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SLaM Recovery College Wellbeing Webinars for All 14th-18th September

13/9/2020

Hello Students, Colleagues and Friends,

We understand how difficult a time this is for everybody, and particularly for people who experience long term health conditions.

As SLaM Recovery College is unable to offer any classroom-based workshops now, our team has been working behind the scenes to develop online content, including vlogs, webinars and e-learning.

These sessions are available to everyone, free of charge. You don’t need to be a SLaM Recovery College student or have any connection at all to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. We just ask that you answer a few questions and let us know which sessions you’d like to be a part of, using one of the registration form links below, and we’ll then send you links to the webinars you’ve chosen.

Every Friday we will email you the details of the online learning we are offering in the following week.

N.B. If you can't make a particular live event you can still enrol and use the link we'll send you to watch a recording later on.

Here are this week’s webinars (14th-18th September):

Daily Mindfulness (you can attend as many or as few as you’d like):
Monday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Monday 14th September
Tuesday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Tuesday 15th September
Wednesday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Wednesday 16th September
Thursday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Thursday 17th September
Friday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Friday 18th September

An Introduction to Mental Health First Aid, Part 2 | 2:30pm-3:30pm | Monday 14th September
In this short webinar, our peer trainer Kathryn (who is also an accredited instructor for MHFA England) introduces students to the MHFA approach, and what they might expect from a full MHFA course. In Part 1 we focused on mental health awareness and depression. For this second part we will look at stress, anxiety and where and how to seek help (or signpost someone to appropriate help). Please come armed with your questions and any concerns you have around MHFA, as Kathryn will be keen to discuss these.

The Everyday Way to Wellbeing
A new series of short webinars, which will look at some common daily challenges for people recovering from mental health problems. We want the course to be responsive to the particular needs and concerns of our students, so course topics will be partly determined by participants.
Part 3: life admin| 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Tuesday 15th September
Part 4: family life| 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Thursday 17th September

The Ayurveda Way to Wellbeing: self-massage for our hands| 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Wednesday 16th September
Ayurveda, the “wisdom of life”, is a traditional system of healing from South Asia. In this session you will learn about the benefits of self-massage for your hands, and you will learn how to do this using oil. N.B. You will need a towel and warm sesame oil or sunflower oil for this session)

Introduction to Self-Compassion | 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Friday 18th September
This stand-alone course is designed as a taster and preparation for our eight-week Moving Towards Self-Compassion course. You will be introduced to some key ideas about self-compassion and why we might need to be more compassionate towards ourselves - especially in these challenging times. We will explore our human experience of having a 'self', the nature of compassion, how to practise self-compassion and the positive impact it can have on our mental health. The session will involve a discussion of key ideas, followed by an experiential practice of self-compassion. It will conclude with a reflection and an open Q&A. You will also be able to ask questions throughout the webinar, so please feel free to express your curiosity - it is very welcome!

We warmly invite former students of Moving Towards Self-Compassion to return and share their experiences of the course with new students. We will also be discussing our new weekly Self-Compassion Practice group which we will be starting soon - so watch this space

FIRST TIME REGISTRATION, if you haven’t signed up to a webinar with us before (even if you are a SLaM Recovery College student):
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUNVZLM0pKQUM2UTk5R0EzUFFBRjdGT0ZZUC4u

RETURNING STUDENTS REGISTRATION, if you have already signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUQlZSOU1TTEwxR0NSQ0JXUjJVVVVRQUJHVC4u

Please note: Microsoft Teams software is being used to deliver these sessions. If you are using a laptop or PC you'll be able to join via a web browser. If you are using a mobile phone or a tablet device to take part, you will need to visit the App Store (for iPad/iPhone) or Play Store (for Android tablet/phone) to download the Microsoft Teams app, but it's free and it's a very quick process. We will send you detailed joining guides for Android and iPad/iPhone, as well as laptop/PC, when we send you your webinar links. You will be able to join anonymously and no one will be able to see or hear you, but there's a Q&A component where you can type in questions or make comments.

Please feel free to share this offer of free-to-view webinars with anyone who you think might benefit.

Visit our COVID_19 resources page for details of crisis support, covid-19 advice, online learning, online activities, and staying connected: https://www.slamrecoverycollege.co.uk/covid-19-resources.html

With very best wishes,

The team at South London and Maudsley Recovery College

Although these courses are free, SLaM Recovery College operates with charity funding. If you feel these webinars help you, and you are able to, please consider making a donation to the brilliant Maudsley Charity which supports innovative wellbeing projects in our communities.

There is, of course, no obligation to make a donation.

This is the link to make a donation if you’d like to:
https://maudsleycharity.org/support-us/make-a-donation/

SLaM Recovery College Wellbeing Webinars for All 7th-11th September

7/9/2020

Hello Students, Colleagues and Friends,

We understand how difficult a time this is for everybody, and particularly for people who experience long term health conditions.

As SLaM Recovery College is unable to offer any classroom-based workshops now, our team has been working behind the scenes to develop online content, including vlogs, webinars and e-learning.

These sessions are available to everyone, free of charge. You don’t need to be a SLaM Recovery College student or have any connection at all to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. We just ask that you answer a few questions and let us know which sessions you’d like to be a part of, using one of the registration form links below, and we’ll then send you links to the webinars you’ve chosen.

Every Friday we will email you the details of the online learning we are offering in the following week.

N.B. If you can't make a particular live event you can still enrol and use the link we'll send you to watch a recording later on.

Here are this week’s webinars (7th-11th September):

Daily Mindfulness (you can attend as many or as few as you’d like):
Monday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Monday 7th September
Tuesday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Tuesday 8th September
Wednesday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Wednesday 9th September
Thursday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Thursday 10th September
Friday Mindfulness | 10:30am-11:15am | Friday 11th September

The Ayurveda Way to Wellbeing
Ayurveda, the “wisdom of life”, is a traditional system of healing from South Asia.
Self-massage for our hands| 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Monday 7th September
In this session you will learn about the benefits of self-massage for your hands, and you will learn how to do this using oil. N.B. You will need a towel and warm sesame oil or sunflower oil for this session)
Self-massage for our feet | 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Friday 11th September
In this session you will learn about the benefits of self-massage for your feet, and you will also learn how to do this using oil (you will need a towel and warm sesame oil or sunflower oil for this session).

The Everyday Way to Wellbeing
A new series of short webinars, which will look at some common daily challenges for people recovering from mental health problems. We want the course to be responsive to the particular needs and concerns of our students, so course topics will be partly determined by participants. To get us started, in Week One, we'll look at the challenge of getting out and about and doing the shopping. We’ll discuss some barriers,and how to overcome them, such as: leaving the house, using public transport, organising a short trip, and much more…
Part 1: getting out and about | 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Tuesday 8th September
Part 2: shopping | 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Thursday 10th September

Smoking and COVID-19 | 11am-12noon | Wednesday 9th September
In this session, Mary Yates, Nurse Consultant in SLaM, outlines why it’s more important than ever before to quit smoking during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction to Recovery Part 2 | 2:30pm-3:30pm | Wednesday 9th September
N.B. Postponed from last week
Many people find being diagnosed with mental health difficulties devastating. Too often people feel that their life is over and that they will never be able to fulfil their dreams and ambitions or lead a satisfying and valued life.But it does not have to be this way. Whatever age a person is, whether they have only recently been diagnosed, or whether they have had a diagnosis for some time, recovery is possible, no matter how serious the person’s difficulties. It is possible for people to rebuild a meaningful, valued and satisfying life. This two-part course explores the impact of mental health difficulties on people’s lives, what helps people to grow within and beyond what has happened, and how they can rebuild their lives.

FIRST TIME REGISTRATION, if you haven’t signed up to a webinar with us before (even if you are a SLaM Recovery College student):
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUQkNHWURRWEIxRDlETVRRS0wyT0NaMlc2OC4u

RETURNING STUDENTS REGISTRATION, if you have already signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlURDJWMDZHVjRBTlJUWUNPWDhBMEJFN0VYMy4u

Please note: Microsoft Teams software is being used to deliver these sessions. If you are using a laptop or PC you'll be able to join via a web browser. If you are using a mobile phone or a tablet device to take part, you will need to visit the App Store (for iPad/iPhone) or Play Store (for Android tablet/phone) to download the Microsoft Teams app, but it's free and it's a very quick process. We will send you detailed joining guides for Android and iPad/iPhone, as well as laptop/PC, when we send you your webinar links. You will be able to join anonymously and no one will be able to see or hear you, but there's a Q&A component where you can type in questions or make comments.

Please feel free to share this offer of free to view webinars with anyone who you think might benefit.

Visit our COVID_19 resources page for details of crisis support, covid19 advice, online learning, online activities, and staying connected: https://www.slamrecoverycollege.co.uk/covid-19-resources.html

With very best wishes,

The team at South London and Maudsley Recovery College

Psychological Resilience and COVID-19 Broadcasts

4/9/2020

Dear Students, Friends and Colleagues,

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) are running weekly broadcasts on the theme of community psychological resilience and would really like you to take part. We know that the majority of work preventing mental health problems emerging, and supporting people with them, is done by groups outside secondary mental health. We want to understand this work more deeply and hope the broadcasts are a way of doing this. We also hope to use these broadcasts as a springboard for mapping out how community projects and organisations can work more closely with SLaM.

The broadcasts we have run so far profile a range of projects, including those run by large charities and small mutual aid groups. We have explored examples of integrated working which make a real difference within our local communities, and heard directly from service users and people with lived experience who have been involved in these projects. We would like participants, like you, to use these broadcasts to make comments, respond to other attendees, pose challenging questions, and make connections.

Please sign up for and attend these broadcasts and encourage people in your network to do the same! You can join the broadcasts and sign up to the entire series here:
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/media/live-broadcast-series/

And you can catch up on previous broadcasts here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYhSSdjljM

If you know of some work or a project which you think could feature in a broadcast, please contact Amy Mifsud at Amy.Mifsud@slam.nhs.uk

SLaM Recovery College Wellbeing Webinars for All 1st-4th September

31/8/2020

see who is in your care team and support network

securely message your care team
access your current care plan
see all your appointments
keep track of your mood and sleep

use online free and trusted health resources

For people caring for someone under SLaM services you can create your own account to look after your own wellbeing and securely message their care team.

Introduction to Recovery Part 2 | 2:30pm-3:30pm | Wednesday 2nd September
Many people find being diagnosed with mental health difficulties devastating. Too often people feel that their life is over and that they will never be able to fulfil their dreams and ambitions or lead a satisfying and valued life.

But it does not have to be this way. Whatever age a person is, whether they have only recently been diagnosed, or whether they have had a diagnosis for some time, recovery is possible, no matter how serious the person’s difficulties. It is possible for people to rebuild a meaningful, valued and satisfying life.

This two-part course explores the impact of mental health difficulties on people’s lives, what helps people to grow within and beyond what has happened, and how they can rebuild their lives.

Mental Health First Aid: an introduction| 2:30pm-3:30pm | Thursday 3rd September
Kathryn, a peer recovery trainer at the college who is also an accredited Mental Health First Aid instructor for the organisation MHFA England, introduces you to the concept of first aid for mental health crises, and how to use MHFA-based skills for mental health recovery too

The Ayurveda Way to Wellbeing: self-massage for our feet | 2:30pm-3:30pm | Friday 4th September
Ayurveda, the “wisdom of life”, is a traditional system of healing from South Asia.

FIRST TIME REGISTRATION, if you haven’t signed up to a webinar with us before (even if you are a SLaM Recovery College student):
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUOFNHOVpLNk9GUVk2Q1Y2NDNCNjFTNkZLVy4u

RETURNING STUDENTS REGISTRATION, if you have already signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUOTFUQlA1NkdWUEZGMlJRT1g4OFBPTjcwTC4u

Please note: Microsoft Teams software is being used to deliver these sessions. If you are using a laptop or PC you'll be able to join via a web browser. If you are using a mobile phone or a tablet device to take part, you will need to visit the App Store (for iPad/iPhone) or Play Store (for Android tablet/phone) to download the Microsoft Teams app, but it's free and it's a very quick process. We will send you detailed joining guides for Android and iPad/iPhone, as well as laptop/PC, when we send you your webinar links. You will be able to join anonymously and no one will be able to see or hear you, but there's a Q&A component where you can type in questions or make comments.

Please feel free to share this offer of free to view webinars with anyone who you think might benefit.

Visit our COVID_19 resources page for details of crisis support, covid19 advice, online learning, online activities, and staying connected: https://www.slamrecoverycollege.co.uk/covid-19-resources.html

With very best wishes,

The team at South London and Maudsley Recovery College

SLaM Recovery College Wellbeing Webinars for All 24th-28th August

21/8/2020

Self-assess our own sleep
Recognise the impact of the pandemic on our sleep
Explore the benefits of sleep
Explore how much sleep we really need
Explore the pros and cons of daytime naps
Address excessive sleep
Recognise the impact of not getting enough sleep
Explore methods for improving our sleep

Understanding and Managing Bipolar Disorder part 2 |2:30pm-3:30pm | Tuesday 25th August
A two-part course. Bipolar is a mood disorder characterised by extreme changes in mood. Although we all have mood swings, in bipolar disorder these can become unmanageable and overwhelming - individuals can experience severe and/or rapid mood swings that can last several weeks or months, far beyond the normal ups and downs.

In the first session we will explore how bi-polar is diagnosed, what the symptoms are, and what the early warning signs are. In the second session we will look at how bi-polar is treated and discuss self-help ideas and managing during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Smoking and COVID-19 | 11am-12noon | Wednesday 26th August
In this session, Mary Yates, Nurse Consultant in SLaM, outlines why it’s more important than ever before to quit smoking during the COVID-19 pandemic. She will give an overview of the best ways to quit and how to access support. She will also explain why some researchers think that nicotine (NOT SMOKING!) may actually help protect against COVID-19.

Introduction to Recovery part 2 | 2:30pm-3:30pm | Wednesday 26th August
Many people find being diagnosed with mental health difficulties devastating. Too often people feel that their life is over and that they will never be able to fulfil their dreams and ambitions or lead a satisfying and valued life.

But it does not have to be this way. Whatever age a person is, whether they have only recently been diagnosed, or whether they have had a diagnosis for some time, recovery is possible, no matter how serious the person’s difficulties. It is possible for people to rebuild a meaningful, valued and satisfying life.

This two-part course explores the impact of mental health difficulties on people’s lives, what helps people to grow within and beyond what has happened, and how they can rebuild their lives.

Emotional Intelligence: the path to emotional serenity part 4| 2:30pm-3: 30pm | Thursday 27th August
This four-part course aims to help you develop an understanding of what emotional intelligence is, how it operates in everyday life, and why it’s important to develop & encourage it. The course will give you more confidence in interpersonal relations, and more self-awareness, enabling you to discover your personal E.Q. The program is packed full of discussions to enable all participants to learn, interactively, the components of emotional intelligence and how this relates to the mental health of service users and social care professionals alike. The more you understand E.Q., the more you can recognise and understand your emotions. And the more you can recognise and understand your emotions, the more you can learn to love them. Emotions are a key to recognising our needs, which can then be managed to enrich our lives.

FIRST TIME REGISTRATION, if you haven’t signed up to a webinar with us before (even if you are a SLaM Recovery College student):
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUMTdGTU9EUlQySjdKME1XQkVFME9SVjE0Ri4u

RETURNING STUDENTS REGISTRATION, if you have already signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUNEtQTlRYNDVBNkpDSVQ1R0JMTkNNNEIzSC4u

Please note: Microsoft Teams software is being used to deliver these sessions. If you are using a laptop or PC you'll be able to join via a web browser. If you are using a mobile phone or a tablet device to take part, you will need to visit the App Store (for iPad/iPhone) or Play Store (for Android tablet/phone) to download the Microsoft Teams app, but it's free and it's a very quick process. We will send you detailed joining guides for Android and iPad/iPhone, as well as laptop/PC, when we send you your webinar links. You will be able to join anonymously and no one will be able to see or hear you, but there's a Q&A component where you can type in questions or make comments.

Please feel free to share this offer of free to view webinars with anyone who you think might benefit.

Visit our COVID_19 resources page for details of crisis support, covid19 advice, online learning, online activities, and staying connected: https://www.slamrecoverycollege.co.uk/covid-19-resources.html

With very best wishes,

The team at South London and Maudsley Recovery College

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