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Annual Review 2020-21
Training
Another important aspect of what we deliver is training, including 115 free community training sessions during the year and across a wide range of different courses. Last year we had to regroup and adapt our training to put it online. This year we have grown our offer and look forward to also delivering face-to-face. For many though there
is now a preference for online. Alongside our tried and tested training courses we delivered two new ones:
Mindfulness for Menopause and Mums Matter – the latter delivered in North Manchester
Building a Healthy Future – for people with long-term physical health conditions
Our Mindfulness for Stress course also continued to make an impact as Ruth our Resilience Co-ordinator says:
“When delivering resilience and mindfulness courses,
you hope that you’re helping to equip the participants with skills to help them, not just for the duration of the course, but for the future too. However, it’s difficult
to know once the course has finished what happens to people afterwards. One way I’ve tried to support mindfulness course graduates is to offer meditation drop-in sessions, to keep them on track with their home practice and to continue to foster a sense of community in meditation. These have been running since April 2020 and some people have been coming since they started. One attendee says: ‘Just wanted to thank you for the drop-in sessions I am finding them so helpful. They give me something to look forward to and I feel a connection
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