The information packed Mind Time Course is designed to educate, support and empower people to immediately start to work on understanding & improving their mental wellbeing, and is delivered over two evenings.
This is a fantastic course on its own for time-strapped people looking to make instant change to their wellbeing, or as a taster course before joining us on one of our longer day time courses.
This course offers a free One-to-One session after course completion
Dates
Tuesday 6th Aug, 2024
Wednesday 7th Aug, 2024
Times for each session
6.30 to 9.30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
The WKND Unlock Menopause Course has been designed for busy women unable to join us on our regular courses. Our aim is to support, inform and educate those who want to have a better understanding of what is happening to their bodies and minds, whilst learning what can be done to ease some of the more common symptoms associated with Menopause.
This Weekend Course offers Two optional 1:1 Support Sessions on completion of the course.
Day 1 – Saturday 10th Aug, 2024
Day 2 – Sunday 11th Aug, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 3:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
The YOU Programme can be an important first step to feeling better, improving your mental health and wellbeing and getting your life back on track through supporting education, peer empowerment and learning how to manage uncomfortable thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
Day 1 – Tuesday 3rd Sept, 2024
Day 2 – Thursday 5th Sept, 2024
Day 3 – Tuesday 10th Sept, 2024
Day 4 – Thursday 12th Sept, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 2:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom and with lots of breaks.
The information packed Mind Time Course is designed to educate, support and empower people to immediately start to work on understanding & improving their mental wellbeing, and is delivered over two evenings.
This is a fantastic course on its own for time-strapped people looking to make instant change to their wellbeing, or as a taster course before joining us on one of our longer day time courses.
This course offers a free One-to-One session after course completion
Dates
Tuesday 3rd Sept 2024
Wednesday 4th Sept, 2024
Times for each session
6.30 to 9.30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
Impact's 4 week, 8 sessions mental well-being programme – YOUR Choice.
An inspiring, empowering and educational wellbeing course, helping you to understand and learn what you can do to help yourself manage your mind, your emotions and build total wellbeing resilience for the future.
If you feel you need to make some important changes to have the kind of life you really want, this course is for you.
Delivered each Wednesday & Thursday for 8 sessions on the following days:
Day 1 Wednesday 18th Sept, 2024
Day 2 Thursday 19th Sept, 2024
Day 3 Wednesday 25th Sept, 2024
Day 4 Thursday 26th Sept, 2024
Day 5 Wednesday 2rd Oct, 2024
Day 6 Thursday 3rd Oct, 2024
Day 7 Wednesday 9th Oct. 2024
Day 8 Thursday 10th Oct, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 2:30pm with plenty of breaks!
Delivered live online using Zoom
The Unlock Menopause Course has been designed by people who have been through, are going through, or have just begun their unique journey with Menopause. Our aim is to support, inform and educate those who want to have a better understanding of what is happening to their bodies and minds, whilst learning what can be done to ease some of the more common symptoms associated with Menopause.
Day 1 – Tuesday 19th Nov, 2024
Day 2 – Thursday 21st Nov, 2024
Day 3 – Tuesday 26th Nov, 2024
Day 4 – Thursday 28th Nov, 2024
Day 5 – Tuesday 3rd Dec, 2024
Day 6 – Thursday 5th Dec, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 2:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
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If you’re looking to improve your mental health and wellbeing, the next Mind Time evening course that starts on May 16th at 6:30 could be your first step to feeling better. This course is free to residents of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough.
Who is it for?
For anyone suffering from anxiety, depression, grief, stress or any other mental health issues who are unable to attend one of our daytime courses.
How will it help?
Through education, discussions and support to enable empowering change.
What are the benefits?
It’s relaxed, and it helps build mental resilience, self-confidence, self-compassion as well as game-changing wellbeing practices you need to put you back in control of your health, and your future.
It’s free to residents of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford.
When do the courses run?
They run over 4 evenings, 2 evenings per week, from 6.30pm to 9.30pm and are held on a Tuesday and a Wednesday evening.
All our courses are run online using Zoom, so you’ll need an internet connection, laptop or PC, or a tablet like an iPad or Android or you can even join on a smart phone. Our facilitators and volunteers will be available to help if needed.
I’d like to speak to someone before I enrol.
No problem, feel free to call us on 01582 797596 or email us here.
I’d like to refer someone else, how do I do that?
If you have a friend, family member, patient or client that you think would benefit from joining one of our evening courses, please use this form to let us know and we’ll reach out to them.
The information packed Mind Time Course is designed to educate, support and empower people to immediately start to work on understanding & improving their mental wellbeing, and is delivered over two evenings.
This is a fantastic course on its own for time-strapped people looking to make instant change to their wellbeing, or as a taster course before joining us on one of our longer day time courses.
This course offers a free One-to-One session after course completion
Dates
Tuesday 6th Aug, 2024
Wednesday 7th Aug, 2024
Times for each session
6.30 to 9.30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
The information packed Mind Time Course is designed to educate, support and empower people to immediately start to work on understanding & improving their mental wellbeing, and is delivered over two evenings.
This is a fantastic course on its own for time-strapped people looking to make instant change to their wellbeing, or as a taster course before joining us on one of our longer day time courses.
This course offers a free One-to-One session after course completion
Dates
Tuesday 3rd Sept 2024
Wednesday 4th Sept, 2024
Times for each session
6.30 to 9.30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
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Our hugely popular Unlock Menopause Course is going from strength to strength and the next course starting on May 9th is now open for referrals and enrolment.
The Unlock Menopause course has been designed to empower, enable and educate those who want to better understand and manage symptoms of peri-menopause and menopause.
That’s why we have designed a positive wellbeing, peer support programme on what really works to support women to understand menopause, feel empowered, build confidence and learn new wellbeing practices and strategies to start making positive changes to improve the quality of their health and their lives.
In 2012, on a typical workday, if you had asked me ‘So, what do you do…?’Â , I would probably have made some excuse up and left the room without answering.
The thing is, I knew what I did, I knew the answer, I’d been doing it for a while!
But the Menopausal and Perimenopausal Brain Fog I had started to experience, totally and utterly stopped me from remembering some pretty basic stuff, like names, places and what I did for a living!
Brain fog and mood shifts, migraines and a raft of other symptoms descended upon me like a tidal wave, and I had no idea what to do…
At Impact, we have created the free Unlock Menopause course to help, support and guide women struggling with any of the three stages of change.
The course examines the facts, busts a few myths and empowers women to talk openly, honestly and work together to find what makes a difference to managing symptoms and improving the quality of health and wellbeing for every woman.
The Unlock Menopause course is held regularly, check out the dates below.
If you are struggling and want to know more about how you can help yourself, sign up and we’ll see you there, or give us a call for a chat. 💚
The WKND Unlock Menopause Course has been designed for busy women unable to join us on our regular courses. Our aim is to support, inform and educate those who want to have a better understanding of what is happening to their bodies and minds, whilst learning what can be done to ease some of the more common symptoms associated with Menopause.
This Weekend Course offers Two optional 1:1 Support Sessions on completion of the course.
Day 1 – Saturday 10th Aug, 2024
Day 2 – Sunday 11th Aug, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 3:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
The Unlock Menopause Course has been designed by people who have been through, are going through, or have just begun their unique journey with Menopause. Our aim is to support, inform and educate those who want to have a better understanding of what is happening to their bodies and minds, whilst learning what can be done to ease some of the more common symptoms associated with Menopause.
Day 1 – Tuesday 19th Nov, 2024
Day 2 – Thursday 21st Nov, 2024
Day 3 – Tuesday 26th Nov, 2024
Day 4 – Thursday 28th Nov, 2024
Day 5 – Tuesday 3rd Dec, 2024
Day 6 – Thursday 5th Dec, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 2:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
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Impact just received this lovely message from a learner who attended and completed The YOU Programme in February, 2023.
Just a quick note to let you know that sadly I won’t be able to attend the “Your Recovery Pathways” programme.
Reason being, I have been offered a job! Of course, I am super excited but also gutted that I will miss the programme. I was very much looking forward to it!
I wanted to thank you SO very much for all the work you do at IMPACT and for us, individuals.
As you know I have suffered with poor mental health since a very young age and have gone through a lot of counselling etc
However! I have to say that the YOU programme I did with you recently, has had more impact (excuse the pun, but I guess you couldn’t have given your support group a better name), than any counselling I have ever had.
It really gets you deep! No waffle, straight to the point (with care and sensitivity of course) and for me it has made my spiritual side come back. This links perfectly well with exercises such as meditation, manifestation, etc.
I feel more positive about the short-term future. I don’t want to look too far ahead, or I will lose myself. I want to work on small periods of time to begin with. Easier to manage and control.
I even enrolled on a 3 month course to understand and help children with mental health, in schools for example.
How much I have learnt from your programme has been priceless for me and the biggest gift I could ever wish for!
THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU – From the bottom of my heart!
Do keep up with the amazing work that you do and if I can be of any help, do let me know!
Bedfordshire Learner
YOU Programme February 2023
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The information packed Mind Time Course is designed to educate, support and empower people to immediately start to work on understanding & improving their mental wellbeing, and is delivered over two evenings.
This is a fantastic course on its own for time-strapped people looking to make instant change to their wellbeing, or as a taster course before joining us on one of our longer day time courses.
This course offers a free One-to-One session after course completion
Dates
Tuesday 6th Aug, 2024
Wednesday 7th Aug, 2024
Times for each session
6.30 to 9.30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
The WKND Unlock Menopause Course has been designed for busy women unable to join us on our regular courses. Our aim is to support, inform and educate those who want to have a better understanding of what is happening to their bodies and minds, whilst learning what can be done to ease some of the more common symptoms associated with Menopause.
This Weekend Course offers Two optional 1:1 Support Sessions on completion of the course.
Day 1 – Saturday 10th Aug, 2024
Day 2 – Sunday 11th Aug, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 3:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
The YOU Programme can be an important first step to feeling better, improving your mental health and wellbeing and getting your life back on track through supporting education, peer empowerment and learning how to manage uncomfortable thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
Day 1 – Tuesday 3rd Sept, 2024
Day 2 – Thursday 5th Sept, 2024
Day 3 – Tuesday 10th Sept, 2024
Day 4 – Thursday 12th Sept, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 2:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom and with lots of breaks.
The information packed Mind Time Course is designed to educate, support and empower people to immediately start to work on understanding & improving their mental wellbeing, and is delivered over two evenings.
This is a fantastic course on its own for time-strapped people looking to make instant change to their wellbeing, or as a taster course before joining us on one of our longer day time courses.
This course offers a free One-to-One session after course completion
Dates
Tuesday 3rd Sept 2024
Wednesday 4th Sept, 2024
Times for each session
6.30 to 9.30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
Impact's 4 week, 8 sessions mental well-being programme – YOUR Choice.
An inspiring, empowering and educational wellbeing course, helping you to understand and learn what you can do to help yourself manage your mind, your emotions and build total wellbeing resilience for the future.
If you feel you need to make some important changes to have the kind of life you really want, this course is for you.
Delivered each Wednesday & Thursday for 8 sessions on the following days:
Day 1 Wednesday 18th Sept, 2024
Day 2 Thursday 19th Sept, 2024
Day 3 Wednesday 25th Sept, 2024
Day 4 Thursday 26th Sept, 2024
Day 5 Wednesday 2rd Oct, 2024
Day 6 Thursday 3rd Oct, 2024
Day 7 Wednesday 9th Oct. 2024
Day 8 Thursday 10th Oct, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 2:30pm with plenty of breaks!
Delivered live online using Zoom
The Unlock Menopause Course has been designed by people who have been through, are going through, or have just begun their unique journey with Menopause. Our aim is to support, inform and educate those who want to have a better understanding of what is happening to their bodies and minds, whilst learning what can be done to ease some of the more common symptoms associated with Menopause.
Day 1 – Tuesday 19th Nov, 2024
Day 2 – Thursday 21st Nov, 2024
Day 3 – Tuesday 26th Nov, 2024
Day 4 – Thursday 28th Nov, 2024
Day 5 – Tuesday 3rd Dec, 2024
Day 6 – Thursday 5th Dec, 2024
Time for each session
9:30am - 2:30pm
Delivered live online using Zoom
If there are currently no courses available or none with dates that suit you, please get in touch using the form below and we can let you know when the next courses will be available.
Finally, whatever your plans and abilities are for this festive period, ‘good cheer and merriment’ have more impact when we take good care of ourselves.
Find regular time to check in with how you are feeling, and if at any time it feels uncomfortable, ask yourself, ‘do I like these thoughts or feelings?’
If the answer is No…
Stop what you are doing,
Observe what’s going on around you by using all of your senses,
Breathe, slowly, deeply and calmly for three minutes…
Evaluate the situation using logic and problem solving skills,
Respond carefully and safely…
Simple, effective and a great way to safely get through the festivities!
At Impact, we do our best to provide courses to all those who want to learn how to manage their thoughts, emotions and overall well being.
We know it can be tough with other commitments and responsibilities, work or otherwise.
That’s why we are working hard to create self-study courses that enable people to gain new knowledge, learn in a measured way and still receive guidance and support from the team.
If you or someone you know is finding it difficult to commit to being live online with us and would benefit from self-study, please get in contact with one of the team to discuss your chosen course and how we can help.
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We held our very first evening course, Mind Time in June of this year and our second in July before working through the summer weeks crunching data to see if our evening wellbeing course would have an impact!
And what an impact it had and continues to have for all those people too busy in the daytime but wanted to access support for their mental wellbeing.
It goes without saying that the team and I love what we do and especially when our course analysis informs us of the well-being improvements and joy that so many take from attending our courses.
And when people turn up to spend three hours with us for each of the four evenings, often after working long and stressful days, we are utterly humbled and grateful to share everything we know and have with them.
Tears, laughter, frustrations, more tears and more laughter, along with new knowledge, new understanding and a whole heap of self-compassion.
That pretty much sums-up what we have witnessed from the amazing ladies we have had the fortune and pleasure to work with on just two Unlock Menopause courses.
The first ran for just four daytime sessions. Until the feedback came in!
Unanimously, we were told ‘it has to be longer’!
Our second course delivered in November and December was six sessions long – and WOW!
This course tackles all of the familiar subjects associated with perimenopause and menopause, along with open, honest and heartfelt discussions of the wider social, emotional, physical and psychological impact of what could be seen as a transformational change.
If you’re a woman and curious about this natural stage in your life, or you are experiencing perimenopausal or menopausal symptoms, why not get in touch to discuss how this course could help you, or register for our next course below…
These two strengths-based courses are the beating heart of what we do and just like Impact, they have changed and improved, to reflect and share new science, therapies, support and wellbeing strategies, along with a wealth of personal and professional experiences from our delivery teams.
The YOU Programme is a fantastic introduction to begin thinking in a different way about mental wellbeing, as well as beginning the exciting journey of enablement, empowerment and change.
Step it up a gear and join us on the YOUR Recovery Pathways for an amazing journey into exploring every aspect of what it means to be well and to better manage our thoughts and emotions.
Contact us to find out more about each of these courses, or simply follow the link below to register for our very first YOU & YOUR for 2023!
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Although this year has been filled with hardship for many of us, I am reminded every day by those we teach and support of the importance of hope, and belief that change can happen to improve our health, our happiness and our hope.
In every one of our free educational wellbeing courses, we have met people who have struggled.
People who continue to struggle with the deep cost of living, political instability, lifestyle uncertainty and traumatic global events.
Yet, these very people found the courage and self-commitment to seek enablement, education and empowerment with Impact, to help themselves, their future and their mental health.
Every year my team and I are grateful to have met so many inspiring and courageous people.
People just like you and I, trying to manage the overload of world events and keep ourselves healthy, happy and hopeful.
So, this time of year allows us to look back – but not for too long – because it also encourages us to think forward.
We ask ourselves what we would like to do in the coming year, what we hope for and how we might work towards happy and healthy changes.
For 2022, I offer my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to each and every person who has shared their struggles and hope with us on our courses. We are grateful for your feedback, for your suggestions to enhance our newest courses, and for allowing us to be there for you.
We are all hugely grateful to Central Bedfordshire Council for their continued support and belief, despite undergoing their own changes this year.
In particular, we offer a special thank you to Christine Knox, Employment and Skills Academy – Programme Manager at CBC for her unstinting support and clarity on many, many occasions.
To the many, many Professional Supporters of Impact who know our value to their clients and customers and continue to refer people to our organisation, thank you.
To those that work for and with us, Dave Masterton – TaxAssist, Phil Evans – Rubber Duck Digital, who ensure we operate and deliver to the very best of our abilities and who have taken the time to understand our beliefs and values, thank you.
To our Advisory Board, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for providing us with a solid foundation from which to govern and for your expertise, patience and guidance as we have navigated our way through change.
To the Impact team, your compassion and commitment is second-to-none. Every change has been embraced positively, every challenge met with determination. Thank you.
For 2023, Jackie Bean, Director, and I, pledge to continue our commitment, passion and hard work in ensuring Impact is here for all those who need us and want to travel the wellbeing journey with us. We can’t wait to meet you!
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Please note there will be no Feel Good Friday session this week due to circumstances beyond our control.
We'll be back again next month.
Have a good weekend.
Please note there will be no Feel Good Friday session today.
We'll be back again next month.
Have a good weekend.
The next Unlock Menopause Course starts this Tuesday, 23rd January.
There are only a few spaces available, so if you would like to find out more, follow the link below.
The next Unlock Menopause Course starts this Tuesday, 23rd January.
There are only a few spaces available, so if you would like to find out more, follow the link below.
Hi! Please note, we will be closed for a Spring Break between 31st May to 10th June, and re-open on 11th June.
However, you can still enrol for our online courses via our course calendar.
Hi! Please note, we will be closed for a Spring Break between 31st May to 10th June, and re-open on 11th June.
However, you can still enrol for our online courses via our course calendar.