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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 at the moment, our team has been working behind the scenes to develop some online content, including vlogs, webinars and e-learning.

Please check our News page for details of our current monthly offer and how to register.

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.

Visit our COVID-19 Resources page for details of crisis support, covid-19 advice, online learning, online activities, and staying connected.

I just wanted to get in touch to let you know how helpful you sharing some of your journey has been to me...I have heard those techniques described by professionals several times over the years, but have found them difficult to understand...However, when you described how you use the letter and what it contains and the orchestra, it was a lightbulb moment for me. I understood what needs to go in my letter and who is in my orchestra...Anyway, I just wanted to let you know how much I admire your courage in sharing your story and how helpful and supportive it has been for me.

- Comment about our Emotional Intelligence course

The course was fantastic and I'm so, so grateful to SLaM for everything they do. I really wish that mental health was taught in schools. We learn too late!

The course has deeply impacted my thinking about how we are all affected by mental health within our lives and communities. It has helped me to reflect and have quality, yet open honest, conversations with my children around suicide and with friends about attitudes towards those we perceive with mental health challenges. It has also prompted me to use some space to start a series of open and honest conversations for parents through my podcast, to shine a light and unravel some thinking around mental health within my own community.

- Comments about our Mental Health First Aid Training course

Just wanted to say thank you. These daily sessions are a lifeline.

That was brilliant and so soothing

Thank you so much. Your calming and gracious presence has helped a lot today

- Comments about our daily Mindfulness sessions

I would firstly like to say thank you to you all, from the bottom of my heart. You have all done a brilliant job of providing social connections, learning and self-insight during this isolating pandemic. This has provided structure to my days and educated me well in the process. I would also like to thank you for opening these courses up to those outside of the SLaM area.

- Kind words from Newcastle

The way you gave examples of what you might say to yourself in a particular situation brought the ideas to life for me in a way that I haven’t understood previously...The emphasis on us not being to blame for how our minds work was very powerful too...I think the biggest achievement I had was feeling more warmth towards myself and not blaming myself for whatever feelings I might have...I could see your kindness as you described things and got a sense of your sincerity and your heartfelt wish to help.

Both facilitators displayed immense patience and good humour. [And both] used an empathetic tone of voice which is supremely welcoming and inclusive. The sense of community from the other participants was massively warming and caused me to feel less alone in a time of need.

- Comments about our Self-Compassion course

Just to say thank you so much to [the facilitators] for a truly brilliant and thought-provoking course.

- Comment about our Keeping Safe Online course

[The course] was truly wonderful. [The two facilitators] have an excellent working relationship. The course was funny, honest, and thought-provoking. I also appreciated that they shared something of themselves too. The videos were great. There was a lot of variety and they really took on board everything that people said in the chat boxes.

- Comment about our Communication Skills course

Just to reiterate to you all at SLaM how very grateful I am to be able to participate in these sessions, despite being hundreds of miles away up in Durham. What a brilliant service you offer. Thank you so much.

So impressed with what you are doing at the recovery college. Amazing work! Blessings on all of your work.

- It's so lovely to receive feedback like this

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/