Term 3, 2025
Term 3 runs from Tues 22nd July to Friday 26th September 2025.
Location
Max Webber Library Function Centre61 Flushcombe Rd,
Blacktown NSW 2148
All Recovery College workshops & programs are co-designed and co-delivered by specialist educators and peer educators with lived experience of mental health conditions.
Term 3 runs from Tues 22nd July to Friday 26th September 2025.
This workshop is an introduction to understanding personality disorder. It looks at the prevalence of personality disorder, and helps students to understand what it is like for a person to live with a personality disorder. Supports and treatments will be discussed along with key principles of self-care and self-management strategies.
Domestic and family violence (DFV) can have profound and lasting impacts on a person’s mental health and wellbeing. Survivors may experience trauma, anxiety, depression, or PTSD, and often face complex barriers when seeking safety and support.
Eating disorders are often misunderstood and can affect people of any age, gender, background, or body size. Stigma and misinformation can make it even harder for those experiencing them to seek help and feel supported.
People who experience bipolar disorder may have extreme mood swings which can range from highly energised, impulsive euphoria (sometimes to the point of having delusions and hallucinations) to extreme depression and to remission in a mostly unpredictable pattern. This can be frightening and difficult to live with or deal with.
This workshop builds understanding about the relationship between physical and mental health. Learn how improving physical health can have a positive impact on your mental health. This program will include practical advice about the benefits of exercise and good nutrition to support you to make healthy lifestyle changes.
Do you find it challenging to assert yourself effectively in various life situations, especially when your self-confidence wavers? At times, we mistakenly associate assertiveness solely with self-confidence. However, the truth is, the moments when we need to be assertive often coincide with periods of self-doubt.
Self-care is becoming one of the most important ways that people can manage their mental health. Recovery depends on all the people involved, such as people living with mental health issues, workers, and carers, family and friends, being as strong and resilient as possible. When there are lots of demands and stressors, it is very easy to neglect the things that can help us feel strong and resilient.
It can often be a difficult process to start a recovery journey when there are so many services out there to choose from. This program has been designed to assist people in navigating the mental health system in Western Sydney and to unpack what sorts of support different services can offer and when, how, and why you might need to access them. Information on using new apps and websites will be provided. Students will also gain general knowledge of the rights of mental health consumers while navigating the system, which will leave them feeling confident in advocating for themselves and in reaching out for help.
Most of us often feel overloaded, stressed and feel under pressure. It is very easy to get into a spiral and be stuck in our usual automatic reactions (even if they’re not helpful). Mindfulness is an integrative, mind-body based approach that helps people to manage their thoughts and feelings and mental health.
This workshop will be offered in Arabic, delivered by two bilingual educators, during Term 3 2025.
All of us have things we’d like to change about ourselves; and nearly all of us have someone we know who we think needs to change. Talking about this is hard. We don’t want to be nagged and we don’t want to be a nag - but we know that we need to have the conversation.