We offer a space to explore new ways to improve your wellbeing and gain valuable tools to help you navigate your daily life. Our courses help you to understand the effects of nutrition on your wellbeing, manage anxiety, learn techniques on mindful thinking, and will guide you on your journey of personal development. Our expert tutors will be there with you every step of the way for guidance and support.

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Two Session Introductory Courses

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, this 2-week course offers an introduction to developing self-resilience. It will look at identifying what resilience is, what the characteristics of a resilient person are, the benefits of practicing resilience in our day to day interactions and offers an introduction to strategies and tools to help you develop your self-resilience.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, this 2-week course is live online and will help you clarify your goals in any aspect of life, focus and get motivated towards working on a goal of your choice, long or short-term, to enhance your quality of life and gain a sense of achievement.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, this course is online and offers an introduction to self-help strategies to manage anxiety, exploring what causes anxiety and tools for self-monitoring and coping with anxiety. The course will take place in an online classroom, with group teaching facilitated by two tutors.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, this course is live online and offers an introduction to the concept of mental wellbeing, the value of keeping well, looking at what it means to have a recovery from mental ill-health and how that journey can be started and achieved.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, this 2-week workshop will raise awareness of the stigma often suffered by men in relation to mental health, along with defining common disorders such as anxiety and depression and how this relates to the mind/body relationship. The course will enable learners to identify and put into practice a Wellbeing Toolkit, which involves the five ways to wellbeing and how these can relate to our self-care and wellbeing, together with many other strategies to help cope with mental health conditions.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, this 2-week workshop will raise awareness of the stigma often suffered by men in relation to mental health, along with defining common disorders such as anxiety and depression and how this relates to the mind/body relationship. The course will enable learners to identify and put into practice a Wellbeing Toolkit, which involves the five ways to wellbeing and how these can relate to our self-care and wellbeing, together with many other strategies to help cope with mental health conditions.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, this 2-week workshop will raise awareness of the stigma often suffered by men in relation to mental health, along with defining common disorders such as anxiety and depression and how this relates to the mind/body relationship. The course will enable learners to identify and put into practice a Wellbeing Toolkit, which involves the five ways to wellbeing and how these can relate to our self-care and wellbeing, together with many other strategies to help cope with mental health conditions.

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Six Week Courses

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Duration: 6 week(s)
Fee: Free

In the ACL Mental Health And Wellbeing Programme, this 6-week course is live online and will enable you to develop a positive approach to your health and wellbeing and establish how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, particularly in times of challenge and change.

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Health & Wellbeing Offer

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Mini Mindfulness

Location: Online Self Study.
Fee: Free

Take a step out of the everyday and into the calming, relaxing world of mindfulness to truly experience the here and now. Regular practice of mindfulness techniques will help reduce feelings of anxiety, stress and low mood in everyday life and lead to increasing productivity and creativity as tensions reduce, allowing you to be more focussed, calm and able to enjoy and truly experience the current moment in time, at any time.

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Duration: 1 week(s)
Fee: £10.00

Being in the natural environment has been shown to increase wellbeing. This course combines a focus on nature and mindfulness techniques to become more aware of yourself and the world around you, connect with nature and accept non-judgmentally the present moment. Regular practice may help you to be calmer and more focussed, reducing feelings of anxiety, stress and low mood. If you are experiencing severe low mood or social anxiety this course may not be suitable for you, check with your doctor before enrolling.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: £10.00

This single session course is live online and offers an introduction to introduction to journaling, an explanation of how to journal and the studies that show how keeping a visual journal may help increase confidence and self-awareness while reducing symptoms of stress and anxiety. Explore and capture feelings, thoughts and new-found wisdoms, capture and remove negative feelings – see how journaling can make a positive improvement to your life!

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Duration: 5 week(s)
Fee: £63/£31.50

Look after yourself with self-hypnosis, building your confidence and reduce anxiety. A fascinating look at how much the brain influences the way we act and how we can use self-hypnosis to change this. Discover techniques to safely and effectively hypnotise yourself to tap into the power of your mind to make positive changes to your life and wellbeing.

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Personal Development

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: £31.50/£15.75

Do you find it difficult to say no? Or have a habit of placing other people’s needs before your own? Do you sometimes struggle to get a sense of self and communicate openly with people while keeping healthy boundaries? This is your chance to learn tried and tested strategies to communicate more confidently and effectively and develop your own communication style with respect to yourself as well as others.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: £31.50/£15.75

What’s behind your procrastination? Explore why we procrastinate and how it affects our time management in daily life and work. Discover strategies to overcome procrastination and identify tried and tested ways of managing your time more effectively for greater levels of satisfaction, while keeping healthy levels of work life balance.

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Employability Support Offer

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

Adaptability is a key quality that is more important than ever during our current times. This includes the ability to think wider in the scope of what alternative employment opportunities you could consider. Delivered by an experienced Life Coach, this course will guide you through a process of identifying your core values, current circumstances, and transferable skills to prepare you for the changing job market and enable you to identify areas and roles of work that could open new doors.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

It’s not just phones that get upgraded! This two-part course provides you with the opportunity to take a step back and work on improving your self-esteem and self-belief during times of uncertainty and challenge. You will be guided by an expert Life Coach with strategies for making positive changes to your thinking patterns and lifestyle to help you move forward.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

Adaptability is a key quality that is more important than ever during our current times. This includes the ability to think wider in the scope of what alternative employment opportunities you could consider. Delivered by an experienced Life Coach, this course will guide you through a process of identifying your core values, current circumstances, and transferable skills to prepare you for the changing job market and enable you to identify areas and roles of work that could open new doors.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

Do you set unrealistically high standards for yourself? And get critical when you fail to meet them? Does fear of judgement and self-criticism influence the way you live your life? Is feeling “not good enough” in some areas of your life, your default mode? Explore the ways we block ourselves from living authentically and we will share powerful tips and strategies on how to begin to embrace and accept all parts of ourselves, even the parts we deem “unacceptable”.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

In these times of constant change, finding and keeping our balance and peace of mind has been a huge challenge for most of us. This course will guide you through a process of streamlining and simplifying your life to reflect your own current priorities and achieve greater levels of balance and satisfaction.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

This two-part course will provide an opportunity to identify your own blocks to motivation in different aspects of your life, especially when looking for employment opportunities. You will gain techniques and tools for increasing levels of motivation and developing greater focus so that you can move forward with greater confidence and determination.

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Duration: 2 week(s)
Fee: Free

As we continue to live in uncertain times and conditions, many of us are re-evaluating life, work, priorities and direction. This two-part inspirational workshop delivered by an expert Life Coach, will guide you through a process to gain greater clarity and greater sense of control over shaping your new future in a way that is meaningful to you.

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Community & Family Learning Wellbeing Courses

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If you are a parent, we also offer Wellbeing classes as part of our Community & Family Learning Programme. These sessions are an opportunity to have guided support and tips on keeping your children emotionally well. You will also develop mindfulness strategies and tools with your family, alongside finding time as a parent to look after your needs.

Testimonials

I have gained a sense of a small community with all of you.

I am going to make myself a care plan, i will continue setting myself achievable goals and the importance of looking after myself.

I have learnt the importance of maintaining a work life balance, to make time for meditation and to take care of myself, and the benefits of a self care plan/approach and a healthy diet. Thank you!

I thought the tutors were knowledgeable and I was able to make small but significant changes in my resilience and self care. People were friendly and respectful, and I felt very safe and free to share.

I found the course really broad as well which was great – I have gained a lot. It’s been a kind of support mechanism, and encouraged me to move forward with little valuable steps my resilience.

This course was amazing and I would recommend to anyone. It has helped me at a really tricky time in my life. Thank you

I feel that the course helped me to cope with the lockdown. I feel more self aware than before and better able to recognise and deal with my own negative thinking patterns. I enjoyed learning new strategies for dealing with unhelpful thinking styles such as by using mindfulness techniques. I have started to keep a journal of positive thoughts and things that I am grateful for and this has helped to improve my mood before bedtime and led to me getting a more restful night’s sleep. The teachers were very good at explaining things and gave learners helpful individual feedback. I liked the useful resources, inspirational quotes and images which I was able to draw upon when I felt anxious. I also thought the teachers made good use of metaphors, particularly the garden metaphor, to convey some of the key messages of the course. Thank you.

I learnt more about myself, the questions you ask are great at provoking thoughts.