Wellbeing Courses and Workshops in Edinburgh

Are you interested in exploring self-management techniques for your mental health in a supportive group?

We offer a range of courses and one-off workshops to people aged 18+ living in Edinburgh, exploring a range of topics, tools and strategies to help participants support and improve their mental health and wellbeing.

Courses and workshops are offered either in person (in a variety of locations across Edinburgh) or online (on Zoom).

Please note that sign up is required for all of our courses.

We encourage active participation so that people get the most out of their attendance. Therefore, our courses are suitable for people who can reflectively engage in a group learning environment.

Wellbeing Toolkit

A 6-week wellbeing course suitable for people who would like to develop coping strategies to support their mental health and wellbeing. We cover a variety of self-help tools and broader topics related to general mental wellbeing (e.g. mindfulness, breathing techniques for anxiety, working with unhelpful thought patterns, setting personal boundaries, building resilience). There will also be opportunities for supportive reflections and discussions with other participants who might be going through similar experiences.

Emotional Regulation

This 5-week course offers a space for people to develop ways to recognise, accept and regulate their emotions, particularly difficult emotions. Many people find that they automatically react to unpleasant emotions by trying to avoid them. In this course participants explore how to relate to all emotions with curiosity and kindness.

Keep Yourself Well 

A 7-week course where individuals join a group of peers to create their own personalised ‘Keep Well’ plan which they will take home and use to keep well and to understand themselves and their wellness needs better. Participants are expected to have some self-help techniques in place already and to be willing to engage in group discussions about recovery. To get the most from this course, we ask that participants are prepared to set aside some time at home each week to complete some of the activities included in their personal workbook (which will be provided in the first session).   

Anxiety Management

A 5-week course which aims to support people in a peer support setting who are experiencing anxiety or excessive worry to manage their symptoms. Anxiety is a feeling of worry or fear, often about things that have happened in the past or things that are expected to happen in the future. Whilst it is normal to feel anxious from time to time, sometimes anxiety can be longer term and can have a negative impact on our life. This course will support participants to learn about what anxiety is, and to practise helpful coping strategies to help manage it through a range of ‘bottom- up’ (body to mind) and ‘top-down’ (mind to body) approaches.

Stress Management Course

This is 4-week course which aims to support people who are experiencing stress to identify and manage their symptoms. Stress is a normal response to difficult situations, and everyone experiences stress in their lives. However, we need to recognise when symptoms become too frequent, too intense or prolonged as they can have a negative impact on daily functioning. This course will support participants to learn what stress is, what it feels like for them and how they can use techniques to build resilience.

Decider Skills

This 5-week course involves exploring 12 Life Skills, which are part of the Decider Skills toolkit. These skills enable participants to recognise their own thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours, allowing them to monitor and manage their own emotions and mental health. The course will help develop skills in 4 areas related to mental health and wellbeing: distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.

Wellbeing Courses for Ethnic Minority Communities in Edinburgh

We offer a range of wellbeing courses and group drop-in sessions to support the mental health and wellbeing of people aged 18+ from ethnic minority communities in Edinburgh. 

These services are offered in a way that takes into account the additional barriers faced by ethnic minority communities like language and culture.

View our courses for ethnic minority communities in Edinburgh.