These sessions are designed to consider the value of your recovery story and how you may develop skills/tools to further support both yourself and others.

Course overview

Mindful Self-Compassion

Overview: Mindful Self-Compassion is the process of combining mindfulness alongside practicing self-compassion. This course encourages students to respond to difficult moments in their lives with self-kindness, mindful awareness, and an understanding that life can, at times, be challenging for us all.

Assertiveness

Overview: This workshop will help students discover our inner strengths which will help us become more assertive when expressing our views. We will be better equipped to have our voices heard and in turn aid our recovery journey.

The Well Read Project

Overview: This course is delivered in conjunction with ‘Prime Cut Productions’. Throughout the course students will read scripts/plays and each participant will be allocated a character’s lines to read. At the end of each week the students and facilitators will discuss the section of the script/play read.

WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Planning)

Overview: WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Planning) is a recovery programme developed by a lady Mary Ellen Copeland alongside other peers. The WRAP workshop can support individuals to create personal WRAP plans that may help deal with uncomfortable feelings, find and maintain hope, explore the choices available to us and build on our existing strengths. This is a 16-hour programme that will be delivered over 2 full days or 4 half days. Previous College students have noted the ‘Intro to WRAP’ session to have been useful, prior to completing the 16 hour programme.

Drumming for Wellness Taster Session

Overview: These workshops will take place between September and December 2026 in various locations throughout the Northern Trust area. They are for anyone who would like to sample the benefits of drumming and experience a single practical session prior to signing up to the 3 week ‘Drumming for Wellness’ course.

Mental Health First Aid

Overview: This specialist course has been devised to increase the knowledge and confidence of participants, to enable them to provide first aid and support for people experiencing mental health problems at home and at work. Developing skills, and motivation in offering help to those with symptoms of mental illness, and mental health challenges.

Drumming for Wellness

Overview: In this 3-week workshop we will look at the benefits of drumming and have practical sessions using the equipment.