How our Wellbeing programme works
Our Wellbeing Challenge Programmes aim to help people improve their emotional and physical wellbeing and to develop the skills needed to sustain those improvements.
The programme is set up as a series of challenges supported by core learning.
The programme is set up as a series of challenges supported by core learning.
- The core learning is designed to equip participants with the skills needed to succeed with the wellbeing challenges. It consists of the Core Resilience Course and Understanding Wellbeing
- The Wellbeing Challenges provide opportunities for participants to put their new skills into action.
core Resilience & Understanding wellbeing
The Core Resilience Course helps people to deal with the kind of difficult situations that anyone can face in everyday life. It is based on the principle that people often don't recognise that the way that they think about a situation can affect the way that they react in terms of feelings or behaviour. The Core Resilience Course aims to help people to recognise the importance of their thinking and how thinking can get stuck in particular negative patterns. It helps people to realise that they can respond more positively to situations by changing the way they think.
The Understanding Wellbeing Course provides support for adult and older teenagers in identifying and managing their own wellbeing needs. This is particularly valuable for parents and others in caring roles who often neglect their own wellbeing needs as they focus on those they are responsible for. It can have all round benefits as understanding your own wellbeing needs can help with understanding the wellbeing needs of others.
The Understanding Wellbeing Course provides support for adult and older teenagers in identifying and managing their own wellbeing needs. This is particularly valuable for parents and others in caring roles who often neglect their own wellbeing needs as they focus on those they are responsible for. It can have all round benefits as understanding your own wellbeing needs can help with understanding the wellbeing needs of others.
outdoor activities
Outdoor adventure activities provide an excellent context for applying resilience skills. Faced with jumping into cold water while ghyll scrambling or going over the edge while abseiling many people feel anxious and have 'negative thoughts'. Course tutors join in with the outdoor activities and encourage participants to use the resilience skills they have learnt to overcome fears and take a more positive approach.
Outdoor activities can be arranged for residential and non-residential courses.
Working in a residential setting provides additional opportunities for developing resilience skills and is particularly valuable when working with families. The structure and established routines at the outdoor centre takes the pressure off family relationships and allows everyone to focus on new experiences and the development of new skills.
Outdoor activities can be arranged for residential and non-residential courses.
Working in a residential setting provides additional opportunities for developing resilience skills and is particularly valuable when working with families. The structure and established routines at the outdoor centre takes the pressure off family relationships and allows everyone to focus on new experiences and the development of new skills.
challenges
Different challenges are set for families, groups and individuals and these can be adapted according to need. In each case the first stage will be a guided experience which will be followed by a more open challenge. Our aim is to help participants to develop the skills and confidence they need in order to continue to plan and access their own activities in the community once the course has ended.
evidence based practice
Aaron T Beck and Martin Seligman developed ideas about positive psychology and how teaching resilience can enable people to learn skills which can improve their capacity to deal with difficult situations and potentially prevent the development of anxiety and depression.
We aim to evaluate our work to help to establish a sound evidence base.
Some of our team worked on a forerunner of our project which was evaluated and reported in the Psychology of Education Review and we have had an Educational Psychology student from Edge Hill University assisting us with our evaluation.
We use the 5 Ways to Wellbeing produced by the New Economics Foundation to frame the Wellbeing Challenges.
We aim to evaluate our work to help to establish a sound evidence base.
Some of our team worked on a forerunner of our project which was evaluated and reported in the Psychology of Education Review and we have had an Educational Psychology student from Edge Hill University assisting us with our evaluation.
We use the 5 Ways to Wellbeing produced by the New Economics Foundation to frame the Wellbeing Challenges.