July-August-September 2023 Programme

IN PERSON COURSES

Developing your Personal Recovery Narrative

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

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

10am – 12pm Friday 1 and 8 September

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: The Little Flower Hall, Bray, Wicklow

2 pm – 4.30pm Monday 4, 11, 18, 25 September, 2 and

9 October

Understanding Anxiety
• 4 X 2 hour sessions
• This course will help you gain knowledge about why we experience anxiety
and can teach you coping strategies to break anxiety cycles and manage
anxiety in your life.
• It draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

2pm – 4pm Tuesday 5, 12, 19, and 26 September

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Boost Your Resilience

• 3 X 2 hour sessions
• Resilience involves successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life ex-
periences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibil-
ity.
• In this course, you will learn practical skills to become more resilient to
life’s difficulties and adversities.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

2pm – 4pm Thursday 7, 14, and 21 September

An Introduction to Trauma Informed Care

• 3 X 2 hour sessions
• Co-delivered by a mental health professional and ARCHES staff, this
course explains what Trauma Informed Care is, why it is important, how it
is provided, and its values.
• It looks at the shift in focus from “What is wrong with you?” to “What hap-
pened to you?” and “What is strong with you?”.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

10am – 12pm Wednesday 13, 20, and 27 September

OR

Location: Avila House, Blackrock, Dublin

1.30pm – 3.30pm Friday 15, 22, and 29 September
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Talking Therapies

• 3 X 2 hour sessions

• Developed in collaboration with HSE Psychologists, this course

demystifies talking therapies.

It helps you:

1. understand the different types and learn how to search for, and request
access to, HSE talking therapies (or fund them privately).

2. determine if a therapist has the competencies necessary to offer you a

high quality service.

2. support others in your life when they may need to avail of talking thera-
pies.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

10am – 12pm Friday 15, 22, and 29 September.
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The Mindfulness Based Wellbeing Programme

(NOW IN PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME!)

• 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.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

10.30 am – 1pm Wednesday 27 September, 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15,

22, 29 November 6, and 13 December

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.
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Creative Café

• Supported by our creativity and mental health facilitator Cathy and

ARCHES Recovery College Volunteers (Isabelle and Lisa), 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.

• It takes place in two locations, Clonskeagh and Bray.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital, Dublin

11am – 12:30pm every Thursday in July and September

OR

Location: Bray Primary Care Centre, Wicklow

11am – 12:30pm every Friday in July and September
(excluding Friday 8 September)
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Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) Café - Coffee Afternoon

• WRAP is an evidence based self-management course that helps people be

and stay well. Keep an eye out for our WRAP timetable if you have not been
on a WRAP course before. We will launch this in the next few months.

• The WRAP Café is for people who have already attended a WRAP course. It
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.

Location: ARCHES Recovery College, Clonskeagh Hospital

1pm – 3pm on the first Tuesday of every month.

HOW TO BOOK A PLACE

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.
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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 July and September.
Register with ARCHES to be sent a link to join the group.

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 re-

sources (ARCHES, HSE Mental Health Services, education, social
outlets, hobby opportunities), considering 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 by
contacting info@archesrecovery.ie, call 087 342 9922.