On-line Wellbeing programmes include:
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 face-to-face & online Making Changes workshops which are designed to help you to stay, feel and live well, especially during this lockdown period.
Contact Making Changes to book your place.
Digital via Zoom
November 9th – 3 Week Workshop:
Monday 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Coach: Phoebe
November 30th – 3 Week Workshop:
Monday 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Coach: Phoebe
Face-to-Face
November 10th – 6 Week Workshop:
Tuesday 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Coach: Klaudia
Room: 5
November 11th – 6 Week Workshop:
Wednesday 10.00am – 12noon
Coach: Phoebe
Room: 1
November 13th – 3 Week Workshop:
Friday 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Coach: Klaudia
December 4th – 3 Week Workshop:
Friday 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Coach: Klaudia
Room: 5
Living Life To The Full
Sessions to teach new skills to tackle low mood and stress; more effective problem-solving; and ways to become more contented
Our FREE face-to-face Living Life to the Full programme will help you to understand why you’re feeling low, stressed or worried and teach you how to manage these feelings in order to get the most out of life.
Contact LLTTF to book your place.
Face-to-Face
November 25th – 4 Week Workshop:
Wednesday 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Coach: Graham
Room: 5
Just Be – Mindful
Sessions introducing mindfulness practice as a means of coping with daily stresses and to develop a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you
Our FREE on-line Just Be – Mindful programme can help you to learn new ways to handle difficult moods, thoughts and feelings, and encourage you to start taking better care of yourself to get more out of your life
Contact Just Be – Mindful to book your place on mindfulness courses or pop-ins detailed below.
3 Week Mindfulness
On-line Programme:
November 13th x 3 weeks
Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm
2020 January 8th x 3 weeks
Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm
Weekly On-line Mindfulness
Pop-in Sessions
November 13th, 20th & 27th
Fridays 9.30am – 10.00am
2020 January 8th, 15th, 22nd
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.
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
November 19th 3 Week Workshop:
Thursday 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Coach: Louise
Room: 1
*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)
Courses include:
Anger Management
Assertiveness
Advance to Employment
Suicide Prevention Awareness
5 Ways to Wellbeing
Stress & Anxiety
Adult and 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.
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, there are no postcode restrictions re. accessing ACL services, i.e. they can be attended by people living anywhere outside Stoke on Trent. Please click here for more info on ACL
Click here for our November 2020 Courses.
Email us to register your interest.
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.
