Here you can find an outline of the sessions that we offer. They are arranged into categories to make them easier to navigate and relate to each category of the ReQol wellbeing tool, If you would like more information please visit our session list.
- Activity.
- Belonging.
- Choice.
- Hope.
- Self-Perception.
- Wellbeing.
Some of the sessions apply to more than one subject area and there is no limit to how many you are able to access.
If you are looking to find the areas that you may want to focus on why not enrol with us via our member’s area and complete our wellbeing scoring tool ReQol.
| Session Title | Session Description | Session Category |
|---|---|---|
| Occupational Balance | Occupational balance is important to increase individual health and happiness, promote mental wellbeing, reduce stress and increase companionship. Therefore engaging in a good balance of occupations can provide life satisfaction. Good occupational balance often shows as a balance of self-care, leisure, and productivity. In this session we will cover the different components to occupation, reflect on our own occupations and use the wellness wheel to work towards a healthy occupational balance. Improving wellbeing and sharing experiences is one of our main focuses at Community Roots, we hope the skills you learn and continue to develop can promote health and wellbeing in your life. | Belonging/Choice |
| Counting Sheep (Sleep Hygiene) | Obtaining healthy sleep is vital for our physical and mental health. It helps to boost productivity and our overall quality of life. This course will explore some of the reasons we may have trouble getting to sleep, staying asleep and getting enough sleep. We’ll discuss what insomnia is and develop strategies that may help alleviate individual sleep issues. You will be encouraged to look at your personal sleep hygiene to see how improving environment and lifestyle could help establish better sleep patterns and by sharing our experiences around sleep, we can learn from each other and develop better sleep habits. | Hope/Wellbeing |
| Mindful Meditation | Mindfulness is a technique that can be developed to notice what is happening in the present moment. Being mindful is proven to positively impact wellbeing and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, while building levels of patience, compassion and acceptance towards yourself and others. On this introductory mindfulness session, we will cover sitting with and working on the acceptance of negative thoughts and feelings and discuss techniques such as body scans to help adapt your relationship with ever-passing thoughts and feelings, viewing them with a different perspective. The main aim of this introductory session is to recognize where and when you become overwhelmed and how to better approach this to build your own version of calmness and improve your wellbeing through Community Roots. | Self Perception/Wellbeing |
| Gratitude & Joy | Life can be uncertain, hard and complex at times. Practicing gratitude can help increase our resilience to life’s challenges, amplify the positive and bring hope for the future. This session will discuss what gratitude is, how to practice it and how it can benefit our lives. We will share tips and tools you can apply to your everyday life and the benefits on your wellbeing but also work to eliminate the stigma around mental illness through sharing our experiences | Hope/Self Perception |
| Understanding Anxiety | Life can be full of uncertainties and anxiety provoking situations therefore anxiety is something that a lot of people live with that can begin to impact daily life. Constant worrying, and negative anxious thought patterns take a toll on your emotional and physical health therefore, understating your anxious thoughts can start to help prevent anxiety from feeling like it is taking over. This session will give you an understanding of why we may experience anxiety, what causes it, and how we recognize and start to challenge the ways it affects our lives. We will explore what anxiety is and how this differs from worry and look at causes of anxiety before using the anxiety cycle. We will look at some self-management tips to take away for you to implement into your daily lives beyond the session. Sharing our stories can help reduce misunderstandings around anxiety and open supportive conversations. | Hope |