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The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. 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. The group consists of 10-14 participants.

Learn more about pain with the aim of Improving Quality of Life through learning practical coping strategies

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach 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 course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.

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.

Take part in our Zumba classes, have fun and improve fitness Zumba is a fun dance and exercise workout featuring different types of steps, including salsa and meringue, which have easy-to-learn instructions and are combined to create a workout for the entire body. Suitable for complete beginners.

This non-judgemental workshop is designed for those of us navigating mental health challenges. Who are on a path to recovery. Deepening our connection with our emotions and each other. As a group, we will use creative writing to express ourselves clearly and make sense of our experiences with anxiety. This will allow us to reflect on how this has shaped us. What it has taught us, and most of all, how we can move onward. At the end of this six weeks course, our work will be more than just words on pages. This workshop will go one step ahead, and bind all our pieces together and create a small book that captures lived experiences, stories and reflections. This would not only be a gift to ourselves, but a gift to others who may find comfort and solidarity in our words. This will be a testament to the power each of us hold and how our words could help others.

Do you sometimes feel forgotten or unseen? Do you struggle to communicate your feelings with others? Do you often find it hard to connect with others? Would you like to explore in a safe environment your social anxiety issues? By participating in a Gestalt Personal Growth and Development group you may find opportunities to explore these issues and more in a supported space, such as: -Developing a greater awareness of how you relate to yourself and others -Discover patterns you have developed for dealing with your life and decide if these are working for you -Work with what are sometimes experienced as 'difficult emotions' including fear, vulnerability, anxiousness, anger and sadness -Learn ways of giving and receiving clear comments about yourself and others -Develop your self-awareness by regularly meeting over 10 weeks with the same group of people Personal Growth and Development groups are a safe, supportive space which offer an opportunity for you to explore personal issues alongside other people who also want to understand themselves better.

The group will be an online 6-week creative therapy group. Exploring the theme of change and how we manage it. We will do this using art, storytelling, music, embodiment, group discussion, connection and community building. This group has been designed thinking about how we adapt to change, how times of transition can be challenging, and creative methods have been shown to help in constellating and processing these feelings.

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.

4 week Cook and Eat course (extension to 6 possible) to learn new recipes and get tips on healthy eating, meet people. We cook as a group and eat the food we have prepared together. All dietary requirements are catered for, no experience needed.

The sessions will run for 8 weeks online via Zoom. You will also have practitioner contact for up to 9 weeks via weekly post-session email throughout the duration of the course. 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. The group consists of 10-14 participants.

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.

The Radical Self-Care is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy Approach 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 course supports understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and experientially through practices and reflections.

This non-judgemental workshop is designed for those of us navigating mental health challenges. Who are on a path to recovery. Deepening our connection with our emotions and each other. As a group, we will use creative writing to express ourselves clearly and make sense of our experiences with anxiety. This will allow us to reflect on how this has shaped us. What it has taught us, and most of all, how we can move onward. At the end of this six weeks course, our work will be more than just words on pages. This workshop will go one step ahead, and bind all our pieces together and create a small book that captures lived experiences, stories and reflections. This would not only be a gift to ourselves, but a gift to others who may find comfort and solidarity in our words. This will be a testament to the power each of us hold and how our words could help others.

Do you sometimes feel forgotten or unseen? Do you struggle to communicate your feelings with others? Do you often find it hard to connect with others? Would you like to explore in a safe environment your social anxiety issues? By participating in a Gestalt Personal Growth and Development group you may find opportunities to explore these issues and more in a supported space, such as: -Developing a greater awareness of how you relate to yourself and others -Discover patterns you have developed for dealing with your life and decide if these are working for you -Work with what are sometimes experienced as 'difficult emotions' including fear, vulnerability, anxiousness, anger and sadness -Learn ways of giving and receiving clear comments about yourself and others -Develop your self-awareness by regularly meeting over 10 weeks with the same group of people Personal Growth and Development groups are a safe, supportive space which offer an opportunity for you to explore personal issues alongside other people who also want to understand themselves better.

The group will be an online 6-week creative therapy group. Exploring the theme of change and how we manage it. We will do this using art, storytelling, music, embodiment, group discussion, connection and community building. This group has been designed thinking about how we adapt to change, how times of transition can be challenging, and creative methods have been shown to help in constellating and processing these feelings.

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.

This non-judgemental workshop is designed for those of us navigating mental health challenges. Who are on a path to recovery. Deepening our connection with our emotions and each other. As a group, we will use creative writing to express ourselves clearly and make sense of our experiences with anxiety. This will allow us to reflect on how this has shaped us. What it has taught us, and most of all, how we can move onward. At the end of this six weeks course, our work will be more than just words on pages. This workshop will go one step ahead, and bind all our pieces together and create a small book that captures lived experiences, stories and reflections. This would not only be a gift to ourselves, but a gift to others who may find comfort and solidarity in our words. This will be a testament to the power each of us hold and how our words could help others.

Do you sometimes feel forgotten or unseen? Do you struggle to communicate your feelings with others? Do you often find it hard to connect with others? Would you like to explore in a safe environment your social anxiety issues? By participating in a Gestalt Personal Growth and Development group you may find opportunities to explore these issues and more in a supported space, such as: -Developing a greater awareness of how you relate to yourself and others -Discover patterns you have developed for dealing with your life and decide if these are working for you -Work with what are sometimes experienced as 'difficult emotions' including fear, vulnerability, anxiousness, anger and sadness -Learn ways of giving and receiving clear comments about yourself and others -Develop your self-awareness by regularly meeting over 10 weeks with the same group of people Personal Growth and Development groups are a safe, supportive space which offer an opportunity for you to explore personal issues alongside other people who also want to understand themselves better.

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.

This non-judgemental workshop is designed for those of us navigating mental health challenges. Who are on a path to recovery. Deepening our connection with our emotions and each other. As a group, we will use creative writing to express ourselves clearly and make sense of our experiences with anxiety. This will allow us to reflect on how this has shaped us. What it has taught us, and most of all, how we can move onward. At the end of this six weeks course, our work will be more than just words on pages. This workshop will go one step ahead, and bind all our pieces together and create a small book that captures lived experiences, stories and reflections. This would not only be a gift to ourselves, but a gift to others who may find comfort and solidarity in our words. This will be a testament to the power each of us hold and how our words could help others.

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.

This non-judgemental workshop is designed for those of us navigating mental health challenges. Who are on a path to recovery. Deepening our connection with our emotions and each other. As a group, we will use creative writing to express ourselves clearly and make sense of our experiences with anxiety. This will allow us to reflect on how this has shaped us. What it has taught us, and most of all, how we can move onward. At the end of this six weeks course, our work will be more than just words on pages. This workshop will go one step ahead, and bind all our pieces together and create a small book that captures lived experiences, stories and reflections. This would not only be a gift to ourselves, but a gift to others who may find comfort and solidarity in our words. This will be a testament to the power each of us hold and how our words could help others.

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.

This non-judgemental workshop is designed for those of us navigating mental health challenges. Who are on a path to recovery. Deepening our connection with our emotions and each other. As a group, we will use creative writing to express ourselves clearly and make sense of our experiences with anxiety. This will allow us to reflect on how this has shaped us. What it has taught us, and most of all, how we can move onward. At the end of this six weeks course, our work will be more than just words on pages. This workshop will go one step ahead, and bind all our pieces together and create a small book that captures lived experiences, stories and reflections. This would not only be a gift to ourselves, but a gift to others who may find comfort and solidarity in our words. This will be a testament to the power each of us hold and how our words could help others.

The group will last 6 sessions and it will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.

Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions. MADE helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as ‘Emotional Balance’, ‘Creating Space’ and ‘True Strength’. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation and reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.