We are delighted to launch our free adult learning at the Greenway Centre.

INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING is starting soon and we have places remaining for this term but also taking bookings for our January term.

Our six week course offers you everything you need to know about working as a volunteer in the community. Be inspired and meet our existing volunteers and hear about their experiences. Learn about different types of voluntering opportunities and identify the right opportunities for you. 

Working Confidently with Gender and Sexuality

Gender and sexuality are two of the most powerful organising principles in our society and as such require exploring and understanding in an empowering and informative way. This training is developed by Freedom, OTR’s LGBTQ+ youth service. Freedom celebrated its 25th year of existence in 2020 and is the longest-running LGBTQ+ youth group in the UK.

By the end of it participants will:

Working Confidently with Gender and Sexuality

Gender and sexuality are two of the most powerful organising principles in our society and as such require exploring and understanding in an empowering and informative way. This training is developed by Freedom, OTR’s LGBTQ+ youth service. Freedom celebrated its 25th year of existence in 2020 and is the longest-running LGBTQ+ youth group in the UK.

By the end of it participants will:

WORKING WITH SELF-HARM AND SUICIDALITY 

WORKING WITH SELF-HARM AND SUICIDALITY 

INTRODUCTION TO ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

This training aims to give an overview of OTR's understanding of adolescent mental health, and a grounding for other, more specialised, areas of training. It contains some activities about the variety of pressures and challenges that young people face, some information about common presentations of poor mental health and how to identify them, a way to theorise what influences an individual's mental health (the biopsychosocial model), and some introductory information about working with self-harm and suicide.

CBT: Tools, Tips and Techniques

An introduction to using the CBT model when working to support young people with their mental health. It provides a grounding in CBT theory and a few practical activities that professionals can use in their practice. NB: This is an introductory training on some basic CBT-style techniques, rather than a training that licenses people to deliver CBT therapy. Included in the training will be a section about the safe use of techniques and limits of competence.

CBT: Tools, Tips and Techniques

An introduction to using the CBT model when working to support young people with their mental health. It provides a grounding in CBT theory and a few practical activities that professionals can use in their practice. NB: This is an introductory training on some basic CBT-style techniques, rather than a training that licenses people to deliver CBT therapy. Included in the training will be a section about the safe use of techniques and limits of competence.

WORKING CONFIDENTLY WITH BODY IMAGE

A training to give professionals greater confidence talking about and working with young peoples' relationship to body image. The training will provide a discussion around the importance of the topic, an awareness of the societal forces working to influence idealised body images, ways to promote a positive and empowering relationship to body image (e.g. language to use), and a couple of practical activities to do with young people that help them reflect on their own relationship to body image.

WORKING CONFIDENTLY WITH BODY IMAGE

A training to give professionals greater confidence talking about and working with young peoples' relationship to body image. The training will provide a discussion around the importance of the topic, an awareness of the societal forces working to influence idealised body images, ways to promote a positive and empowering relationship to body image (e.g. language to use), and a couple of practical activities to do with young people that help them reflect on their own relationship to body image.