Recovery College NHFT

Recovery college NHFT

Recovery College NHFT

Recovery College NHFT supports individuals with experience of mental health difficulties to live the life they want to lead and become experts in their own self-care. An educational approach is used to improve health and to compliment treatment already offered by the Trust. The college offers strengths based courses designed to contribute towards wellbeing and enable hope, control and opportunity.

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Recovery College NHFT

Recovery College NHFT offers a range of educational courses and one-off workshops designed to improve health by increasing your knowledge and skills and promote self-management. The courses are designed to support you to take control and become an expert in your own wellbeing and recovery and get on with your life despite health challenges.

The college offers courses related to mental health, neurodevelopmental conditions, and physical health.

All our courses are co-designed and co-delivered by people with real-life experience, who work in conjunction with health professionals, education providers, and trainers to share what works for them.

Courses range from half a day workshops to 12 weeks and are for our current service users, or for those who have accessed our service in the last twelve months or for staff.

To download the latest Recovery College Course Prospectus 2021 / 22 click here [pdf] 4MB

What recovery means to us

What Recovery means to us.

Recovery is something people define and experience for themselves. NHFT cannot make someone recover although it can support the process and the Recovery College, Recovery Services, and Medical services strive to do that.

“Recovery is about building a meaningful and satisfying life, as defined by the person themselves, whether or not there are ongoing or recurring symptoms or problems” (Shepherd, Boardman, and Slade, 2008, ‘Making Recovery a Reality’, SCMH)

“Recovery is a personal journey of discovery (Repper and Perkins, 2012). It involves making sense of, and finding meaning in, what has happened; becoming an expert in your self-care; building a new sense of self and purpose in life; discovering your own resourcefulness and possibilities and using these, and the resources available to you, to pursue your aspirations and goals” (Perkins et al. 2012).

What courses have you got?

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Recovery College courses

Our courses focus on getting well, staying well, and developing the knowledge and strength to overcome the challenges we can all face at times in our lives.

Our courses are based on hope, control, and opportunity.

HOPE that in the face of what can sometimes seem like overwhelmingly challenging odds, a meaningful life is possible.

Our aim for the courses focused on CONTROL is to support you to realise and utilise your strengths by focusing on what you can do, not what you might struggle to do. For some people regaining control is having the opportunity to reflect on your choices; the things that are within your control and making choices about the things that you do. “

People tend not to recover in isolation, taking up OPPORTUNITIES is beneficial to mental health. Part of Recovery is being able to take on meaningful, satisfying, and social roles within local communities. Our courses help you think about some of the activities you might want to become involved in, and gives you the opportunity to meet like-minded people. The focus is on personal growth and moving beyond medical services, whilst getting the most out of our services.

Download our latest prospectus here: Recovery College Course Prospectus 2021 / 22

What’s in development?

New courses are being added each term so make sure you revisit our website to download the new prospectus (September, December, and March).

Recovery College Course Prospectus 2021/2022

Enrolment

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Tester sessions will be available for students who are unfamiliar or apprehensive in using MS Teams or Zoom platforms for the online delivery of courses. These short sessions will allow you to connect with us before the date of your online course to ensure that you are happy with logging in, turning on/off your camera and microphone, how to raise your hand and use group chat etc. This will also be covered at the beginning of each course.

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Dates of tester sessions will be sent to you in an email following your enrolment. Due to the Recovery College offering courses online, there have been some additions to the student code of conduct – please be sure to review these when you receive your course induction pack.

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