Veterans moving forwards: Building a brighter future
5 Towns Veterans Support Hub, The Veterans Centre 32A Ackworth Road (Purston Park) Featherstone WF7 5LU
Face to Face Recovery College Courses (18+)
This course was developed by Help for Hero’s and was co-designed by Veterans for Veterans.
It aims to provide you with the opportunity to gain clarity about your direction in life, develop tools and strategies to help you commit to action and make progress towards your brighter future.
The course is split into 6 x 3 – 3.5 hour modules, run over 6 consecutive weeks.
1. Introductions, Ways of Working and Individual Aims.
2. The Military Mindset: understand how the human mind works and the impact of how your mind is shaped by your experiences.
3. Breathe, Sleep, Move: review your health and wellbeing and the positive changes you can make to your lifestyle.
4. Learning to prioritise, plan and make good decisions: learn and apply different tools to help you review your priorities and set actions.
5. Overcoming obstacles to your progress: recognise barriers to change and discover the benefits of thinking / planning ahead and review and reflection skills.
6. Sustaining positive change: Refresh and recap on your learning, review your support networks and develop an action plan for your future.
Course Highlights include:
• Understanding the impact of your military service on your current situation.
• Gaining perspective and clarity about your life’s direction.
• Sustaining positive change. Benefits of this course include:
• Tools and techniques to help you navigate life’s challenges and implement positive change.
• Learning useful strategies to help you improve your own wellbeing.
Benefits of this course include:
• Tools and techniques to help you navigate life’s challenges and implement positive change.
• Learning useful strategies to help you improve your own wellbeing.
Please note:
You must be a veteran to register on this course
There will be a 1 week break in the middle of the course, therefore there will be no session on the 30th October
At 5 Towns Veterans Support Hub
Start dates and time
| Term | Day | Date | Times | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term Autumn/Winter | Monday | 9 October 2023 | 10am-2pm | 6 weeks |
Location
How do I enrol?
You are not referred to the Recovery College, you can simply enrol yourself, or on behalf of someone, for any of our courses that may be of interest to you. Our courses are open to all adults and we welcome carers, supporters and professionals too.
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