Weekly Update

Welcome to the Weekly Update. When we think about mental health we often equate this with illness but not wellness. Whilst many of us have to live with long term health conditions there are always things you can do to improve your mental wellness and regain a sense of value in life again. We are always inspired by the feedback we get from you our learners . Please have a look at our blogs page to read the many stories our leaners have written about their wellness journeys. We hope you will be as inspired as we are by them and find the courage to book onto a course or two.

Learner Blogs

If you would like to write a blog about your experience with us at the College please do get in touch. You don’t have to have written anything before – we can help with that!

 

All are welcome to attend our Harvest Your Potential  event on World Mental Health Day.

Thursday 10th October 2024 10am – 1pm 1 week – Mirfield Community Centre

We are offering a jam-packed morning full of taster sessions to introduce you to the wonderful things we have on offer at the Recovery & Wellbeing College. You will meet some of our amazing Peer Workers, Volunteers and Ambassadors of the College as well as having the opportunity to try out printing, jewellery making, yoga and mindfulness to name but a few.

This free event is open to all adults who wish to improve their health and wellbeing (or the health & wellbeing of someone they support/care for). So come along and discover how to ‘Harvest Your Potential’ this Autumn.

No need to enrol with the college just call to book a place. Friends and family are all welcome!

Harvest Your Potential on World Mental Health Day

 

Recovery & Wellbeing College courses

Click the icon below for details of all our upcoming courses:

Courses with last few remaining spaces:

Tools to Soothe: self-care essentials

Monday 16 September 2024 6pm – 7.30pm 4 weeks at Holmfirth Tech

When facing challenges or difficulties in life, we don’t always know how to soothe or take care of ourselves effectively. Often, we can turn to unhelpful or destructive coping strategies.

In this four-week course, we will explore various soothing techniques and self-care skills to help us find calm during difficult times and help reduce feelings of distress. Through group discussion and with the help and support of our friendly facilitators, we will share creative and useful self-care and self-soothe ideas in a safe and friendly setting, enabling us to share lived experiences, learn from each other and build our resilience.

Tools to Soothe: self-care essentials

Mindful Mondays – various courses and dates in September and October

There are five Mindful Monday sessions happening in September and October 2024-  you can book on as many or as few as you like. Check our website for all the details.

Mindful Mondays – Mandala Stones – Monday 23 September 2024 1pm – 3pm 1 week- Howlands Centre, Dewsbury

Join us as together we discover the therapeutic art of creating beautiful mandala designs on stones. During this one-off session, we’ll be guided and inspired to create our own decorative stones in a safe, relaxed, and supportive environment.

Mindful Mondays – Mandala Stones

Mindful Mondays – Zentangle Art – Monday 30 September 2024 1pm – 3pm 1 week- Howlands Centre, Dewsbury

Join us for an absorbing and engaging mindful drawing workshop which will help us to focus on the now. The drawing method of Zentangle requires us to create repetitive patterns simply using pen and paper and, is considered by many as ‘yoga for the brain’ due to its calming and stress relieving effects.

Mindful Mondays – Zentangle Art

Mindful Mondays – Make your own Mini Masterpiece – Monday 7 October 2024 1pm – 3pm 1 week- Howlands Centre, Dewsbury

For those of us who don’t think we are artistic, or believe we can’t paint or draw then this workshop is for us! Using three different abstract artists for inspiration, we will amaze ourselves as we discover our potential in this expressive, abstract art workshop.

Mindful Mondays – Make your own Mini Masterpiece

Mindful Mondays – Trash to Treasure – Monday 14 October 2024 1pm – 3pm 1 week – Howlands Centre, Dewsbury

Join us for another fabulous creative workshop where we repurpose a simple household glass container into a kindness jar. With the help and support of our lovely facilitator, Carolyn we will learn how to use the method of decoupage to create a beautifully decorated jar using tissue paper and then fill with kindness activities such as going for a walk, reading a book, listening to music or meeting a friend.

Mindful Mondays- Trash to Treasure

Mindful Mondays – Plastic Fantastic – Monday 21 October 2024 1pm – 3pm 1 week – Howlands Centre. Dewsbury

Come along and join us for this fun and eco-friendly workshop which will teach us how to take everyday plastics and recycle them into funky ‘forever flowers’ that can be used to brighten up our homes or gardens. They don’t even need looking after and will provide us with years of enjoyment!

Mindful Mondays- Plastic Fantastic

Creative Wellbeing Walks (Calderdale)

Thursday 19 September 2024 at 11.30am – 2.30pm  Sowerby Bridge Canal

Thursday 26 September 2024 at 11.30am – 2.30pm  Manor Heath Park, Halifax

Thursday 3 October 2024 at 11.30am – 2.30pm        Shibden Park, Halifax

We will be walking in beautiful tranquil settings across Calderdale. This will include Ogden water, Manor Heath Park, Sowerby Bridge Canal and Shibden Park. We will also introduce you to some creative activities during the walking sessions. This will include arts and crafts, photography and music!

These walks vary in length and require different levels of ability/fitness, we have something for everyone.

You will be asked to complete a short physical health questionnaire before being booked onto the course. This must be completed before you attend so any support needs or concerns regarding your physical health can be discussed with the facilitator.

You may want to read Simon’s story of how the wellbeing walks have help him return to work. Wellbeing Walks: a beacon of hope – Simons story

Creative Wellbeing Walks (Calderdale)

 

Woolbeing: mandalas, pom-poms & tassles

Thursday 19 September 2024 10am – 1pm 1 week at Holmfirth Tech

Join us for this brand-new creative and soothing workshop where we’ll explore the many therapeutic benefits of working with wool. With the help and support of our lovely Peer Worker, Ali we’ll discover three delightful crafts that promote relaxation, mindfulness and self-expression. Using soft, colourful wool fibers we’ll learn how to make a beautiful mandala; a circular pattern that symbolises unity and harmony.

Woolbeing: mandalas, pom-poms & tassles

Harvest Your Potential on World Mental Health Day

Thursday 10 October 2024 10am – 1pm 1 week – Mirfield Community Centre

To mark World Mental Health Day, we are offering a jam-packed morning full of taster sessions to introduce you to the wonderful things we have on offer at the Recovery & Wellbeing College. You will meet some of our amazing Peer Workers, Volunteers and Ambassadors of the College as well as having the opportunity to try out printing, jewellery making, yoga and mindfulness to name but a few.

This free event is open to all adults who wish to improve their health and wellbeing (or the health & wellbeing of someone they support/care for). So come along and discover how to ‘Harvest Your Potential’ this Autumn.

Harvest Your Potential on World Mental Health Day

If you are already enrolled with the college, please email us to request a place on your chosen course(s) at:  ckrecovery.wellbeing@swyt.nhs.uk  or call us on: 07717 867911 or use your learner portal

Please wait for confirmation that you are booked onto a course before attending

If you are new to the College please enrol here.

 

Other Community Offers:

Calderdale Food Gathering

Thursday 3rd October 1-6pm

Albany Arcade Halifax Borough Market HX1 1DU

Are you passionate about making sustainable local food accessible to everyone in Calderdale?

Come and meet like minded people, share ideas, taste and see what Calderdale has to offer

For more info:

AINE.CALDERDALEFOODNETWORK@GAMIL.COM

 

Sporting memories  – Huddersfield Town Foundation

Join us every other Monday to chat about all things sport, past and present.

Free to attend

Salvation Army Mirfield

Starting Monday 9th September 1-2pm

for more info: help@htacfoundation.com

 

Yoga in the Park – from 10am every Saturday until end of September

One of our Peer Project Workers, Laura Merriman, is running a Pay as You Feel Yoga Class in Greenhead Park, every Saturday at 10am in August and September. No need to book, just turn up by the bandstand, with a mat!  (mats and chairs will be available if needed). If you want more details or to sign up for reminders click below

Yoga in the Park – Booking by Bookwhen

Skills Connect Care with Confidence Courses, delivered by Octavia Learning

The Care with Confidence course is a two-day mentoring and coaching course for staff or volunteers in the health and social care/voluntary sectors who have buddying/supervising/managing responsibilities as part of their role.

Calderdale dates for this course:
Monday 23rd Sept (10am-3pm both days)
or
Wednesday 6th Nov and Wednesday 20th Nov (10am-3pm both days)

To be eligible for this FREE training, you are required to be at least 19 years old, have a West Yorkshire residential address, have the Right to Work in the UK, and have not attended a Skills Connect funded course previously.
You also need to be available for both dates.

Please see the  sheets below for more information but if you have any questions, please contact Lucy Gray lucy@octavialearning.co.uk

Calderdale Care with Confidence flyer (PDF, 298 KB) Skills Connect Care with Confidence information (PDF, 109 KB)

 

Kirklees Heritage Open Days 2024 – Friday 6th – Sunday 15th September

Heritage Open Days takes place from Friday 6 – Sunday 15 September and is coordinated nationally by the National Trust and funded by the People’s Postcode Lottery. Events are organised by individual venues, supported by the Kirklees HOD Committee.

Kirklees contributes almost 100 events to this year’s Heritage Open Days festival, over 30 of them new this year, and all of them are free although booking may be required.

See link at Kirklees Heritage Open Days 2024 Guide – Kirklees Together for full information and guide.

Mirfield Library Bookworms – Every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Mirfield Library, Eastthorpe Lodge, Huddersfield Road, Mirfield WF14 8AN

Mirfield Library Bookworms are a book group that discusses a a book supplied by Kirklees Libraries and often requested by members of the group on a monthly basis

Tel: 01484 414868

mirfield.lic@kirklees.gov.uk

Kirklees Libraries | Huddersfield | Facebook

 

Halifax Heritage Festival September 6th – September 15th- Halifax

The Halifax Heritage Festival runs from the 6th to 15th September 2024.

For a full schedule breakdown, read the digital Halifax Heritage Festival newspaper via the link below

DIGITAL_VERSION_ALL_PAGES1.pdf (discoverhalifax.co.uk)

Welland Festival – Community Drop-in at Project Colt, Saturday 14 September

Saturday 14th September 11 am – 1 pm at Project Colt, Elland Bridge HX4 0SQ (drop in anytime)

Welland is an arts for wellbeing celebration taking place on Wednesday 30th October in Elland. Aimed at boosting connection and community spirit, all sorts of creative activities and performances are planned! Pop in to find our more and have your say on our plans so far (and enjoy a free brew!)

Proper Job Theatre Company- One Big Day event- Friday 20th September

Byram Arcade, Westgate, Huddersfield HD1 4ND

More information and register link at ONE BIG DAY | Pace Project

Heritage Open Days – Trail: Pirate’s plunder and potatoes at Oakwell Hall

Oakwell Hall, Nova Ln, Birstall, Batley WF17 9LG Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September

Discover what the Tudors brought to Britain in this family-friendly trail in The Hall!
Pick up a Trail sheet in The Hall between 12noon and 345pm on Saturday 14th, and Sunday 15th September.
Part of Heritage Open Days.
Free.

Tel: 01924 324 761

oakwell.hall@kirklees.gov.uk

Oakwell Hall Country Park | Birstall | Facebook

Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival 2024 – 14th and 15th September

The Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival has been an annual event since 2005, and the festival returns this year on 14th and 15th September 2024. All the food stalls will be open 10am – 6pm on Saturday with the stalls in Towngate (by Holmfirth bus station) open until 8pm, and on Sunday stalls are open 10am – 5pm

Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival | Holmfirth | Facebook

Cost of Living Information:

Click the link below to find links to websites and workbooks that can provide help and advice with money, debt and the cost of living.

 

Cost of Living Information – Calderdale and Kirklees

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We hope you have a great weekend

The Recovery & Wellbeing College Team

ckrecovery.wellbeing@swyt.nhs.uk

 07717 867911

Calderdale and Kirklees Recovery and Wellbeing College

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28 Oxford Road
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