Mental Health and Wellbeing

This training up-skills its participants to understand emotional wellbeing and build resilience for their own mental health. It discusses a range of topics including stigma, signs and symptoms of mental ill health, coping strategies, engaging with others about mental health, supports, and self-care. Our mission is to take the mental health struggle out of the shadows and support organisations to engage with their staff and clients to improve their emotional wellbeing.

Valuing the combined lived experience of mental health and professional knowledge we co-produce courses to improve the wellbeing of people in the community of Belfast. Recovery College students include service users, families, friends, carers, staff and those with an interest in wellbeing and mental health. A peer educator with lived experience of mental health and a staff educator with knowledge of the subject area facilitate the workshops. The Belfast Recovery College welcomes everyone to attend our free wellbeing and mental health education and learning programmes. There are a range of courses open to the community of Belfast. All you have to do is enrol!

This workshop aims to explore the psychological dynamics in relationships when one party displays narcissistic tendencies. Familial, friendship and intimate partner relationships will be examined. Exhibitionist, Closet and Malignant narcissism will be explored and how these presentations manifest in relationships.

Who am I? Understanding Co-Dependency as the Disease of the Lost Self

The restrictions created by COVID-19 on our day to day lives are affecting our physical, mental and social well-being as well as exacerbating inequalities. Statutory agencies and community and voluntary sector organisations have been responding creatively and finding new ways of working together. This online seminar, organised by the Derry and Strabane Healthy City and District initiative, brings together people from both the public and community and voluntary sectors who are at the frontline of the response. Participants will share their experiences and explore how we can all build on what we have learned to find new ways of working together in the future.