January-February-March 2023 Programme

IN PERSON COURSES

Healthy Food Made Easy

• 6 X 2.5 hours sessions
• Run in collaboration with a dietician, this course aims to encourage healthy eating,
improve knowledge of nutrition when preparing our meals at home, and help people
learn to cook healthy meals on a budget.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

2 pm – 4.30pm Monday 23, 30 January, 13, 20, 27 February, and 6 March

Recovery in Colour 3 (Moving forward into the future)

• 6 X 2 hour sessions.
• This is our creativity and mental health programme. There are 3 courses, 1 looks at
the meaning of recovery, 2 self-care, and 3 goals and aspirations for the future.
• Recovery in Colour 3 aims to use ‘art journalling’ (creating a personal visual journal),
painting, drawing, colour, and collage), to explore life challenges, supports, and the
potential for growth, as we develop our own vision of a positive future.
• Note, you do not need to have completed course 1 or 2 to attend course 3.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

11am – 1pm Tuesday 17, 24, 31 January, 7, 14, and 21 February

Making the Most of Your Care Plan

• 2 X 2 hour sessions.
• The aim of this course is to empower people to take ownership over, and to contrib-
ute to, their Care Plan.
• A Care Plan a document that outlines an agreed set of recovery goals and a plan for
how to achieve them (developed in collaboration with mental health professionals,
the service user, and their family members/supporters – with the person’s consent).

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

2pm – 4pm Tuesday 24 and 31 January
OR 2pm – 4pm Tuesday 21 and 28 February
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Understanding Anxiety
• 4 X 2 hour sessions
• This course will help you gain knowledge about why we experience anxiety and can
teach you practical coping strategies to break anxiety cycles and manage anxiety in
your life. It draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Ther-
apy.
Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin
10am – 12pm Wednesday 25 January, 1, 8, and 15 February

OR Location: Bray Primary Care Centre, Wicklow

10am – 12pm Tuesday 28 February, 7, 14, and 21 March

Boost Your Resilience

• 3 X 2 hour sessions
• Resilience involves successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences,
especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility and adjustment to
external and internal demands. This course focuses on helping you understand the
different types and signs of resilience. Following its completion you will learn practi-
cal skills to become more resilient to life’s adversities.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital

10am – 12pm Friday 27 January, 3, and 10 February
OR 10am – 12pm Friday 10, 24, and 31 March

OR Location: Avila House, Blackrock, Dublin

2pm – 4pm Friday 17, 24 February, and 3 March

An Introduction to Trauma Informed Care

• 3 X 2 hour sessions
• This course explains what this approach to mental health service provision is, what
are its origins, and how it shifts the focus from "What's wrong with you?" to "What
happened to you". We look at the challenges, benefits, skills, and strategies that un-
derpin this approach in Mental Health Services.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital

2pm – 4pm Thursday 9, 16, and 23 February
OR 2pm – 4pm Thursday 9, 16, and 23 March
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Sharing your Personal Recovery Story

• 2 X 2 hour sessions
• This course helps you understand and make sense of your personal recovery story,
assists you to make decisions around sharing it with others, and considers the im-
pact of doing this on your identity.

2pm – 4pm Thursday 26 January and 2 February

OR 10am – 12pm Tuesday 7 and 14 March
OR 10am – 12pm Tuesday 21 and 28 March

ONLINE COURSES

The Mindfulness Based Wellbeing Programme (ONLINE)

• 12 X 2.5 hour sessions

• This is a skills based, personal development course designed to foster self-
awareness, confidence, and psychological wellbeing.
• It is based on the practice of mindfulness and will teach you how to engage in
activities that nurture, support, and energise you.

10.30am – 1pm Wednesday 25 January, 1, 8, 15, 22 February, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

March, 5 and 12 April
 ONLINE INTRODUCTION TO RECOVERY
AND WELLBEING SESSIONS

Making Sense of Recovery Through Connectedness, Hope, identity, Meaning,

Empowerment: CHIME (ONLINE)

• CHIME is a framework developed by researchers who interviewed service users

about what recovery meant to them.

• It can be used to help you clarify what recovery means to you and what supports you
can use to assist you in your recovery and wellbeing journey.

• This 2 hour session introduces you to CHIME.

2pm – 4pm Friday 20 January OR 2pm – 4pm Friday 24 February

Navigating the Mental Health Services (ONLINE)

• The mental health system is complex. It can be difficult to find out what
services are available for you and how to access them.

• There are many different types of services and disciplines involved.

• This 2 hour session guides you through this journey.

2pm – 4pm Friday 27 January OR 2pm – 4pm Friday 3 March

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AND WELLBEING SESSIONS continued...

Advocating for Yourself (ONLINE)

• Advocacy means speaking out on behalf of a particular issue, idea, or person.

Fighting for or defending what is important to you.

• This 2 hour session will explore advocacy, self-advocacy, and empowerment and
the role of these in recovery and wellbeing.

• It will also focus on increasing confidence.

2pm – 4pm Friday 3 February OR 2pm – 4pm Friday 10 March

Setting and Achieving Goals (ONLINE)

• Identify, pursuing, and realising life goals are central aspects of recovery and
wellbeing.

• This 2 hour session helps you set life goals, motivate yourself towards achieving
them, and identify when you have reached them.

2pm – 4pm Friday 10 February OR 2pm – 4pm Friday 24 March

Engaging in Self-care (ONLINE)

• Self-care is the process of taking care of oneself with behaviours that promote
mental and physical health.

• This 2 hour session will help you develop your own self-care plan.

2pm – 4pm Friday 17 February OR 2pm – 4pm Friday 31 March

 IN PERSON SOCIAL EVENTS

Creative Café

• While supported by our creativity and mental health facilitator Cathy Doyle, this is an
opportunity to make art with your peers in a way that is directed by you.

• We provide the art supplies, and a safe, welcoming, creative space and you bring
your imagination and share your art with others.

• People can join throughout the year.

11am – 12:30pm every Thursday (starting 19 January).

WRAP Café - Coffee Afternoon

• This is an opportunity to meet people socially to talk about using WRAP to self-
manage mental health and learn new coping strategies over coffee.

• People can join throughout the year.

1pm – 3pm on the first Tuesday of every month (starting 7 February).

RECOVERY KEYWORKING SERVICE

• Operating from ARCHES Recovery College, Shine can offer people with experience
of mental health difficulties or their family members/supporters dedicated one to one
recovery keyworking support.

• This involves planning recovery goals, identifying community resources (ARCHES,

HSE Mental Health Services, education, social outlets, hobby opportunities), consid-
ering your skills and strengths, and being supported to take steps to achieve goals.

Typically, this takes place one hour a week on Monday mornings for a number of
weeks. This service is available by appointment.
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ADHD and Autism spectrum Peer Support Group

• This is an online peer support group for people who identify as having experience of
challenges relating to ADHD and/or the Autism spectrum.

• The aim of the group is to validate experiences and to give people space for voice
and narrative to be heard. Group members discuss and share coping strategies and
provide mutual emotional support to each other.

• This takes place online 2pm – 3pm every second Wednesday throughout Jan-
uary, February, and March. This starts Wednesday 18 January.

IN PERSON GUEST SPEAKER SERIES

• Every 3 months, we invite an external speaker with particular expertise relating to

mental health, to speak in person on a topic. Last November it was a talk from Men-
tal Health Reform on ‘Mental Health and Human Rights’.

• The guest speaker for the January-February-March programme is yet to be con-

firmed. We will announce who this is shortly.

Keep an eye on your emails if you are on our mailing list or

contact us in February to find out!

Courses, talks, peer support, keyworking, and social events will either take
place ONLINE via Microsoft Teams or IN PERSON at the location indicated.

To register, simply email: info@archesrecovery.ie, call 087 342 9922, or visit

us and let us know what you would like to attend.