WEA courses

This one session course invites you to embrace the stillness of the Winter Solstice and journey into deep rest through mindfulness and Yoga Nidra. Suitable for all levels, it offers a serene and nurturing environment to unwind and rejuvenate, supporting both your physical and mental well-being. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year. Honouring the Winter Solstice together can be a meaningful way to embrace the season's themes of reflection, rest, and renewal. This session emphasises the importance of slowing down and tuning into the body's natural rhythms during the winter season. You will be guided through a progressive series of deeply relaxing practices including Progressive Muscle Relaxation, deep breathing, subtle mindful movement , inner light meditation, and a lengthened Yoga Nidra to encourage deep rest. By the end of your session you will be able to identify one way in which the practice of deep rest supports your physical well-being and one way in which it supports your mental well-being.

Feel confident progressing to level 2 ESOL with this ESOL preparation course. It is designed to help you learn key reading skills you’ll need for the ESOL level 2 reading course. Get up to speed with the reading techniques and language skills you’ll need to tackle this ESOL course. Get ready courses help you learn English at your own pace. They give you extra study time for each level and module so you can reach your full potential. This is a non-accredited English course for adults. If you’re helping others access level 2 ESOL courses in the UK, you’ve come to the right place.

When you’re studying maths at school, it’s sometimes hard to see how you’ll use the skills in real life. All it takes is for someone to explain that ratios help you compare the prices of different products, percentages are used to split bills, and multiplication and division help you set a monthly budget. When you learn in context, it’s easy to see how functional maths is. This Functional Skills Maths Level 2 course is designed using real-life examples to help you improve your maths skills. If you find it easier to learn maths with practical examples, this is the course for you. Functional Skills qualifications are free if you don't already have a GCSE in English or Maths at grades A*-C, or 4-9. We'll check your level and any previous qualifications before you start. This ensures you are on the correct course.

Develop skills to help you read, write, and communicate in English with confidence. Improved language skills open doors to work and study opportunities and help you learn key skills for employment. Level 1 functional skills courses are not like learning English at school. They’re created by adults for adults, and aim to teach you practical English skills through real-life situations. Strengthen your writing skills and learn reading techniques to help you tackle everyday situations at work or while studying. This adult English course helps you develop your language skills through real-life situations. Functional Skills level 1 is a government-funded accredited English course for adults. Functional Skills qualifications are free if you don't already have a GCSE in English or Maths at grades A*-C, or 4-9. We'll check your level and any previous qualifications before you start. This ensures you are on the correct course.

What do you know about John Singer Sargent? He was a high society portrait painter? He painted Madame X, and Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. In this session, you will learn about the life and career of this extraordinary painter, in greater details. American, he lived in Italy, in France and mainly in England, where he became a sought-after portrait painter. But there is much more to Sargent than his portraits of wealthy patrons. We will also discover some of his impressionist paintings and his watercolours. Sargent’s art is paradoxical: modern by some features, and classical based on some others. But always, in portraits as in landscapes, he comes across as a brilliant painter.

Develop confidence to interact with others in English, no matter the situation. This ESOL course teaches you skills to help you communicate verbally in English. It can support you in job interviews, social conversations, or in your studies. This ESOL level 1 speaking and listening course builds on skills you learnt at entry 3. Gain tools to help you in conversations and sharpen your listening skills. This is an English course for adults. It is aimed at speakers of other languages. ESOL classes are divided into three areas: reading, writing, and speaking & listening. If you’re helping others access ESOL courses in the UK, you’ve come to the right place.

Having a child or loved one receive an autism diagnosis can be worrying and unsettling. It’s difficult to know how best to support autistic children’s needs without external guidance. This autism course can teach you how to offer support to help autistic young people live healthy and fulfilling lives. This taster course is ideal for you if you have regular contact with autistic children or teenagers. It is aimed at parents, family members, community workers, or volunteers who interact closely with autistic kids. It can be useful both if you are going through diagnosis, and also if you feel you need extra resources to help support a developing autistic child.

Do you volunteer at a school or kids’ community centre? This means you may well work closely with children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Understanding the needs of kids with ADHD is essential to giving them the support they need. This equality & diversity course is ideal for you if you have regular contact with children with ADHD. You will learn useful tools and information to create a positive and inclusive environment for these children within a wider group setting. ADHD courses teach you important strategies for working with these children. Gain understanding of what ADHD is and how it affects young people. Consider the facts and myths surrounding ADHD and learn ways to interact productively with these kids. Gain awareness of behaviour that challenges and explore strategies to deal with it in community settings.

This online yoga course is designed to improve coordination and balance through a series of targeted poses and exercises. Poor balance and coordination can negatively impact daily life and overall well-being, undermining our confidence and making us more prone to falls and injuries. During this course, learners will practice a range of asana sequences, learning to coordinate movement with their breathing- helping to focus the mind and improve body awareness. They will practice simple balancing poses, modified to ensure participation of all, improving their overall balance as well as core strength. They will learn to recognise that balancing their weight is a key aspect of good alignment in all postures, our key theme will be to focus on the relationship between a steady body and steady mind. The course will include pranayama, meditation and Yoga Nidra to improve inner balance and clarity, supporting positive mental well-being. By the end of their course learners will be able to identify one posture in which they have improved their physical balance, reflecting on how improved physical balance supports steadiness of the mind.

This mindful relaxation course is designed to help ease pain and discomfort through a range of accessible mindful relaxation practices. Living with physical pain and discomfort negatively impacts our mental well-being, this course will support learners to be able to better mange physical discomfort and the stress that accompanies it. Key practices include Progressive Muscle Relaxation, a range of breathing techniques that ease physical discomfort and calm the mind, gentle mindful movement to overcome the fear of movement and Guided Yoga Nidra to encourage deep rest of both body and mind. Our central theme will be to be-friend our own body, approaching it with a kind acceptance. Each session will provide a seamless, flow of progressive relaxation to ease mind and body. Learners will be encouraged to recap practices learnt using the Canvas relaxation recordings provided by their tutor. By the end of the course learners will be able to create their own mindful relaxation routine, identifying practices that best support them to ease physical discomfort, and encourage ease in both mind and body.