Mental Health & Wellbeing

MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING Adult learning

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MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING Courses take place in a virtual classroom or in centre with group teaching facilitated by two qualified tutors. Our tutors have professional and lived experience, and knowledge of mental heath.

Each session lasts 2.5 hours and courses are offered at different days and times.

For details and to enrol on courses, see website:

aclessex.com/mental-wellbeing For enquiries email

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TWO-SESSION RSES U O C Y R O T C U D O INTR Mental Wellbeing During Change

Introduction To Building Resilience

An understanding of how to maintain emotional wellbeing when the world around us is changing and unpredictable. Learn how to observe and identify your own fears and triggers and ways of managing them for greater levels of emotional wellbeing to help get you through.

An introduction to strategies and tools to help you develop your self-resilience, identifying what is resilience and the benefits of practicing resilience in our day to day interactions.

Goal Setting For Wellbeing Helps you clarify your goals in any aspect of life, helping you focus and get motivated towards working on a long- or short-term goal of your choice, to enhance your quality of life and gain a sense of achievement.

Managing Anxiety An introduction to self-help strategies to help you manage anxiety with practical tools and tips to apply in everyday life. Helpful for anyone who wishes to manage their anxiety and take back control over their mental wellbeing.

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Managing Sleep For Wellbeing

Introduction to Mental Health

An introduction to self-help strategies to improve sleep. Sleeping well is important for our mental and physical health and many factors affect quality of sleep. On this course you will find out how to recognise sleep cycles, routines and environmental factors affecting sleep and what you can do to achieve better sleep quality.

An introduction to the concept of mental wellbeing and the value of keeping well, looking at what it means to have a recovery from mental illhealth and how that journey can be started and achieved.

Stress Awareness An introduction to awareness of stress, looking at the signs of stress, and sharing some practical approaches to managing them.

s six week course Building Self Confidence

Positive Thinking For Stress Reduction

Practical advice, strategies and techniques to improve your selfconfidence, an opportunity to develop your self-awareness, assertiveness, negotiation and personal skills.

Practical advice, tips and strategies to help understand the mind and body relationship of stress, recognising cognitive distortions and how to engage positive thinking, develop better boundaries and communication, reducing negative stress and improving wellbeing.

Health And Wellbeing Enables you to identify the components of health & wellbeing; develop and build a positive approach to health and wellbeing using discussion, activities and selfreflection; establish how to maintain a healthy lifestyle whilst adapting to the current Covid-19 restrictions. The course will take place in an online classroom, with group teaching facilitated by two tutors.

Reducing Anxiety And Staying Healthy Practical advice, strategies and techniques to help you manage and reduce anxiety. Enables you to develop helpful routines, behaviours and thinking styles in staying healthy, recognise barriers to staying healthy and identify realistic solutions or alternatives and discover activities that can be helpful in developing a sense of control and wellbeing.

Self-Care For Resilience Enables you to boost your resilience and develop a self-care plan that nurtures and supports your wellbeing during these challenging times.

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Health and Wellbeing offer Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) Learn about concepts and techniques in cognitive behavioural therapy and their application in supporting mental health.

Super Living with Super Foods An introduction to how nutrition affects our body and mind wellbeing.

Discover foods for healing, health and immunity, learn about nutrients, superfoods and how to make good food choices including seasonal, local foods, to enjoy a healthy balanced diet to feel and live well.

Mindfulness Regular practice of mindfulness techniques will help reduce feelings of anxiety, stress and low mood in everyday life and lead to increasing productivity and creativity as tensions reduce, allowing you to be more focussed, calm and able to enjoy and truly experience the current moment in time, at any time.

Yoga (Hatha/Nidra) Immerse and replenish yourself in the deeply relaxing and restorative practice of Yoga, develop your ability to focus on meditation and transformative state of deep rest and relaxation.

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Journaling for Wellbeing An introduction to introduction to journaling, an explanation of how to journal and the studies that show how keeping a visual journal may help increase confidence and selfawareness while reducing symptoms of stress and anxiety.

Introduction to Building Neuroplasticity An insight into building neuroplasticity - rewiring your brain to learn new behaviours and change negative patterns of thinking.

Pranayama Breathing Pranayama breath control exercises keep the body and mind in vibrant health. By changing the breathing pattern, different states of mind can be produced.

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Healing and Balancing Chakras

Self Hypnotherapy Look after yourself with self-hypnosis, building your confidence and reduce anxiety. A fascinating look at how much the brain influences the way we act and how we can use self-hypnosis to change this.

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An introduction to healing and balancing Chakras. In yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda, Chakra refers to wheels of energy throughout the body. There are seven main chakras, which align the spine, from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Each chakra contains bundles of nerves and major organs as well as our psychological, emotional, and spiritual states of being.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT These courses will help you develop both in your personal and professional lives.

Personal development

Employability Support offer • Working With Your Intuition • Your New Vision Of Life Or Career?

• Relationships and Boundaries

• What Other Job Can I Do?

• Healing our Minds and Emotions

• Self-Acceptance and SelfValidation

• Introduction Coaching for Work and Life

• Simplify Your Life

• Navigating Uncertainty

• Stepping Up Your Motivation

• Procrastination and Time Management

• Upgrade Yourself!

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We caught up with a student at ACL, Claire who has completed a number of our online Mental Health and Wellbeing courses.

I am more proud to call myself a student rather than a patient

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Claire has recently shared her ‘lockdown’ experiences on Epilepsy.org, highlighting the benefits of our wellbeing courses compared to traditional counselling and how they have personally helped her connect with others and feel motivated to explore further selfdevelopment opportunities.

At ACL Essex, the majority of our courses we offer are delivered LIVE online with full support from our qualified specialist Tutors. Sessions can be accessed remotely at home, with full support from our technical team if needed. Claire shares her online learning experiences at ACL so far:

“I would like to share my recent discovery. Ever since my husband started working from home due to the Coronavirus lockdown my seizures have reduced significantly. Having him with me throughout the day has been reassuring for my safety. I want to know whether my seizures are mainly associated with my mental health, such as anxiety. For me, traditional counselling made me feel like a patient who struggled to think positive or recover. I’ve started doing virtual wellbeing courses with the ACL Essex.

Interacting with others has been social and educational for me. It has improved my mental health and kept me stimulated and motivated for self-improvement.”

“I’ve felt comfortable with the tutors who have taught me so far. They have been happy to re-hash over parts where I may not have completely understood. I like their presentation sheets that are shown on screen. I’ve given them feedback as to layout and using pictures and various colours helps break up the text.”

“I find traditional counselling very counter-productive.

Rehashing bad memories makes it harder to let go and move on. Doing classes is educational, social and fun. I am more proud to call myself a student rather than a patient.”

Claire has completed a number of Wellbeing courses recently and has plans to complete many more.

“Today another student commented on my experience and she said it helped her a lot which made me feel better.”

We are so glad that Claire has shared her experiences and is finding it rewarding being a student at ACL. Thank you for helping others understand that they are not alone in their experiences and there is nontraditional support out there that could work for them.

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How to enrol Once you have chosen your course/s, you can either enrol on our website or by phone.

1. Online Visit www.aclessex.com and create an account. You can then either search for the course title using the search box or browse our website.

Once the course has been selected, you will be asked to fill out an enrolment form (non-qualification) or asked to enrol onto an assessment session (qualification).

2. PHONE Call 0345 603 7635 and you will be put through to a member of our customer service team. Before calling, please make a note of the course title or course code.

Our phone lines are open Monday to Friday, from 8:30am to 5pm, unless otherwise stated. aclessex.com/contact-us lifelong.learning@essex.gov.uk ACLEssex

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Equality and Diversity ACL is committed to fairness and equality of access, opportunity and outcome for all learners and potential learners. We oppose discrimination in any form and have a commitment to making our courses inclusive and available for all. We positively welcome enrolments from everyone, regardless of age, culture, race, religion/belief and sexual orientation, and actively promote Equality and Diversity across all areas of the service.

Safeguarding We are committed to the safeguarding of all our learners, staff, volunteers and visitors.

We are particularly mindful of specific vulnerable groups although we promote the safety and wellbeing of all members of the ACL community. We want you to feel safe and not threatened by the environment or other people and we have policies and procedures in place to deal effectively with any safeguarding concerns raised.

We ensure all staff are trained and our learners are advised on reporting concerns.

PLEASE NOTE It is always our intention to run our courses as advertised, however if demand is low, they may be postponed or cancelled. Alternative options will be offered in these circumstances. Prices are in line with our fees and charges policy.

For full information, please visit www.aclessex.com/fees-policy