2024 REGARI Ballinasloe Autumn Winter Programme

REGARI (Roscommon and East Galway Advancing Recovery in Ireland) Recovery College is a community-based initiative that aims to understand mental health through education, collaboration, and conversation.A defining feature of REGARI is the approach it takes when developing and delivering modules. Each module is co-produced and delivered by people with lived experience of mental health challenges, family members, carers, people working in mental health, staff and others interested in mental health and well-being.Our workshops cover a variety of topics related to mental health and well-being with a focus on the knowledge and the practical tools that will help us shape the life we want to live.Our service aims to support, maintain and promote positive mental health in the community and tofoster hopeful conversations about the human condition and challenges associated with poor mental health. Our mission is toadvance personal recovery and well-beingthrough accessible adult education in a sharing and supportive environment. Our ethos is respect for each and every personal experience, respect for the dignity of our human rights and person-hood, and respect for our own personal empowerment in shaping our own destiny.The College continues to expand their curriculum and this term a range of new courses that will support us on our life journey, explore the factors that impact our wellbeing, connect us with each other, and allow us to learn new skills and tools that will support us. Courses are open to service users, mental health staff, family members, carers and people from the community with an interest in mental health (+18).All voices welcome.