The Recovery Academy provides a range of free educational courses and resources for anyone with mental health and/or substance misuse problems, their families and carers as well as health care professionals to lift the lid on this complex area, which affects one in four people.
The Recovery Academy’s new Spring/Summer Term prospectus is out now, with information on the range of courses taking place in community centres, local hospitals and learning centres across Greater Manchester.
There are currently over 40 courses available from April to September 2015, which are all completely free, due to funding from the Trust.
You will find yourself learning alongside and hearing from a wide range of people as all the courses are co-written and co-delivered by professionals and people with mental health and/or substance misuse problems, which mean the courses are enriched by professional expertise and lived experience.
These include courses on Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, creative writing, assertiveness skills, anxiety and depression, addiction and many more.
The Academy also offers accredited courses in Personality Disorder, peer mentoring, IT, English and Maths. Courses vary in length from one-off workshops to those that take place weekly for a number of weeks.
It will be useful if you are looking to increase your knowledge and understanding of mental health, improve your mental wellbeing, or simply want to meet new people while learning something new.
GMW’s Recovery Academy has been delivering high-quality courses since May 2013, with more than 1,500 students currently enrolled on courses. Availability is on a first come first served basis, so make sure you apply for a Recovery Academy course now.
Claire Watson, GMW’s Recovery Academy Lead, said: “We believe recovery education not only equips people with new skills to support the recovery process and an understanding of mental health challenges, but provides people with the confidence to get back into work or go on to further study.
“We offer accredited courses and collaborate with partners like The University of Manchester, Alzheimer’s Society, the National Personality Disorder Development Programme, The Reader Organisation, the Octagon Theatre Bolton and Start in Salford.”
A student registered with the Academy, said: “It’s been extremely positive for me. It’s also kind of achieved something that I didn’t think was possible. We have been on one (a course) about self-harm …my dad just couldn’t get his head around it, he just couldn’t understand it, couldn’t communicate with me about it or anything, but after that he’s completely changed”.
The Recovery Academy Spring/Summer term prospectus is available to download
here.
