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THRIVE workshops are back!

Aug 16, 2023

Are you looking for tips to quiet your inner critic? 

Support locating mental health resources across Nova Scotia, or maybe you are wondering how to cope with Climate Anxiety? 

Whatever your wellness concern is, chances are, the Canadian Mental Health Association Nova Scotia Division has a THRIVE workshop for it! 

Launched by CMHA NS Division in February 2022, THRIVE  is a virtual learning centre where all Nova Scotians can access free workshops to learn, gain new skills, and connect with others in their community. 

THRIVE is for anyone: youth, older adults, family, friends, and parents.  

Participants are not required to have a referral, diagnosis, previous experience or be a CMHA NS Division client to participate. All are welcome! THRIVE is all about helping more Nova Scotians promote and support their own mental health so they can be well and stay well.  

“Mental health, like physical health, is on a continuum,” explains CMHA NS Division’s Executive Director, Karn Nichols.  

“We all have mental health, and the state of our mental health moves up and down the continuum depending on several different things. You can experience poor mental health and not reach the point of crisis if you access care – but for a lot of us, we don’t even realize we are, for example, depressed, or stressed or excessively anxious until we are moving up the continuum toward crisis.”  

Nichols says the goal of THRIVE is to help more Nova Scotians increase their mental health literacy and resilience skills so they can identify when they’re struggling sooner and know what support they need – better yet, she adds, to prevent extended periods of poor mental health altogether.  

THRIVE workshops delivered by CMHA NS staff and community partners who are experts by experience, which means they have their own personal story of a mental health or substance use concern or are supporting a loved one. 

For example, a mindfulness workshop would be led by a person who actively practices mindfulness to maintain their mental health, rather than a clinician.  

Courses are alternated every three months, so there is always something new to learn and try.  

Click HERE to view the course schedule.

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