Tower Hamlets Recovery College
Tower Hamlets Recovery College supports wellbeing and mental health recovery through education and learning. Tower Hamlets Recovery College is for everyone. You can register as a student if you live, work or study in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The Recovery College is open for three 10 week terms a year (Autumn, Spring and Summer) and we deliver at least 20 courses per term. Class sizes are kept to a maximum of 10-12 people so that everybody can have a positive learning experience. Our premises at 86 Old Montague Street provide office space for our staff and tutors, and a library and study area for our students.
All our educational workshops and courses are co-designed and co-delivered by trained tutors who have lived experience of mental health challenges and trained tutors who work in mental health and wellbeing services. We call this co-production.
Courses cover a range of areas that might support recovery; including tools and approaches to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, your experiences and the experience of others, education about mental and physical health, helpful tips on practical life skills, how to get more involved in educational and vocational opportunities, how to be a more recovery orientated practitioner and how to support other people’s recovery journeys.
Everybody learns from one another because courses are co-received by students who have experienced mental health difficulties and students who have not. This co-learning adds to the richness of the educational experience.
Please click on the link to the current prospectus to find out more about what we have on offer this coming term.
Enrolling on our courses
Once you have registered with Tower Hamlets Recovery College and have seen a course that you are interested in attending you can enrol by:
- Completing the Tower Hamlets Recovery College Enrolment Form on this webpage and e-mailing it to elft.thrc@nhs.net or
- Phoning the college on 020 7426 2449 to enrol by telephone or
- Coming to Tower Hamlets Recovery College to enrol in person or
- Attending an enrolment day at The Tower Hamlets Recovery College, 86 Old Montague Street, London E1 5NN at the beginning of term
- You will need to complete an enrolment form each time you register for a new course or courses.
Course venues
We hold our courses in a variety of community and health related venues in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets so that we can provide access to all, encourage broad community engagement and decrease negative attitudes and prejudice about mental health.
- We provide transport information about each venue in our prospectus so that you know how to get there by bus, tube or train
- We repeat our most popular courses and rotate them to different venues across the borough so that people can choose to attend a venue that is local to them
Co-production, co-delivery & co-learning
Co-production is where tutors who are Experts by Profession work together with tutors who are Experts by
- Experience to develop a course for Tower Hamlets Recovery College by setting learning objectives and developing a session plan.
- Having expert knowledge of the topic is most important, regardless of whether you are an Expert by Profession or Experience.
- Each co-producer has equally valued input into the decision making process, the course content and the production of the final session plan.
- Co-production means that all comments and opinions made by the Expert by Experience and the Expert by Profession are fully explored and respected. Differences of opinion are discussed and time is allowed for compromises to be negotiated.
- The final session plan reflects all the contributions made by each tutor during the co-production process.
- Co-delivery means that each course is delivered by a trained tutor who is an Expert by Experience and a trained tutor who is an Expert by Profession. This means that one person is not supporting or secondary to the other and there is equality of roles.
- Co-learning means that students who have experienced mental health difficulties learn with students who have not so that students can learn from one another’s experience.
Individual Learning Plans
An Individual Learning Plan helps a student to identify their specific learning goals for the term and reflect on their progress. Goals can include ambitions that a student has for their personal learning and recovery journey. The Individual Learning Plan (ILP) does not have to be detailed. It provides an opportunity discuss learning needs, decide which courses to enrol on and the kind of support that could be offered by our tutors.
Getting involved at Tower Hamlets Recovery College
We have a number of volunteering opportunities at Tower Hamlets Recovery College including:
- Volunteer Peer Tutors
- Friends of the Recovery College
If you are interested in volunteering please
- E-mailing thrc@elft.nhs.uk or
- Telephoning the college on 020 7426 2449 or
- Texting the college on 07908 459239 or
- Visiting the Recovery College in person at 86 Old Montague Street, London E1 5NN
Tower Hamlets Recovery College
86 Old Montague Street
London
E1 5NN
United Kingdom