REDS Recovery College
Recovery and Every Day Skills
REDS Recovery College is a free service for our patients, carers and staff to help improve their health and wellbeing, gaining positive feelings about today and confidence in their future.
At REDS Recovery College we offer recovery-focused educational courses to help students better understand mental health issues, learn self-management techniques and gain skills to give them better hopes for the future.
We offer education, not therapy, and focus on talents, not people’s challenges. Our courses are designed and delivered with input from people with lived experience of mental health challenges.
Download our prospectus, and see the overview of our courses
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We involve people with ‘lived experience’ of mental health challenges in designing our courses.
Many lead our courses as a ‘Peer Trainer', who have personal insight of mental health challenges. This way, each course is centred on real life experience.
Our workshops and courses are not focused on analysing and assessing individuals, but educating and empowering them.
Courses are open to carers, patients and staff, removing ‘us’ and ‘them’ labels and creating a rich learning environment based on respect and equality.
REDS Recovery College believes in helping our students to reach their full potential. Our courses are open to patients, carers and staff at St Andrew’s, free of charge and members of the public can contact us to find out about our courses in the community. If you are looking for hope, inspiration and achievement you have picked the right place. To apply, contact us at REDSRecoveryCollege@standrew.co.uk
The course was positive and enlightening. It enabled me to see things through my daughter’s eyes. It was truly thought-provoking, offering me comfort that she is not alone and neither am I. I gained so much from the course: a new confidence for the future.
Carer on 'What is Borderline Personality Disorder'
Meditation teaches me about my mental health and gives me coping strategies.
Student
As a Peer Trainer my role is to help create and deliver courses using my lived experience of mental health alongside my training skills. The aim, though, is to have more St Andrew’s patients involved in doing that. The empowerment they’ll gain from co-designing and co-delivering courses is massive.
Kyle, REDS Academy Trainer
It felt honest, engaging and emotional at times. Well worth taking part in.
Student, Personality Disorder and Me