GMW Recovery Academy Autumn/Winter 2014/15 Prospectus

Recovery Academy

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Autumn/Winter Term

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October 2014 - March 2015

recovery

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

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I can honestly say that attending the sessions I’ve done so far has had a major impact on turning my life around rather than it continuing to ‘bump along’ for the past seventeen years when, for a good deal of the time, I’ve been struggling with low mood and anxiety!

Close friends of mine who’ve always been there when I slide into depression have said that they can tell ‘it’s so different this time’ so I’m chuffed to say the least!”

Some of the fantastic photographs in this prospectus were taken by members from Start in Salford – a charity using creativity to help vulnerable people from all walks of life improve their skills and gain in confidence.

Becky Thompson, a photography student working with the Trust’s Communications Team, kindly took and contributed photos from our courses for use in this prospectus.

Contents Welcome and Introduction ........................................................................................................ 6 Core Principles of our Academy ................................................................................................ 7 How to register with us and book on our courses ................................................................. 8 The Library and Knowledge Centre ......................................................................................... 9 Sign up to the Academy newsletter ......................................................................................... 9 Research study to explore the effects of the Recovery Academy ........................................ 10 Courses table in date chronological order ............................................................................... 12

Lived Experience Courses • Deaf Awareness Training - new! ......................................................................................... 17 • Living with Addiction .............................................................................................................. 18 • Living with Anxiety and Depression ..................................................................................... 19 • Living with Bipolar Disorder .................................................................................................. 20 • Living with Blood Borne Viruses - new! ............................................................................. 21 • Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder - new! ................................................................. 22 • Living Well with Dementia - Updated ................................................................................. 23 • Living with Dual Diagnosis - new! ...................................................................................... 24 • Living with Eating Disorders .................................................................................................. 25 • Living with OCD ....................................................................................................................... 26 • Living with Personality Disorder ........................................................................................... 27 • Living with Psychosis ............................................................................................................... 28 • Living with Self-Harm ............................................................................................................. 29 • Recovering from Domestic Abuse ........................................................................................ 30 • Women and Mental Health - new! .................................................................................... 31

Supporting Recovery Courses • Advocacy in Mental Health .................................................................................................... 33 • An Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy .......................................................... 34 • An Introduction to Life Story Work - new! ....................................................................... 35 • An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Skills ......................................................... 36 • An Introduction to Solution Focussed Therapy .................................................................. 37 Page

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• Creative Writing - new! ........................................................................................................ 38 • Completing an Advance Decision ......................................................................................... 39 • Dementia Friends ..................................................................................................................... 40 • Facilitating Self-Help Groups ................................................................................................. 41 • Health and Wellbeing for Carers - Updated ...................................................................... 42 • Mindfulness and Compassion Focussed Therapy - new! ................................................ 43 • Node-Link Mapping and Behavioural Activation .............................................................. 44 • Personality Disorder, National KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) Programme ............................................................................ 45 • Recovery Star ............................................................................................................................ 47 • Supporting the Recovery Process .......................................................................................... 48

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills Courses • Assertiveness Skills ................................................................................................................... 51 • Basic English Skills .................................................................................................................... 52 • Basic IT Skills .............................................................................................................................. 54 • Basic Maths Skills ...................................................................................................................... 56 • Essential Life Skills - new! ..................................................................................................... 58 • Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship ....................................................................................... 59 • Read to Lead ............................................................................................................................. 60

Getting Involved with the Academy Courses • Creative Facilitation Skills ....................................................................................................... 63 • Train the Trainer ...................................................................................................................... 64

Meet the Tutors ............................................................................................................................ 65 Student Registration and Course Booking Form .................................................................... 77 Student Charter ............................................................................................................................ 79 How to find us .............................................................................................................................. 82 Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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Welcome and introduction

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very warm welcome to Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust’s Recovery Academy. 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 prospectus will show you why we believe recovery education not only equips people with new skills to support the recovery process and an understanding of mental health challenges, but provides people with the confidence to get back into work or go on to further study.

Over 1,000 students have registered with us within our first 18 months All our courses are friendly and welcoming, focus on supporting people with their recovery and promote good health and wellbeing. We offer accredited courses and collaborate with partners like The University of Manchester, Alzheimer’s Society, the National Personality Disorder Development Programme, The Reader Organisation, the Octagon Theatre Bolton and Start in Salford.

On top of that, all of our courses are co-written and co-delivered by professionals and people with mental health or substance misuse problems, which means that our courses are enriched by professional expertise and lived experience.

The Recovery Academy is now in its second year, and we know from our tutor and student feedback that the most popular courses are the ones where there is equal representation from people with lived experience, family members, and professionals, so that people can learn from one another.

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 four categories: Lived Experience, Supporting Recovery, Developing Knowledge and Life Skills and Getting Involved with the Academy.

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 cofacilitating a course, we would love to hear from you.

We are constantly investing in our estate and are currently in the process of spending £6 million on a state of the art, new education and training facility on our Prestwich Hospital site. This unique and landmark facility will house the Recovery Academy as well as accommodating wider education, training and development activities, new library and meeting facilities. Work has already begun on this exciting development, which is expected to be completed in September 2015.

We hope you will be able to attend one of the great range of courses on offer soon, learn new skills, increase your awareness of mental health and substance misuse problems and meet our enthusiastic staff and volunteers who are passionate about inspiring you to make sense and meaning out of your experiences.

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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 co-facilitate learning events.

• The setting up of 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, we have introduced an online student registration form and course booking form, which are available on our website: www.gmw.nhs.uk/recovery.

Our student registration and course booking form can also be found on page 77 of this prospectus. If you don’t have online access, you can complete this and post it to us at the following address: Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Recovery Academy Harrop House Bury New Road Prestwich Manchester M25 3BL 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 79 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.

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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.

Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Library and Knowledge Centre, 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.

Spring 2014

NEWSLETTER OF THE RECOVERY ACADEMY

Branching Out

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

Our brand new-look prospectus is out now The Recovery Academy’s Spring/Summer term prospectus for courses from May – September 2014 is out now!

Recovery Academy

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grow

recovery

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

There are around 35 free courses available, which are held in community centres, local hospitals, theatres and learning centres across Greater Manchester.

This term’s prospectus introduces seven new courses.

In response to feedback from students, photography showing the tutors, courses and venues has been added, along with quotes from students who’ve attended Spring/Summer Term courses to give new students a feel for what they might get out of attending a course.

Inside: this issue Celebration of learning event ..........

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Offender rehabilitation .....................

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Dementia awareness ........................

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New study – the effects of learning on wellbeing ......................

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We care. Do you? ............................

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Recovery and beyond ......................

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University collaboration ....................

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April 2014 - September 2014

Printed supplies of the prospectus are winging their way to services across the Trust’s patch. To get your personal copy, together with information you need about the

Branching Out Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Newsletter Spring 2014

Recovery Academy experience and our new research study, visit www.gmw.nhs.uk/recovery.

If you’d prefer a copy in the post, please contact us and we’ll get one out to you right away.

For further information contact recoveryacademy@gmw.nhs.uk or call 0161 772 3782.

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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.

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“Exploring the effects of the Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy”: A Research Study

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e would like to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to everyone who has completed and returned our questionnaires. With your help we hope to find out what impact the Recovery Academy has on the lives of the students who attend our courses.

We have had a great response so far with over 50 students taking part, and will continue to invite people who enrol with the Recovery Academy to get involved with our research study.

Just to recap, we are looking for people with lived experience of mental health problems, health care professionals and family members or carers who have not attended Recovery Academy courses before.

The research involves completing questionnaires, which are posted to you before you attend your first course and at different time points. This is so we can look at the effect of the Recovery Academy over time.

We are interested in looking at how the Recovery Academy can affect the personal journey of recovery, attitudes towards recovery, stigma, service change and other themes.

If you are interested in taking part, we will send you a ‘research study pack’ after you have registered with the Academy, which will include an information sheet for you to read before you decide whether or not to take part.

We’ll also provide you with some instructions, questionnaires and consent forms to complete before you attend your first course. If you don’t want to take part you can simply discard the pack.

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

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This research has been developed with help from people with lived experience of mental health problems who have been on our courses and is supported by the staff involved with setting up the Recovery Academy.

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

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 0161 358 1397 or email: elisabeth.zabel@gmw.nhs.uk.

Thank you, The Recovery Academy Research Team Elisabeth Zabel Research Assistant Tel: 0161 358 1397 Email: elisabeth.zabel@gmw.nhs.uk

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Table of courses

in date chronological order with venues OCTOBER 2014 2 16, 23 & 30 30

Caring with Confidence (3rd Prospectus final day)

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

Read to Lead

Waterdale Conference Suite, Prestwich site

Dementia Friends

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

NOVEMBER 2014 3

PD, National KUF Programme - Day 1

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

Node Link Mapping & Behavioural Activation

Room 2 and Room 4, Trust HQ, Prestwich site

7

Living with OCD

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

7

IT Skills - Day 1

Shaw IT Suite, Prestwich site

10

Living with Eating Disorders

Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Bolton

11

An Introduction to Mindfulness & Compassion Focussed Therapy

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

12

Living with Dual Diagnosis

Room 2, Trust HQ, Prestwich site

12

A Solution Focused Approach

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

14

Living with Addiction

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

14

Advocacy in Mental Health

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

14

IT Skills - Day 2

Shaw IT Suite, Prestwich site

17

PD, National KUF Programme - Day 2

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

21

Assertiveness Skills

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

21

IT Skills - Day 3

Shaw IT Suite, Prestwich site

21

Living with Psychosis

Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Bolton

21

Living Well with Dementia

Blake Room, Ivy House, Prestwich site

An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Skills

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

25

Dementia Friends

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

26

Health and Wellbeing for Carers

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

28

Living with Self Harm

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

28

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 1

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

28

IT Skills - Day 4

Shaw IT Suite, Prestwich site

4&5

21 & 22

DECEMBER 2014 1

Recovering from Domestic Abuse

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hosptial

1

PD, National KUF Programme - Day 3

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

2

Assertiveness Skills

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

Living with Anxiety & Depression

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Living with Blood Borne Viruses

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

4

Deaf Awareness

Seminar Room, John Denmark Unit, Prestwich site

4

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 2

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

5

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 3

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

5

IT Skills - Day 5

Shaw IT Suite, Prestwich site

8

Health and Wellbeing for Carers

Meeting Room 1, J2 Training Room, Royal Bolton Hospital

9

Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 4

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

11

Creative Writing

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

12

Level 2 Award in Peer Mentorship - Day 5

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

12

An Introduction to CBT

Meeting Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

12

IT Skills - Day 6

Shaw IT Suite, Prestwich site

15

Completing an Advance Decision

Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

16

Living with Personality Disorder

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

16

An Introduction to Life Story Work

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

18

Recovery Star

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

19

Living with Bipolar Disorder

J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital

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IT Skills - Day 7

Shaw IT Suite, Prestwich site

JANUARY 2015 6&7

Node Link Mapping & Behavioural Activation

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

7

Essential Life Skills - Day 1

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

8

PD, National KUF Programme - Day 1

Prestwich site

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Completing an Advance Decision

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

9

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 1

Peel Room, Prestwich site

9

Living with Addiction

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

9

Living with OCD

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

12

Living with Blood Borne Viruses

Crabtree Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

13

Literacy Skills - Day 1

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester.

13

An Introduction to Mindfulness & Compassion Focussed Therapy

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

14

Living with Self Harm

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

14

Living with Dual Diagnosis

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

14

Essential Life Skills - Day 2

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

16

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 2

Peel Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

16

Advocacy in Mental Health

Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

19

Living with Eating Disorders

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

20

Living with Psychosis

Crabtree Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

20

A Solution Focused Approach

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

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Literacy Skills - Day 2

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

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Health and Wellbeing for Carers

Eccles Gateway, Salford, Manchester

21

Numeracy Skills - Day 1

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

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Essential Life Skills - Day 3

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

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PD, National KUF Programme - Day 2

Prestwich site

Living with Anxiety & Depression

blueSCI, Broomwood Centre, Mainwood Road, Timperley

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Women and Mental Health

Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Bolton

23

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 3

Peel Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

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Literacy Skills - Day 3

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

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An Introduction to CBT

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

28

Numeracy Skills - Day 2

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

28

Essential Life Skills - Day 4

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

29

Deaf Awareness

Seminar Room, John Denmark Unit, Prestwich site

30

Living with Personality Disorder

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

30

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 4

Peel Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

22 & 23

FEBRUARY 2015 2

Recovering from Domestic Abuse

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

3

Literacy Skills - Day 4

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

4

Essential Life Skills - Day 5

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

4

Numeracy Skills - Day 3

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

5

PD, National KUF Programme - Day 3

Prestwich site

An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Skills

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

6

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 5

Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester

10

Literacy Skills - Day 5

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

10

Women and Mental Health

Peel Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

11

Numeracy Skills - Day 4

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

11

Essential Life Skills - Day 6

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

12

Recovery Star

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

13

Living Well with Dementia

Eccles Gateway, Barton Road, Salford, Manchester

13

Supporting the Recovery Process - Day 6

Peel Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

13

An Introduction to Life Story Work

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

16

Living with Bipolar Disorder

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

17

Literacy Skills - Day 6

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

17

Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Crabtree Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

Facilitating Self Help Groups

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

19

Living with Blood Borne Viruses

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

20

Dementia Friends

Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford General

20

Advocacy in Mental Health

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

5&6

17 & 18

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Assertiveness Skills

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

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PD, National KUF Programme - Day 1

Prestwich site

24

Living with Self Harm

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

25

Health and Wellbeing for Carers

Room 2, Trust HQ, Prestwich site MARCH 2015

2

Creative Facilitation Skills

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

3

A Solution Focused Approach

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

4

An Introduction to Life Story Work

Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford

4

Recovery Star

Room 2, Trust HQ, Prestwich site

4

Living with Addiction

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

4

Numeracy Skills - Day 5

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

5

Recovering from Domestic Abuse

Crabtree Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

5

Deaf Awareness

Seminar Room, John Denmark Unit, Prestwich site

6

Living with OCD

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

9

PD, National KUF Programme - Day 2

Prestwich site

9

Living with Eating Disorders

Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford

9

Living with Psychosis

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

10

Literacy Skills - Day 7

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

10

An Introduction to Mindfulness & Compassion Focussed Therapy

Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Bolton

10

An Introduction to CBT

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

11

Numeracy Skills - Day 6

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Skills

blueSCI, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester

12

Living with Bipolar Disorder

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

12

Living with Personality Disorder

Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford

12

Creative Writing

Crabtree Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

17

Literacy Skills - Day 8

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

17

Completing an Advance Decision

Eccles Gateway, Barton Lane, Eccles, Salford, Manchester

Node Link Mapping & Behavioural Activation

Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Bolton

18

Living with Dual Diagnosis

Multi-Purpose Room 3, Moorside Unit, Trafford

20

Train the Trainers

Start in Salford, Broad Street, Salford, Manchester

23

PD, National KUF Programme - Day 3

Prestwich site

24

Literacy Skills - Day 9

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

25

Dementia Friends

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

25

Numeracy Skills - Day 7

Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Prestwich site

26

Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder

blueSCI, Broomwood Centre, Mainwood Road, Timperley

26

Health and Wellbeing for Carers

Carer’s Room, Rivington Unit, Royal Bolton Hospital

26 & 27

Living with Anxiety & Depression

Crabtree Room, Waterdale, Prestwich site

Women and Mental Health

Gloucester House, Salford, Manchester

11 & 12

17 & 18

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Lived Experience

NEW! 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.

Lived Experience

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.

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 • Experience difficulties in communicating from a deaf perspective • Have an increased awareness of deafness and mental health • Looked at the prevalence of deafness and mental health as well as contributing factors • Have an understanding of the role of BSL (British Sign Language) interpreters.

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Enjoyed the interactive exercises and gaining insight to the world from a deaf perspective”

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

Date and Time: 4 December 2014 – 9am to 1pm

Date and Time: 29 January 2015 – 9am to 1pm

Date and Time: 5 March 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 “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.

Lived Experience

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 • Consider the range of experiences someone may have • Have a better understanding of what recovery is, how recovery comes about and how it’s maintained • 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) Lead tutors: Stephen Maloney and Nick Bell

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I found hearing “real” experiences of addiction very moving and informative”

Date and Time: 14 November 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancs. BL4 0JR. Date and Time: 9 January 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 4 March 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester M16 0LN.

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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 • Know some of the theoretical explanations for anxiety and depression • Be aware of the stigma associated with anxiety and depression both internally and externally

Blimey! I don’t think I’ve ever learned so much in two days – brilliant facilitators – one of the best courses I’ve ever been on.”

• Understand recovery, and the individual nature of it

• Understand some of the blocks to recovery • Be introduced to different change strategies and interventions that can support the recovery process for people with anxiety and depression • 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, Lesley Spencer and Margaret Harper

Date and Time: 2 and 3 December 2014 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR. Date and Time: 22 and 23 January 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, Broomwood Community Wellbeing Centre, Mainwood Road, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire WA15 7JU. Date and Time: 26 and 27 March 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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

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

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Rich discussion with first person narratives.”

Date and Time: 19 December 2014 – 10am to 4pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancs. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 16 February 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 12 March 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Page

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NEW! 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

Date and Time: 4 December 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Bolton, Lancs. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 12 January 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 19 February 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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NEW! Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Lived Experience

“Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is an anxiety disorder related to body image. 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. 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: 9 December 2014 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 17 February 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 26 March 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 about 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? This 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, Ann Collins, Dr Nathalie Whittle and Sarah Monks

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Everything was very informative; it was good to hear from carer’s and people with dementia.”

Date and Time: 21 November 2014 – 9.30am to 3.30pm Venue: Blake Room, Ivy House, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 13 February 2015 – 9.30am to 3.30pm Venue: Eccles Gateway, 28 Barton Lane, Eccles, Manchester M30 0TU Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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

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

Date and Time: 12 November 2014 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Room 2, Trust HQ, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 14 January 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 18 March 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Multi-Purpose Room 3, Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester M41 5SL 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) 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.

Lived Experience

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 • 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 • 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 and Jean Haslam

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I enjoyed everything about the training. I found it really informative and the delivery was clear and understandable.”

Date and Time: 10 November 2014 – 10am to 3pm Venue: Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Howell Croft South, Bolton BL1 1SB Date and Time: 19 January 2015 – 10am to 3pm Venue: Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 9 March 2015 – 10am to 3pm Venue: Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester M41 5SL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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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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The trainers were very knowledgeable and the course was well delivered.”

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: 7 November 2014 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, External Entrance, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancs. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 9 January 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester M16 0LN Date and Time: 6 March 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY 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

• Understand the coping mechanisms that people with personality disorder may use

• Look at the different thoughts, emotions, and behaviours displayed by people with personality disorder

• Consider your own emotional responses to people with personality disorder and how these responses may affect others

• Discuss the impact these thoughts, emotions, and behaviours have for individuals and their families and friends

• Consider some of the challenges to accessing support for individuals and families and carers

• Consider some of the life experiences which may affect personality development

• 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) Lead tutors: Colin Mattinson, Kelly Sweeney and Christine Partlett

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I enjoyed the course because I have personality disorder and learnt a lot.”

Date and Time: 16 December 2014 – 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 Date and Time: 30 January 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 12 March 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester M41 5SL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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Living with Psychosis “Psychosis is when people perceive or interpret events differently from other people. This could include experiencing hallucinations, delusions or flight of ideas.” (Mind)

Lived Experience

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 • Know some of the potential causes of psychosis • Discuss how psychosis affects daily life and know how to cope with distressing experiences • Be able to support people experiencing distressing symptoms • Have a better understanding of how to address stigma • 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)

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The whole day has educated me with more understanding to help my son recover from his first episode of psychosis.”

Lead tutors: Professor Paul French, Deb Stefanovic, Graham Lee and representatives from the Bolton Hearing Voices Group.

Date and Time: 21 November 2014 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Howell Croft South, Bolton, Lancs. BL1 1SB Date and Time: 20 January 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 9 March 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 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

• Be able to offer appropriate support to those that engage in self-harm

• Understand why people harm themselves and the purpose it serves

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

• Understand how self-harming behaviour interacts with other mental health conditions • Understand the stigma, shame and taboo of self-harm • Be aware of treatment, interventions, recovery and support Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about self-harm, particularly anyone who is selfharming, 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)

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The trainers were absolutely excellent and delivered it in a clear and interesting way.”

Lead tutors: Dr Gemma Trainor and Colin Mattinson

Dates and Time: 28 November 2014 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancs. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 14 January 2015 - 10am to 4pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 3BL Date and Time: 24 February 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0LN Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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Recovering from Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse is any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behavior, 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 • Understand why people may stay in abusive relationships • Understand survivors’ coping and recovery strategies • Be able to identify ways of supporting victims of domestic abuse • Be aware of legislation regarding domestic abuse • 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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I enjoyed the group discussions and the interactive exercises.”

Date and Time: 1 December 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 2 February 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 5 March 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Page

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NEW! 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 and Jane Aldred Date and Time: 22 January 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Howell Croft South, Bolton, Lancs. BL1 1SB Date and Time: 10 February 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 31 March 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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Supporting Recovery 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.

Supporting Recovery

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 offers 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: • Have an awareness of circumstances where advocates must be involved and where they may be involved to protect service users’ rights

• 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, family and service users themselves in relation to this legislation

• Consider how advocates may help in situations where people face losing or have lost their liberty

• Understand the ethos and principles of advocacy, and the varied roles and responsibilities of mental health advocates

• 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 and Lynn Agnew

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Trainers were both first class – gave clear explanations, answered questions, very clear, thorough and interesting day – ace”

Date and Time: 14 November 2014 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 16 January 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 20 February 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester M6 5BZ Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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An Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy 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.

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I enjoyed the use of practical examples in the form of exercises – thought provoking and useful.”

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.

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: 12 December 2014 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 28 January 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 10 March 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 Page

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NEW! An Introduction to Life Story Work Life Story Work provides individuals with the opportunity to talk about their life experiences, memories and hopes for the future and records this in a creative way.

A number of different methods for capturing the information are explored – whether this is a DVD, photograph album, collage, life story books, photo-story boards or a memory box – so that you can choose whatever method suits you best.

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This course will help you to share your life experiences and provide you with the opportunity to create a Life Story piece of work. Your individuality, identity, mental stimulation and style of communication will be explored in a fun and yet meaningful way.

This is an interactive session which will require you to bring an openness to share your positive life experiences in a group setting along with some materials such as valued photographs, or maybe one or two small items that hold meaning for you that you then feel comfortable discussing and sharing.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have an understanding of what Life Story is and how this can help you to retain your wishes, values and beliefs • Consider how having a Life Story can stimulate long term and short term memory • Explore how having a Life Story can improve communication and conversations with those close to you, to further strengthen relationships and support networks that maintain your recovery

• Produce a piece of individualised Life Story to take home with you which can be added to.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about Life Story. We hope this will be useful to anyone with lived experience of dementia or anyone who has mental health and/or substance misuse problems. This course is also useful for those providing care who want to learn how to collect information about the person they care for to work with them to build up a record of their life.

Duration: Half a day (3.5 hours) Lead Tutor: Sarah Page

Date and Time: 16 December 2014 – 1pm to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 13 February 2015 – 1pm to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 4 March 2015 – 1pm to 4.30pm Venue: Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester M41 5SL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 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

• Gain direct experience and initial practice of MI • Learn the processes used within MI sessions.

• Directly experience an MI approach and contrast it with other approaches • Know the practical guidelines for using MI 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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Fantastic two days.

Steve was an excellent trainer – clear and enabled practice of ‘techniques’.”

Date and Time: 20 and 21 November 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 5 and 6 February 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester M6 5BZ Date and Time: 11 and 12 March 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester M16 0LN Page

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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

o Exploring people’s strengths and resources, rather than problems

• Have seen the approach in action

o Exploring people’s short and longterm goals for the future

• Know the value of the questioning style of this approach, and reflect on its suitability for different mental health and/or substance misuse problems

o Exploring what resources someone has to contribute to achieving their longterm goals o Assuming people are the experts in their own lives

• Become familiar with the “Miracle Question”, which the approach promotes

o Taking a respectful, brief and nonintrusive form of questioning.

• 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)

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

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Enjoyed the role plays, and how we are able to convert the training into practice.”

Date and Time: 12 November 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, External Entrance, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 20 January 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester M16 0LN Date and Time: 3 March 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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NEW! Creative Writing

Supporting Recovery

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

• Feel inspired and motivated to explore your own creativity.

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

Date and Time: 11 December 2014 – 10am to 3pm Venue: blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester M16 0LN Date and Time: 12 March 2015 – 10am to 3pm Venue: Crabtree Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Page

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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

• Understand the circumstances under which an advance decision might be disregarded • Be aware of ways of increasing the chances that an advance decision will shape future service responses.

• Be able to complete a valid advance decision to refuse treatment 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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I enjoyed how interactive the learning style was and that there was someone explaining about Advance Decisions who actually had one and it had been used whilst under a service.”

Date and Time: 15 December 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancs. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 9 January 2015 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Ernest Rutherford Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 17 March 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Venue: Eccles Gateway, 28 Barton Lane, Eccles, Manchester M30 0TU Page

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Dementia Friends

Supporting Recovery

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

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Even after 20 years working with older people it’s a pleasure to keep learning more and improving my level of care.”

Lead tutors: Tracy Collard and Gill Drummond Date and Time: 30 October 2014 – 2.30pm to 4pm Venue: Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 25 November 2014 – 10am to 11.30am Venue: Meeting Room 1, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 20 February 2015 – 10am to 11.30am Venue: Conference Room, Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester. M41 5SL Date and Time: 25 March 2015 – 2.30pm to 4pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Page

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Facilitating Self-Help Groups Supporting Recovery

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.

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

• Feel confident about running your own group

• Know a range of facilitator styles and when to use different styles in different situations

• 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, Chris McGowan and Mike Wilson

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I learned so much, it encouraged me out of my comfort zone, got me ready and inspired me for group work – bloody brill”

Date and Time: 17 and 18 February 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester M6 5BZ Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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Updated!

Health and Wellbeing for Carers

Supporting Recovery

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.

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: One full day (4.5 hours) Lead tutors: Patricia Goodwin and Suzanne Grundy Date and Time: 26 November 2014 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: blueSCI 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0LN Date and Time: 8 December 2014 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, J2 Training Room, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 21 January 2015 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: Eccles Gateway, 28 Barton Lane, Eccles, Manchester. M30 0TU Date and Time: 25 February 2015 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: Room 2, Trust HQ, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester. M25 3BL Date and Time: 26 March 2015 – 10am to 2.30pm Venue: Carer’s Room, Rivington Unit, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Page

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NEW! Mindfulness and Compassion

Focussed Therapy

Supporting Recovery

Mindfulness can help us enjoy the world more and understand ourselves better by changing the way we think, feel and act. Mindfulness and compassion are psychological skills, which we can all develop. These skills have their roots in meditative practice and have recently become the focus of considerable scientific research efforts.

Developing and strengthening your ability to be non-judgementally receptive to events within the present moment has been found to be beneficial for people who experience depression, and for people who are struggling with stress.

This course will help you to gain an awareness of how common it is to go through life on automatic pilot, rather than living with full awareness, and how we become overly attached to our own self attacking patterns, especially when we are struggling with feelings of great sadness or threat.

By the end of this course, you will: • Have direct experience of mindfulness techniques for coping with stress, anxiety, addictive behaviour and depression • Have a theoretical understanding of mindfulness and how it can be helpful for people with mental health and alcohol and drugs problems • Have a greater understanding of selfattacking, its role, and its consequences

• Gain an understanding of what compassion is and what it is not • Think about your own ambivalence to being more compassionate about your struggles • Have experienced a number of ways which will help you to strengthen your ability to engage in compassion • Learn how compassion and mindfulness strengthen each other.

Who should attend? This free course is for anyone who wants to know about mindfulness and 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: Martin O’Doherty, Tobyn Bell, Ian Lowens and Marcelina Watkinson

Date and Time: 11 November 2014 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 13 January 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 Date and Time: 10 March 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Howell Croft South, Bolton, Lancs. BL1 1SB Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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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 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.

• Be able to use different maps to specifically promote recovery and be able to support people in overcoming barriers to recovery 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 tutors: Chris McGowan

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I enjoyed the practice – completing the maps in groups using the case studies provided.”

Date and Time: 4 and 5 November 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Room 2 and Room 4, Trust HQ, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3GL Date and Time: 6 and 7 January 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 17 and 18 March 2015 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Octagon Theatre, Hospitality Suite, Howell Croft South, Bolton, Lancs. BL1 1SB Page

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Personality Disorder; National KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) Programme Supporting Recovery

“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 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 to support people with personality disorder and what skills are required to do this effectively.

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 • Have considered the factors that might lead to 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 • 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.

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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.

Lead tutors: Colin Mattinson, Martin O’Doherty, Mani Mehdikhani and Ben Ottiwell

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

Cohort One: Date and Time: 3 November, 17 November and 1 December 2014 - 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Various rooms on the Prestwich site, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Cohort Two: Date and Time: 8 January, 22 January and 5 February 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Various rooms on the Prestwich site, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Cohort Three: Date and Time: 23 February, 9 March and 23 March 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm Venue: Various rooms on the Prestwich site, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Page

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Recovery Star

Supporting Recovery

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.

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This course will introduce the Recovery Star as an aid to There was an opportunity identifying people’s strengths to get involved and put into and goals and show you how practice what we learned.” 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.

Date and Time: 18 December 2014 – 1pm to 4.30pm Venue: J2 Training Room, Linden Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road.

Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR Date and Time: 12 February 2015 – 9.30am to 1pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Date and Time: 4 March 2015 – 9.30am to 1pm Venue: Room 2, Trust HQ, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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Supporting the Recovery Process Supporting Recovery

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

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• 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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As well as the five classroom sessions, there is also an opportunity to visit Manchester Museum to explore our human history and mental health from different perspectives, both past and present.

The museum’s ‘Objects in Mind’ two hour tour has been developed to encourage visitors to use the museum in a way that promotes and aids their recovery from mental health problems.

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Travelling through the museum galleries you will explore the theme of personal experience, how we view ourselves, and the journeys we take through life that reveal a sense of identity.

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

Lead tutor: Jane Aldred

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The course was very good and interesting.

I enjoyed the interactiveness of the sessions.”

Date and Time: 9 January 2015 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 16 January 2015 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 23 January 2015 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 30 January 2015 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Date and Time: 6 February 2015 – 1pm to 4.30pm Venue: Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Date and Time: 13 February 2015 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Peel Room, Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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Assertiveness Skills Developing Knowledge and Life 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.

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: Bethany Darbyshire

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Excellent facilitator, made the session enjoyable with learning objectives met.”

Date and Time: 21 November 2014 – 10am to 4pm Venue: blueSCI, 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, Manchester M16 0LN Date and Time: 2 December 2014 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Meeting Room 1, J2, Linden Ward, External Entrance, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancs. BL4 0JR Date and Time: 20 February 2015 – 10am to 4pm Venue: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Page Recovery, Health and Wellbeing Academy Prospectus: October 2014 - March 2015

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

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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.

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 English you should attend all nine 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 English skills English through practical activities Introduction to debates, discussions, interview Speaking and listening skills and presentations through practical confidently and successfully activities Looking at different styles of spoken and English in the media written English in TV, music, newspapers and books What type of written and spoken language do From Facebook to we use in different situations? Friendly, formal, formalities texting, letter writing, emails...

Successful written communication skills for job applications, form filling (benefits, passports, "What do I put here?" utilities, and phones etc., both on paper and online).

How to spell and punctuate Using the internet (websites, apps, online using technology and other dictionaries) and even books to improve your things...

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Explore and use the various styles of English Describe! Instruct! used in different situations - creative writing, Persuade! Inform! flyers, newsletters, writing instructions, reports and records.

Using leaflets, timetables, the internet, advertisements, newspapers, brochures and Finding out information reference books to find the information we need.

Everything you need to Practical activities in writing, reading, speaking, do for a Qualification in and listening which will help you towards a English formal qualification in Functional English

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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 nine week period.

Course tutors: Maria Clifton and Heather Peel

Date and Time: 13 January 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 20 January 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 27 January 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 3 February 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 10 February 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 17 February 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 10 March 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 17 March 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 24 March 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Venue for all the above training: Gloucester House, Back Duncan Street, Salford, Manchester M7 2EY Please note participants MUST attend all 9 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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Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

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

Date and Time: 7 November 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 14 November 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 21 November 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 28 November 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 5 December 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 12 December 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 19 December 2014 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Venue for all the above: Shaw IT Suite, 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

Date and Time: 21 January 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 28 January 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 4 February 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 11 February 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 4 March 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 11 March 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Date and Time: 25 March 2015 – 9.30am to 12.30pm Venue for all the above training: Meeting Room 2, Chapman Barker Unit, 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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NEW! 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 • 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 Date and Time: 7 January 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 14 January 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 21 January 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 28 January 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 4 February 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Date and Time: 11 February 2015 – 1pm to 4pm Venue for all the above: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester M6 5BZ 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: • Be able to use node-link mapping

• Understand the role of Peer Mentor, and the importance of professional boundaries

• Understand the use of group facilitation skills

• 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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• Know how to empower individuals in moving on to wider recovery networks.

The delivery of the information was informal and all questions were given time for an answer and further discussion where necessary.”

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

Date and Time: 28 November 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Date and Time: 4 December 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Date and Time: 5 December 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Date and Time: 11 December 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Date and Time: 12 December 2014 – 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue for all the above: Start in Salford, Brunswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, Manchester M6 5BZ Please note participants MUST attend all 5 days to receive accreditation

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Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

Read to Lead Read to Lead is the only course that introduces you to the working practice of shared reading.

A stimulating, enriching and inspiring three-day course, followed by twelve-month access to exclusive and tailored Ongoing Learning provision, Read to Lead will enable you to run shared reading sessions informed

by The Reader Organisation’s (TRO) visionary practice.

TRO believe that reading is not a luxury for few, but an essential part of life for us all. Led by The Reader Organisation’s inspirational trainers, Read to Lead will equip you with the basic skills to run shared reading groups, bringing books to life for others.

Completion of Read to Lead gives you direct access to TRO’s extensive experience, passing on practical skills and the ethos that is driving an international Reading Revolution. Their experiential, ‘learning by doing’, approach makes Read to Lead a powerful experience in its own right, and a real investment in yourself, personally and professionally.

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By the end of this course, you will have: • A practical appreciation of literature and its social value • Greater confidence in reading aloud • Group facilitation skills • Improved communication skills

Developing Knowledge and Life Skills

• Improved social awareness • Access to a wide and growing network of trained facilitators • Twelve months access to The Reader Organisation’s national programme of continuing professional development.

Who should attend? The Reader Organisation is more interested in passion, enthusiasm and a respect for people from all walks of life over and above qualifications, current job role or literary knowledge. If you believe in literature as a potentially therapeutic tool and are able to commit to running a weekly shared reading group then please do apply for a place.

Duration: Three full days (7 hours) Facilitated by: The Reader Organisation.

The Reader Organisation is a charitable social enterprise working to connect people with great literature through shared reading. See more at: www.thereader.org.uk.

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It moves you – I mean, it hits you deep inside where it means something.”

Date and Time: 16, 23 and 30 October 2014 - 9.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Waterdale Conference Suite, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL This is the only course in this prospectus where lunch IS provided.

Please note: this is the only course in this prospectus where the booking arrangements are different. To book, contact Julie Halford at The Reader Organisation on 0151 207 7221 or email: juliehalford@thereader.org.uk no later than 9 October 2014.

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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.

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A fun and interactive learning experience.”

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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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

• Practised and further developed confidence in delivering training • Looked at best practice in terms of evaluating training.

• Have considered a range of assessment techniques to assess whether learning is taking place 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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Interactive course – encouraged participation from group but was informal and relaxed.”

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Meet the tutors (in alphabetical order):

Lynn Agnew - Lynn Agnew is Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (the Trust) Assistant Director for Integrated Governance. Lynn works to make sure staff 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 is currently taking additional qualifications in teaching and I.T. at Bolton College.

Jane Aldred - Jane has a BA (Hon) Degree in Philosophy and is currently undertaking a PGDE at the University of Bolton. She has worked extensively promoting the ethics of recovery to service users over the past few years as part of her job as Day Service Champion for Move Forward Bolton. Jane believes that the recovery model can not only benefit service users by providing a model by which they can become more active in their treatment but also revolutionise the way mental health services are provided in the future.

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 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded ‘Recovery’ programme of research investigating recovery from psychosis and has published papers on the subject.

Rosie is passionate about providing recovery orientated services and has worked in an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (EIP) and a Recovery Team, the latter having a particular focus on recovery in personality difficulties. She has special interests in psychosis and difficulties often described as personality disorder. In her current role in a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), she enjoys working with members of the multi-disciplinary team to support them in reaching a psychological understanding of the service users they work with and promote psychologically-informed care planning.

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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 April 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.

Tobyn Bell - Tobyn is a Cognitive-Behavioural Therapist working for the Trust’s Psychological Therapies Service in Trafford. Originally trained as mental health nurse, Tobyn has a longstanding interest in integrating mindfulness and compassionbased practices into mental health care. He is part of the training executive for the Compassionate Mind Foundation and specialises in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). Tobyn is currently completing the teacher training course in mindfulness-based approaches at Bangor University.

Phillip Brawn - Phil is a Clinical Psychologist working on a research study called TEAMS (Think Effectively About Mood Swings) for the Trust and the University of Manchester.

Phil is the lead therapist on TEAMS, which means he regularly delivers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to a range of people who experience distressing mood swings and bipolar disorder. He also works with the Early Intervention Psychosis Service based in Bolton. Other work related interests include the use of physical activity in mental health recovery and transdiagnostic approaches to mental health problems.

Wendy Broderick - Wendy describes herself as a 47 year old “recycled teenager” with a passion for promoting 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 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.

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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 has worked in the ‘Learning & Development’ and ‘HR & Learning’ teams for the last four and a half years.

She is extremely enthusiastic about developing the potential of each person through building on prior skills and life experience.

Maria gained a PGDE qualification in order to promote learning in the fundamental areas of everyday life and work – those which enable you to feel proud and motivated in your achievements. Maria’s teaching uses her knowledge to draw on everyday experience to help students understand the subjects.

Tracy Collard (AMBCS, MIfL) - Tracy is the C.A.R.E (Compassion and Recovery-focussed Everytime) Hub Lead for the Trust. The C.A.R.E Hub works in partnership with carers, service users, volunteers, staff and external customer based organisations to develop the care we provide. The Hub has a proactive role in influencing the quality and experience of care at the Trust by developing systems for seeking and acting upon feedback as well as creating robust communication networks internally and externally. Tracy works across the Trust overseeing the carer agenda, and is the lead for the Triangle of Care initiative.

Ann Collins - Ann qualified as a Registered Mental Health Nurse in 1988 and has dedicated her career to working with older people with mental health needs. After completing an MSc in Dementia Care at the University of Manchester in 2007, Ann focused her career on working specifically with people with dementia. She has more recently completed a PGD in Advanced Practice to support her current role as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Dementia Care.

Ann’s clinical role supports the dementia in-reach team working with care homes to prevent hospital admission and facilitate hospital discharge. She also has strategic and service development roles with an important focus of her work being training and education.

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.

Lynne works with private language schools and teaches English to a range of adults who want to improve their English and come to stay in the UK for short periods of time to do this. She enjoys working with people from different cultures and learning about their lives and customs. 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.

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Bethany Darbyshire - Bethany is the Trust’s Specialist Services Network Organisational Development & Training Manager. As a qualified Teacher, Project Manager, MBTI Practitioner and Fitness Instructor, Bethany brings with her a broad range of experience in education and the NHS. Bethany previously worked as Head of Drama in a Secondary school, and then for eight years in various roles in a Primary Care Trust and acute setting.

Bethany has experience of delivering Leadership & Management training as well as facilitating service development days to encourage open communication, improved ways of working and continuous service improvement. She is a Mentor Champion for the North West Mentoring Scheme and is a believer in the power of a good mentoring/coaching relationship to help develop people.

Gillian Drummond - Gill is the Dementia Quality Lead for the Trust. Gill’s role is to support clinical teams in the development and delivery of services and in achieving best practice in line with national priorities across the whole dementia spectrum. 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. For six years she worked as the Matron at Woodlands Hospital in Little Hulton. Gill has a BSc (Hons) in psychosocial treatments and has a keen interest in the delivery of training completing a PGCE (Practice Educator) qualification in 2006.

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 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.

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.

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 in part of the Alcohol & Drugs Directorate. 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.

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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 31 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.

Teresa worked with later life adults, adults of working age and adolescents whilst working with John Denmark at the Department of Psychiatry for the Deaf, Whittingham Hospital. She has worked in Burnley and Jersey, for Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust and for Environmental Health services.

Suzanne Grundy - Suzanne is a Senior Carer Support Coordinator for the Trust’s Bolton mental health directorate. 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 their health and wellbeing.

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 seven. 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 last year with the Trust’s Salford Drug and Alcohol Service. Since then she has become a Peer Mentor for this service and a volunteer at Trafford General Mental Health Unit.

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 Special Mental Health and Deafness Service based at the John Denmark Unit. 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.

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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 herself with NVQ level 3 in British Sign Language and 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 his 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 Adult Forensic Services Campus.

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.

Graham Lee - Graham is a 40 year old service user with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and depression which varies from day to day. He is able to live with his illness and lead a normal life with controlled medication. He finds talking about it to professionals and attending Bolton Hearing Voices Group helps both himself and others in similar positions.

His confidence and self-esteem has improved a great deal by being able to talk about it, hence why he has chosen to talk about it with the Recovery Academy without people being judgemental. His ambition for the following 12 months is to get his driving licence back so he can go touring Great Britain and Europe in his VW campervan with his partner and son and carry on living a good life with his illness.

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.

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).

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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.

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 Alcohol & Drugs Directorate Training Team for three days a week, while continuing to practice as a Senior Substance Misuse Practitioner for Community Services for two days a week. He has particular experience in brief interventions, dual diagnosis, and community assisted alcohol withdrawal; and has a special interest in the solution focused approach to recovery from substance addiction.

Mani Mehdikhani - Mani is a Principal Clinical Psychologist for the Trust’s Alcohol & Drugs Directorate. He has worked in the field of addiction and substance misuse since qualifying as a clinical psychologist in 2007. In addition to his clinical experience, he has also had over four years pre-qualification experience working as a researcher in the field of addiction.

Mani has obtained Chartered status with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is a member in good standing with the Division of Clinical Psychology and the Faculty of Addiction. He is also registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC). He has an interest in evolutionary psychology, and is currently working towards obtaining an MSc in Personality Disorders at the University of Central Lancashire. Mani also regularly teaches on Clinical Psychology doctorate training courses at Liverpool and Lancaster Universities on the subject of addiction.

Stewart Moors - Stewart is a Support, Time and Recovery Worker for the Trust’s Salford Substance Misuse Service. Prior to this, he worked in HIV, Hepatitis C & Sexual Health Prevention & Awareness as a Community Development Officer for three years. He is a trained Mindfulness Teacher and likes to combine this training and his prevention and awareness experience with his Support, Time and Recovery work.

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Sarah Monks - Sarah is passionate about Dementia Care. It was this passion that led her to become a Registered Mental Health Nurse going on to work both in community and inpatient settings. Sarah now works in the Trust’s Memory Assessment Team in Bolton as a Memory Assessment Nurse, taking the lead in Physical Health Care and acting as a Research Champion.

Sarah is due to start her Msc in Dementia Care this year and continues to find new opportunities to enrich her knowledge and experience with the aim of benefitting her patients, families and carers. Sarah strives to find new ways of improving practice and improving the lives of those affected by dementia.

Martin O’Doherty - Martin trained as an occupational therapist, graduating in 2009.

His goal was to specialise specifically in acute mental health, but in 2010 he became unwell with his own mental health and has been slowly working his way through his own recovery. His goal is to get back into meaningful employment as an occupational therapist and use his personal experiences of mental health to help others, especially those who experience anxiety disorders. He runs a self-help group at Mental Health Independent Support Team (MhIST) in Bolton for people living with OCD where he utilises his occupational therapy skills to help others to work through their own recovery.

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.

Ben Ottiwell - Ben is a Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) based at a Community Mental Health Team in Salford. He has worked for the Trust in various settings including substance misuse and adult acute admissions and for the past nine years in the community. He has developed a special interest in the subject of personality disorder over years of working as a CPN and has co-authored a paper based on effective case management for Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, which is in the process of being reviewed for publication.

He has spoken at the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder. He is developing a clinical pathway for people who are newly referred to the Community Mental Health Team with a colleague.

Sarah Page - Sarah is an Occupational Therapist with a background working in physical and mental health settings. She is the lead for the progression of Life Story work in the Trust’s mental health directorate in Bolton. Sarah has presented on this topic at a variety of conferences and has embedded Life Story in the Post Diagnostic Support Group that she is currently leading, which has been shared across the Trust.

Sarah is part way through an MSc in Dementia at The University of Manchester and has many years’ experience of working with people with dementia, their carers and staff.

She has shared Life Story training with commissioners and senior managers, the Stroke Association, carers groups, Parkinson’s Disease Society and people with experience of adult mental health conditions.

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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. She is currently involved in a joint partnership venture between the Trust and the Priory known as Recovery First based at Widnes. 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) inspections and interviews prospective Trust staff. 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.

Leanne Roberts - Leanne is 35 years old and is a mental health support worker who has many years of experience in the field. She has used creative writing amongst other tools throughout life in all its glory.

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) 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.

Gary Sidley - Gary is a retired Professional Lead/Consultant Clinical Psychologist who worked in mental health services for 33 years, initially as a psychiatric nurse and, since 1989, as a clinical psychologist. 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 and Advance Decisions.

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Yvonne Slater - Yvonne is the Operational Lead for the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive and Behaviour Therapies (CBT Pathway) 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 behavioural psychotherapist with Brighton University 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 in Primary Care. She has a particular interest in working with 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 own recovery by volunteering at blueSCI and delivering courses as part of the Academy’s Trainer Bank.

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.

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.

Kelly Sweeney - Kelly is a clinical psychologist currently working in the Trust’s Adult Forensic Service (AFS). She obtained an undergraduate degree in psychology in 2000 and Doctoral in Clinical Psychology in 2008. She is currently studying for an MSc in Forensic Mental Health. Kelly has been working within AFS for the last four years in low and medium secure services and within Greater Manchester Probation Trust. Prior to this she worked for many years within a variety of adolescent services. Kelly is particularly interested in the development and emergence of personality disorder and enjoys working with staff to develop formulations in order to better understand behaviour.

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Dr Gemma Trainor - Gemma is a Consultant Nurse specialising in young people who self-harm. She has over 30 years’ experience working with people with complex mental health difficulties and is currently Clinical Lead for the Trust’s day and outpatient service based at Junction 17 - a Tier 4 setting in North West England.

She has spent the last 18 years actively researching. In 2001, she completed her PhD in the group treatment and therapy she designed, which is referenced in 2004 NICE Guidelines on self-harm. Since then she was the lead clinician in a large randomised controlled trial and has published in peer reviewed journals. She co-authored a recently published book “Helping Children and Young People Who Self Harm” and is currently on the NICE Expert Topic Group, which will finalise the NICE Quality Standards on Self Harm.

Marcelina Watkinson - Marcelina, known as Marz to most people, is a mum of two and a trainee clinical psychologist who is very passionate and curious about people, their life stories and how life has shaped them into the people they are today.

Over the past 10 years, Marz has been working in a setting with vulnerable individuals in various educational, residential and mental health settings. She is currently two-thirds through her clinical training and particularly interested in the Compassionate Mind Training approach.

Claire Watson - Claire is the Trust Lead for the Recovery, Health and Wellbeing 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 who has worked in mental health services, predominantly with older people, for 13 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).

Mike Wilson - Mike is celebrating 15 years since his discharge from the Trust’s inpatient services. He manages his recovery by working alongside mental health staff, and facilitating groups in mental health services across Greater Manchester. These include Creative Movement, Reading Aloud, and co-leading therapeutic/self-help groups.

He has trained people through the Mental Health Independent Support Team (MhIST) in Bolton to facilitate recovery groups. Since 2007, he has trained Trust staff and beyond in the recovery model. Just recently he has co-led the Values into Action training which has been developed by the Trust to promote our core values. In addition to his mental health work, Mike has gained many qualifications to support his other voluntary experience, including Level 4 Youth and Community work, Level 3 Children’s & Young Peoples Workforce, and Level 3 Advanced Certificate in Creative Play. All this has helped him to gain employment on a part time basis and so he is passionate about supporting others in their recovery journeys.

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 is also involved in carrying out research into how former service users make the transition to become paid workers in the substance misuse field and has joined the Salford Integration Team to co-facilitate group work.

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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.

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

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• 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.

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