WEA courses

Qua Sha helps to activate your facial muscles, bringing a surge of fresh blood flow to the face, and to bring you to a rest, digest, and heal state. This is when the magic happens Our sessions help you to walk away feeling lifted, relaxed and empowered. Get ready to sculpt, lift, and make your skin glow. Join me for this weekly massage session and say goodbye to puffiness and embrace the fascia journey to sculpt your face and get glowing skin. Empowering women to love the skin they’re in! Join our twelve-week course and learn how in a relaxed and friendly environment.

This is a repeat of the same popular course in Summer 2024: From the viewpoint of 80 years after the end of the second world war this six -week course will allow learners to revisit the immediate post war world. We will examine the transformation of Britain from May 1945 through to 1951. The course will cover the pivotal 1945 general election, the extensive social changes, (including the establishment of the NHS and the welfare state) and the economic challenges faced by the country during the austerity years. Through a combination of secondary and primary source analysis, and discussions, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how the immediate post-war period shaped modern Britain.

Macramé is a creative knotting technique that can be used to make a variety of items, plant hangers, wall hangings, friendship bracelets, belts, and bags. including jewellery and other decorative items. It’s a great way to relax and create beautiful art pieces for your home. Learning new skill is to support learners with their health and wellbeing. Learn a new skill which may be a route into employment / self-employment. During this course your tutor will give you demonstration and individual attention for your guidance. In this course you will be working with a macramé cord and each learner will be able to complete a pot hanger. It can be used by you or can be gifted to the loved ones. This is a continuation of the improvers spring course, but all levels are welcome.

Come and join yoga nidra sessions packed full of yoga asanas designed to support your health and wellbeing. Explore breathing techniques that help you focus, reduce stress and improve your sleeping patterns. Whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned yoga nidra student looking to refresh your knowledge of the body, how to cope with stress or simply feel a little more flexible.

This creative and hands-on course introduces learners to the world of dry sculpture — a form of three-dimensional art that uses non-wet materials such as cardboard, paper, wire, fabric, wood, found objects, and other mixed media. Ideal for beginners or those wanting to expand their artistic techniques, this course focuses on building sculptural pieces and the use of clay or traditional wet methods. You'll learn to shape, assemble, and refine structures while exploring texture, balance, and personal expression. This course is perfect for those interested in upcycling, installation art, abstract forms, or simply trying something new in a supportive, imaginative setting.

This qualification is designed for learners looking to increase their knowledge & awareness of Mental Health & Well-Being. This qualification is to help you to develop your awareness of issues surrounding mental health and to become aware of the rights of those with mental health issues. The main objectives of this qualification are to: • raise awareness of the issues surrounding mental health Course Outline Accredited 2024-25 Mental Health Awareness Level 1 (Award) CACHE • dispel some of the myths and misconceptions frequently linked to mental health issues • develop learners’ knowledge of the rights of those with mental health issues This course will delivered either online, or in a face-to-face classroom environment, with a variety of Classroom activities and online learning activities through the Canvas platform, to assess learning for each module. The overall course will be assessed through the creation of a portfolio of evidence that meets awarding body criteria. A potential progression route after this course may be the “Stress Awareness Level 1 (Award) CACHE” or the “Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health Awareness NCFE CACHE” qualifications

Discover the wonderful practice of LAND ART as a way of becoming more intimate with your surroundings. This is a friendly course designed to support creativity and connection to oneself, community, to the Earth and beyond. This will enhance resilience and well being in order to contribute to a more mindful, compassionate and environmentally sustainable world. The aim is to practice falling in love through offering our creations to the natural world. It will bring more awareness to your life while practising having the self confidence to express yourself. It is ideal for those who want to keep physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually fit. It will offer you guidelines, like helping hands, to move you deeper into your own authenticity and into a life that is richer and fuller, simply because you are living with more skill. This course is designed for all walking bodies and is ideal for people who like to contemplate how to live more skilfully as individuals, as a community and in relationship with your environment.

Do you want to learn the basics of drawing nature? Why not join this course to develop your skills and creativity, find inspiration and receive support and encouragement? This one-week course aims to help you to explore different ways to make pencil marks; the use of tone and shading; line drawings; proportion, perspective and composition whilst drawing nature. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and share your artworks with the tutor and other students on this Online, Two session course.

During this 6-week course, you will look at a variety of techniques that could help you to manage your wellbeing. Each week we will have a theme, that builds your knowledge around mental health wellbeing’s, for example, the NHS 5 steps the wellbeing, mindfulness, healthy lifestyles and work life balance. At the end of the course, you will have created a poster all the wellbeing techniques you like.

This is a course designed for learners who have some experience or knowledge of counselling. It is an opportunity to gain more experience in counselling. You will be working with our wonderful Teacher Sasha Dineen. This course is for students to gain more practical counselling experience in triads (counsellor, client and observer) using the ten core counselling skills. To attend this course, it is useful if you have already completed a 6 week counselling skills course or have a Level 2/3/4 counselling qualification.