Gmw recovery academy prospectus april sept 2015

Recovery Academy

recovery

prospectus

What will you learn today?

grow

hope

learn

believe

April

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Spring/Summer Term

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It’s been extremely positive for me. It’s also kind of achieved something that I didn’t think was possible.

I took my parents on the courses with me, it was my CPN’s idea... For my dad there was just no understanding... but after this!

“We have been on one 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... Getting my family to understand it a little bit more was a barrier that I didn’t think I would be able to get through…”

Special Offer • £25.00 MOT

to all Recovery Academy students

Members of the Motor Industry Code of Practice.

• 20% off all servicing and repair work • Free Seasonal Safety Check

To make a booking or for further information please call us and quote promotional code – GMW004

Call 0161 743 0300 Unit 2, Oakwood Trading Estate, Mode Wheel Road, Salford M5 5DQ

SMaRT garage services is a First Step Trust initiative. | positive action positive results Charity reg. 1077 959 | Company no. 373 0562 | www.firststeptrust.org.uk

salfordsales@smartgarageservices.co.uk www.smartgarageservices.co.uk

First Step Trust (FST) is an innovative charity which operates a range of small social enterprises to provide work and training opportunities for people excluded from work because of mental health issues or other disadvantages, including drug and alcohol recovery problems and a history of offending.

First Step Trust gives our service users access to work experience and ‘on the job’ training in a range of real businesses at the Trust’s Edenfield Centre.

If you live in Salford and have been out of work because of mental health issues or other disadvantages, you can also sign up for a work placement with FST SMaRT Garage Services, FST’s community based social enterprise in Eccles. To find out about motor mechanics and office administration work experience, contact Craig Haworth on 0161 743 0300 or email: craig.haworth@firststeptrust.org.uk to arrange a visit or make an application.

Contents Welcome and Introduction ........................................................................................................ 6 Core Principles of our Academy ................................................................................................ 7 How to register with us and book on our courses ................................................................. 8

Lived Experience Courses Deaf Awareness Training ....................................................................................................... 11 Living with Addiction .............................................................................................................. 12 Living with Anxiety and Depression ..................................................................................... 13 Living with Bipolar Disorder .................................................................................................. 14 Living with Blood Borne Viruses ........................................................................................... 15 Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder ................................................................................ 16 Living Well with Dementia .................................................................................................... 17 Living with Dual Diagnosis ..................................................................................................... 18 Living with Eating Disorders .................................................................................................. 19 Living with OCD ....................................................................................................................... 20 Living with Personality Disorder ........................................................................................... 21 Living with Psychosis ............................................................................................................... 22 Living with Self-Harm ............................................................................................................. 23 Recovering from Domestic Abuse ........................................................................................ 24 Women and Mental Health ................................................................................................... 25

Supporting Recovery Courses An Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy .......................................................... 27 An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Skills ......................................................... 28 An Introduction to Solution Focussed Therapy .................................................................. 29 An Introduction to Compassion Focussed Therapy - Updated! ..................................... 30 Creative Writing ....................................................................................................................... 31 Dementia Friends ..................................................................................................................... 32 Facilitating Self-Help Groups ................................................................................................. 33 Faith and Recovery - new! .................................................................................................... 34 Health and Wellbeing for Carers .......................................................................................... 35 Mindfulness - Updated! ........................................................................................................ 36 Page

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Node-Link Mapping and Behavioural Activation .............................................................. 37 Personality Disorder, National KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) Programme - Accredited .................... 38 Supporting the Recovery Process .......................................................................................... 40

Taking Back Control Courses Advocacy in Mental Health .................................................................................................... 43 Completing an Advance Decision ......................................................................................... 44 Making Sense of Experiences through Psychological Assessment and ‘formulation’ - new! ........................................................ 45 Overcoming Stigma - new! .................................................................................................. 46 Recovery Star ............................................................................................................................ 47

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills Courses Assertiveness Skills ................................................................................................................... 49 Basic Reading, Writing and Communication Skills - Accredited .................................... 50 Basic IT Skills - Accredited ..................................................................................................... 52 Basic Maths Skills - Accredited ............................................................................................. 54 Essential Life Skills .................................................................................................................... 56 Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Accredited .............................................................. 57

Getting Involved with the Academy Courses Creative Facilitation Skills ....................................................................................................... 59 To Tell or not to Tell – Sharing your Story - new! ............................................................ 60 Train the Trainers ..................................................................................................................... 61

The Library and Knowledge Centre and Sign up to the Academy newsletter ................. 62 Help us research the effects of the Recovery Academy ........................................................ 63 Course calender with venues ..................................................................................................... 65 Meet the Tutors ............................................................................................................................ 68 Student Registration and Course Booking Form .................................................................... 81 Student Charter ............................................................................................................................ 83 How to find us .............................................................................................................................. 86 Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: April - September 2015

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Welcome and introduction

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elcome to the Recovery Academy at Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. We provide a range of free educational courses and resources for people with mental health and substance misuse problems, their families and carers as well as health care professionals.

This is our fifth prospectus in just over two years and we now have over

1,500 students registered with us.

Courses offer opportunities to gain an understanding of mental health challenges, the journey of recovery and the hope that taking control of your own health and wellbeing can bring.

We offer accredited courses and collaborate with partners such as the Alzheimer’s Society, the National Personality Disorder Development Programme, the Octagon Theatre Bolton, Start in Salford and blueSCI in Trafford.

All of our courses are developed and delivered through a process of co-production involving people with lived experience and professional expertise of mental health or addiction.

Courses vary in length from one-off workshops to those that take place weekly for a number of weeks. Courses currently on offer come under one of five different categories: Lived Experience, Supporting Recovery, Developing Knowledge and Life Skills, Getting Involved with the Academy and new for this term - ‘Taking Back Control’.

The aim of this new category is to introduce service users and carers to information so that they feel more in control of their recovery journey.

With each of our prospectuses we have expanded the range of courses on offer. If you have an idea for a course that is not currently provided, please let us know. Equally, if you would like to get involved in co-producing and co-facilitating a course, we would love to hear from you.

We are really pleased to announce that we are expanding the remit of the Recovery Academy by offering courses to the inmates of HMP Haverigg in Cumbria.

Staff and prisoners have been working hard to produce a prospectus, available in April 2015, which will support prisoners to adapt to prison life, start to plan their recovery journey, and prepare for discharge. We hope that through this work we can improve health and wellbeing within the custodial setting and reduce the likelihood of reoffending.

If you belong to a service which would like to explore how the Recovery Academy can support you, please get in touch.

Whatever your background, we hope you will be able to access the Recovery Academy and get the most out of the opportunities on offer. All of our staff and volunteers are passionate about supporting you to achieve your goals. We look forward to meeting you!

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Core principles of our Academy 1. Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the following: • Equal consultation with people with lived experience (including service users, families and carers) and professionals in planning and developing the Recovery Academy (the Academy) and its prospectuses.

• Actively engaging with people with lived experience and professionals in the development, delivery, and evaluation of education programmes.

• Supporting tutors to gain the confidence and skills they need to be able to truly cofacilitate learning events.

• Running a Trainer Bank for people with lived experience to join so that they receive fair pay for their contribution to the development, delivery, and evaluation of education programmes.

• Actively supporting those on the Academy Trainer Bank by providing regular support, supervision, annual appraisal, and personal development opportunities to support people to achieve their education/training/employment goals.

2. There will be a physical base. At the time of writing, work is underway to construct a new purpose built building which will house the Academy on the Prestwich site. This building will also accommodate our existing Knowledge and Library services. Whilst this building will provide the Academy with a base, and excellent resources to support the delivery of education programmes, we are certain that the Academy will continue to provide satellite services in full recognition of the geographical spread of our services.

3. The Academy will operate on college principles. Students (from whatever background) will be able to select courses from a prospectus. There is a Student Charter describing what a person can expect to gain, and what the Academy expects from them in terms of attendance and behaviour.

4. The Academy is for everyone. Service users, families, carers and professionals can be both tutors and students. The idea is to learn from one another and recognise with equal importance both professional expertise and lived experience.

5. Individuals will be able to access one to one support as well as group learning in order to define and fulfil their hopes and aspirations. We will make links with local colleges, education and employment initiatives, and employers to ensure students can access further opportunities and fulfil their long-term ambitions.

6. The Academy is not a substitute for treatment. It will complement treatment/therapy by helping people to understand their problems and learn how to manage these better in order to pursue their aspirations.

7. The Academy is not a substitute for mainstream colleges. It will promote participation and citizenship, and provide routes to further education, training and/or employment.

8. The Academy will reflect recovery principles in all aspects of its culture and operation. The physical environment and language used will portray messages of hope, empowerment, possibility, and aspirations. Success will be celebrated with all those involved.

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How to register with us and book on our courses

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etailed information about our courses, dates and locations accompanies this prospectus, and is available on our website.

The first time you book on one of our courses, you will be asked to complete a student registration form which will ask for your name, background, contact details, and any specific requirements in relation to the support you may need.

To make accessing courses even easier, an online student registration form and course booking form are available on our website: www.gmw.nhs.uk/recovery.

Our student registration and course booking form is on page 81 of this prospectus. If you don’t have online access, you can complete this and post it to us at the following address:

Study buddies We are committed to ensuring open access to all students and recognise that there can be factors that make accessing and attending courses and learning more difficult. If you or anyone you know need support for whatever reason, please let us know.

We operate a buddying system where we can arrange for a member of the Recovery Academy team with lived experience to support you before and during the course. If you would like support from a study buddy, please contact us on 0161 772 3782 or email us at recoveryacademy@gmw.nhs.uk to discuss your needs.

Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Recovery Academy Harrop House Bury New Road Prestwich Manchester M25 3BL

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If you are a member of staff, you will need your manager’s permission to attend if you are planning to do so in work time. This is to ensure your shifts are covered, and to ensure the learning you undertake is in line with your Personal Development Plan.

You will also be asked to sign our Student Charter which provides details of what you can expect from us, and what we can expect from you in terms of attendance and behaviour. This can be found on page 83 of this prospectus. If you are registering online you will just be asked to confirm that you have read and agree to abide by our Student Charter.

In return, we will send you confirmation of your place, with full details of course learning outcomes, start and finish times, course venue etc. Please note that we are unable to provide lunch for all day training events.

If you are interested in attending a course, and would like more information, advice, or support, please contact us on: Tel: 0161 772 3782 Email: recoveryacademy@gmw.nhs.uk

Courses and workshops can fill up fast so please take a look at the wide range of activities on offer, complete our registration and course booking form and send it to us as soon as possible.

In the event that you are unable to attend a course or workshop you have booked onto, we would really appreciate it if you would contact us and let us know, giving as much notice as possible. By doing so, you will enable us to offer your place to somebody else.

Although our courses are free to everyone, for external organisations that do not let us know that a member of staff will not be attending at least two weeks prior to the course date we will charge the organisation for non-attendance. Please contact us for more information on charges.

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Lived Experience

Deaf Awareness Training Deafness on its own can be a traumatic experience but to have additional mental health problems as well can turn a person’s life upside down.

This course is suitable for anyone who wants to learn about mental health and deafness.

It is an opportunity to learn about different degrees of deafness and the impact this has on everyday life.

Lived Experience

By the end of the course, you will: • Understand and demonstrate how you can engage and communicate with people who are deaf or have a hearing loss • Gain some understanding of deaf culture • Be more aware of the importance of body language, facial expression and non-verbal communication

• Look at the prevalence of deafness and mental health as well as contributing factors

• Experience difficulties in communicating from a deaf perspective

• Have an understanding of the role of BSL (British Sign Language) interpreters.

• Have an increased awareness of deafness and mental health

Who should attend? This is a free course that is particularly useful for professionals who have regular contact with clients or colleagues who are deaf or have hearing loss to gain an introduction to understanding mental health and deafness. It is also useful for anyone who is deaf or has family/friends who are deaf and experiencing mental health problems.

Duration: Half a day (4 hours) Lead Tutors: Marilyn Hoggard and Helen Higginson with Registered Qualified BSL interpreters: Sarah Glendenning and Christian Leyland

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I enjoyed it all equally and loved the facilitators – thanks”

Date and Time: 11 June 2015 – 9am to 1pm

Date and Time: 6 August 2015 – 9am to 1pm

Venue for all the above: Seminar Room, John Denmark Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL

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Living with Addiction Lived Experience

“Addiction is a persistent, compulsive dependence on a behaviour or substance.” (FRANK) If you have an addiction or know someone who has an addiction, you’re not alone. An estimated two million people in the UK are fighting an addiction.

As part of this interactive day you will explore the experiences of people living with addiction and how this affects those close to them. We will also look at how people overcome addiction and what helps the recovery process.

By the end of this course, you will: • Gain an understanding of what it’s like to live with an addiction or support someone with an addiction

• Have a better understanding of what recovery is, how recovery comes about and how it’s maintained

• Consider the range of experiences someone may have

• Explore what helps when someone is living with addiction and what support is available.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about addiction, particularly anyone with experience of addiction. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members and professionals supporting people with addiction.

Duration: One full day (7 hours)

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Lead tutors: Stephen Maloney and Nick Bell/ Jayne Gosnall

I really enjoyed the interaction and the openness of the group.”

Date and Time: 21 May 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm

Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Date and Time: 13 July 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 14 August 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Living with Anxiety and Depression “Anxiety and depression are something we all experience from time to time. If the anxiety or depression stays at a high level for a long time, people may feel that it is difficult to deal with everyday life.” (Mind)

By the end of this course, you will: • Have an understanding of what anxiety and depression is • Be aware of the different types of anxiety and depression and the different experiences people may have

Lived Experience

This course will help you to understand more about anxiety and depression by sharing information and experiences to raise awareness and provide solutions to help you manage the difficulties associated with the conditions.

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• Be aware of the similarities and differences between anxiety and depression • Be able to recognise some of the signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression

The course was very informative and the tutors were great – very knowledgeable.”

• Understand recovery, and the individual nature of it

• Understand some of the blocks to recovery

• Know some of the theoretical explanations for anxiety and depression

• Be introduced to different change strategies and interventions that can support the recovery process for people with anxiety and depression

• Be aware of the stigma associated with anxiety and depression both internally and externally

• Know the different support options and services available for service users, families and carers.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about anxiety and depression, particularly anyone who is experiencing anxiety or depression, or feels that they might be. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with anxiety and/or depression.

Duration: Two full days (6.5 hours) Lead tutors: Dr Sandra Neil, Rosie Beck, Katie Pownell, Lesley Spencer, and Margaret Harper Date and Time: 9 and 10 June 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: BlueSci, Broomwood Community Wellbeing Centre, Mainwood Road, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire. WA15 7JU Date and Time: 27 and 28 July 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 10 and 11 September – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Living with Bipolar Disorder “People who have bipolar disorder experience extreme swings in mood – from periods of overactive, excited behaviour – known as ‘mania’ or ‘manic episodes’ – to deep depression. Between these severe highs and lows, people may have stable times.” (Mind) The aim of this interactive session is to describe the symptoms of bipolar disorder and equip you with a better understanding of what it’s like to have bipolar disorder.

Lived Experience

The course will also identify a range of behaviours and skills that can help you to manage the symptoms of bipolar disorder and support mental health and wellbeing.

By the end of this course, you will: • Be familiar with the symptoms associated with bipolar disorder and mood swings • Have considered the range of experiences individuals, family and friends might have

• Consider some of the interventions and approaches used to help people living with bipolar disorder, including:

• Have considered the effects of labelling and stigma on those living with bipolar disorder, and the way it is represented in the media

o The ways that we can help to promote recovery from a bipolar disorder o The barriers to recovery and ways to overcome them.

• Be familiar with some of the research and theories relating to bipolar disorder and mood swings

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about bipolar disorder, particularly anyone who has bipolar disorder, or feels that they might. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with bipolar disorder.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead tutors: Robert Griffiths, Heather Peel and Stuart Eaton

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A very memorable and thought provoking day.”

Date and Time: 1 June 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 63 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Date and Time: 25 September 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: blueSCI, Old Trafford Wellbeing Centre, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0LN Page

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Living with Blood Borne Viruses

Lived Experience

Blood borne viruses (BBVs) such as Hepatitis and HIV continue to have a detrimental effect on the health of the population, despite the fact that effective prevention and treatment options are available.

Some people with mental health problems may be more at risk from developing a BBV because of their lifestyle, for example drug use, homelessness, abuse, and lack of exposure to health education.

This course will provide you with information about blood borne viruses (BBVs) and the treatment options available as well as exploring the ways friends, family and professionals can support someone living with BBVs. By the end of this course, you will: • Be aware of how Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV are/are not transmitted; their signs and symptoms • Understand the issues associated with disclosing BBV status to others • Look at ways of overcoming stigma associated with BBVs

• Know the treatment options available • Consider the support needs of individuals living with BBV’s whether they are/are not receiving treatment • Understand how to stay as healthy as possible before, during and after treatment.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who has been diagnosed with a BBV or thinks that they might be. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with BBVs. Duration: One full day (7 hours) Lead tutors: Sheila Wilson and Stewart Moors

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Combination of facilitator and lived experience – was extremely informative.”

Date and Time: 28 May 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm

Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 1 September 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder “Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is an anxiety disorder related to body image.

Lived Experience

“If you have BDD, you experience concerns about your appearance that cause you significant anxiety and have a disruptive effect on your life. You may also develop routines and habits, such as excessive use of mirrors or picking your skin, to deal with the worries you have about the way you look. These habits usually have a significant impact on your ability to carry on with your day-to-day life.” (Mind) This course aims to break down the misconceptions related to BDD by exploring the nature of the condition, how it can develop, and the impact it has on people’s lives. We will also explore the different treatment options you can access and look at the ways friends, family and professionals can support someone living with BDD.

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Very informative and thought provoking.”

By the end of the course, you will: • Be able to define BDD and explore common misconceptions of the disorder • Understand some of the beliefs and behaviours associated with the disorder • Discuss the biological and psychological theories behind the development of BDD • Consider how culture, society and media can influence and exacerbate BDD

• Understand the progression and longterm effects of BDD and the effect it has on individuals and their families • Consider a range of treatment options that can be helpful to people living with BDD • Look at how we can best support people living with this condition.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know more about BDD, particularly anyone who has BDD, or feels that they might. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with BDD. Duration: One full day (6.5 hours) Lead tutors: Martin O’Doherty and Carolyn Sellers

Date and Time: 17 August 2015 - 10am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, Broomwood Community Wellbeing Centre, Mainwood Road, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire. WA15 7JU Page

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Living Well with Dementia Dementia is caused by a number of diseases that affect the brain. The most common is Alzheimer’s but there are many different types of dementia, which affect the brain at different rates and in different ways.

Lived Experience

The aim of this course is to provide you with facts about dementia, common symptoms, treatments available, and techniques that will help you to cope with the effects of dementia.

You will learn a range of skills that will help you handle day-to-day challenges, maximise your independence and live an active, meaningful life.

The course will also help carers, family members and professionals understand people’s experiences of living with dementia and find out what support is available.

This course is run by Dementia Friends Champions.

By the end of this course, you will learn about: • The impact of the environment on dementia and what support is available to help you maintain independence e.g. tele-care

• Planning for the future • Research around dementia and how to get involved.

• Cognitive coping strategies e.g. coping with forgetting • Emotional coping strategies e.g. managing stress and feelings associated with dementia • The importance of maintaining supportive relationships and networks in your local community Who should attend? The free course is for people with a recent diagnosis of dementia, their carers, relatives, friends and professionals who support people with dementia.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead tutors: Gill Drummond and Dr Nathalie Whittle

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Found out more awareness to help others and myself eventually!”

Date and Time: 22 May 2015 – 9.30am to 3.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 18 September 2015 – 9.30am to 3.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Living with a Dual Diagnosis If you have mental health and substance misuse problems, doctors sometimes call this ‘dual diagnosis’.

Lived Experience

“A large proportion of people in England with mental health problems have co-occurring problems with drug or alcohol misuse. Likewise poor mental health is commonplace in people who are dependent on or have problems with drugs and alcohol. And, for many people, mental ill health and substance misuse combine with a range of other needs including poor physical health, insecure housing and offending.”1.

During this course you will hear what it is like to live with a dual diagnosis and explore the different misconceptions within the wider community. We will also look at how having a dual diagnosis impacts on people’s everyday lives and the benefit of continued support to aid recovery.

By the end of the course, you will: • Gain an understanding of the meaning of dual diagnosis and what it is like to live with a dual diagnosis • Have a greater awareness of the signs, symptoms and possible causes of dual diagnosis

• Have a better understanding of why people often self- medicate/use alcohol and illicit substances

• Gain an understanding of the differences between drug induced and drug related psychosis

• Gain insight into the recovery process • Know how to support someone with a dual diagnosis and the services available.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn more about dual diagnosis, particularly anyone who has mental health and substance misuse problems. We strongly urge friends, family members and professionals to attend in order to enhance their ability to support others in their recovery journey.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead Tutors: Paul Johnston, Lyndsey Chadderton and Martin Elder

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The combination of theory and excellent lived experience really brought it to life.”

Date and Time: 5 May 2015 – 10am to 4pm

Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Date and Time: 9 July 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 10 September 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

Dual diagnosis: a challenge for the reformed NHS and for Public Health England (2012), A discussion paper from Centre for Mental Health, DrugScope and UK Drug Policy Commission.

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Living with Eating Disorders “Eating disorders aren’t just about food and eating. They are about difficult problems and painful feelings, which you may be finding hard to express, face or resolve. Focusing on food is a way of disguising these problems, even from yourself.”

(Mind)

Lived Experience

This course will increase your awareness of what it is like to live with an eating disorder, and outline strategies that enable people to cope with long-term eating disorders.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand what is meant by the term Eating Disorder • Be familiar with some of the signs and symptoms of the main eating disorders • Consider the possible causes of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating

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• Consider how particular eating disorders make the individual experiencing them feel

• Think about what helps and what doesn’t help people living with an eating disorder

This was an excellent, informative course with personal accounts of what it is like to live and recover from an eating disorder.”

• Consider the range of different interventions and services available • Appreciate people’s stories and journeys of recovery.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about eating disorders, particularly anyone who has an eating disorder, or feels that they might.

We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with eating disorders.

Duration: One full day (5 hours) Lead tutors: Mita Sykes, Dr Magdalene Sampson, Margaret Harper and Jean Haslam

Date and Time: 22 June 2015 – 10am to 3pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 28 September 2015 – 10am to 3pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Living with OCD

Lived Experience

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterised by frequent unwanted, uninvited and intrusive thoughts, images, urges, impulses and doubts which cause marked and significant distress. They are accompanied by compulsive and ritualistic behaviours which act to reduce the distress.

This course aims to increase your awareness and understanding of this often misunderstood and secretive disorder. We look at common misconceptions and explore the wider context of OCD to help you manage the symptoms of OCD and know how to support people living with the disorder.

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I enjoyed the real life experiences being shared, and the insight of CBT by a therapist.”

By the end of this course, you will: • Be able to define OCD and explore common misconceptions of the disorder

• Understand the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Know the difference between obsessions and compulsions

• Understand the use of medication

• Have a better understanding of the nature of intrusive thoughts, images, impulses, urges and the obsessive compulsive cycle • Understand the long term effects of OCD on individuals, their families and carers

• Understand how OCD affects people and learn techniques that help reduce anxiety and distress • Understand the role that friends and family play in supporting people in their recovery.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about obsessive compulsive disorders, particularly anyone who has OCD, or feels that they might. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with OCD. Duration: One full day (6.5 hours) Lead tutors: Martin O’Doherty and Yvonne Slater

Date and Time: 24 June 2015 - 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Page

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Living with Personality Disorder “People who have a personality disorder, may find that their beliefs and attitudes are different from others. Their patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving are more difficult to change and they will have a more limited range of emotions, attitudes and behaviours with which to cope with everyday life. This can make things difficult for them or for other people.” (Mind)

Lived Experience

This course will help you to understand personality disorder better and provide you with practical advice to help manage the condition and feel more equipped to support yourself and others to achieve greater emotional wellbeing.

By the end of this course, you will: • Know what personality disorder is and the different types of personality disorder • Look at the different thoughts, emotions, and behaviours displayed by people with personality disorder • Discuss the impact these thoughts, emotions, and behaviours have for individuals and their families and friends • Consider some of the life experiences which may affect personality development

• Understand the coping mechanisms that people with personality disorder may use • Consider your own emotional responses to people with personality disorder and how these responses may affect others • Consider some of the challenges to accessing support for individuals and families and carers • Explore different ways to wellbeing that can support people through their recovery journey.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about personality disorder, particularly anyone who has personality disorder, or feels that they might. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with personality disorder.

For professionals and those helping people with personality disorder, who want to gain more skills supporting people with a diagnosis, you may find it helpful to attend the Personality Disorder; National KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) Programme.

Duration: One full day (6.5 hours)

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Lead tutors: Colin Mattinson, Claire Gately and Christine Partlett

I enjoyed learning about coping mechanisms within personality disorder and finding out about the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour.”

Date and Time: 18 May 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 10 July 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Living with Psychosis

Lived Experience

“Psychosis is when people perceive or interpret events differently from other people.

This could include experiencing hallucinations, delusions or flight of ideas.” (Mind) This course will help you to gain an understanding of what it’s like to live with psychosis and its possible causes. Using a variety of group work discussion from lived experience and research, the course will also explore toolkits that support people living with psychosis in their recovery journey.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have a better understanding of what psychosis means

• Be able to support people experiencing distressing symptoms

• Know some of the potential causes of psychosis

• Have a better understanding of how to address stigma

• Discuss how psychosis affects daily life and know how to cope with distressing experiences

• Know how to support people in their recovery journey.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about psychosis, particularly anyone who has experienced psychosis, or feels that they might have. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people with psychosis.

Duration: One full day (6.5 hours) Lead tutors: Professor Paul French, Deb Stefanovic and Wayne Edwards

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It has been an excellent training day with lots of useful information and moving speeches from service users.”

Date and Time: 7 May 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62B road Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Date and Time: 23 June 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Octagon Theatre, Howell Croft South, Bolton. BL1 1SB Date and Time: 17 September 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, Broomwood Community Wellbeing Centre, Mainwood Road, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire. WA15 7JU Page

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Living with Self-Harm “Self-harm is a way of expressing very deep distress. Often, people don’t know why they self-harm.” (Mind) People who self-harm may injure themselves in a variety of ways.

Lived Experience

This course will help you to understand why people self-harm and what support is available. It also aims to dispel the most common myths surrounding self-harm and addresses the feelings of fear, guilt and shame that self-harm can bring up due to the stigma around it.

The course includes tips for helping yourself and provides non-judgemental, compassionate advice for friends, family members and professionals when encountering self-harming behaviour.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have a greater understanding of selfharm and what can trigger it

• Understand the stigma, shame and taboo of self-harm

• Understand why people harm themselves and the purpose it serves

• Be aware of treatment, interventions, recovery and support

• Understand how self-harming behaviour interacts with other mental health conditions

• Understand how to support someone that engages in self-harm.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about self-harm, particularly anyone who is self-harming, or feels that they might. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who self-harm.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead tutors: Gary Sidley and Colin Mattinson

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The mixture of both professionals and service users gave a good insight into how therapy worked well for them.”

Dates and Time: 29 May 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: blueSCI, Old Trafford Wellbeing Centre, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0LN Date and Time: 24 August 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: April - September 2015

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Recovering from Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse is any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality.

Lived Experience

This course will help you to understand about domestic abuse and provide you with practical advice to help stay safe as well as equipping you with knowledge about how best to support victims of domestic abuse.

By the end of this course, you will: • Be able to define domestic abuse, and the possible indicators • Be aware of the prevalence of domestic abuse, including its links to substance misuse

• Be able to identify ways of supporting victims of domestic abuse

• Understand why people may stay in abusive relationships

• Be aware of legislation regarding domestic abuse

• Understand survivors’ coping and recovery strategies

• Know where victims can get help and what support is available.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about domestic abuse, or feels that they might be experiencing it. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing domestic abuse.

Duration: One full day (7 hours) Lead tutors: Sheila Wilson and Joanne Wilson

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Group work was a very powerful tool used to illustrate the impact of domestic violence”.

Date and Time: 18 June 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 3 September 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Women and Mental Health “The same numbers of women and men experience mental health problems overall, but some problems are more common in women than men, and vice versa. For example, depression affects women twice as much as men.

Lived Experience

“Various social factors put women at greater risk of poor mental health than men.

However, women’s readiness to talk about their feelings and their strong social networks can help protect their mental health.” (Mental Health Foundation) This course raises awareness of the specific issues that can affect women’s mental health, and explores the different ways you can help protect your mental health and support women in their recovery journey.

By the end of this course, you will: • Explore the history of women and mental health through the ages • Discuss the different roles of women in today’s society and the impact these roles have on women’s mental health • Consider some of the different internal coping strategies that women may use, including drinking, dieting, binge eating, and self-harm • Consider the particular issues that can affect women and the relationship between hormones and mental health e.g. menstrual cycles, childbirth, and menopause

• Understand the possible effects of mental health medication on women • Consider some of the cultural issues that affect women and their mental health • Celebrate the strengths that women have to manage everyday stresses and longer-term mental health problems • Discuss the different support options and services available to support women.

Who should attend? This free course is open to anyone who wants to learn more about women’s experience of mental health. Women who are experiencing/have experienced mental distress and are struggling to make sense of things are welcome to attend, as are family members and professionals who are supporting women with mental health problems.

Duration: One full day (6.5 hours) Lead Tutors: Claire Watson, Deb Stefanovic, Hazel Sharp and Jane Aldred

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I have absolutely enjoyed the whole day, very informative and moving”.

Date and Time: 22 May 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, Broomwood Community Wellbeing Centre, Mainwood Road, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire. WA15 7JU Date and Time: 11 September 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: April - September 2015

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An Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Supporting Recovery

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy that can help people manage a wide range of problems across a broad spectrum of mental health issues.

It involves analysing thoughts, thinking processes, and current behaviour patterns to help people make changes. The aim of CBT is to reduce the experience of problematic emotions and to increase more life enriching adaptive behaviours.

This one day introductory course will introduce you to the principles and underlying core values of CBT. By the end of this course, you will: • Understand the basic principles of CBT • Have heard examples of how CBT can be applied in practice and in everyday life

• Have been introduced to specific applications of CBT • Know the evidence base for CBT.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about the basics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: One full day (6.5 hours) Lead tutors: Sara Whitehead and members of staff from our Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Training Centre.

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The trainer allowing us to challenge some of the CBT concepts in a respectful and productive way - very good.”

The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Training Centre was set up by the Trust with the aim of developing and delivering high quality CBT training in the North West. Since then, CBT training courses have been offered to hundreds of mental health practitioners working with a wide range of service user groups across many settings. The Training Centre has gained a reputation for its quality and standards and all our staff are accredited and highly experienced clinicians, supervisors and trainers.

Date and Time: 19 May 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 2 July 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: April - September 2015

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An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Skills Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a type of talking therapy that strengthens people’s own motivation and commitment to change by using collaborative conversation to explore people’s own reasons for change.

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The rationale for this approach is that people are more likely to change if they have been encouraged to make their own decisions to do this.

This two day introductory course will introduce you to the principles and underlying spirit of MI. By the end of this course, you will: • Understand the basic principles of MI • Become familiar with the fundamental spirit of MI • Know about the effectiveness of MI • Directly experience an MI approach and contrast it with other approaches

• Gain direct experience and initial practice of MI

• Know the practical guidelines for using MI

• Learn the processes used within MI sessions.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about the basics of Motivational Interviewing, particularly anyone who has mental health and/ or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: Two full days (7 hours) Lead tutors: Stephen Maloney and Joanne Wilson.

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Very interactive, really helped bring the ideas to life.”

Date and Time: 14 and 15 May 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Date and Time: 6 and 7 July 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 20 and 21 August 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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An Introduction to Solution Focussed Therapy Solution Focussed Therapy is a type of talking therapy that focuses on what people want to achieve in therapy rather than on past problems, or possible causes of those problems.

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This approach is often referred to as “brief therapy” because it assumes that people already possess the resources to manage their own problems.

This course will help you to understand solution focussed therapy and will help you to develop some basic skills to use this approach for managing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand what Solution Focussed Therapy is and the approach used • Have seen the approach in action • Know the value of the questioning style of this approach, and reflect on its suitability for different mental health and/or substance misuse problems • Become familiar with the “Miracle Question”, which the approach promotes

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Informative, interactive sessions – good discussion and debate.”

• Learn the spirit of using this approach with respect to the following key themes: o Viewing the person as more than just their problem(s) o Exploring people’s strengths and resources, rather than problems o Exploring people’s short and longterm goals for the future o Exploring what resources someone has to contribute to achieving their longterm goals o Assuming people are the experts in their own lives o Taking a respectful, brief and nonintrusive form of questioning.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about the basics of Solution Focussed Therapy, particularly anyone who has mental health and/ or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: One full day (7 hours) Lead tutor: Chris McGowan

Date and Time: 2 June 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0JR Date and Time: 27 August 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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An Introduction to Compassion Focussed Therapy Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT) is a psychological intervention that encourages people to be kind to themselves and reduce their negative thoughts.

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Research suggests that teaching people to develop self-compassion can reduce shame and self-criticism, as well as lead to improvements in their mental wellbeing.

This course will help you to gain an awareness of how we become overly attached to our own self attacking patterns, especially when we are struggling with feelings of great sadness or threat. It will also help to strengthen your ability to be non-judgementally receptive to events and develop your ability to be more compassionate.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have a greater understanding of selfattacking, its role, and its consequences • Gain an understanding of what compassion is and what it is not

• Have experienced a number of ways which will help you to strengthen your ability to engage in compassion.

• Think about your own ambivalence to being more compassionate about your struggles Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about compassion to improve their own mental health. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members, as well as professionals who are supporting people who are struggling to see their problems clearly and find a way to work through them.

Duration: One full day (6.5 hours) Lead Tutors: Ian Lowens

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I enjoyed learning to be self-compassionate and the basics of CFT.”

Date and Time: 10 June 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 21 September 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Creative Writing

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There is growing evidence to suggest that the physical act of writing has a positive effect on our wellbeing. Many people feel drawn to write down their feelings and experiences in diaries, poems and songs especially when they’re feeling strong emotions such as grief, despair, love or joy.

This course aims to introduce people to creative writing and explore the effects it can have on mental wellbeing. It is the act of writing itself that is beneficial to us, not the quality, so don’t be put off if you don’t consider yourself to be creative or are exploring creative writing for the first time. We will learn together how to use our experiences and imagination to develop poems and stories.

Course facilitators will encourage a safe, respectful environment and there will be no pressure to share any writing you produce if you do not wish to do so.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have a greater understanding of what creative writing is and what it can do for you

• Experience performances of poetry and live music from people with lived experience of mental health problems

• Consider different formats for creative writing

• Learn about different organisations that can help you if you wish to pursue publishing opportunities

• Practise developing a piece of creative writing

• Feel inspired and motivated to explore your own creativity.

• Be familiar with different tools and techniques that can help you write creatively

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about creative writing to improve their own mental health. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members, as well as professionals who are working with people who are struggling to see their problems clearly and find a way to work through them.

Duration: One full day (5 hours) Lead Tutors: Lynne Curran, Andrew Aldred, Leanne Roberts and Paul Johnston

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I found it all interesting, and I enjoyed trying to create my own poems – this was great – thank you.”

Date and Time: 27 May 2015 – 10am to 3pm

Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Date and Time: 31 July 2015 – 10am to 3pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Dementia Friends

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Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society initiative to help members of the public understand what it might be like to live with dementia and then turn that understanding into action. Anyone can become a Dementia Friend and make a difference.

This information session aims to raise awareness about dementia and how it affects people, as well as the practical actions that Dementia Friends can take that could help someone with dementia living in their community.

The session will provide you with information and resources so you feel confident in understanding people’s questions about dementia and where you can direct them to for further information and support.

The sessions are run by Dementia Friends Champions and are fully endorsed by the Alzheimer’s Society.

By the end of this course, you will: • Learn about dementia and understand its affects.

• Feel more confident in supporting people living with dementia

• Understand the impact of dementia on the wider community

• Be eligible to register as a National Dementia Friend and be an integral part of the Dementia Friends campaign.

• Become familiar with the Dementia Friends campaign and the Prime Ministers challenge on dementia

Who should attend? This free information session is for the general public, carers and staff who support people with dementia.

Duration: 1.5 hours Lead tutors: Tracy Collard and Gill Drummond

Date and Time: 20 May 2015 – 2pm to 3.30pm

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Informative, detailed and well presented.”

Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Date and Time: 17 June 2015 – 10am to 11.30am Venue: blueSCI, Old Trafford Wellbeing Centre, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0LN Date and Time: 8 July 2015 – 10am to 11.30am Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Page

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Facilitating Self-Help Groups People often find it helpful to come together to share their experiences and get support in a group setting.

The aim of this course is to help you run effective groups. The main emphasis is on developing and practising group work skills that are applicable across a wide range of types of group work.

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By the end of this course, you will: • Be able to share ideas for preparing and running groups • Know the importance of establishing and maintaining group rules • Consider different group dynamics and ways of encouraging equal participation

• Know a range of facilitator styles and when to use different styles in different situations • Feel confident about running your own group • Be able to reflect on group progress and plan for people moving on.

Who should attend?

This free course is for anyone who is interested in running their own self-help group, whether they are a service user, carer, family member or professional supporting people with mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: Two full days (7 hours) Lead tutors: Stephen Maloney and Joanne Wilson

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I enjoyed all of the course. Very engaging style of presentation – really good ice-breakers.”

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NEW! Faith and Recovery There is a considerable body of evidence to show that faith can be a major factor in supporting recovery in mental health. Becoming aware of your own spirituality, whether it is based on a religious tradition or not, offers a new perspective for future living.

Recovery and wellbeing are about the whole of life, and spiritual care of ourselves and others addresses our deepest motivations and concerns.

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This course aims to introduce the concepts of faith and spirituality, their contribution to recovery, and explores some practices, religious and non-religious, which may be used to help you regain and maintain a healthier approach to life.

By the end of this course, you will: • Be familiar with the role of faith and spirituality in promoting mental wellbeing • Look at the evidence to show that faith and spirituality can have a positive effect on mental health

• Learn about and experience some spiritual practices which may aid recovery for you or those you care for • Know about the role of the chaplains within the Trust and how to access their services.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know more about the role of faith and spirituality in recovery, whether they are a service user, carer or professional supporting people with mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead Tutors: Colin Mattinson, Jayne Gosnall, Father David Sutton, Father Jeremy Law, and Reverend Kathleen LaCamera Loughin

Date and Time: 2 June 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 4 August 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 1 October 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Health and Wellbeing for Carers Learning new skills or improving your existing knowledge can make life as a carer much easier. Health and Wellbeing for Carers gives you a better understanding of the problems you may face as a carer and helps you find new ways to tackle them.

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This course has been developed in partnership with a number of the Trust’s carers to make the course specific for people who care for people with mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

By the end of this course, you will: • Discover how caring affects your life and how to balance your commitments better • Communicate more effectively with the person you care for as well as health professionals

• Understand the emotions you may feel when caring and find practical ways to deal with them • Learn how to relax and take time for yourself.

Who should attend? This free course is for carers of someone with a mental health and/ or substance misuse problem. We hope it will also be helpful for carer’s friends and family members.

We define a carer as “A person who provides unpaid practical or emotional support to someone with a disability, addiction or illness. The person may be a relative, partner, friend or neighbour. A carer can be of any age and may be a young person providing assistance to a parent or another person. A carer may live with the person they care for or provide support from a distance.”

Duration: Half a day (4.5 hours) Lead tutors: Patricia Goodwin, Suzanne Grundy and Tracy Collard

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Meeting other people in a similar situation. I enjoyed all aspects of the course.”

Date and Time: 13 May 2015 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Date and Time: 24 June 2015 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 30 July 2015 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Mindfulness Mindfulness can help us enjoy the world more and understand ourselves better by changing the way we think, feel and act.

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Mindfulness is a skill, which we can all acquire. It involves developing an ability to become aware of what is happening in the present, momentby-moment, rather than being on ‘automatic pilot’.

Being mindful involves adopting a kind, open attitude, stepping outside the mind’s tendency to worry about and judge everything. Being mindful provides us with the opportunity to respond to difficult events and situations in new ways, rather than just following old patterns.

Getting caught up in worry and distressing thoughts is common for people experiencing mental health problems, staff working in mental health services and the friends and family of people living with mental health and/or substance misuse problems. This course will help you to learn mindfulness techniques that can improve your mental wellbeing.

By the end of this course, you will: • Better understand the factors, common to us all, that cause and maintain distress • Improve your response to distress by developing skills in mindfulness

• Have begun to clarify what you value in life and how to connect with those values to improve your wellbeing.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about mindfulness to improve their own mental wellbeing. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members, carers as well as professionals.

There is evidence that mindfulness groups of this sort can improve wellbeing and performance in staff (Flaxman et al., 2013) and reduce distress in people with psychosis and their carers (O’Donoghue et al., 2014).

Duration: This programme involves mindfulness training over six weeks, with one class per week, each lasting one hour. In addition to this, attendees will be invited to Feedback from previous training: perform a daily practice at home, using CDs Enjoyed the whole for guidance.

Lead Tutors: Dr Rory Allott, Lottie Casson and Aaron Hallam

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programme as I am interested in mindfulness.”

Date and Time: 16 June, 23 June, 30 June, 7 July, 14 July and 21 July 2015 all from 5:30pm to 6:30pm Venue: blueSCI, Old Trafford Wellbeing Centre, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0LN Please note: Every effort should be made to arrive by 5.15pm as the session will start at 5.30pm prompt.

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Node-Link Mapping and Behavioural Activation Supporting Recovery

Node-Link Mapping is a visual communication tool for clarifying shared information between people. It helps people to look at the causes and effects of their behaviour and helps them to problem solve. As the information is presented in the form of a diagram it also helps people to monitor their progress.

Behavioural Activation is a brief talking therapy that uses mapping to encourage people to approach activities that they are avoiding and is particularly helpful for people experiencing anxiety and depression.

This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to be able to use node-link mapping on yourself and with others.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand and be able to use node-link mapping • Understand and be able to use the ‘Working towards change’ package developed for this course • Explore how this approach may be used for different mental health and/or substance misuse problems • Be able to use different maps to

specifically promote recovery and be able to support people in overcoming barriers to recovery • Be familiar with Behavioural Activation and its effectiveness for working with people experiencing depression and anxiety • Develop skills, confidence and experience in using node-link mapping and behavioural activation.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about the basics of Node-Link Mapping and Behavioural Activation, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: Two full days (7 hours) Lead tutor: Sheila Wilson and Stephen Maloney

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Thoroughly enjoyed the course – made me feel this is practical and ‘doable’.”

Date and Time: 14 and 15 July 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, Old Trafford Wellbeing Centre, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0LN Date and Time: 27 and 28 August 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: April - September 2015

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Personality Disorder; National KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) Programme “People who have a personality disorder, may find that their beliefs and attitudes are different from others.

Their patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving are more difficult to change and they will have a more limited range of emotions, attitudes and behaviours with which to cope with everyday life. This can make things difficult for them or for other people.” (Mind) This awareness level programme is the foundation element of the Knowledge and Understanding Framework that has been developed for professionals and agreed in partnership with the Department of Health, The National Offender Management Service, and the KUF Central Team (The Institute of Mental Health and Emergence).

It provides you with the underpinning knowledge and understanding required to support people with a diagnosis of personality disorder. The three day programme is supported by six awareness level e-learning modules, which must be completed in your own time during the programme.

This programme builds on the ‘Living with Personality Disorder’ course by exploring in more depth how professionals can support people with personality disorder and what skills are required to do this effectively.

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By the end of this course, you will: • Know what personality disorder is, the different types and how many people are affected • Be aware of the debates and disputes surrounding personality disorder

• Know how personality disorder is diagnosed and the impact of labelling and stigma • Be aware of the misconceptions of personality disorder and the impact this has on individuals • Be able to understand your own values, beliefs and needs and use this knowledge to find better ways of responding to and engaging with people who have personality disorder

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• Have considered the factors that might lead to personality disorder

• Know how supporting someone with personality disorder is different from supporting someone with other mental health difficulties and understand how it will affect you and the help you may need • Know how to support people who selfharm • Know how to respond effectively to people who have emotional distress and know how to manage anger and hostility • Have looked at different perspectives around recovery.

Who should attend? This free course is predominately for professionals working with people with personality disorder or those supporting people with a diagnosis. If anyone who has personality disorder would like to become a trainer for this programme they are also welcome to attend.

Those with a personality disorder or the friends and family members of those with a disorder may find it more helpful to attend our ‘Living with Personality Disorder’ course.

Duration: Three full days (6 hours) Lead tutors: Colin Mattinson, Martin O’Doherty, Christine Partlett, Debbie Robinson and Claire Gately

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I found the course very interesting and I learnt a great deal.”

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Supporting Recovery

Supporting the Recovery Process In mental health, ‘recovery’ means the process through which people find ways of living meaningful lives with or without ongoing symptoms of their condition.

Although the concept of recovery in mental health is not new, everybody’s experiences are different and very personal to them.

This course will help you to learn about those different experiences and the factors which help and hinder recovery. The more we learn about people’s experiences, the better equipped we are as individuals to support one another.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand what we mean by ‘recovery’ • Be aware of the positive and negative effects of labelling • Consider medical and social model for mental health provision and how these fit with today’s recovery agenda • Understand what supports recovery and what tools and theories there are to help service users and mental health services e.g. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs • Review current service provision and identify ways to help make services more recovery focussed.

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Who should attend?

This free course is for anyone who wants to know about recovery, particularly anyone who has mental health and/ or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people in their recovery.

Duration: Five 3 hour sessions on a weekly basis. Participants should aim to attend all five sessions to get the most out of this programme.

Lead tutor: Jane Aldred and Claire Watson

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I enjoyed the group work and the opportunity to listen to others experiences – staff and ex-service users.”

Date and Time: 12 June, 19 June, 26 June, 3 July and 10 July 2015 – all from 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue for all the above: Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: April - September 2015

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Taking Back Control Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Advocacy in Mental Health Independent Mental Health Advocates support people with mental health problems and their families to exercise their basic human rights, and to assist public services in avoiding breaches of human rights.

Taking Back Control

This course looks at what our basic human rights are and how advocates can assist people with mental health problems and their families to take control of the decisions that affect their care.

Any person who, without reasonable cause, obstructs the rights of people to see an Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA), or obstructs an advocate in their duties is guilty of an offence.

This course covers everything service users, their families, and professionals need to know about advocacy, demonstrates how staff and volunteers can support people to have a ‘voice’ and lets you know how to access advocacy services in your local area.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand the values and principles underpinning the Human Rights Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act • Consider the roles and responsibilities of professionals, carers, families and service users themselves in relation to this legislation • Understand the ethos and principles of advocacy, and the varied roles and responsibilities of mental health advocates

• Have an awareness of circumstances where advocates must be involved and where they may be involved to protect service users’ rights • Consider how advocates may help in situations where people face losing or have lost their liberty • Be aware of advocacy services and how they may be accessed across all Trust services.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about mental health advocacy, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead tutors: Robin Jamil, from Salford Mental Health Services Citizens Advice Bureau, and Lynn Agnew.

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It was an extremely informative training day with lots of current information.”

Date and Time: 19 June 2015 – 10am to 4pm

Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 7 September 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Completing an Advance Decision Advance decisions enable you to make choices and decisions about future care to ensure your wishes are taken into account in the future, in case there is a time when these decisions cannot be made.

This course is specifically aimed at demonstrating how people with mental health problems (like depression or psychosis) can make advance decisions.

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By the end of this course, you will: • Understand what is meant by the term “loss of capacity” • Be aware of the range of ways by which service-users with mental health problems can influence future clinical decision-making should they lose capacity • Be able to complete a valid advance decision to refuse treatment

• Be aware of ways of increasing the chances that an advance decision will shape future service responses.

• Understand the circumstances under which an advance decision might be disregarded

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about advance decisions. In particular, the course is tailored towards people with mental health problems (like depression or psychosis) who may temporarily lose the ability to make their own decisions. Less emphasis is given to situations where decision- making is permanently impaired, such as ‘end-of-life’ or where someone is suffering from dementia.

We strongly encourage service users to attend, as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for the friends and family members of our service users.

Duration: Half a day (3 hours) Lead tutors: Gary Sidley and Wendy Broderick

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The course was delivered in a way that was easy to understand. The group interactions were useful.”

Date and Time: 2 July 2015 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Date and Time: 22 September 2015 – 9.30pm to 12.30pm Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Page

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NEW! Making Sense of Experiences through

Psychological Assessment and ‘formulation’

Taking Back Control

“Assessment” and “formulation” are words that are frequently used in mental health services. These can mean different things to different people and may cause confusion for staff, people experiencing mental health or substance misuse problems and their carers.

During psychological assessments people can be asked a number of questions about their life experiences. Psychological formulation is a way of generating collaboratively, a meaningful story about a person in a way that helps them to understand their experiences. However, many people are unclear as to how or why assessments and formulations are conducted.

This course aims to help people understand more about psychological assessment and formulation and the reasons for their use. It aims to provide people with information about what they can expect from participating in an assessment and formulation and how these can be experienced by staff members, carers and people with experience of mental health or substance misuse problems.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand what is meant by “psychological assessment” and “formulation”

• Discover the essential ingredients of a helpful assessment and formulation, including: o The content (what they include)

• Become aware of the value of assessment and formulation • Have the opportunity to approach and be part of constructing basic psychological formulations

o The process (how they are conducted) • Consider the experience of being assessed and ‘formulated’.

Who should attend? This is a free course useful for staff, people experiencing mental health and substance misuse problems and carers, who are interested in learning more about psychological assessment and formulation and how they can make sense of people’s experiences.

Duration: One full day (6.5 hours) Lead Tutors: Lee Mulligan, Elisabeth Zabel, Margaret Harper and Dr. Caroline Logan

Date and Time: 8 June 2015 – 10am to 4:30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 7 July 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Date and Time: 15 September 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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NEW! Overcoming Stigma Mental health stigma is a prejudice mostly caused by fear of the unknown, which can lead to discrimination. The fear of stigma can stop people from accessing the help they need, but can also prevent them doing everyday things like seeing friends or joining groups, leaving the house or going to work, school and university.

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“In a recent Time to Change survey, 9 in 10 young people reported experiencing stigma from others as a result of their mental health problem. They described stigma as feeling: isolated, shamed, misunderstood, criticised as a person... and demeaned.

“In fact, many said the stigma they received from friends, family, boyfriends or girlfriends, teachers and even doctors was worse than the illness itself!” (Time to Change) We have created a new course for people with mental health and substance misuse problems to help them learn more and be able to practice ways to overcome stigma in their lives.

The aim of this one day course is to raise awareness of the impact of stigma on mental health and explore ways of overcoming it so that people don’t feel isolated.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have a greater understanding of what stigma is and recognise your own and others prejudices • Be aware of the impact of stigma on mental health, service users, and their families and carers

• Feel empowered to challenge myths and misconceptions about mental health • Consider ways to overcome stigma in your everyday life.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who has faced stigma in their life as a result of their own or someone else’s mental health or substance misuse problem.

The course is also for professionals and members of the public who want to learn more about the impact of stigma and how they can challenge myths and misconceptions about mental health and substance misuse.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead Tutors: Jayne Gosnall, Paul Johnston, Dr Abdul Khalid MohdSani Date and Time: 18 May 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 6 July 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 5BZ Date and Time: 14 September 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Recovery Star

Taking Back Control

The Recovery Star is a tool for people using mental health services to chart their own recovery progress with the help of mental health workers, their families, friends and carers. The ‘star’ contains ten areas covering the main aspects of people’s lives, including relationships, work, living skills, self-esteem and hope.

This course will introduce the Recovery Star as an aid to identifying people’s strengths and goals and show you how it can be used as a tool to help you gain a sense of purpose and hope to achieve your short and long term ambitions.

By the end of this course, you will: • Be familiar with the Recovery Star as an aid to encouraging recovery-orientated conversations

• Understand how the Recovery Star can measure, support, and demonstrate both individual and service progress

• Understand how the Recovery Star can promote hope, active engagement, positive self-view, forward planning, and behaviour change

• Gain practice using the tool and think about how you can use it to chart recovery progress.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn about the Recovery Star, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: Half a day (3.5 hours) Lead tutors: Teresa Grogan and Wendy Broderick

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It was all very informative, I enjoyed the session.”

Date and Time: 26 May 2015 – 9.30am to 1pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 21 August 2015 – 1pm to 4.30pm Venue: Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester. M41 5SL Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

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Developing Knowledge and Life Skills Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Assertiveness Skills We all can benefit from learning to get the most from working with others whilst ensuring that our own views are considered. Assertiveness is about having self-confidence without being aggressive.

Being assertive is an important communication skill which could help you to reduce stress and anxiety, control anger as well as improve your self-esteem.

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

This course will help you to gain assertiveness skills and will provide you with practical techniques to feel more confident in different situations.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand what assertiveness means • Identify barriers to assertiveness and explore ways to overcome them • Recognise the different communication styles we and others use • Understand why we use the communication styles we do • Explore different self-management techniques which promote assertiveness

• Explore the best way to communicate with others to achieve common goals • Share your experiences to promote shared learning within the group.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn assertiveness skills, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead tutor: Claire Watson

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I enjoyed the open discussions, being able to talk about matters and finding solutions to approach assertiveness.”

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Basic Reading, Writing and Communication Skills Whatever the current level of your English skills, this free course will develop your confidence and skills in a vast range of everyday and workplace situations.

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

Improving your English skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) can also lead to a better job or to further study like apprenticeships or QCF (Qualifications and Credit Framework) awards.

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If you would like to take a national qualification in Functional English you should attend all six sessions, or depending on what you would like to learn, you can pick and choose which sessions you would like to attend (everyone attends session 1). The sessions are:

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Description A fun introduction to learning and using English through practical activities in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

How English is used differently on TV, in music, cinema, newspapers, books, leaflets, timetables, the internet, advertisements, newspapers, brochures and reference books.

Using dictionaries, apps, the internet and reading books to improve spelling, punctuation and grammar Writing creatively and imaginatively – stories, poems, blogs and diaries.

What type of written and spoken language do we use in different situations? Friendly, formal, texting, letter writing, emails, social media...

Practical written communication skills for job applications, form filling (benefits, passports, utilities etc.) and the skills needed for English qualifications.

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Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn basic English skills, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for the friends and family members of our service users as well as professionals.

Duration: This course runs once a week for three hours over a six week period.

Course tutors: Maria Clifton and Heather Peel

Dates and Time: 15 July, 29 July, 5 August, 12 August, 19 August and 26 August 2015 – all from 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue for all the above training: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Please note participants MUST attend all 6 days to receive accreditation

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Basic Information Technology (IT) Skills This course will help you to develop transferable IT skills and will stimulate your interest and enjoyment in IT. Improving your IT skills can also lead to a better job or to further study like apprenticeships or QCF (Qualifications and Credit Framework) awards.

Our ‘basic skills’ qualifications (Level 1 and Level 2) are based on national standards recognised by employers and colleges.

If you would like to take a national qualification in Functional IT you should attend all seven sessions, or depending on what you would like to learn, you can pick and choose which sessions you would like to attend (everyone attends session 1). The sessions are: Session Topic

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Preparing for your qualification

Description A fun introduction to computers to build your confidence – from the ‘on button’ to ‘surfing the net’ Use the internet to apply for a job, buy goods online, pay for a holiday and learn how to protect yourself and your computer from viruses Create a professional and artistic look for your online documents by using Word or Publisher for leaflets, invitations, letters etc.

Use PowerPoint to create successful presentations Learn how to manage finances, bills, timetables and household expenses with easy spreadsheets, timetables and schedules using Excel Revise and prepare for a national qualification at Level 1 or 2 in Functional IT

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Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn basic information technology skills, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for the friends and family members of our service users as well as professionals.

Duration: This course runs once a week for three hours over a seven week period.

Lead tutors: Maria Clifton and Andrew Aldred

Dates and Time: 13 August, 20 August, 27 August, 3 September, 10 September, 17 September and 24 September 2015 – all from 9.30am to 12.30pm Venue for all the above: Shaw IT Suite, Ivy House, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Please note participants MUST attend all 7 days to receive accreditation

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Basic Maths Skills This course will help you to develop the maths skills you need to use in everyday situations whether at home or at work.

You will gain confidence in your maths skills by using familiar situations to learn and build on prior knowledge. Improving your maths skills can also lead to a better job or to further study like apprenticeships or QCF (Qualifications and Credit Framework) awards.

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

Our ‘basic skills’ qualifications (Level 1 and Level 2) are based on national standards recognised by employers and colleges.

If you would like to take a national qualification in Functional Maths you should attend all seven sessions, or depending on what you would like to learn, you can pick and choose which sessions you would like to attend (everyone attends session 1). The sessions are:

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Description A fun introduction to learning and using Discover your maths skills maths in everyday situations through practical activities Equip yourself! Calculators, Use maths resources and tools to solve rulers everyday problems Making sums and calculations easy; using One potato, two potato, three numbers to add, subtract, multiply and potato, four divide How big is a football pitch? How much All shapes and sizes wallpaper do I need to decorate my bedroom and other important questions Using weights and measures and comparing How many, how much? metric and imperial units in real life situations Work out budgets for home, spends, savings Money, money, money and holidays Using real life information to create and Maths is everywhere interpret graphs and charts

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Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn basic maths skills, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for the friends and family members of our service users as well as professionals.

Duration: This course runs once a week for three hours over a seven week period.

Course tutor: Maria Clifton

Dates and Time: 17 July, 24 July, 31 July, 7 August, 14 August, 21 August and 28 August 2015 – all from 1pm to 4pm Venue for all the above training: Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Please note participants MUST attend all 7 days to receive accreditation

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Essential Life Skills Life Skills refers to some of the essential skills that we all need to maintain good mental health and sustain a sense of wellbeing.

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

Scientific evidence suggests that building five actions into our everyday lives can make us feel happier, more positive and able to get the most from life. The five ways to wellbeing are: connecting with others; being active; taking notice; learning; and giving to others.

This course focuses on identifying and developing some of the practical skills you might need to achieve these actions and meet some of the challenges that life presents.

By the end of this course, you will: • Identify personal strengths and skills • Explore what constitutes a healthy relationship and identify ways to develop and sustain healthy relationships with others • Know the benefit of structuring your time and the value of education, work, and leisure for yourself, your family, and the community • Have learnt strategies for applying for volunteer roles, jobs, and education programmes to increase your chances of success • Learn practical skills to better manage your finances

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I feel that I have learnt a lot from this course, and would highly recommend it to anybody that is struggling with their mental health.”

• Have learnt strategies to help manage stress and develop resilience when things don’t go to plan • Further improve your ability to express thoughts and opinions in a constructive way • Apply the learning from this course by setting yourself personal targets for the future.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to develop essential life skills in order to improve or maintain their mental wellbeing.

Duration: This course runs once a week for three hours over a six week period.

Lead tutors: Sue Bell and Claire Watson

Dates and Time: 10 June, 17 June, 24 June, 1 July, 8 July and 15 July 2015 – all from 1pm to 4pm Venue for all the above: Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Page

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Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship Peer mentoring has traditionally been defined as a one to one non-judgmental relationship between people of a similar age or with similar shared experience. Peer mentors offer support from a position of real understanding.

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

Developing their own skills, knowledge, understanding and practice, those involved in peer mentoring make an important contribution to the continuous improvement of learning and have a significant impact on achievement.

This accredited course will help you learn the transferrable skills you need to become a peer mentor and how this role can provide valuable support to others. It will equip you with knowledge and skills to be able to mentor others or volunteer in services to support people with mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand the role of Peer Mentor, and the importance of professional boundaries • Understand the importance of policies and protocols for volunteering in mental health and substance misuse services • Understand the nature of mental health and addiction • Become familiar with Motivational Interviewing skills and their use as a talking therapy for working with service users

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Perfect pace.

Consequently we were all receptive – always interesting – resources varied!”

• Be able to use node-link mapping • Understand the use of group facilitation skills • Know how to empower individuals in moving on to wider recovery networks.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who is volunteering in mental health and/or substance misuse services and wants to learn about peer mentoring to develop their role. This is an accredited course so as a bare minimum participants should have basic written and spoken communication skills as well as an established volunteering role to apply and develop the skills learnt in the course.

Duration: Participants must attend all five full days (7 hours) to receive accreditation.

Lead tutors: Stephen Maloney and Deb Stefanovic

Dates and Time: 4 June, 5 June, 19 June, 26 June and 3 July 2015 – all from 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue for all the above: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Linden Ward is located at the top of three flights of stairs but we can arrange for you to have access to a lift, and ensure the facilitator escorts you to the venue. If you require disabled access, please let us know.

Please note participants MUST attend all 5 days to receive accreditation

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Creative Facilitation Skills A facilitator is a person who skilfully assists a group of people to understand their common objectives and to help them learn from one another.

Getting Involved with the Academy

This course will help you to develop facilitation and leadership skills so that you can effectively guide both small and large groups in the future. The course will explore a variety of art forms designed to develop your confidence and will show you a range of interactive techniques to effectively engage with others and manage different group dynamics.

For those who want to go on to co-facilitate training as part of the Recovery Academy, it is recommended you attend the Train the Trainers course following this programme.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have explored the leadership/ facilitation qualities you already have • Have developed in the areas you wanted to work on • Discussed different situations that you may encounter when working with other people • Developed strategies to overcome difficult moments.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to develop their creative facilitation skills, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Facilitated by: Ginny Allende-Cullen and Headspace

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It was an excellent fun way of gaining new information and fresh ideas.”

Headspace is a service user run organisation from the Octagon Theatre Bolton. By using artistic interventions, they aim to provide a holistic approach to the recovery process. As part of the project, Headspace offers a practical leadership course that enables anyone to learn the skills required to communicate with a group of people in a leadership role.

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NEW! To Tell or not to Tell - Sharing your Story When you have experienced a mental health and/or substance misuse problem it can be difficult to decide who, what and how to tell the people you work with.

Getting Involved with the Academy

For people involved in the Recovery Academy, peer mentors, volunteers and staff members with lived experience of mental health problems and/or substance misuse (directly as a service user or indirectly as a carer or family member), decisions about selfdisclosure can create personal dilemmas.

Indeed, often in training, peer mentor and volunteer roles, it is expected that disclosure of mental health and substance misuse recovery will benefit others. Other volunteers and staff members may also have concerns about what personal information to share with service users.

This course aims to provide participants with the opportunity to reflect on the purpose, benefits and risks associated with disclosure as well as developing some skills that may be useful in working out when it may be appropriate to disclose; to who; in what circumstances; and how much information to share.

By the end of this course, you will: • Understand the purpose of disclosure and how to get the most out of this intervention • Understand how to set a personal disclosure ‘ceiling’ in order to maintain appropriate boundaries and feel more confident and safe when disclosing personal information • Understand the importance of

reflecting on disclosure, e.g. reviewing past disclosure decisions and goals, weighing up the pros/cons of disclosure, and exploring professional/personal boundaries • Understand the importance of sharing post-treatment recovery journeys so that disclosure can enable people with lived experience to act as inspirational role models.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who has lived experience of mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for their friends and family, as well as professionals working in health and social care.

Duration: Half a day (3.5 hours) Lead tutors: Sheila Wilson

Date and Time: 23 June 2015 – 1pm to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 16 September 2015 – 9.30am to 1pm Venue: Achieve Salford Recovery Services, The Recovery Hub, Mona Street, Salford, Manchester. M6 6PP Page

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Train the Trainers Would you like to become a course tutor at GMW’s Recovery Academy?

Getting Involved with the Academy

This course aims to teach participants the skills required to effectively deliver courses as part of the Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy.

This course will equip you with the necessary knowledge and planning skills to be able to develop, deliver and evaluate training and learning activities. This course also aims to develop your presentation skills, although further training/shadowing/coaching is recommended.

By the end of this course, you will: • Know the importance of planning • Have looked at different delivery methods to encourage participation and learning • Have considered a range of assessment techniques to assess whether learning is taking place • Practised and further developed confidence in delivering training

• Looked at best practice in terms of evaluating training.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to learn the skills to become a course facilitator, particularly anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. We hope it will also be helpful for friends and family members as well as professionals supporting people who may be experiencing mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

Duration: One full day (6 hours) Lead tutor: Claire Watson

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I enjoyed the whole session to be honest. Clear and it involved everyone.”

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The Library & Knowledge Centre

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he Library and Knowledge Centre is open to all students of the Recovery Academy.

We have resources to support mental health and substance misuse services, as well as resources to support education and training programmes.

You can access electronic books and journals, web based resources, literature searching databases and many other useful resources using our computers. Guest access is available for personal laptops, tablets and other similar mobile devices.

Library and Knowledge Centre, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Harrop House, Bury New Road, Prestwich Manchester M25 3BL. Email: professional.library@gmw.nhs.uk Tel: 0161 772 3618 Fax: 0161 772 3947 Opening Times Monday - Friday: 8.30am – 5pm

There are two computers designated to our ‘Internet Café’. Anyone can use these computers to research on the internet and to use selfhelp websites. Printing and photocopying resources are also available.

Sign up to the Academy newsletter The Recovery Academy produces a quarterly newsletter to keep you updated about what’s going on and ways you can get involved.

You can download our Branching Out newsletter from our website as an interactive eMag PDF file or read it online using Issuu – a publishing site that attempts to stimulate the experience of reading a print publication online.

Autumn 2014

NEWSLETTER OF THE RECOVERY ACADEMY

Branching Out

Subscribe to our newsletter here: www.gmw.nhs.uk/recovery-news

Our Autumn/Winter term prospectus is out now The Recovery Academy’s Autumn/Winter term prospectus for courses from October 2014 – March 2015 is out now!

which are held in community centres, local hospitals, theatres and learning centres across Greater Manchester.

Recovery Academy

prospectus

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...had a major impact on turning my life around”

All the courses are co-written and co-delivered by professionals and people with mental health and/ hope or substance misuse believe problems, which learn means the courses are enriched by professional expertise and lived experience.

There are around 39 free courses available for anyone with mental health and substance misuse problems, their families and carers as well as health care professionals,

This term’s prospectus introduces nine new courses – Deaf Awareness Training, Living with Blood Bourne Viruses, Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Living with Dual Diagnosis,

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October 2014 - March 2015

recovery

It will be useful if you are looking to increase your knowledge and understanding of mental health, Autumn/Winter Term improve your mental wellbeing, or simply want to meet new people while learning something new.

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Inside: this issue Celebrating Older People .................

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World Mental Health Day ................

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Looking at the effect of the Academy ...............................

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Our work with HMP Haverigg .........

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Marking Adult Learners’ Week ........

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Women and Mental Health, An Introduction to Life Story Work, Creative Writing, Mindfulness and Compassion Focussed Therapy and Essential Life Skills.

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By signing up to the newsletter you will be automatically kept up-to-date with all Recovery Academy news, information and events via email. As a subscriber, you will receive our quarterly e-newsletter featuring details of courses, events, news and activities at the Recovery Academy. You can opt out of receiving e-newsletters at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of the e-newsletter you are sent.

Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Help us research the effects of the Recovery Academy

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n March last year, we launched a two-year research study to investigate the impact of the Recovery Academy on the lives of the students who attend our courses.

Anyone who enrols with the Academy (people with lived experience of mental health or substance misuse problems, healthcare professionals, GMW staff, family members or carers) and has not attended one of our courses before is invited to take part.

A year on, we’ve had a fantastic response with over Many thanks to everyone who has completed and returned our questionnaires we really appreciate it.

120 people taking part.

If you are involved, please don’t forget to complete the questionnaires and return them to us. Your information is really valuable to us and with your help will provide more insight into the Recovery Academy’s effectiveness.

At the moment the return rate for follow up packs is just over 50%, which is great, but with everyone’s help we can increase this number even further. We want the study to be as reflective of the variety of students that attend our courses as possible.

175 volunteers

We hope to recruit who have enrolled with the Academy and are about to attend their first course.

Volunteers will be asked to fill out questionnaires before they attend a course and at different time points so that researchers can look at the results over time. So, if you are taking part, please try and return the follow up questionnaires we send to you at different time points – postage is free!

The study is entirely voluntary and will not affect your experience of the Academy or our courses.

If you are new to the Academy and want to take part, please visit www.gmw.nhs.uk/recovery to register via our online form then tick ‘Yes’ to receiving a research study pack.

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You’ll then receive our pack in the post, which will include information about the study, instructions and questionnaires to complete before you attend your first course. If you don’t want to take part you can simply discard the pack.

If you have already enrolled with the Recovery Academy, but have not yet attended your first course and would be interested in receiving a research study pack, please contact Elisabeth Zabel, Research Assistant, on Tel 0161 358 1397 or email: elisabeth.zabel@gmw.nhs.uk for more information or to register your interest.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Research Assistant if you have any questions, or would like to discuss the research project further.

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Course calendar with venues MAY 2015 5

Living with Dual Diagnosis

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

7

Living with Psychosis

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

13

Health & Wellbeing for Carers

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

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Living with Personality Disorder

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

18

Overcoming Stigma

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

19

Creative Facilitation Skills

Octagon Theatre, Howell Croft South, Bolton, Lancs.

19

An Introduction to CBT

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

20

Dementia Friends

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

21

Living with Addiction

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

22

Women & Mental Health

blueSCI, Broomwood Centre, Timperley, Altrincham

22

Living Well With Dementia

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Recovery Star

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Creative Writing

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

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Living with Blood Borne Viruses

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

29

Living with Self Harm

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

1

Living with Bipolar Disorder

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

2

An Introduction to Solution Focused Therapy

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

2

Faith and Recovery

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

4

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 1

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

5

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 2

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

5

PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 1, Day 1

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

8

Making Sense of Experiences

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

9

Train the Trainers

Octagon Theatre, Howell Croft South, Bolton

Living with Anxiety & Depression

blueSCI, Broomwood Centre, Timperley, Altrincham

10

Compassion Focussed Therapy

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

10

Essential Life Skills - Day 1

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

11

Deaf Awareness

Seminar Room, John Denmark Unit, Prestwich

12

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 1

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

16

Mindfulness - Day 1

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

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Essential Life Skills - Day 2

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

17

Dementia Friends

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

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Recovering from Domestic Abuse

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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Advocacy in Mental Health

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 1, Day 2

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 2

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

19

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 3

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Living with Eating Disorders

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Mindfulness - Day 2

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

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To Tell or not to Tell - Sharing your Story

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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JUNE 2015

9 & 10

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Living with Psychosis

Octagon Theatre, Howell Croft South, Bolton

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Health & Wellbeing for Carers

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Essential Life Skills - Day 3

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

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Living with OCD

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

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Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 3

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 4

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

Facilitating Self Help Groups

Blake Room, Ivy House, Prestwich site

Mindfulness - Day 3

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

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JULY 2015 1

Essential Life Skills - Day 4

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

2

An Introduction to CBT

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

2

Completing an Advance Decision

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

3

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 5

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

3

PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 1, Day 3

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

3

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 4

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

6

Overcoming Stigma

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

7

Mindfulness - Day 4

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

7

Making Sense of Experiences

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

8

Dementia Friends

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

8

Essential Life Skills - Day 5

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

9

PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 2, Day 1

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

9

Living with Dual Diagnosis

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Living with Personality Disorder

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

10

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 5

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

13

Living with Addiction

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

14

Mindfulness - Day 5

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

Node Link Mapping & Behavioural Activation

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

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Essential Life Skills - Day 6

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

15

Basic Literacy Skills - Day 1

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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Basic Numeracy Skills - Day 1

Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Prestwich site

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Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 6

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

21

Mindfulness - Day 6

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

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PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 2, Day 2

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

24

Basic Numeracy Skills - Day 2

Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Prestwich site

Living with Anxiety & Depression

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Basic Literacy Skills - Day 2

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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Health & Wellbeing for Carers

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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Creative Writing

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Basic Numeracy Skills - Day 3

Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Prestwich site

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27 & 28

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Faith and Recovery

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

5

Basic Literacy Skills - Day 3

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

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Deaf Awareness

Seminar Room, John Denmark Unit, Prestwich

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PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 2, Day 3

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

7

Basic Numeracy Skills - Day 4

Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Prestwich site

12

Basic Literacy Skills - Day 4

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

13

Basic ICT Skills - Day 1

Shaw IT Suite, Ivy House, Prestwich site

14

Living with Addiction

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

14

Basic Numeracy Skills - Day 5

Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Prestwich site

17

Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder

blueSCI, Broomwood Centre, Timperley, Altrincham

19

Basic Literacy Skils - Day 5

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

20

Basic ICT Skills - Day 2

Shaw IT Suite, Ivy House, Prestwich site

An Introduction to Motivational Intervieiwng

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

21

Recovery Star

Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital

21

Basic Numeracy Skills - Day 6

Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Prestwich site

24

Living with Self Harm

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

26

Basic Literacy Skills - Day 6

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

27

An Introduction to Solution Focused Therapy

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

27

Basic ICT Skills - Day 3

Shaw IT Suite, Ivy House, Prestwich site

Node Link Mapping & Behavioural Activation

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

28

Basic Numeracy Skills - Day 7

Sedgley Room, Harrop House, Prestwich site

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Living with Blood Borne Viruses

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

1

PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 3, Day 1

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

3

Recovering from Domestic Abuse

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

3

Basic ICT Skills - Day 4

Shaw IT Suite, Ivy house, Prestwich site

7

Advocacy in Mental Health

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

10

Basic ICT Skills - Day 5

Shaw IT Suite, Ivy House, Prestwich site

10

Living with Dual Diagnosis

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

Living with Anxiety & Depression

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

11

Women and Mental Health

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

14

Overcoming Stigma

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

15

PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 3, Day 2

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

15

Making Sense of Experiences

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

16

To Tell or not to Tell - Sharing your Story

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

17

Living with Psychosis

blueSCI, Broomwood Centre, Timperley, Altrincham

17

Basic ICT Skills - Day 6

Shaw IT Suite, Ivy House, Prestwich site

18

Living well with Dementia

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

21

Compassion Focussed Therapy

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

22

Completing an Advance Decision

Peel Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

24

Basic ICT Skills - Day 7

Shaw IT Suite, Ivy House, Prestwich site

25

Assertiveness Skills

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

25

Living with Bipolar Disorder

blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

28

Living with Eating Disorders

Crabtree Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

29

PD National KUF Programme - Cohort 3, Day 3

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Restaurant, Prestwich site

20 & 21

27 & 28

SEPTEMBER 2015

10 & 11

OCTOBER 2015 1

Faith and Recovery

Achieve Salford Recovery Services, Mona Street, Salford

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Meet the tutors (in alphabetical order):

Lynn Agnew - Lynn has many years of experience supporting services and staff to make sure they have the policy, guidance and training they need to meet some important requirements of modern mental health care. These include taking the right steps to safeguard people, using the framework of the Mental Capacity Act to make sure people’s rights are protected when they are at their most vulnerable, and making sure that care plans always have the person at their centre.

Since qualifying as a social worker (more than thirty years ago) Lynn has been a practitioner, trainer and manager in mental health services. On a personal note, Lynn has been involved in caring for her mother who has severe dementia, which has given her a great insight into mental health services from a carer’s perspective.

Andrew Aldred - Andy has been a service user for almost thirty years. He became unwell in the Army in 1985 after a Falklands tour. He spent six years at the Trust’s Edenfield Centre in Prestwich. He passed a Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies in 1992, and has a teaching certificate. He has worked for Bolton Steps promoting Day Services for people with mental health problems and also teaching Information Technology on a voluntary basis. He has recently taken additional qualifications in teaching and I.T. at Bolton College.

Jane Aldred - Jane has a BA single (Hons) degree in Philosophy 2:1 and has worked in a voluntary capacity on many community projects including advocacy, mental health support, and day service promotion as well as working with refugees and asylum seekers.

Recently she began a P.G.D.E. in teaching learners with additional needs at the University of Bolton and looks forward to finishing this soon. She is married and has a grown up daughter and grandson. She has been part of the mental health network since 1990 and has had many experiences both good and bad. She hopes to use these experiences to shape the future of mental health provision and finds the Recovery Academy to be an important step in this journey. She hopes her courses will stimulate debate and encourage proactive participation in mental health issues.

Dr Rory Allott - Dr Rory Allott is a Clinical Psychologist working for the Trust’s Early Intervention in Psychosis service in Trafford. He was introduced to mindfulness in 2002 during his participation in a service user and staff mindfulness group in Sheffield, where he was working. Since then he has continued to practise mindfulness and has trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural therapy. He supports his entire team to use mindfulness in their work, both to manage their own wellbeing and sharing those skills with interested service users. He has presented alongside Early Intervention service users at local and national conferences on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based approaches.

Rosie Beck - Rosie is a recently qualified Clinical Psychologist, having completed her doctorate in 2013. Her doctoral research focused on the psychological processes occurring in paranoia and contemporary ‘third wave’ psychological therapies targeting paranoia.

She has worked on the ‘Recovery’ programme of research investigating recovery from psychosis and has published papers on the subject of recovery. Rosie is passionate about providing recovery orientated services and the practice of professionals and those with lived experience working together as colleagues (co-production).

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Nick Bell - Nick is 47 years old, and from the ages of 13 to 45 was dependent on substances, mainly alcohol. He spent a few years in the army before his affair with alcohol and chaos became priority, and was admitted to the Trust’s Chapman Barker Unit (CBU) on Aprils Fool’s Day 2011 (as he puts it - quite ironic really!). From there he embarked on nine months of rehab and this was the beginning of the rest of his life in recovery.

He relocated from Preston to Bury and now works for the Trust as a Support Worker at Bramley Street. He also volunteers at the CBU and is passionate about the recovery of others as well as maintaining his own recovery.

Sue Bell - Sue has first-hand experience of living with family members who have been affected by dyslexia, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, mental health issues; addiction and critical illness at various times. As a result of her experiences, she is passionate about the importance of supporting, not just those diagnosed or suffering, but the families and loved ones surrounding them too.

Sue started her career in the late 80’s as an RNMH (Registered Nurse for the Mentally Handicapped); she now holds a Dip. in Leadership (Social Health Care), BSc in Psychology, Post Graduate Certificate in Education and recently became a Recovery Coach. She currently co-runs a Drop In for people in recovery (or looking for recovery) from alcohol and substance misuse, supports families affected by addiction and is a part time tutor in Adult Education.

Wendy Broderick - Wendy has a passion for “real-world” recovery in mental health services. Wendy started her career as a driver in the army at 17 years of age. She left the army at 19 years and returned to Salford getting a job with Salford Council for “Care on Call” which involved dealing with emergencies for people in their own homes. Wendy continued with them until she was 43.

Following a series of stresses Wendy’s self-esteem lowered which impacted on her work, relationships and other key aspects of her life, which culminated in Wendy using mental health services. She was an inpatient for a year and is more recently a user of the Trust’s community services. Wendy became involved in running the Recovery group at Ramsgate House, taking part in Patient Environment Action Teams (PEAT) and interviewing staff for inpatient services. She also runs a weekly ‘Speakeasy’ group at the Meadowbrook Unit.

Lottie Casson - Lottie is an Occupational Therapist with a background in both physical and mental health. She has worked on the Trust’s acute wards in Trafford before moving to the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team in Trafford last year. She has completed an 8-week Mindfulness course at Bangor University before going on to complete Mindfulness Teacher Training in Liverpool. Since completing her training she has created and delivered training to inpatient staff in the running of mindfulness based groups on the wards. She has also contributed to the delivery of health and wellbeing promotion within inpatient services in Trafford and has recently completed Family Therapy training.

Lyndsey Chadderton - Lyndsey qualified as a Social Worker in 2005 focusing on working with adults within mental health services. Upon qualifying, she started working in substance misuse services and since then has worked within community and inpatient settings. She continues to have an interest in working within dual diagnosis.

Maria Clifton - Maria is the Functional Skills Teacher for the Trust and teaches English, Maths and Information & Communication Technology (ICT). Maria previously worked in the ‘Learning & Development’ and ‘HR & Learning’ teams for four and a half years. She is extremely enthusiastic about developing the potential of each person through building on prior skills and life experience.

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Tracy Collard (AMBCS, MIfL) - Tracy is the Carer Lead for the Trust. Tracy works across the Trust, overseeing the carer agenda, and is the lead for the national Triangle of Care initiative.

Lynne Curran - Lynne is a qualified ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Tutor and has taught English Language for 10 years. She teaches adults and has mostly worked in Adult Education with people who need to learn English to get on with their lives in the UK. Some of the people she has taught have suffered traumas in their own countries and been displaced, arriving in the UK as a refugee or asylum seeker and often resulting in mental health difficulties.

She currently works as an Education Tutor for the Trust, teaching English Language and Literacy, Maths and some Information and Communications Technology (ICT). She enjoys working with patients to enable them to develop their confidence, skills and potential.

Gillian Drummond - Gill is the Dementia Quality Lead for the Trust and since December 2014 has taken over the management of the Trust’s Carer’s Lead and supports the Trust’s carer work-streams. Gill’s role is to support clinical teams in the development and delivery of services achieving best practice in line with national priorities across the whole dementia spectrum, and ensuring that the Trust’s services continue to support carers. She has been a Mental Health Nurse since 1985 and for the majority of her career has worked within dementia services across inpatient, community and day hospital settings. Gill has a BSc (Hons) in psychosocial treatments and has a keen interest in the delivery of training completing a P.G.C.E. (Practice Educator) qualification in 2006.

Stuart Eaton - Stuart is a Community Psychiatric Nurse who has worked for the Trust for seven years. Stuart’s journey began as a Service User, then as a Volunteer, a Support Worker and most recently a Qualified Nurse. Stuart has a diagnosis of bipolar disorder stretching back almost 20 years and has lived through a number of challenging episodes which he believes gives him a real “lived” empathic affinity with those who live with mental health issues. Stuart is passionate about life-long learning and is hoping to embark on a master’s research project in the future. He enjoys reading, writing and creating music in his spare time.

Wayne Edwards - Wayne has been a mental health service user since June 1989. He currently volunteers with CERT (Community Engagement & Recovery Team) in Salford where he is the Treasurer.

Wayne has been struggling with alcohol dependency since the turn of the century and is currently accessing services via Achieve, Salford Drug & Alcohol Services. Wayne has become a Peer Mentor with Achieve and co-facilitates a pre-detox course. Because of Wayne’s alcohol dependency he attends AA twice a week.

He was introduced to the Recovery Academy by a Practical Recovery group and cofacilitates the Living with Psychosis session. Wayne likes to keep occupied, and his involvement with the Recovery Academy is certainly helping him.

Martin Elder - Martin is a Substance Misuse Practitioner who has been working in the Trust’s community mental health services for 10 years. Martin is a trained integrative counsellor and supervisor of counsellors. Martin has previously been involved in the Talking Therapies Network within the Trust’s Alcohol & Drugs Directorate. During that time he was part of a team developing and delivering training to practitioners and other professionals. Whilst working as a practitioner he has developed a keen interest in the link between mental health and substance misuse.

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Professor Paul French - Paul is Associate Director of Early Intervention services and the Psychosis Research Unit for the Trust and Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool. His background is in mental health nursing and he completed his PhD at the University of Manchester in 2007. He was an investigator on the recently published EDIE trial of CBT in At Risk Mental States, and is coinvestigator on several grants examining psychosocial treatments for psychosis.

Claire Gately - Claire is a Clinical Psychologist currently working within the adult forensic service for the Trust and also in a specialist personality disorder unit at HMP Manchester.

She has a long standing interest in psychosis and personality disorder. She works with service users using a range of approaches, especially Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Schema Focused Therapy.

Sarah Glendenning - Sarah is a qualified sign language interpreter registered with the National Register for Communication Professionals working with Deaf/Deafblind people (NRCPD). Sarah works at the Trust’s John Denmark Unit in Prestwich, which is one of only three specialist services in the UK for deaf people with mental health problems. As someone who is self-employed, Sarah has experience of working in a variety of settings including; law, TV, media, conferences, offices, education and community settings. In her spare time, she can often be found working in youth clubs and teaching self-defence to youngsters.

Patricia Goodwin - Trish is part of the C.A.R.E (Compassion and Recovery-focussed Everytime) Hub and is the Carer Awareness Trainer for the Trust. A qualified Complementary Therapist and Mindfulness practitioner, she has worked with carers across the Trust and set-up and ran a Carers Complementary Therapy Service within the Trust’s alcohol and drug services. Trish has also worked in Domestic Abuse Services supporting not only the victims but also the close family and friends. Trish is a carer herself, so can empathise with the worries and anxieties that this role can bring.

Jayne Gosnall - Jayne has experienced addiction, depression and anxiety, and has been treated in Salford. Before these issues dominated her life, she had a colourful life as an art director in T.V. Recovery has brought her back in touch with her creative and spiritual self, and she’s formed a choir called ‘Shameless Singers’. She is committed to challenging stigma and promoting mental and spiritual wellbeing in everything she does.

Jayne is part of Greater Manchester Recovery Foundation (GMRF) which promotes visible recovery in the wider community, and hosted the UK Recovery Walk in 2014, attended by over 8,000 people. She’s a huge fan of the Recovery Academy, which has been instrumental in building her confidence and skills, and she enjoys sharing these as a peer mentor, volunteer and facilitator.

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Robert Griffiths - Robert currently works as a Psychological Therapist with the Trust’s Salford Early Intervention Team, a specialist service supporting people who have experienced a first episode of psychosis. He recently worked as a therapist on the TEAMS (Think Effectively About Mood Swings) trial, a research study conducted by the University of Manchester and GMW. TEAMS investigated the use of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for people experiencing distressing mood swings and bipolar disorder.

Robert has delivered training on the use of psychological interventions for people experiencing psychosis and distressing mood swings to several different postgraduate courses. He has also provided training within the NHS, presented at national conferences and published a number of articles and book chapters on these topics. He is committed to working collaboratively with service users to develop recovery-oriented mental health services.

Teresa Grogan - Teresa is the Unit Manager for Bramley Street, which is part of the Trust’s Salford Mental Health Services. Teresa has a BSc (Hons) degree in Applied Psychology, which she gained midway through her nursing career. She has been a Registered Mental Health Nurse for 32 years, having initially started working with young people on probation and with homeless people in London. Members of Teresa’s family have experienced mental health difficulties, one to the extent of requiring inpatient services giving her a personal insight into services.

Suzanne Grundy - Suzanne is a Senior Carer Support Coordinator for the Trust’s mental health directorate in Bolton. She is a qualified trainer and works closely with carers offering emotional support on an individual basis tailored to each carer’s circumstances.

Suzanne leads the Bolton Carer Champions and Carer Support workers, supporting them to be proactive in their roles, and to thoroughly understand the stress and worries experienced by carers on a daily basis. She has worked with carers for over five years and is empathic to their needs and supportive in helping them maintain good health and wellbeing.

Aaron Hallam - Aaron uses the Trust’s Early Intervention service in Trafford. He learned Mindfulness through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based therapy. He uses mindfulness in his own life and wants to help others recover from psychosis.

Margaret Harper - Margaret is someone with lived experience of mental health and substance misuse problems and has had depression and anxiety since she was nine years old. She is now fifty eight. Her mum had depression and anxiety all her life as did her twin. She has a passion for learning as much as she can about the subject to help herself and others. Her mental health problems led her to becoming addicted to codeine phosphate for ten years and she successfully completed a detox in 2012 with the Trust’s Salford Drug and Alcohol Service. Since then she has become a Peer Mentor for this service and a volunteer at the Moorside mental health unit in Trafford.

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Jean Haslam - Jean started with anorexia nervosa at the age of 15 in the early 1960s.

Jean’s symptoms were at this time thought to have a physical cause and it was not until her early twenties that she received treatment specifically for her eating disorder; at this stage she was aware that she needed help. The treatment she received included hypnotherapy, which Jean found very beneficial. After a lengthy stay in hospital, Jean went to Tower House in Chester, part of the Richmond Fellowship, for a period of rehabilitation.

Jean now considers herself to be a recovered anorexic and has been an active campaigner for the rights of mental health service users for many years, including several years working with Mita Sykes at Bolton Patients’ Council.

Helen Higginson - Helen qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2001 and since 2002 has been based at the Trust’s John Denmark Unit, a specialist mental health and deafness service. Helen is deaf and has progressed from working on a rotation at North Manchester General Hospital to specialising in mental health and deafness.

Helen has achieved NVQ level British Sign Language, which is important for clinical interventions, and is currently co-facilitating Deaf Awareness Training with Marilyn Hoggard (Art Psychotherapist) for staff within the Trust. Helen is keen to promote deaf awareness and mental health and deafness through the Recovery Academy.

Marilyn Hoggard - Marilyn has worked for the Trust for nearly 35 years in a wide range of roles starting as an Occupational Therapy Support Worker, working on the Creative Art team as a technical instructor before gaining her teaching qualification to become ‘Creative Activities Teacher’. Since qualifying as an Art Psychotherapist in 2003, she has worked with a wide range of deaf clients with complex needs and has a passion to support them on their recovery journey.

Marilyn is deaf and has achieved NVQ level 3 in British Sign Language. She is well aware of the barriers that deaf people face in everyday life.

Robin Jamil - Robin is an Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA) working mainly in medium secure mental health settings. He has been providing advocacy for 13 years and for some of this time has also supervised and managed other staff. He is currently employed by Salford Mental Health Services Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and is the Training Lead for this organisation.

As well as the Advocacy in Mental Health course which he delivers for the Recovery Academy, he also co-delivers training for the Academy’s campus within the Trust’s Adult Forensic Services. Robin’s focus and main interest in mental health is the service user’s experience and that this should be at the centre of all care and treatment.

Paul Johnston - Paul is a service user volunteer who has worked in various voluntary capacities, including the Citizens Advice Bureau, peer mentoring and as a nursing assistant working with adolescents who have mental health difficulties. Paul is a member of the Recovery Academy Steering Group and has been involved with the development of the Academy. He believes the Academy will have a significant impact to the lives of the Trust’s patients in the Edenfield Centre in particular.

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Reverend Jeremy Law - Jeremy is an Anglican priest who has worked as a mental health chaplain for the Trust since January 2013. He works from Ramsgate House in Lower Broughton as a community chaplain and on the inpatient wards at the Rivington Unit at the Royal Bolton hospital. Alongside his responsibilities with GMW, Jeremy works as a hospital chaplain at central Manchester hospitals where his main responsibility is with St Mary’s hospital for women and babies.

Prior to hospital chaplaincy, Jeremy worked as a parish priest in Wythenshawe and prior to ordination Jeremy qualified and worked as a psychiatric nurse in Salford and central Manchester respectively.

Christian Leyland - Christian is a registered qualified British Sign Language interpreter.

He started his career working within the insurance industry but retrained as an interpreter after seeking a change in career.

After eight years of training, he qualified as an interpreter and is now working freelance across the North West. He enjoys specialising in mental health settings and during his years as a freelance interpreter his experience has mainly come from working closely with staff and patients at the Trust’s John Denmark Unit.

Dr. Caroline Logan - Caroline is the Lead Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist for the Trust’s Specialist Services Network. She is also Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Brain Behaviour and Mental Health at the University of Manchester. She has worked in forensic settings for almost 20 years, working directly with clients who are at risk to themselves and others and, in a consultancy role, with the multidisciplinary teams and local and national organisations that care for and manage them.

She is currently a member of the Advisory Panel for the Close Supervision Centres and Managing Challenging Behaviour Strategy in the Her Majesty’s Prison Service Directorate of High Security. She is a co-author of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol, a structured professional judgment approach to sexual violence risk assessment and management, and a co-author of the Department of Health guidelines Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services.

Ian Lowens - Ian is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working within primary and secondary care for the Trust. He has a long standing interest in cognitive behavioural approaches to working with distress, especially ‘third wave’ approaches such as Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). Ian has lived experience of depression.

Reverend Kathleen LaCamera Loughin - Kathleen has been a Methodist minister for over 30 years, serving as a part-time hospital and community mental health chaplain over the last eight years. She did her clinical pastoral training at Yale New Haven hospital in 1983 while completing her Masters of Divinity degree. She has previous experience in a parish setting in the US before moving to the UK in 1992.

Kathleen also is an award-winning film-maker and writer, whose recent films on End of Life Care, commissioned by the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), have been the lead media resource for National Dying Matters week in 2011, 2013 and 2014. She currently is developing the NCPC study resource for faith communities on “Spiritual Care at the End of Life”. Kathleen also provides media support and production to a variety of not-for-profit organisations both within and beyond the UK.

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Chris McGowan - Chris is a dual qualified nurse, having achieved his Registered General Nurse qualification in 1988 and his Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification in 1993.

He has worked as a senior nurse in a variety of settings, both ward-based and community.

Chris is presently seconded to the Trust’s Specialist Services Network Training Team for three days a week, while continuing to practice as a Senior Substance Misuse Practitioner in Community Services.

He delivers training on a range of clinical and non-clinical issues, including Node-Link Mapping & Behavioural Activation, Dual Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, Brief Interventions, and Community assisted Alcohol Withdrawal. He has a specialist interest in the Solution Focused and Individual Asset-Building approach to Recovery.

Stephen Maloney - Stephen is a Specialist Psychosocial Interventions (PSI) Trainer, and has been involved in substance misuse services as a service user, volunteer, and paid worker since 1987. He attained a degree in Philosophy in 2000 and then went on to achieve a post-graduate diploma in counselling (CBT Model) in 2004. Since then, he has practiced as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Shared Care Practitioner, Group Development Worker, Service User Involvement Lead, and Psychosocial Intervention Lead.

He has a great deal of experience in practicing and training others in both Node-Link Mapping and Motivational Interviewing.

Colin Mattinson - Colin’s interest in mental health began while studying Chinese medicine, which gave him a strong belief in achieving better health through understanding ourselves more. His own experiences of mental health issues have been the driving force in joining the Recovery Academy and his desire to raise awareness and educate others. Colin enjoys the challenge of examining health issues that people often find difficult to talk about.

Abdul Khalid MohdSani - Khalid is a mental health doctor for the Trust; currently completing his specialist training in general psychiatry in the North West. He has experiences working in various mental health settings, predominantly in community mental health teams and early intervention in psychosis services. He has special interest in psychological therapies especially cognitive behavioural therapy and eye movement desensitisation reprocessing therapy (EMDR). He is keen to learn from other tutors and people with lived experience to improve his knowledge and skills further.

Stewart Moors - Stewart is a project worker for Adullam Housing Through the Gates Project. Prior to this, he worked as a Support, Time and Recovery Worker for the Trust’s Salford Substance Misuse Service and in HIV, Hepatitis C and Sexual Health Prevention and Awareness as a Community Development Officer for three years. He is a trained Mindfulness Teacher and likes to combine his training and his prevention and awareness, support time and recovery, project work and outreach experience in his work and private life.

Lee Mulligan - Lee is a trainee clinical psychologist in the final year of his clinical training at the University of Manchester. He has a keen interest in mental health recovery and previously worked on the NIHR-funded (National Institute for Health Research) “Recovery” programme with individuals experiencing bipolar disorder and psychosis. Lee aims to qualify as a clinical psychologist in 2015 and hopes to conduct further research in order to understand how recovery can be enhanced through the delivery of psychological interventions.

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Dr Sandra Neil - Sandra is a Clinical Psychologist who currently works in the Trust’s Community Mental Health Team in Salford. She has also worked for the Trust’s Bolton Early Intervention Team and the Salford EDIT Team. She has a special interest in psychosis and related difficulties such as anxiety and depression.

Sandra is passionate about working collaboratively with service users and developing recovery orientated services. For her Doctoral thesis she worked with the Trust’s service users to develop a measure of recovery from psychosis. She also worked on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded ‘Recovery Programme’ of research investigating recovery from psychosis and bipolar disorder. Sandra has published papers on recovery and working collaboratively with service users and has provided workshops and training on recovery to a range of audiences both in the UK and internationally.

Martin O’Doherty - Martin is an Occupational Therapist with lived experience of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He has used his experience of living with OCD to assist in the training of student Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and uses his time at the Recovery Academy to educate others on this misunderstood disorder. He has also run a support group at the Mental Health Independent Support Team (MhIST) in Bolton for the last 2 years to help and support others who live with OCD. Martin is passionate about the link between physical health and mental wellbeing, and is currently undertaking a diploma in Personal Training with the aim of empowering others with mental health problems to live healthier lives physically, mentally and nutritionally.

Christine Partlett - Christine is a qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), currently working as a senior nurse for the Trust’s Adult Forensic Services. She started her career at Prestwich Hospital in 1981 and has worked in several different areas of nursing including, adolescent, adult acute, forensic, and the personality disorder assessment and liaison team.

Christine has worked in both the NHS and private sector during her career. Her role includes undertaking clinical assessments, providing clinical guidance, education and training, supervision and leadership. Christine has been involved in developments in nursing and mental health care practice throughout her career and has a special interest in personality disorder, hence being a KUF trainer.

Heather Peel - Heather is a 30 year old service user volunteer with a degree in English and a background in teaching English abroad. She started using services following a particularly severe episode. Now in recovery, she does Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) and interviews prospective Trust staff. Heather is currently working as a Nursing Assistant in a rehabilitation unit. Heather enjoys knitting in her free time and has campaign marketing experience as a representative of a young members marketing team. She feels strongly about supporting mental health service users on their path to recovery.

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Dr Katie Pownell - Katie is a recently qualified Clinical Psychologist, after completing her doctorate in 2014. Her doctoral research focused on the use of a Podcast intervention aimed at addressing eating and weight issues in young people. Katie previously worked for the Trust’s Psychosis Research Unit (PRU) on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded ‘Recovery Programme,’ investigating recovery from psychosis and bipolar disorder. Additionally, she worked on the ‘Bipolar At Risk Trial’ (BART) which examined the early detection and intervention of bipolar disorder.

She currently works in two of the Trust’s Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) in Salford and also provides psychological input for the inpatient unit in the area. She has a particular interest in working with what is often termed as personality disorder, and aims to work collaboratively with service users and the multi-disciplinary team to provide recovery-orientated services.

Leanne Roberts - Leanne is 35 years old and has 20 years lived and work experience of addiction and mental health problems. She is a Mental Health Support Worker and has a range of experience with youths, adults in secure settings and the community. Creative Writing is a tool she has used with positive results.

Debbie Robinson - Debbie is a registered mental health nurse who has worked in various mental health settings for over fifteen years. She has always worked and promoted service-user involvement and recovery and believes that sharing learning environments with staff, service-users and carers helps to break down stigma and also helps people recover from their mental health problems.

In her previous role, she was a Senior Practitioner in Nursing and cared for people and their families helping them to overcome issues that a diagnosis of personality disorder can sometimes bring, and helping them improve their quality of life. Debbie is striving to improve psychological services for people with mental health problems and their families.

Dr Magdalene Sampson - Magdalene is a Clinical Psychologist and has worked with service users in the Trust’s Eating Disorder Service for the past 14 years. She completed her post graduate doctorate in clinical psychology in 2001 and completed a Diploma in Cognitive Therapy in 2004. In recent years, she has developed expertise in Compassion Focused Therapy and the application within eating disorders, both with service users and carers. She teaches on postgraduate courses at Manchester University and is currently Acting Service Manager for the Eating Disorder Service.

Carolyn Sellers - Carolyn is the operational lead for the Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and the Enhanced Evidence Based Practice Course at the Trust’s Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Training Centre. She is involved in teaching and supervising students on this course, as well as for the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapies. She has a background in general and mental health nursing and trained as a behavioural psychotherapist with Sheffield University in 1997.

Carolyn has worked as a CBT therapist in an occupational health setting as well as a primary care setting. She currently combines her teaching and supervisory role with her clinical practice in Yorkshire.

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Gary Sidley - Gary is a freelance writer and trainer who, in 2013, opted for early retirement from his post at the Trust as Professional Lead/Consultant Clinical Psychologist after 33 continuous years of employment in mental health services. He writes on a range of topics, including; alternatives to biological psychiatry, general interest articles and humour.

His NHS career began as a psychiatric nurse, and he qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1989. In 2000, he obtained his PhD for a thesis exploring the psychological predictors of suicidal behaviour. His area of expertise is in the area of severe and complex mental health problems.

Throughout his career, Gary has presented workshops on a range of topics including cognitive behaviour therapy for depression and understanding deliberate self-harm.

More recently, he has been involved in promoting recovery-orientated services and has provided training sessions on the Recovery STAR assessment tool, Living with Self Harm, and Advance Decisions.

Hazel Sharp - Hazel is a Senior Pharmacist and is part of the Trust’s Medicines Management team. She is involved in medication related training and education of all GMW staff. She is also the Medication Safety Officer for the Trust where her role involves analysis and reporting of medication errors. She is also involved in the implementation of electronic prescribing.

Yvonne Slater - Yvonne is the Operational Lead for the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive and Behaviour Therapies (CBT Pathways) at the Trust’s Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Training Centre, and has been involved with the Centre since its inception in 2000.

She has a background in mental health nursing and trained as a behaviour psychotherapist in 1995 before going on to complete her postgraduate diploma in cognitive therapy in Newcastle. Yvonne’s primary responsibility is that of leading the High Intensity Diploma training programme, she also teaches and supervises on other programmes at the Centre. She combines her teaching and supervisory role with a clinical role. She has a particular interest in working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Lesley Spencer - Lesley is a former service user of the Trust. The Recovery Academy and the blueSCI Arts, Cultural and Well-Being Service in Trafford have featured heavily in her recovery. Lesley is enthusiastic about her own recovery and enjoys helping others to gain and maintain their recovery. Lesley has progressed in her recovery and now works on the Trust’s nurse bank. She believes recovery is a process and is looking forward to the next step – whatever that might be.

Deb Stefanovic - Deb is currently an outpatient and lead for the Trust’s women’s services where she hopes to use her skills to support others in their journey to recovery. Prior to this, she worked in a variety of jobs including youth work, and education with young people excluded from school. During her involvement with the Recovery Academy, she has completed courses on confidence building, leadership skills, and using Microsoft Power Point. This has enabled her to be involved in the co-production and co-facilitation of courses.

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Father David Sutton - David is an Anglican priest who has worked as a mental health chaplain for over 20 years, first in community services, then forensic, and since 2008 as the Trust’s full-time Chaplaincy/Spiritual Care Co-ordinator. He has previous experience of 36 years in parish ministry.

David has recently completed a Master’s degree in Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, and has a special interest in linking together healing ministries and healthcare. He has presented various workshops on mental health issues to church and chaplaincy groups.

In the church context, he is involved in spiritual direction and retreat giving. He is also a governor of Calderstones Partnership NHS Trust.

Mita Sykes - Mita has been involved with mental health and eating disorders in particular for over 30 years. Having suffered from anorexia for over 12 years, she became chair of Anorexic Aid for several years and subsequently became a trustee of the Eating Disorders Association (forerunner of current BEAT). Professionally, her early career was in institutional management before retraining in mental health and later as a teacher of adults with learning difficulties (P.G.C.E.). She managed Patients Council for Mental Health (for the involvement of service users in the monitoring and development of services) for 12 years before taking early retirement for a family business venture. Mita has continued to have recurrent episodes of eating disorders throughout her life.

Claire Watson - Claire is the Trust Lead for the Recovery Academy. After studying Psychology at University she worked in Hull with HIV & AIDS services and in supported housing for people with mental health problems. After becoming involved in an education initiative aimed at widening participation, she was inspired by the hope and opportunities education brings, and completed her teacher training. Since then she has worked with Local Education Authorities to support PSHE & Citizenship Education in schools, Youth & Community groups, and substance misuse services, facilitating training with both service users, and staff.

Claire is passionate about delivering and organising learning activities that help service users, families & carers, and professionals to develop their knowledge, behaviours, and skills to be able to manage and promote health and wellbeing.

Sara Whitehead - Sara is a former service user who has battled with mental health issues for years and has become an avid learner and supporter of recovery and wellbeing.

Having a management background, Sara has refocused her career to mental health and now works as a support worker on one of the Trust’s adolescent mental health wards as well as delivering courses as part of the Academy’s Trainer Bank. Her own recovery has aided her to be able to help and support others on their journey. She is currently studying social work and psychology to further her knowledge in this field.

Dr Nathalie Whittle - Nathalie is a Clinical Psychologist for the Trust who has worked in mental health services, predominantly with older people, for 15 years. She completed her doctorate in 2006 where she carried out her thesis on the experience of having a parent with early-onset dementia. She is keen to learn more about how living with dementia affects whole families and so she is currently studying for a post-graduate certificate in systemic practice/family therapy.

Her day to day work involves meeting with older people for assessments and therapy, in the community and on hospital wards, including people with dementia and their families.

Nathalie regularly delivers training about dementia to staff to help them understand and know how to support people with this diagnosis.

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Joanne Wilson - Joanne is a former service user of the Trust’s alcohol and drug services and has experienced first-hand the issues and concerns that arise from that lifestyle. She is now a Governor for the Trust representing alcohol and drug service users and sits on many Trust Committees.

Joanne is passionate about recovery and the service user and carer ‘voice’ being heard and acted upon. She has delivered courses, sat on various assessment panels, shortlisted and interviewed staff and led the service user aspect of recent Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE).

Sheila Wilson - Sheila has been employed as a Training Coordinator by the Trust since May 2003. She was initially based at Trafford Community Drug Team and then Salford’s Structured Day Programme before moving to the Prestwich site in 2008. Prior to joining the Trust, she worked as a support worker with young people with disabilities, a project worker in supported housing, volunteered in drug services, worked in HIV and sexual health and latterly managed a Structured Day Programme.

Sheila has recently completed some research into how former service users make the transition to become paid workers in the substance misuse field and alongside her training role, since January 2015, has been based in Salford for two days a week developing family interventions and training.

Elisabeth Zabel - Liz is an Assistant Psychologist who is currently working for the Trust’s Psychosis Research Unit (PRU). Liz is working on a few studies at PRU including the Recovery Academy research project which is exploring the effects of the Recovery Academy. She is also working on a new multisite randomised controlled trial called STEPWISE which will investigate the effectiveness of a lifestyle group intervention for people who experience psychosis. Liz has been working in mental health research for the past four years and is passionate about being involved in research that is meaningful for people who experience mental health difficulties. She hopes to further contribute by one day completing a doctorate in Clinical Psychology.

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Recovery Academy Student Charter

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he Recovery Academy seeks to provide a caring learning environment for all students where ‘professional expertise’ and ‘lived experience’ are recognised with equal importance. This Charter is designed to help students to understand their entitlements and obligations.

The Academy aims to provide every student with: • A variety of learning opportunities to either manage your own recovery, health and wellbeing, or support others in their recovery journey.

• Clear information about the courses on offer via an Academy Prospectus.

• Well designed, well taught courses which are informed by up-to-date research, and both professional and lived experience.

• Support to identify and address your learning needs.

• Opportunities for regular review, planning, target setting and recording of progress and achievement.

• Suitably trained teaching and support staff/volunteers who are committed to the quality of your experience and to their own professional development.

• Encouragement to take responsibility for your own learning and development.

• Links to your local colleges, education and employment services so that you can access further opportunities and fulfil your long term ambitions.

• A healthy and safe learning environment which focuses on reinforcing and developing people’s strengths and inspiring hope so that people can feel empowered to achieve their aspirations.

• Access to appropriate facilities and equipment, including the Library and Knowledge Centre.

• Opportunities to comment on and review the courses and facilities on offer.

• A friendly, supportive, efficient, and confidential service. However, all students need to be aware that if they disclose a wish to harm self/others that this will be disclosed to an appropriate member of Trust staff.

• Equality of opportunity, free of harassment and discrimination.

• The chance to celebrate success.

The Academy expects every student to: • Be polite and respectful to others.

• Avoid the use of language and terminology that might offend others.

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• Take responsibility for your own learning and actively participate in course activities.

• Be punctual and inform the Academy staff if you have to cancel your place on a course, or are going to be late/need to leave early for any reason.

• Familiarise yourself with all of the pre-course information given so that you are fully prepared.

• Ensure that mobile phones are switched off before entering any teaching or learning space.

• Where courses are accredited, to hand in any assessment activities on time.

• Respect the Academy environment and equipment.

• Seek early advice and support whenever you need clarification, or if you have a problem.

• Keep us informed of any change of circumstances so that we can keep our records upto-date and keep you informed of course information and Academy developments.

• Keep us informed of any special needs or requirements you have so we can support you in the best way possible.

• Give constructive feedback so that we can continually improve provision.

• Accept any reasonable action taken by the Academy which results from your nonfulfilment of these expectations.

Student Name: Signature: Date: Please return this form to: Recovery Academy, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Harrop House, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL.

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A Recovery Academy student, who attended our Living with Bipolar Disorder course, provided us with the following feedback:

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I came away from the course feeling that it is not all doom and gloom, that bi-polar disorder can be managed to a greater degree than I thought possible and above all that I am not alone and that there is help out there if you ask for it. Thank you once again.�

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blueSCI Old Trafford - MK Halal Café is a social enterprise in the heart of the Old Trafford Wellbeing Centre run by local residents and supported by bluSCI. The café is open Monday to Friday from 9am until 4pm serving refreshments and lunch. To look at their menu in advance, please visit: www.oldtraffordwellbeing.org.uk/mk-halal-cafe/. blueSCI Broomwood Centre - Harmony Café is a community café in the heart of the Broomwood Centre. The café is open Monday to Friday between 9am and 2.30pm serving refreshments and lunch. To look at their menu in advance, please visit: www.broomwoodwellbeingcentre.org.uk/harmony-cafe/.

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