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    ARCHES Recovery College November-December 2022 Programme

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    November-December 2022 Programme

    ONLINE COURSES

    An Introduction to Recovery and Wellbeing


    • 6 X 2 hour sessions
    • This course helps you develop knowledge, skills, and abilities that can support
    you to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. Session 1 focuses on explaining the
    different types of recovery; Session 2 on understanding recovery through
    Connectedness, Hope, identity, Meaning, Empowerment (CHIME); Session 3
    on Advocating for Yourself; Session 4 on Navigating Mental Health Services;
    Session 5 on Setting and Achieving Goals; and Session 6 on Self-Care.
    2pm – 4pm Tuesday 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, AND 13 December.

    IN PERSON COURSES

    Boost Your Resilience


    • 3 X 2 hour sessions
    • Resilience involves successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life
    experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility
    and adjustment to external and internal demands. This course focuses on
    helping you understand the different types and signs of resilience. Following its
    completion you will learn practical skills to become more resilient to life’s
    adversities.
    11am – 1pm Friday 11, 18, AND 25 November.

    Understanding Anxiety
    • 4 X 2 hour sessions
    • This course will help you gain knowledge about why we experience anxiety
    and can teach you practical coping strategies to break anxiety cycles and
    manage anxiety in your life. It draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and
    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
    11am – 1pm Wednesday 9, 16, 23, AND 30 November.
    IN PERSON COURSES continued...

    Recovery in Colour 2 (Self-Care)


    • 6 X 2 hour sessions
    • This is our creativity and mental health programme.
    • There are 3 courses, the first looks at the meaning of recovery, the second self
    -care, and the third goals and aspirations for the future.
    • This course aims to use ‘art journalling’ (creating a personal visual journal),
    painting, drawing, colour, and collage, to explore ways to look after our body,
    mind, and soul. Note, you do not need to have completed course 1 to attend
    course 2.
    11am – 1pm Tuesday 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, and 13 December.

    Sharing your Personal Recovery Story


    • 2 X 2 hour sessions
    • This course helps you understand and make sense of your personal recovery
    story, assists you to make decisions around sharing it with others, and
    considers the impact of doing this on your identity.
    10am – 12 pm Friday 2 AND 9 December.

    Wellness Recovery Action Planning


    • 2 full day or 5 half day sessions
    • This is a self-management programme that helps people be and stay well.
    • WRAP can help you discover simple, safe, and effective tools to improve your
    mental health, develop a daily plan to stay on track, and gain support and stay
    in control when you are facing life’s challenges.
    10am – 12:30pm Thursday 17, 24 November, 1, 8, AND 15 December
    (ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital) OR
    9:30am – 4:30pm Thursday November 17 AND Friday 18 November
    (Knockrobin Primary Care Centre, Wicklow)
    ONLINE PEER SUPPORT

    AHDH and Autism spectrum Peer Support Group

    • This is an online peer support group for people who identify as having
    experience of challenges relating to ADHD and/or the autism spectrum.

    • The aim of the group is to validate experiences and to give people space for
    voice and narrative to be heard. Group members discuss and share coping
    strategies and provide mutual emotional support to each other.

    This online peer support group takes place online every second Wednesday. The
    next session is scheduled for 2pm – 3pm Wednesday 9 November.

    IN PERSON GUEST SPEAKER SERIES

    • Every 2 months, we invite an external speaker with particular expertise relating


    to mental health, to speak in person on a topic.

    • Next talk: ‘Mental Health and Human Rights’ from Ber Grogan, Policy and
    Research Manager in Mental Health Reform.

    • Mental Health Reform is a group of 80 organisations campaigning to transform


    mental health and wellbeing supports in Ireland.

    • This talk will help you learn about, and stand up for, your rights under the
    United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
    (UNCRPD).

    • It will also explain to you the Human Rights approach to disability and the
    current legal status of the rights of people with experience of mental health dif-
    ficulties.

    11am – 1pm Friday 25 November in ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh


    Hospital.
    IN PERSON SOCIAL EVENTS

    Creative Café

    • While supported by our creativity and mental health facilitator Cathy Doyle,
    this is an opportunity to make art with your peers in a way that is directed by
    you. We provide the art supplies, and a safe, welcoming, creative space and
    you bring your imagination and share your art with others.

    11am – 12:30pm every Thursday in November/December (until 16 December)

    WRAP Café - Coffee Afternoon

    • This is an opportunity to meet people socially to talk about using WRAP to self
    -manage mental health and learn new coping strategies over coffee.

    1pm – 3pm on the first Tuesday of every month.

    RECOVERY KEYWORKING SERVICE

    • Operating from ARCHES Recovery College, Shine can offer people with
    experience of mental health difficulties or their family members/supporters
    dedicated one to one recovery keyworking support. This involves planning
    recovery goals, identifying community resources (ARCHES, HSE Mental
    Health Services, education, social outlets, hobby opportunities), considering
    your skills and strengths, and being supported to take steps to achieve goals.

    • Typically, this takes place one hour a week on Monday mornings for a
    number of weeks. This service is available by appointment.

    Courses, talks, peer support, keyworking, and social events will either take
    place ONLINE via Microsoft Teams or IN PERSON at ARCHES Recovery
    College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin.

    To register, simply email: [email protected], call 087 342 9922, or visit


    us and let us know what that you would like to attend.

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