Personal Development: Creativity for Calm

This course will help you begin to make connections with other people and begin to develop a community. You friendly tutor will help you develop social skills and identify your own personal strengths. As a group you will begin to explore issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing while also developing tools and techniques to promote your own positive mental health and physical wellbeing. Don’t worry if this sounds a little daunting your friendly and supportive tutor will help you with this by using mentoring tools and creative reflection exercises to understand more about your own emotions, feelings and behaviours. By the end of this course you will be able to

1. To make connections with other people and develop social and others, identify their personal strengths and promote and build positive mental and physical wellbeing

2. To identify personal strengths and set goals, learning new skills and re-discovering activities that help in self-regulating mental health.

3. To practice strategies and ways of overcoming negative mindsets, using mindfulness and the wellbeing toolkit.

4. To become more active, considering how exercise can help ease anxiety, stress and depression.

5. To identify community resources and what is available in the community, promoting inclusion and a sense of belonging.

This course is followed by the 5 ways to wellbeing which will be running after the Christmas break.