Skills for life

Growing up brings constant challenges for young people that are tricky to face alone. Managing friendships, having first relationships, and dealing with increasing responsibility can take a toll on young people’s emotional well-being. Children’s mental health courses help you understand the factors that affect children and teens’ emotional health during different stages of development. This children’s mental health awareness training aims to give you knowledge to support them through these challenges. This mental health course is useful if you work informally with kids, in a community or volunteer capacity. It is also ideal for parents who want to learn how to support their children’s development. Recognise the milestones in children and young people’s development. Understand how puberty, relationships, or stress can affect their mental health. Gain awareness of how external factors, such as the online world, can impact children’s emotional well-being. Understand social stigmas and stereotypes, and learn how to discuss these issues openly with young people. Learn to recognise behaviours young people may show if they have difficulties. Develop communication skills to help you support them through these issues. Gain awareness of treatment and support services that can help them. Depending on your needs, you have various study options after this course. You can do further children’s mental health courses to deepen your understanding of these issues. If you are considering supporting young people’s mental health in a professional capacity, you may consider taking an accredited counselling course. If you’re not sure which option is right for you, feel free to chat to your tutor who will be happy to advise you. You’ll need access to the internet to take this children’s mental health course. Your tutor will upload useful materials to Canvas, the WEA’s digital learning platform. You’ll also

Growing up brings constant challenges for young people that are tricky to face alone. Managing friendships, having first relationships, and dealing with increasing responsibility can take a toll on young people’s emotional well-being. Children’s mental health courses help you understand the factors that affect children and teens’ emotional health during different stages of development. This children’s mental health awareness training aims to give you knowledge to support them through these challenges. This mental health course is useful if you work informally with kids, in a community or volunteer capacity. It is also ideal for parents who want to learn how to support their children’s development. Recognise the milestones in children and young people’s development. Understand how puberty, relationships, or stress can affect their mental health. Gain awareness of how external factors, such as the online world, can impact children’s emotional well-being. Understand social stigmas and stereotypes, and learn how to discuss these issues openly with young people. Learn to recognise behaviours young people may show if they have difficulties. Develop communication skills to help you support them through these issues. Gain awareness of treatment and support services that can help them. Depending on your needs, you have various study options after this course. You can do further children’s mental health courses to deepen your understanding of these issues. If you are considering supporting young people’s mental health in a professional capacity, you may consider taking an accredited counselling course. If you’re not sure which option is right for you, feel free to chat to your tutor who will be happy to advise you. You’ll need access to the internet to take this children’s mental health course. Your tutor will upload useful materials to Canvas, the WEA’s digital learning platform. You’ll also

This online course is designed to enhance back strength and flexibility through the practice of yoga. The focus of this online course is to support learners to understand how to improve and maintain a healthy back, and to better manage stiffness and discomfort, supporting their physical well-being. Back pain and injury affects many people, often undermining mobility and contributing to absence from work which can negatively impact our mental-well-being. Each session will guide learners through a range of holistic practices that improve their overall well-being. Learners will learn a balanced range of yoga poses, specifically targeted at strengthening the muscles supporting the spine, targeting tension areas and increasing overall flexibility. Breath awareness and specific breathing techniques which are an integral part of the practice will induce mental clarity and ease stress. Each session will include guided Yoga Nidra to promote both physical and mental relaxation. By the end of their course, learners will be better equipped to maintain their back strength and flexibility through appropriate, safe and personalised yoga practice.

This online course focuses on mindful relaxation techniques designed to promote deep rest and rejuvenation to support positive well-being. Learners will explore a variety of practices, including , progressive muscle relaxation, body scans ,breathing techniques, gentle mindful movement and guided Yoga Nidra, helping to calm both mind and body. Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical sessions, learners will learn how to effectively manage stress, anxiety and physical tension and discomfort, which are common barriers to deep rest. Participating in the sessions in the comfort of their own home allows learners to relax at a much deeper level. Online Mindful Relaxation courses are particularly beneficial to learners with limited mobility, chronic health conditions, mental health difficulties as well as carers who may find it difficult to attend courses in venue. Learners will be encouraged to practice independently using the relaxation recordings provided in Canvas, allowing them to discover which techniques most suit their needs. By the end of their course, learners will be equipped with a personalised toolkit of relaxation techniques to improve their physical and mental well-being.

Set yourself up for success at entry 3 functional skills in maths. This get ready course helps you prepare to tackle entry 3 maths with confidence. The essential maths skills you’ll learn will help you get your qualification and serve you in everyday life. Get ready courses help you learn maths at your own pace. The idea of this course is to give you extra study time to acquire the knowledge you’ll need for entry 3 maths. This is a preparatory maths course for people who are looking to progress to entry 3 functional skills courses. It is a non-accredited adult maths course.

Yoga and Relaxation for Ananda 9 is a course designed to increase confidence, improve physical health, mental health and well-being. We work with yoga, the breath, chanting, relaxation. We talk about the yoga and the work with the breath, there is time to share stories and to relax and to laugh.

Mindfulness Yoga is suitable for those with experience of yoga as well as absolute beginners. The sessions will be adapted to the needs of the individual. The role of the breath will be the underlying ethos of the sessions. We will work with a range of asanas (yoga postures), pranayama (breathing exercises) and meditation. Each sessions will finish with yoga nidra (guided relaxation). The nature of yoga and working with the breath is that students works with themselves and thus it increases confidences, improves both physical and mental heath and thus overall well-being.

This is a practical, down-to-earth 8 hour course where we can learn how to bring mindfulness into everyday life. We will learn a range of techniques to put into our toolbox of life skills. We will work too with various mindfulness meditations and look at basic mindfulness movements that can be practiced at home. Mindfulness embraces dealing with both the joys and the challenges that we all have to face and thus we will learn how to enhance and enrich our lives. The course contributes towards improving mental health and well-being, increasing confidence, improving skills to participate in community life and improve skills for independent living. “When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another -and ourselves.” – Jack Kornfield

Mindfulness for All is a practical down to earth course which looks at the skills of mindfulness and how to incorporate them into everyday life. Life gives us joys and challenges, sometime more of one than the other. In this course we build up a toolbox of life skills to help deal with both. We look at a range of meditation techniques, we work with the breath, we look at practical ways of dealing with issues so that we can respond rather than react. There is home practice so that we can put these skills into action and then come back to the sessions and discuss what worked and what didn't. For some individuals this is a life changing course. It thus increases confidence, improves mental health and well-being, improves skills to participate in community life and improves skills for independent living

This course is aims to help learners navigate seasonal changes through the practices of meditation, mindfulness, and Yoga Nidra. During the seasons of autumn and winter, many people experience negative symptoms in response to reduced exposure to sunlight such as low mood, lethargy and sleep issues, this can result in people becoming socially withdrawn or adopting unhealthy habits such as over-eating. This course will focus on breathing techniques, embodied meditation practices, mindful movement ,guided Yoga Nidra and positive visualisation to enhance awareness and presence, helping individuals manage the emotional and physical impacts of seasonal transition. The course will challenge negative associations some people may have with the colder seasons, encouraging learners to embrace the opportunity to turn inwards, rest and reflect as well develop healthy, mindful habits in daily life , fostering a more mindful and resilient approach to life's natural cycles. By the end of their course learners will be better equipped to navigate seasonal change and be able to draw upon their mindfulness practice to support their overall well-being and foster a sense of optimism as winter approaches.