Training Services in Belfast

We are a mental health and wellbeing training organisation; we are passionate about personal, organisational, and school mental health and wellbeing. We are making a difference through the delivery of this evidence based action plan training, which provides long-term improvement for those who suffer from anxiety, stress and depression.

Our aim is to provide excellence in training through innovation, relationship building and the teaching of techniques that will enable you to maintain your own healthy wellbeing. We are part of an ever increasing global wellness and recovery network that provides excellent practices and high standards for the delivery and implementation of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan®. We deliver WRAP® training within a Corporate and Schools based format throughout Northern Ireland, Ireland and the UK mainland.

What is WRAP®?

WRAP® stands for Wellness Recovery Action Plan®, a well-researched and evidenced based practice.

WRAP® is a self-management system which supports individuals to monitor and manage their wellbeing. This involves developing tools and strategies in order to achieve a level of wellness and stability that they always hoped was possible! WRAP® encourages people to move beyond simply managing mental health distress to building a meaningful life in the community by using a highly individualised plan for recovery and wellness.

WRAP® was founded by Mary Ellen Copeland 15 years ago and further developed by a group of people who experienced mental health challenges. Mary Ellen Copeland is an internationally renowned author, doctor, educator, and mental health recovery advocate.

We often plan for everything in our life, why wouldn’t we plan for something as important as our Mental Health?

WRAP® can be used not only to manage mental health and stress but the framework can be applied to support individuals in managing physical health, such as diabetes, heart or strokes, stressful situations, relationships, moving house, exams, applying for a new job….. Its applications are limitless!

WRAP® is designed to:

• Support people to improve their quality of life through developing a self-management plan.

• Decrease troubling behaviours and feelings of anxiety, stress and depression.

• Increase personal empowerment and self-esteem.

• Assist people in achieving their own life goals and dreams.

• Support people to uncover their personal strengths and discover how they can use these strengths

• to support their journey towards a fulfilled life of wellness.

• Supports an individual to develop a safety plan.

• The WRAP® Programme has the following goals:

• Support participants with how to implement the key concepts of recovery which include hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support, in their day-to-day lives.

• Support participants to organise meaningful wellness tools and activities they can use to help

• themselves feel better when they are experiencing difficulties, but more importantly to prevent these difficulties from arising in the first instance.

• Assist each participant in creating a safety plan that guides the involvement of family members and supporters on their behalf when someone can no longer take appropriate action for themselves.

• To support participants to develop an individualised future safety plan to be used when the mental

• health challenge subsides, to promote a return to wellness ad review parts of the WRAP® plan.

• Teach how to implement this plan on a daily basis at home and work and at school.

• Completion of a living document that can be altered and amended as life’s circumstances change.

WRAP® Values & Ethics

1 Hope

Each session supports the premise that there is hope, that people can get well,

stay well for long periods of time, and do the things they want to do with their lives.

2 You can

Self-determination, personal responsibility, empowerment, and self-advocacy

are key aspects of this programme.

3 Mutual learning

The programme supports workshop decision- making and personal sharing.

4 Equality

Participants are treated as equals with dignity, compassion, mutual respect,

and unconditional high regard.

5 Unconditional high regard

There is unconditional acceptance of each person as they are unique, special individuals, including acceptance of diversity with relation to culture, ethnicity, language, religion, race, gender,

age, disability, sexual preference

6 No limits

This programme is based on the premise that there are “no limits” to recovery.

7 Explore choices

Participants are given the opportunity to explore choices and options,

and are not expected to find simple, final answers.

8 Enrolment not conscription

All participation is voluntary.

9 Expert by experience

It is understood that each person is the expert on her or himself.

10 Strengths focused

The focus is on individual strengths and away from perceived deficits.

11 Language

Clinical, medical and diagnostic language is avoided.

12 Peer support

The focus is on peers working together and learning from each other

to increase mutual understanding, knowledge, and promote wellness.

13 Simple and safe self-help strategies

The programme emphasises strategies that are simple and safe for anyone,

and it stays away from strategies that may have harmful effects.

14 Accept trauma is expressed in many ways

Difficult feelings and behaviours are seen as normal responses to traumatic circumstances

and in the context of what is happening and not as symptoms or a diagnosis.

15 Creative work welcomed

There is unconditional acceptance of all creative work and expressions that are created or brought to each session. This includes movement, sound, painting & drawing, collage, and three- dimensional construction. The creator is always in control of the work.

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Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm, Closed Saturday and SundayClosed on Bank Holidays