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Join CMHA Recovery College Camrose in partnership with Camrose Public Library for a FREE Drumming Circle. This is an improvisational style of drumming circle where we will come together in community to explore and express our rhythmical spirit! No experience or musical ability is required! Open to everyone ages 16+  Instruments are provided, but feel free to bring your own.  Studies have shown that drumming can enhance your health and wellness in a variety of ways! Benefits to drumming include:

• Reduces stress & anxiety
• Relieves depression
• Lowers blood pressure
• Helps control chronic pain
• Burns calories
• Boosts brain power
• Develops confidence
• Improves coordination
• Enhances social life
• Builds happiness

Join CMHA Recovery College Camrose in partnership with Camrose Public Library for a FREE Drumming Circle. This is an improvisational style of drumming circle where we will come together in community to explore and express our rhythmical spirit! No experience or musical ability is required! Open to everyone ages 16+  Instruments are provided, but feel free to bring your own.  Studies have shown that drumming can enhance your health and wellness in a variety of ways! Benefits to drumming include:

• Reduces stress & anxiety
• Relieves depression
• Lowers blood pressure
• Helps control chronic pain
• Burns calories
• Boosts brain power
• Develops confidence
• Improves coordination
• Enhances social life
• Builds happiness

CMHA in Alberta, in partnership with the Government of Alberta, Ministry of Children’s Services, has developed a peer-to-peer family support program. Caregiver Connections provides peer support for parents and caregivers of individuals with mental health concerns. With the support of trained peers with lived experience, parents and caregivers will learn how to best take care of themselves, ask for help when necessary and learn about the importance of boundaries. It is a safe place to gather together for shared stories, education, resources and support.

Are you looking for a way to help process your thoughts, manifest your goals or just get some stress relief? Journaling can reduce stress, anxiety and depression, improve sleep and bring us a greater sense of focus and clarity. Writing is even shown to help us heal from trauma. Bring your own journal and join us for this facilitated journaling circle where we will write, create and learn about ourselves. (If you do not have a journal, we are happy to provide one for you!) No journaling experience necessary, but writers of all varieties are more than welcome. This space is focused on mutual support, personal empowerment, validation and self-awareness.  Sharing is entirely optional. Explore different journaling prompts & creative exercises aimed towards wellness & self-discovery.  

Welcome to our Wellness Through Art open art night, where we welcome EVERYONE as an artist! The intention of this event is to simply create space for people to make art together. At each art night we will be offering a simple art prompt for those of you who may appreciate a little extra inspiration, however this is simply an invitation. Please feel free to create whatever you feel called to make in this time. We will provide some basic art supplies, but you are also welcome to bring your own supplies or art projects from home and work on them here. YOU CAN'T DO ART WRONG! This is a judgment free zone and we are all here to feel good through creating art and connecting with one another:)  

Join CMHA Recovery College Camrose in partnership with Camrose Public Library for a FREE Drumming Circle. This is an improvisational style of drumming circle where we will come together in community to explore and express our rhythmical spirit! No experience or musical ability is required! Open to everyone ages 16+  Instruments are provided, but feel free to bring your own.  Studies have shown that drumming can enhance your health and wellness in a variety of ways! Benefits to drumming include:

• Reduces stress & anxiety
• Relieves depression
• Lowers blood pressure
• Helps control chronic pain
• Burns calories
• Boosts brain power
• Develops confidence
• Improves coordination
• Enhances social life
• Builds happiness

Recovery is a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life and strive to reach their full potential.  A RECOVERY journey is simply a WELLNESS journey and no two paths are the same. RECOVERY IS FOR EVERYONE!    Join us for this 4 part series where each week we explore a variety of topics and strategies that can support you on your own personal path to wellness. -Increase self-worth and self-awareness. -Understand common milestones along the journey and our role in our own recovery. -Consider how barriers and stigma might impact your wellness. -Celebrate your strengths. -Embrace learning and growing from our experiences and how to deal with setbacks. -Connect with other like-minded people and engage in meaningful conversations!      

Join us for this 2hr ONLINE single session course via zoom where our goal is to build self-awareness and discover some practical things that may help us stay calm, cool and collected amidst the uncomfortable situations life can throw our way. We will discuss the differences and similarities of stress and anxiety as well as explore practical tools and strategies for grounding ourselves and increasing our sense of calm when experiencing these difficult feelings. This session is a bitesize snippet of our larger 3 session course called “Confront the Discomfort.”

Join us for this free 1 hour ONLINE session via zoom where we explore the concept of stress.

• • Learn to recognize the early signs.
  • Understand the ways the body reacts to stress.
  • Learn how your own self-talk impacts your stress levels.
  • Practice strategies for mitigating stress responses in your own life.

Mindfulness can be described as a state of awareness that allows us to be fully present in the moment.   Mindfulness is a practice that can support us to calmly acknowledge and accept our feelings, and thoughts without judgement. Practicing mindfulness often results in increased gratitude which contributes to feelings of happiness and improvements in one's mental wellbeing.   Join us for this 1 hour engaging and interactive ONLINE conversation via zoom about mindfulness and gratitude where we will explore ways to incorporate these practices into our everyday lives.