What is Recovery? - Virtual Classroom

This course has been designed to explore recovery. We will look at the benefits and challenges when choosing recovery, what we need to do to start on the road to recovery, how we go about our own personal recovery plan and what we need to do to try to ensure that we are living the best life that we can.  

There are four modules that create our Recovery Programme. You can attend one of these courses or all four. Our recovery modules as a programme are recommended for a fuller picture of 'recovery' within Jersey Recovery College. 

Living with Depression

Depression is the most commonly diagnosed mental health problem.  We will explore this topic and how it effects our lives.  Through individual and small group work we will cover what depression is, what causes it and strategies to overcome it. 

Goal Setting in Recovery - Virtual Classroom

To enable students to apply goal setting to everyday life based on needs.  We will be exploring this topic in relation to Recovery. 

There are four modules that create our Recovery Programme. You can attend one of these courses or all four. Our recovery modules as a programme are recommended for a fuller picture of ‘recovery’ within Jersey Recovery College. 

Connecting Walking and Nature

Make a connection between nature and wellbeing, be more present and learn to be comfortable in silences. Tune in to the sights and sounds of our natural environment and submerse yourself in the connection between nature and self. We aim to provide an open space to share with others and benefit from hearing stories of others that are similar, demonstrating you are not alone.

Gradient of walks - Basic. Reservoir walks, and coast roads. No St Helier walks.

This course is once a week for four weeks.

Understanding and Managing Anxiety

Students will develop an understanding of what anxiety is, how it impacts your life and what you can do about it.  We’ll be exploring this topic through group discussion, individual activities and applying practical techniques.

This course is once a week for three weeks.

What Makes a Good Life?

Positive psychology is the science of what makes life worth living. It focuses on how to increase positivity, rather than just decreasing negativity, as well as focusing on what’s strong, rather than what’s wrong.

In this course, students will have opportunities to develop their knowledge of positive psychology and how to apply concepts to building a good life. We will develop our understanding of our personal strengths, the benefits of gratitude, the key features of a good life, helping others and more. We will explore these topics together through a variety of activities and discussions over two sessions.

Some of the benefits of practicing positive psychology are experiencing more positive emotion, better relationships, more empathy, better sleep and greater self-esteem. Practicing positive psychology also makes you less likely to suffer from depression, addiction and burnout, and be better at dealing with difficult situations.

This course is once a week for two weeks.

Introduction to Co-Production

Co-production is a word often used in and aroundhealth and social services but what does it really mean? This course issuitable for anyone interested in using co-production as a tool to design,review or improve services. It gives an overview of what co-production is,presents the principles of co-production, explores the advantages anddisadvantages of co-production and how it has worked in practice within localprojects.

Yoga and Mindfulness for Everyday Life

This course will introduce students to a variety of  basic yoga and mindfulness practices that can be incorporated into daily living, to help reduce physical and mental stress, stay more present and be more compassionate to self and others. Most sessions will start with a brief presentation about aspects of mindfulness and yoga, followed by some  breath awareness, yoga sequences and ending with mindfulness and compassion practices.  The yoga will be gentle and relaxing and include chair and wall sequences, adaptations will be offered to make the practices accessible to all.

This course is once a week for six weeks.

Supporting Someone with an Eating Disorder

Confusion, anxiety and uncertainly is common among those in caring roles and our aim is to help guide you through your difficulties. Over the four sessions we hope that we will learn from one another by sharing our experiences, look at the importance of taking care of ourselves, improve our communication skills and learn whom we can contact in a crisis.  

This course is once a week for four weeks.

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Facilitating Co-production

True co-production is about power sharing, reciprocity,collaboration, strengths and solutions. It takes thought, planning andfacilitation skills to create meaningful co-production which optimises everyparticipant’s input. This course prepares anyone wanting to run a piece ofco-production to design, evaluate or enhance a service. It will cover ethics,governance, who to involve and how, recruitment, facilitating power sharing,identifying and resolving conflict, session planning and facilitation and howto complete a piece of co-production. The course is split over two sessions. Itis best completed after attending JRC’s Introduction to co-production course. 

Balanced Living for Beginners

This six-week course is for anyone who wants to learn techniques to help restore balance to their life. It teaches  a number of key skills that would be useful for anyone that  regularly experiences difficult and stressful situations.  With practice these skills can help you respond more flexibly and more effectively to all kinds of problems.

This course is once a week for six weeks.

Supporting someone with no insight into their illness

On this short introductory course we will explain how LEAP (“Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner®”) shows individuals how to quickly gain the trust of someone and improve their relationships to better help people with mental illness.

Introduction to Trauma

The introduction to trauma course will be looking at what trauma is and the potential impact of traumatic experiences on us, our lives and relationships based on the latest research which particularly focuses on the body's responses. We will discuss tools that can help us with regulation and also briefly describe potential therapeutic models that are sometimes uses. 

Steps to Recovery

To equip students with the skills and knowledge to promote well-being and prepare for crisis.  We will be exploring this topic through different individual and group activities using elements of WRAP®.

There are four modules that create our Recovery Programme. You can attend one of these courses or all four. Our recovery modules as a programme are recommended for a fuller picture of ‘recovery’within Jersey Recovery College. 

Suicide Awareness

This course will show you how to listen to, talk with and support someone who is suicidal through group exercises and discussion.