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Our Themes

Our courses are split into 5 categories.

Community Connections and Belonging

Holistic Wellbeing

Understanding and Living with Health Conditions
Developing Tools and Strategies
Recovery
Themes

Recovery Themes

Courses in this theme equip individuals with a comprehensive understanding of recovery principles, highlighting the significance of personal responsibility, values, and choices in shaping individual recovery paths. Students will be able to explore their personal experiences, build resilience, and develop a deeper understanding of recovery as a unique and self-directed process. Learners are supported to challenge stigma, embrace personal responsibility, and strengthen their sense of agency.

Community Connections and Belonging

Courses in this category will equip individuals to build and strengthen meaningful relationships within their communities. It supports the enhancement of personal environments and promotes a sense of belonging and wellbeing through engagement with community resources, activities, and roles. These may include connections with spirituality, volunteering opportunities, and pathways to meaningful employment. The focus is on fostering inclusive, supportive networks that contribute to personal recovery and social inclusion.

Courses under the holistic theme will equip individuals in understanding and improving their overall wellness by integrating physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual dimensions of health. The focus is on self-belief and self-compassion, empowering individuals to live fulfilling, balanced lives. It addresses key areas such as stress management, sleep improvement, nutrition, self-belief, creative expression, and effective communication.

Understanding and Living with Health Conditions

Courses in this theme will give individuals the knowledge to understand mental and physical health conditions, their challenges, and available treatments, This includes skills to recognise symptoms, manage mental and physical health, gain support, and build resilience. They aim to foster behaviours that promote compassion, advocacy, and a commitment to creating supportive environments

This theme equips individuals with tools and strategies that promote recovery and wellbeing. It covers core areas such as mindfulness strategies, self-management techniques, goal setting, changing behavioural, emotional and thinking patterns for daily living, collaborative care planning, and creating personalised recovery plans. Learners will learn to understand and apply these concepts to navigate their recovery journey effectively.

Enrol, Learn, Grow

Am I eligible to join in?

The courses are free and available to anyone over the age of 18 registered with a GP surgery, in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. People who attend include those who are working through their own mental health struggles, carers of such people and people who work in mental and physical health services and charities. The courses are also open to people who have are purely interested in learning and understanding more about mental and physical health and ways to manage it.

Upcoming Courses

To view our courses, please click the tabs below.

Welcome Session
 

This course introduces you to the Recovery College and helps you to understand what to expect as a student, including courses and student support. You will meet members of the team and understand how training is delivered in partnerships between those with clinical expertise and those with expertise from their own lived experience of Mental Health Illness.

Location:

Online

When:

Thursday 2nd October 2025,

1.30PM

Tuesday 14th October 2025,

10AM

Tuesday 18th November 2025,

10AM

Duration:

1 Hour

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