+ practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence based methodologies that the course is founded on. The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.

A 6 week course. Take part if a creative activity each week by exploring a different topic and using elements of Mindfulness.

During this time of pandemic, we are called to care for ourselves and others, but many of us are experiencing fear, anxiety and unease. In the 6-week online course we will learn essential skills that help us settle, steady and build our inner resources. With kindly awareness we learn to be with how things are with an attitude of gentelness, care and respect. Each week there will be guided meditations, an exploration of Mindfulness principles and an opportunity to share.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

The group will be an in person 8 week experiential Dramatherapy group, exploring the theme of Endings, using roleplay, story-telling, movement and music. Each week we will explore the theme using personal material or experiences of endings, building knowledge and expanding experiences each week throughout the course of the sessions.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and uses principles of mindfulness to look at how we can reframe the context and language of our perspective of our day to day to help us in managing our wellbeing.

T'ai Chi is a Chinese martial art and movement practice that teaches you how to relaz your mind and body and maintain mental and physical balance in all situations. Through T'ai Chi's slow, graceful and calming movements you will learn to respond to the ups and downs of life in a calm and joyful way. In this introductory course you will learn a set of preparatory Tai Chi exercises, as well as the beginning of the T'ai Chi form. By the end of the course, you will have a daily T'ai Chi practice of your own and an invaluable tool for relaxing your mind and body.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies Living with, rather than suffering with Pain Improving functioning  By using act and mindfulness.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

This group will focus on various textile techniques such as embroidery, applique, fabric manipulations and use of the sewing machines/hand work. We will produce textile samples/decorative pieces. We will also be able to produce decorative tote bags and lavender cushions. This is a small group with a limited number of places. We will create in a relaxed and calm space with gentle relaxation music and candles. This group will benefit those who prefer working in a small group and for those who are more anxious.

Come and learn how to support your body & mind through a natural diet, with food that will reboot & recharge you. You will learn about vitamins and minerals in everyday food and about foods to help you sleep & charge your energy. Each session you will receive a recipe to recreate at home. So come along and claim back a healthy mind!

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. RadSec for LGBTQ+ is for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and have lived experience of gender and sexual relationships diversity. The context and lived experience of being LGBTQ+ is taken into account in relation to mental health challenges, for example, the impact of internalised shame and LGBTQ negativity on self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-worth. The RadSec for LGBTQ+ courses are delivered by LGBTQ+ practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence based methodologies that the course is founded on. The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions.

Painting is known for promoting stress relief, cultivating emotional growth and stimulating optimistic thoughts. Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colours by exploring painting animals, plants, flowers and landscapes. With plenty of hands on exercises, this course will introduce you into all what you need to know when you sketch, or paint from observation. You will learn specific techniques by looking at watercolour artists so that by then end of the course you will have the skill-set that allows you to continue independently with your work. These live Online Zoom sessions offer an excellent platform for a supportive small group environment, to connect with a creative community and receive feedback and inspiration.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.

A 6 week course. Take part if a creative activity each week by exploring a different topic and using elements of Mindfulness.

During this time of pandemic, we are called to care for ourselves and others, but many of us are experiencing fear, anxiety and unease. In the 6-week online course we will learn essential skills that help us settle, steady and build our inner resources. With kindly awareness we learn to be with how things are with an attitude of gentelness, care and respect. Each week there will be guided meditations, an exploration of Mindfulness principles and an opportunity to share.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

The group will be an in person 8 week experiential Dramatherapy group, exploring the theme of Endings, using roleplay, story-telling, movement and music. Each week we will explore the theme using personal material or experiences of endings, building knowledge and expanding experiences each week throughout the course of the sessions.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and uses principles of mindfulness to look at how we can reframe the context and language of our perspective of our day to day to help us in managing our wellbeing.

Studies show that Drawing can help support our wellbeing. Benefits include reducing stress levels, promoting positive emotions, releasing hidden emotions, improving memory and as a form of mindful meditation. Our Drawing course, Inspired by the Everyday opens up an opportunity to develop new skills and explore a new creative outlet in a small, supportive groups environment. The course is suitable for complete beginners and those who would like to build on their existing skills. If you enjoy the idea of drawing but don't quite know where to start, this course is for you !

Working with ceramics is know to reduce stress and boost self-esteem, and has been seen to reduce negative moods, lower anxiety levels as well as helping people heal from trauma. Develop your creativity and pottery skills by exploring techniques to make a japanese vase, bowls for preparing and making tea.

T'ai Chi is a Chinese martial art and movement practice that teaches you how to relaz your mind and body and maintain mental and physical balance in all situations. Through T'ai Chi's slow, graceful and calming movements you will learn to respond to the ups and downs of life in a calm and joyful way. In this introductory course you will learn a set of preparatory Tai Chi exercises, as well as the beginning of the T'ai Chi form. By the end of the course, you will have a daily T'ai Chi practice of your own and an invaluable tool for relaxing your mind and body.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies Living with, rather than suffering with Pain Improving functioning  By using act and mindfulness.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. RadSec for LGBTQ+ is for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and have lived experience of gender and sexual relationships diversity. The context and lived experience of being LGBTQ+ is taken into account in relation to mental health challenges, for example, the impact of internalised shame and LGBTQ negativity on self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-worth. The RadSec for LGBTQ+ courses are delivered by LGBTQ+ practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence based methodologies that the course is founded on. The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions.

Painting is known for promoting stress relief, cultivating emotional growth and stimulating optimistic thoughts. Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colours by exploring painting animals, plants, flowers and landscapes. With plenty of hands on exercises, this course will introduce you into all what you need to know when you sketch, or paint from observation. You will learn specific techniques by looking at watercolour artists so that by then end of the course you will have the skill-set that allows you to continue independently with your work. These live Online Zoom sessions offer an excellent platform for a supportive small group environment, to connect with a creative community and receive feedback and inspiration.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.

A 6 week course. Take part if a creative activity each week by exploring a different topic and using elements of Mindfulness.

During this time of pandemic, we are called to care for ourselves and others, but many of us are experiencing fear, anxiety and unease. In the 6-week online course we will learn essential skills that help us settle, steady and build our inner resources. With kindly awareness we learn to be with how things are with an attitude of gentelness, care and respect. Each week there will be guided meditations, an exploration of Mindfulness principles and an opportunity to share.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

The group will be an in person 8 week experiential Dramatherapy group, exploring the theme of Endings, using roleplay, story-telling, movement and music. Each week we will explore the theme using personal material or experiences of endings, building knowledge and expanding experiences each week throughout the course of the sessions.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and uses principles of mindfulness to look at how we can reframe the context and language of our perspective of our day to day to help us in managing our wellbeing.

Studies show that Drawing can help support our wellbeing. Benefits include reducing stress levels, promoting positive emotions, releasing hidden emotions, improving memory and as a form of mindful meditation. Our Drawing course, Inspired by the Everyday opens up an opportunity to develop new skills and explore a new creative outlet in a small, supportive groups environment. The course is suitable for complete beginners and those who would like to build on their existing skills. If you enjoy the idea of drawing but don't quite know where to start, this course is for you !

T'ai Chi is a Chinese martial art and movement practice that teaches you how to relaz your mind and body and maintain mental and physical balance in all situations. Through T'ai Chi's slow, graceful and calming movements you will learn to respond to the ups and downs of life in a calm and joyful way. In this introductory course you will learn a set of preparatory Tai Chi exercises, as well as the beginning of the T'ai Chi form. By the end of the course, you will have a daily T'ai Chi practice of your own and an invaluable tool for relaxing your mind and body.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies Living with, rather than suffering with Pain Improving functioning  By using act and mindfulness.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. RadSec for LGBTQ+ is for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and have lived experience of gender and sexual relationships diversity. The context and lived experience of being LGBTQ+ is taken into account in relation to mental health challenges, for example, the impact of internalised shame and LGBTQ negativity on self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-worth. The RadSec for LGBTQ+ courses are delivered by LGBTQ+ practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence based methodologies that the course is founded on. The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.

A 6 week course. Take part if a creative activity each week by exploring a different topic and using elements of Mindfulness.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

It is a flow of mindfulness based, trauma sensitive yoga and breathing exercises and incorporates somatic movements.

The group will be an in person 8 week experiential Dramatherapy group, exploring the theme of Endings, using roleplay, story-telling, movement and music. Each week we will explore the theme using personal material or experiences of endings, building knowledge and expanding experiences each week throughout the course of the sessions.

A time to meet others and socialise face-to-face in the beautiful surroundings of the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Learn how to work with your hands to create sculptures, ornaments, plates and bowls using different forms of clay.

Ceramics and Claywork PM- 06/01/2022

Explore the instrument that is your singing voice and strengthen your vocal chords through enjoyable online sessions exploring popular songs.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

Empower yourself as an artist, musician or writer by creating a web presence that defines and promotes your individual voice.

From our beautiful rooftop garden, learn new skills such as herbs for window sills, organic gardening techniques and making new plants from old.

Fun lighted-hearted RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. Sing along and harmonise from home.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and uses principles of mindfulness to look at how we can reframe the context and language of our perspective of our day to day to help us in managing our wellbeing.

T'ai Chi is a Chinese martial art and movement practice that teaches you how to relaz your mind and body and maintain mental and physical balance in all situations. Through T'ai Chi's slow, graceful and calming movements you will learn to respond to the ups and downs of life in a calm and joyful way. In this introductory course you will learn a set of preparatory Tai Chi exercises, as well as the beginning of the T'ai Chi form. By the end of the course, you will have a daily T'ai Chi practice of your own and an invaluable tool for relaxing your mind and body.

Pregnant women, mums and babies - registered with a Hackney GP. will need to register with Shoreditch Trust, drop-in, providing a supportive space for women to consider how they can improve their mental health, using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. This friendly peer-led group encourages listening, sharing experiences, reflecting on taking care of a baby and family, and joining in on activities.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

Derman’s Handcraft Group is women only and run weekly. The aim of this group is to help women from our communities break their isolation and to regain their self confidence, self esteem and re-validate their skills through craft activities.

Psycho- educational group sessions to provide an overview of depression and develop coping strategies.

In this course learners will explore the art of relief print, using reduction or multi block techniques to produce an edition of their own design incorporating 2-3 different colours. The result will be producing a box-set of finished work and developing at a pace which suits your skill level.

Fun, light-hearted, RnB, Soul, Gospel singing and song-writing sessions. We will work on individual projects as well as encourage group work.

Create a collection of textiles ranging from garments to soft furnishings. Learn the skills of appliqué, embroidery, crochet, knit and printmaking to create artwork you can wear, use or display.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves.The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions. The RadSec courses are delivered by practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence-based methodologies that the course is founded on.

A walking group is a great way to keep active and socialise outdoors while improving your health and wellbeing. Walk around Victoria Park, meet new people, enjoy fresh air and company.

An open space to come together, sometimes we talk about our week, sometimes we do a quiz! Each week is slightly different, but the warm welcome is the same.

Attend your choice of Core Arts live zoom classes running Tuesday-Friday across our departments: art, music, multimedia and gardening, and access our catalogue of over 600 pre-recorded classes on vimeo

The aim of this course is to create and record music, using music technology (Apple/ Logic) assisted by the tutor. You will develop existing skills or learning from scratch using state of the art equipment.

Essential class to develop artistic skills. Create artworks in response to ideas and themes which inspire you. Explore a wide range of art medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture

Develop your techniques and experience new sounds creating a carnival atmosphere and learning about timings, fills and rhythm.

Draw the human form whilst observing a life model. Learn to use a range of art materials such as chalks, charcoal and inks and develop your techniques as a figurative artist.

Develop your keyboard skills and techniques in a small group, each person has own keyboard and headphones to rehearse and practice and well as be supported by the tutor and volunteer.

The Radical Self-Care approach has been designed to support people with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in their relationship to themselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy. The course supports individuals to enhance their natural capacities for mindful awareness and caring and compassionate responses, towards themselves. RadSec for LGBTQ+ is for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and have lived experience of gender and sexual relationships diversity. The context and lived experience of being LGBTQ+ is taken into account in relation to mental health challenges, for example, the impact of internalised shame and LGBTQ negativity on self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-worth. The RadSec for LGBTQ+ courses are delivered by LGBTQ+ practitioners with experience of and training in the evidence based methodologies that the course is founded on. The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education, mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections. Participants will work on their own, in pairs or small groups as well as in the larger group. Participants are free to not participate in the exercises or group discussion if they do not wish to do so at any given point. Practices and reflections will be encouraged in their own time between sessions.

Group therapy to share, deal and manage long term depression, anxiety disorders, social isolation. To provide safe and confidential environment to develop peer support with the help of two facilitators/counsellors.

Promotes the concept of eco therapy and mindfulness. This activity is to encourage exercise and active healthy lifestyle. Participants are supported emotionally as well as encourage regular walking exercises.

This group integrates talking therapy with eating sessions. Participants will be sharing their meals, stories related to their migration paths and their recipes brought from their home land. They will create a migration and recipe map by stitching and drwing.

Develop your painting techniques in brushwork, colour mixing and composition design. Learn how to skillfully paint in all media to create portraits, still life and how to interpret famous paintings into your own transcriptions. Journey through the History of Art in paintings as you learn about artists in our group discussions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

Explore your imagination and bring your thoughts of world around you to life through creative writing and poetry performances. Develop your literacy skills, improve your confidence and read your prose aloud in these group sessions.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

A structured session for developing, writing and rehearsing songs. Meet other musicians and influence one another, sharing talents and skills to develop performance skills in the hope to be ready for a club core performance.

Try your hand at a different song each week. Develop chords, tuning your guitar, open strings and fingerpicking patterns.

Explore a different song or genre each week developing your technique as a guitarist. Learn to tune your guitar, name the open string and play fingerpicking patterns.