Recovery College

The Recovery College delivers courses to equip you with coping strategies to help you improve your mental health and wellbeing. 

We offer a range of courses covering resilience, confidence building, mindfulness and much more. 

Essentially, we'll teach you new ways to cope and manage your mental health. We'll give you practical tools and resources to do this, and empower you to move forward and make effective changes to your life.


How does it work?

Our courses are delivered in small groups of no more than 12 people.

You'll be welcomed by one of our friendly mental health professionals, alongside a volunteer who's an expert through experience.

Our groups meet in community venues across Teesside or online so you can choose how to get involved to suit you and your needs.

If you're aged 16 or over, registered with a GP in Teesside, then we can help you start your journey towards recovery.

Hear what Karen thinks about it

"The Recovery College changed my life. It got me out of a lonely place; I made friends, like-minded friends. 

It's all about you. Even if you're nervous or anxious, give it a try. I've learned so much to help me live a better life and I love being part of the volunteer team now.

Remember, it's a journey, it's your journey and there's no better place to start than the Recovery College."

Take a look at our Recovery College

Our courses


  • Welcome Course

    Welcome Course

    This is an informal session to find out about our courses and meet some other learners.

  • Keeping Well

    Keeping Well

    This course will help you to consider how you look after yourself physically and emotionally.

  • Coping Skills

    Coping Skills

    This course will enable you to explore a range of tools to help you manage your mental health.

  • Emotional Resilience

    Emotional Resilience

    This course will enable you to discuss your hopes and share your experiences.

  • Confidence Building

    Confidence Building

    This course supports people on a journey to look at their self esteem and confidence.

  • Mindfulness

    Mindfulness

    This course introduces the concept of Mindfulness to help manage life's ups and downs.

  • Off the Scales

    Off the Scales

    This course will help you improve your health and wellbeing regardless of changes to weight.

  • Creative Writing

    Creative Writing

    This course focuses on imagination and creativity to help build a positive attitude to wellbeing.

  • ASD Group

    ASD Group

    This course is a neurodiverse-friendly workshop for those with symptoms, or diagnosis, of ASD.

  • HOPE

    HOPE

    This course is for those whose mental health and wellbeing has been affected by cancer.

Bespoke courses delivered for partner organisations

We offer a bespoke course, delivered for partners, that takes key elements of all of our courses to give people the opportunity to find new ways to look after their mental health and wellbeing in a bite-size fashion.

The six week package covers topics including developing coping skills, managing emotions, building confidence and mindfulness, tailored to suit the needs of the people you are supporting.

We can deliver this from your building or out in the community.

This package is ideal for those organisations working with people who would otherwise find it difficult to engage in one of our community courses.

Course length: six weeks

Session times: two hours