Right Here Brighton and Hove is offering FREE peer-led wellbeing workshops to groups of young people at:

• High schools, colleges, youth clubs and residential settings (as part of the Chances4Change programme)
• Foyers in the south-east and south-west of the UK (as part of the Healthy Conversations programme)

We have five workshops prepared and ready to deliver, on these topics:

1. Mental Health Awareness (1 hour)
Facts and myths about mental health
What might it feel like to experience [depression, anxiety, bipolar, OCD etc]
How to help support a friend

2. Coping Better with Exam Stress (1 hour)
What is stress?
How does it (personally) affect our body / feelings / behaviour?
Top revision tips (eg anti-procrastination, vary locations, breaks and rewards…)
3 x stress management techniques (body clench, deep breathing, visualisation)

3. The Five Ways to Wellbeing (1.5 hours)
Teach Well-B-E-I-N-G then run activities teaching each of the five ways:
Be active / Engage / Interests / Notice / Give

4. Self Harm Awareness (1 hour)
Facts and myths about self-harm.
How someone might self-harm, and how they might feel before, during and after.
Alternative coping strategies.
Keeping yourself (and a friend) safe.
Please note: teachers/youth workers must follow up this workshop with another session on understanding why people self-harm, common triggers and communicating about self-harm: information about all of these can be found at www.right-here-brightonandhove.org/selfharm

5. Food and Mood (1 hour – available for Foyers only)
Food and mood quiz.
What’s on my plate? (draw a meal from last 7 days that wasn’t a take away)
One change on each plate to make it healthier.
Eat (pre-prepared) fresh fruit kebabs while volunteers lead discussion about how the food we eat affects our mood.

All our workshops are:

• Written and delivered by young Right Here volunteers aged 16-25, and supported by Rose, the team coordinator.
• Friendly, informal and confidential, with lots of interactive activities.
• Aligned with the PSHE curriculum outcomes around mental health and wellbeing.
• For groups of 10-20 young people, aged between 13-25.
• Designed to be replicated by tutors and youth workers with other groups of young people.

We are now taking bookings on a first come first served basis. To book a workshop with a group of young people at your school, college, youth club or residential home…

Email [email protected] or call 07525 667683.