Healing Hearts has a range of workshops that will support people to learn and improve their life skills. New "ready-made" workshops will be added to this as times goes by, so keep looking to see what new workshops we have to offer.

Remember, if you don't see a workshop that meets your needs, contact Healing Hearts and staff will be happy to discuss creation of workshop that is tailored to the area/skill/issue you wish to target.

Budgeting is a vital skill for any young person preparing for independence. It is a skill that alludes many people and its importance makes it a definite need.

Healing Hearts can provide a 2 hour budgeting workshop that provides the basics about budgeting, including:

• Banking - How Choose the Bank that's Right for you
• How to create a budget
• Needs vs Wants - What's the Difference?
  
• Saving - What is it and how to do it

Self-care is about creating a balance between work, life, partying, family and friends. All of these things are important in life and sometimes we forget to make time for all them. This can lead to feelings of being overwhelmed, stress, fatigue and poor mental health.

Healing Hearts offers a 2 hour Self-Care workshop for young people that is informative, fun and engaging. It includes information about:

• a balance in life
• stress management techniques
• the importance of hobbies and recreational activities
• the importance of making time for friends and family
• the importance of planning
  

Bullying and harassment are unfortunately a part of life. Many people face bullies at school, in the workplace, amongst their friends, in their relationships and in the family.

Healing Hearts offers a 2 hour Bullying and Harassment workshop that provides people with information to understand and identify bullying behaviour and strategies to deal with bullying and harassment.

With the introduction of social media, bullying has become a big issue for young people. It has meant that there is sometimes no escape from bullies as they follow you home through social media and this creates greater isolation as young people are forced to delete accounts to avoid bullying.

Healing Hearts offers a 2 hour bullying workshop that helps young people build resilience against bullying and learn to manage the issue associated with same. This workshop includes the following:

• What is bullying?
• What can you do if you are being bullied?
• How to keep yourself safe
• How to move forward and away from bullies
• How to support and help friends who are being bullied
• How to navigate through the quagmire that is social media

Stress is a normal and expected part of life. It can challenge us to strive harder and improve ourselves, or it can adversely affect our mental health and well-being.

Healing Hearts has developed a 2 hour workshop that aims to create an awareness and understanding of stress, how to identify it and how to combat it.

Sexual health is important for anyone who is sexually active or thinking about becoming sexually active.

Healing Hearts has a fun, interactive and educational 2 hour workshop that:

• highlights the importance of sexual health
• stresses the importance of keeping safe and discusses how to do it
• discusses how easy it is to obtain a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
• talks about relationships and sexual harassment
• highlights and explores what to is acceptable and what is unacceptable behaviour between partners when engaging in sexual activity
  

Life Story Work is important for young people in care. With a background of experience rooted in OOHC and residential services, the staff of Healing Hearts have a great depth of experience in Life Story Work and how to work through Life Story Books with young people.

Who Am I? is the first stop in the Life Story journey and Healing Hearts offers a 2 hour workshop to guide young people in care through the first stage of Life Story Work.

Workshops for the remaining stages will become available with time. Keep reviewing the Watch This Space page to see when they become available.

Healing Hearts has a range of programmes that will support people to learn and grow, better preparing them for the challenges life throws at them. New programmes will be added to this list as times goes by, so keep looking to see what new workshops we have to offer.

Remember, if you don't see a programme that meets your needs, contact Healing Hearts and staff will be happy to discuss creation of a tailored programme to meet you individual need(s).

RAGE is a 6 week programme, made up of 6, 1 hour workshops each week and is a strengths based solution focused program that is hands on, practical and also fun for young people.

The programme is aimed at supporting young people to manage negative emotions more effectively, thereby reducing challenging physical and verbal behaviours.

It covers topics such as:

• The many faces of anger and the 4T’s anger cycle
• Healthy expressions of anger
• How guilt is an important part of the anger cycle and ways to deal with guilt
• The importance of relaxation, exercise and diet

(information taken from the UnitingCare Institute of Family Practice website)

ACTIV8 is a 6-7 week programme, made up of 6-7, 2 hour workshops and aims to address young people's self esteem and behaviour through building assertiveness and exploring ways to make positive choices. It can also be delivered over 2 days.

The programme uses a strength based model incorporating peer learning and some elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Objectives of the Activ8 program are:

• Participants attending the group program will have the opportunity to reflect on their behaviour style and to develop skills in becoming assertive.
• Participants will be inspired to make positive changes in their lives.
• Participants will have the opportunity to gain support from other students (their peers) in developing assertiveness.
• Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their self esteem and learn ways to build their self esteem.
• Participants will gain an awareness of strategies that they can use to make healthy and safe decisions.
• Participants will learn how to set goals and achieve them

(information taken from the UnitingCare Institute of Family Practice website)

MTB is a 6 week programme, made up of 6, 1 hour workshops and aims to empower young with skills to manage bullies at school. The programme targets young people aged 12-17 years with the intent to develop social resilience.

Topics covered include:

• profiling the bully
• strengths and self-esteem
• communication skills
• building support networks
• cyber-bullying
• creating a personal protection plan.

(information taken from the UnitingCare Institute of Family Practice website)