Wellbeing programmes include:
FREE Mindfulness Drop-ins each Friday upto and including 30th April 2021.
Making Changes
Sessions to promote more helpful thinking, healthier behaviour and to increase your coping skills; and to set goals to help you to stay well
Join one of our FREE Making Changes programmes which are designed to help you to stay, feel and live well, especially during this lockdown period.
Contact Making Changes to book your place.
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Suicide Awareness
Looking at the facts and myths surrounding suicide and the factors that increase the risk of suicide. You will be able to identify the verbal and non-verbal signs indicating that someone may be in suicidal crisis and how to support them.
Digital via Zoom
Date to be confirmed
Just Be – Mindful
Weekly mindfulness practice as a means of coping with daily stresses and to develop a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you
Weekly On-line Mindfulness
Pop-in Sessions:
April 2nd, 9th, 23rd & 30th 2021.
Fridays 9.30am – 10.00am
(10 minutes ‘checking in’ + 20 minutes meditation and reflection). Open to Changes Mindfulness Community and anyone who feels that they will benefit.
Contact Just Be – Mindful to book your place on pop-ins detailed above.
Adult Community Learning
Designed to raise mental health awareness and to enable you to develop the wellness tools necessary to promote your happiness, and wellbeing and to keep you involved with your community.
FREE Adult and Commuity Learning Courses (ACL) 2021
To register your interest…
Email us or call Lisa on 07983 437 747
ACL courses have no post code restrictions irrespective of COVID.
A certificate is provided on completion of the course.
Upcoming Face-to-Face ACL Courses for April, May & June 2021:
Courses are accessed Face-to-Face at Changes offices, Victoria Court, Booth Street, Stoke, ST4 4AL
Anger Management
This course will help you to understand your triggers and the consequences of your anger. You will develop and use practical and beneficial techniques to manage your anger to improve your quality of life.
6 Week Course April 14th
Wednesday
10.30am – 12.40pm
Coach: Louise Room 5
> Apply to attend <
Stress & Anxiety
This course will help you to recognise and appreciate the signs, symptoms and impact of stress and anxiety. You will develop helpful techniques to manage your own stress and anxiety to improve your quality of life.
4 Week Course April 15th
Thursday
1.00pm – 3.00pm
Coach: Louise Room 5
> Apply to attend <
Advance to Employment
This course aims for learners to have an increased awareness of barriers to employment, education, training or volunteering, and to develop techniques to overcome these plus an increased understanding on how to recognise their own transferable skills.
6 Week Course May 20th
Thursday
1.00pm – 3.10pm
Coach: Louise Room 5
> Apply to attend <
Assertiveness
This course will help you to understand assertiveness and why it is important. You will develop and use practical techniques to demonstrate assertive behaviour and communication to improve your quality of life.
4 Week Course June 2nd
Wednesday
10.30am – 12.30pm
Coach: Louise Room 1
> Apply to attend <
Suicide Prevention Awareness
This course aims to raise awareness and challenge stigma surrounding suicide and to increase the numbers of people with the skills and confidence to help someone at risk.
New dates to be confirmed
5 Ways to Wellbeing
This course aims to explore how making adjustments in 5 key areas of your life leads to improved mental and physical wellbeing.
New dates to be confirmed
Irrespectively of the current COVID-19 situation, there are no postcode restrictions regards accessing ACL services, i.e. they can be attended by people living within / and anywhere outside of Stoke-on-Trent
All courses are delivered by an experienced Wellness Coach.
For course enquires, please email: wellbeing.here4u@changes.org.uk
Alternatively, call Lisa on 07983 437 747
*Face-to-Face Workshops
Please note that all of our face-to-face workshops are held at Changes Health & Wellbeing Centre,Victoria Court, Stoke, ST4 4AL
*On-line Workshops
Please note that all of our on-line workshops are held via Zoom (please see further details at base of page)
Where necessary, part of the new digital offer will include staff offering
additional 1-2-1 support, i.e. via video link, telephone, email or text.
How to access the Wellbeing Service:
Simply call 07983 437747 or email wellbeing.here4u@changes.org.uk Provide your name, telephone number and/or email address + tell us why you are contacting us. A member of Changes staff will then be in touch to talk through your service options, (i.e. training programme and/or one-to-one support).
Monitoring Forms: How you can help us…
When you access one of Changes services – it really helps us if you can provide us with some basic info about yourself and how our services have helped you.
When you access the service, a member of Changes staff will send you an email containing links to an on-line ‘Enrolment Form’ and some basic monitoring forms to complete*.
*To see what difference our service has made, we’ll ask you to complete these at the beginning, during and end of your time with us.
This helps us to make sure that we’re offering you the right kind of service and to make the Commissioners* aware of the impact of Changes services.
*NHS and Local Authority bodies who fund our services
Please click here to download a copy of Changes Data Protection Policy
On-line training programmes and 1-2-1 sessions, utilise ‘Zoom’ software, which can be downloaded free of charge onto your smartphone, tablet or computer.
> Download Zoom < > Video: How to Register with Zoom <
Zoom provides a safe and secure system – Zoom Security
Please click here to find out what you can do to keep the meetings/sessions private and confidential.
