Free course exploring acceptance and mental health recovery

About the course

This workshop explores the role of acceptance in aiding personal recovery and mental wellbeing for those in psychological pain.

You will hear a student’s personal story about how acceptance has helped them in times of emotional pain and led them to experience life more fully, without as much struggle and with the vitality of commitment towards doing what matters.

Learning Objectives:

To understand what we mean by the terms personal recovery and acceptance
To understand what the barriers might be to personal recovery and acceptance
To explore strategies that:
- help with acceptance
- help with commitment to your values

This course takes place over three hours in one session.

Joining a course

If the course is delivered face-to-face in one of our venues, please check our venues page for travel information and facilities.

If the course you would like to join is being delivered through Zoom, and you are new to Zoom, it may help to consider joining our 'getting comfortable with Zoom' workshop or visiting our using Zoom page for resources, videos and Zoom guides. For those who need help getting access to equipment to access Zoon, please visit our digital skills and inclusion page.

The safety of our students and staff is our top priority. The college strives to provide students with positive experiences and is committed to making the college accessible to all. Please read our code of conduct to learn what we expect of our students when attending courses.

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I learned that recovery should be meaningful and give sense of purpose.

Self-acceptance is the reason I recovered from having suicidal thoughts. Acceptance was a big part of recovery for me

Acceptance has been a big part of my recovery. It affected every aspect of my wellbeing and hearing stories about acceptance has helped me realise it's what i need to do to move forward. Thanks New Leaf!

Further help and support

If you want some help to book this course, or would like to put your name down for a course that's not currently running, please get in touch with us.

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01442 864 966

Upcoming course dates

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