Meaningful activities and wellbeing

This two-part course explains why bringing meaningful activity is crucial for day-to-day life and recovery with mental health challenges. You will explore the powerful impact meaningful activities will have on physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, and help you to create an identity that gives purpose to your day, which builds on your quality of life.

During the course, we'll also explore real-life examples of physical,  psychological, and social activities. You’ll have the opportunity to learn strategies for building healthy routines, and to recognise and work towards dreams and ideas, both old and new. By taking a look at goal setting, you’ll also see how you can support the integration and sustaining of meaningful activities in your life.

Learning objectives:

• To understand how to balance and improve your activity participation in a graded and safe way.
• To complete and reflect on some activity participation tools and resources and consider how you may be able to apply any learning from them.
• To Consider our interests and what we might want to change about our activity participation.
• To explore different areas of activity that offer opportunities to expand participation.
• To look at approaches which might help us start and sustain activity changes.

This course takes place over four hours in two sessions.

Important Information – please read before attending our courses

• If you have any specific learning requirements, please contact the College in advance of any course you book to discuss available support.
• 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.
• We teach our courses in a classroom or online. You can find the venue locations on the venues page, including travel information and facilities.
• Classes online are via the Zoom online platform. If you are still getting familiar with Zoom visit our using Zoom page.
• If you need help with access to IT equipment visit our digital skills and inclusion page.