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Our Livingwell courses are designed to help you gain more knowledge about your wellbeing and how you can better manage it while gaining new skills.
All Livingwell courses are FREE of charge to all learners and subsidised by Government funding to help benefit the wellbeing and health of all communities in Dorset. Everyone of all ages and abilities are welcome on these courses.
What is a Livingwell course?
Our Livingwell courses are designed to help you to gain more knowledge about your wellbeing and how you can better manage it while gaining new skills. Our LivingWell courses cover a variety of different subjects aimed at supporting you to improve your health and wellbeing including, Arts & Crafts, Computing and Digital Skills, Creative Writing, Fitness. Flower Crafts and wellbeing and mindfulness courses.
Why take a Livingwell course?
Our Livingwell courses can help you to gain new skills while also helping to improve your wellbeing as our courses can help you improve your physical and mental health by giving you the opportunity to better understand yourself, reduce stress and develop healthy coping mechanisms for difficult emotions. Livingwell courses are also a great way to meet new people and make friends.
How long are these courses?
These courses run from 4-8 weeks depending on the subject you choose to study.
How often do the Livingwell courses run?
Our courses run all year round and are open for enrolments throughout the year. Visit our course search to view our upcoming courses.
What do you learn?
On a Livingwell course you will learn new skills and how to improve your mental health and wellbeing through mindfulness, meditation, and other techniques.
Enrolling on a Livingwell course can help you…
Better understand yourself
Learning something new is a great way to have more insight into yourself and your current abilities, as well as what you can do to progress.
Manage your wellbeing
Tutors will show you new ways to manage your own wellbeing and take steps to better manage it in the future.
Meet other like-minded adults
Our safe, supportive classroom environments are a great way to meet others and learn something new together.
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For those with no experience in the subject, or very basic knowledge.
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For those with basic knowledge who can understand and complete simple tasks.
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For those with increased basic knowledge who are happy working more independently.
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For those with solid basic knowledge who feel confident in completing multi-step tasks and activities, taking part in discussions and working independently.
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For those with sound knowledge in the subject who can complete tasks with only limited support required. You are able to use your skills in a variety of situations.
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For users with sound knowledge in the subject who can complete tasks with limited support. You can use your skills for personal development and career progression.
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For those who can complete contextualised tasks with limited support wishing to develop detailed knowledge and prefect or acquire more skills, improving on what they already know and can do, further developing flexibility with more demanding curriculum goals.
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For those wishing to further extend their knowledge and continue to use their skills more fluently and flexibly, with more demanding curriculum goals.
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For those wishing to apply high quality skills fluently and independently, with more demanding curriculum goals.
How do I enrol?
You can enrol for any of our courses in 2 ways:
Online
Find a course and can click the ‘Enrol on this course’ button to be taken to an application form to enrol on the course.
By phone
Find a course and call us on 01202 123444. Please remember to check our opening hours first.
“There was just so much I enjoyed! It was fantastic and saved my sanity. Everything about this course and all the people were great. The staff were superb and so knowledgeable. There was so much – I enjoyed everything.”
