Being well together: Exploring WRAP recovery themes
Exploring key wellness and recovery themes, commonly discussed during WRAP courses.
Description
This course is distinct from our Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP) course and explores key wellness and mental health recovery themes, which are commonly discussed during WRAP courses.
You don’t need to have attended a WRAP course to take part in ‘Being Well Together’, but if you have attended a WRAP course, you may find this course to be a useful follow up and continuation of your learning.
Throughout the course, we will engage in a variety of facilitated activities, group discussions, and individual reflection exercises.Over the course we will be focusing on important topics including nurturing self-compassion, managing negative thoughts, boosting self-esteem, establishing healthy boundaries, and enhancing support networks, topics often discussed within our WRAP courses.
In this course we will,
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Explore the concept of recovery and what wellness means for us.
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Create strategies to cultivate self-compassion and ways to boost self-esteem.
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Define what healthy boundaries mean for us in the different areas of our lives.
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Engage in activities and discussions to deepen our understanding of the meaning of support in our lives and during our recovery journey.
What to expect:
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Session 1: Exploring wellness and recovery themes: In this introductory session, we will explore the various dimensions of wellness and the concept of recovery, setting the foundations for the rest of the course.
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Session 2: Nurturing self-compassion: This session focuses on the importance of being kind to ourselves, acknowledging our struggles and learning to treat ourselves with the same compassion we offer others.
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Session 3: Influence of negative thoughts: We will explore how negative thoughts can impact our wellbeing and discuss tools that we can use to challenge and reframe them.
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Session 4: Self-esteem and valuing me: Together we’ll participate in activities aimed at recognising our worth and building positive self-image.
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Session 5: Creating healthy boundaries: In this session we will explore what healthy boundaries mean for us in the various aspects of our lives, to protect our personal wellbeing.
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Session 6: Exploring support networks: We will discuss the role of social support in our wellness and identify the people, places and practices that make up our support systems.
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Session 7: Strengthening support: Continuing from the previous session, we will explore ways to cultivate and enhance our support systems.
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Session 8: Course recap and celebration: In our final session, we will reflect on our learning, celebrate the work we have done together and make an intentional action.
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