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    The document provides information on various in-person and online courses, social events, and peer support groups taking place between July and September 2023 through the ARCHES Recovery College. The courses include developing personal recovery narratives, healthy food preparation, understanding anxiety, boosting resilience, trauma-informed care, talking therapies, and mindfulness-based wellbeing. Social events involve creative activities and WRAP plan support. Online support is also available for those with ADHD/autism and recovery keyworking is offered by appointment.

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    The document provides information on various in-person and online courses, social events, and peer support groups taking place between July and September 2023 through the ARCHES Recovery College. The courses include developing personal recovery narratives, healthy food preparation, understanding anxiety, boosting resilience, trauma-informed care, talking therapies, and mindfulness-based wellbeing. Social events involve creative activities and WRAP plan support. Online support is also available for those with ADHD/autism and recovery keyworking is offered by appointment.

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    July-August-September 2023 Programme

    IN PERSON COURSES

    Developing your Personal Recovery Narrative

    • 2 X 2 hour sessions
    • This course helps you understand and make sense of your own story, assists
    you to make decisions around sharing it with others, and considers the impact
    of doing this on your identity.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

    10am – 12pm Friday 1 and 8 September

    Healthy Food Made Easy

    • 6 X 2.5 hours sessions


    • Run in collaboration with a dietician, this course aims
    to encourage healthy eating, improve knowledge of
    nutrition when preparing our meals at home, and help
    people learn to cook healthy meals on a budget.

    Location: The Little Flower Hall, Bray, Wicklow

    2 pm – 4.30pm Monday 4, 11, 18, 25 September, 2 and


    9 October

    Understanding Anxiety
    • 4 X 2 hour sessions
    • This course will help you gain knowledge about why we experience anxiety
    and can teach you coping strategies to break anxiety cycles and manage
    anxiety in your life.
    • It draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

    2pm – 4pm Tuesday 5, 12, 19, and 26 September


    IN PERSON COURSES continued...

    Boost Your Resilience

    • 3 X 2 hour sessions
    • Resilience involves successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life ex-
    periences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibil-
    ity.
    • In this course, you will learn practical skills to become more resilient to
    life’s difficulties and adversities.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin


    2pm – 4pm Thursday 7, 14, and 21 September

    An Introduction to Trauma Informed Care

    • 3 X 2 hour sessions
    • Co-delivered by a mental health professional and ARCHES staff, this
    course explains what Trauma Informed Care is, why it is important, how it
    is provided, and its values.
    • It looks at the shift in focus from “What is wrong with you?” to “What hap-
    pened to you?” and “What is strong with you?”.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin


    10am – 12pm Wednesday 13, 20, and 27 September

    OR

    Location: Avila House, Blackrock, Dublin


    1.30pm – 3.30pm Friday 15, 22, and 29 September
    IN PERSON COURSES continued...

    Talking Therapies

    • 3 X 2 hour sessions

    • Developed in collaboration with HSE Psychologists, this course


    demystifies talking therapies.

    It helps you:

    1. understand the different types and learn how to search for, and request
    access to, HSE talking therapies (or fund them privately).

    2. determine if a therapist has the competencies necessary to offer you a


    high quality service.

    2. support others in your life when they may need to avail of talking thera-
    pies.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin


    10am – 12pm Friday 15, 22, and 29 September.
    IN PERSON COURSES continued...

    The Mindfulness Based Wellbeing Programme


    (NOW IN PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME!)

    • 12 X 2.5 hour sessions

    • This is a skills based, personal development course designed to foster


    self-awareness, confidence, and psychological wellbeing.

    • It is based on the practice of mindfulness and will teach you how to


    engage in activities that nurture, support, and energise you.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

    10.30 am – 1pm Wednesday 27 September, 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15,


    22, 29 November 6, and 13 December

    Courses, talks, peer support, keyworking, and social events will either take
    place ONLINE via Microsoft Teams or IN PERSON at the location indicated.

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


    us and let us know what you would like to attend.
    IN PERSON SOCIAL EVENTS

    Creative Café

    • Supported by our creativity and mental health facilitator Cathy and


    ARCHES Recovery College Volunteers (Isabelle and Lisa), 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.

    • People can join throughout the year.

    • It takes place in two locations, Clonskeagh and Bray.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin


    11am – 12:30pm every Thursday in July and September

    OR

    Location: Bray Primary Care Centre, Wicklow


    11am – 12:30pm every Friday in July and September
    (excluding Friday 8 September)
    IN PERSON SOCIAL EVENTS continued...

    Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) Café - Coffee Afternoon

    • WRAP is an evidence based self-management course that helps people be


    and stay well. Keep an eye out for our WRAP timetable if you have not been
    on a WRAP course before. We will launch this in the next few months.

    • The WRAP Café is for people who have already attended a WRAP course. It
    is an opportunity to meet people socially to talk about using WRAP to self-
    manage mental health and learn new coping strategies over coffee. People
    can join throughout the year.

    Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital


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

    HOW TO BOOK A PLACE

    Courses, talks, peer support, keyworking, and social events will either take
    place ONLINE via Microsoft Teams or IN PERSON at the location indicated.

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


    us and let us know what you would like to attend.
    ONLINE PEER SUPPORT

    ADHD 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 takes place online 2pm – 3pm every second Wednesday


    throughout July and September.
    Register with ARCHES to be sent a link to join the group.

    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 re-


    sources (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 by
    contacting [email protected], call 087 342 9922.

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