Courses and Events
Diversifying Your Marketing: LGBTQ+, Neurodiversity and Disability Inclusivity
In this workshop, I bust myths surrounding LGBTQ+, neurodiversity and disability inclusivity. Are you scared of misgendering someone at a networking event, unsure how to make your workshops neurodivergent-friendly, or concerned that your marketing isn't as inclusive to disabled people as it could be? We look at how you can be more inclusive to make it easier for oppressed groups to build working relationships with you, access your business and trust your services.
Manage Stress, Fatigue and Overwhelm Workshop
Do you find yourself constantly tired and frustrated with life? Are you feeling overburdened with tasks and concerned about experiencing burnout? This workshop will identify the various forms of energy we utilise in our daily routines, provide guidance on preventing burnout and teach you how to maintain a healthy lifestyle through supportive rest.
Supportive Rest Workshop
Are you constantly feeling exhausted and frustrated with life? Are you feeling overwhelmed with all you have to do and worried you are heading for burnout?
This workshop explores avoiding burnout and managing life through nurturing supportive rest. Your experience will involve a discussion of different types of energy, breathwork, sharing your experiences, connecting with others and enjoying a guided session of supportive rest.
Permaculture of the Self & Magic
This workshop takes a permaculture approach (from the words 'permanent' and 'culture') to examine self-care and how we bring in magical and spiritual approaches to nurture ourselves and make our lives more sustainable. We will use discussion and practical spiritual work to explore the topics above.
Manage Stress, Fatigue and Overwhelm Workshop
Do you find yourself constantly tired and frustrated with life? Are you feeling overburdened with tasks and concerned about experiencing burnout? This workshop will identify the various forms of energy we utilise in our daily routines, provide guidance on preventing burnout and teach you how to maintain a healthy lifestyle through supportive rest.
Cultivate and Improve Your Boundaries Workshop
Feeling overburdened and unable to say “no” to requests can eventually lead to feeling resentful and unfulfilled. This workshop explores how you can work out what is within your capability, how to prioritise your goals and set boundaries in all areas of your life while maintaining meaningful relationships and being yourself.
Manage Stress, Burnout, Fatigue and Overwhelm Workshop (Copy)
Do you find yourself constantly tired and frustrated with life? Are you feeling overburdened with tasks and concerned about experiencing burnout? This workshop will identify the various forms of energy we utilise in our daily routines, provide guidance on preventing burnout and teach you how to maintain a healthy lifestyle through supportive rest.
Supportive Rest Workshop
Are you constantly feeling exhausted and frustrated with life? Are you feeling overwhelmed with all you have to do and worried you are heading for burn out? This workshop explores how you can avoid burnout and manage life through nurturing supportive rest.
Forest Journeying Workshop
A calming forest journeying session to wind down and immerse yourself in nature. Connect with the forest, meet your spirit guide or spirit animal and be able to ask them important questions to access part of you that has hidden knowledge and a deeper understanding of your path in life.
Neurodivergents' Nature Walk and Live Music in the Park
This group brings together like-minded, positive and understanding neurodivergents who love to get out in nature or use nature to manage their neurodiversity. Most social events are local and outdoors, but there are also some online workshops to help members. We are a positive and fun group based in Southend-on-Sea and you will find us hanging out on the beach, in woodlands for walks or (in the colder months) meeting in cafes near the sea front for talks on neurodiversity, nature and wellbeing!
Permaculture & Sustainable Living
An introduction to learn skills in self-sustainability and permaculture. We will cover the basics of growing food, storing food and keeping hens. You will have a chance to get involved practically and learn new skills.
Neurodivergents' Picnic & Seafront Walk
This group brings together like-minded, positive and understanding neurodivergents who love to get out in nature or use nature to manage their neurodiversity. Most social events are local and outdoors, but there are also some online workshops to help members. We are a positive and fun group based in Southend-on-Sea and you will find us hanging out on the beach, in woodlands for walks or (in the colder months) meeting in cafes near the sea front for talks on neurodiversity, nature and wellbeing!
Meet & Greet Woodland Walk!
This group brings together like-minded, positive and understanding neurodivergents who love to get out in nature or use nature to manage their neurodiversity. Most social events are local and outdoors, but there are also some online workshops to help members. We are a positive and fun group based in Southend-on-Sea and you will find us hanging out on the beach, in woodlands for walks or (in the colder months) meeting in cafes near the sea front for talks on neurodiversity, nature and wellbeing!
Evening Woodland Meditation
Neurodivergents in Nature - Southend-on-Sea presents an online Evening Woodland Meditation event
Woodland Walk Meet
This group brings together like-minded, positive and understanding neurodivergents who love to get out in nature or use nature to manage their neurodiversity. Most social events are local and outdoors, but there are also some online workshops to help members. We are a positive and fun group based in Southend-on-Sea and you will find us hanging out on the beach, in woodlands for walks or (in the colder months) meeting in cafes near the sea front for talks on neurodiversity, nature and wellbeing!
Stop Poor Boundaries Ruining Your Life - Workshop
Stop Poor Boundaries Ruining Your Life!
FREE Workshop!
Thursday, 23rd February 2023 at 7:30pm (BST)
How to have good boundaries isn’t something they teach in school! This workshop explores how you can avoid getting into situations where you feel unheard, overburdened and just going along with what other people want because it is easier in the short term.
This workshop is not just fundamental for folks with chronic illnesses and neurodivergents, but also people-pleasers, carers, HSPs and parents.
Do you:
🌱 Get overburdened with everyone’s problems even when you try to say no?
🌱 Feel everyone wants a piece of you or your time?
🌱 Feel disrespected and like you don’t matter?
🌱 Never have time for yourself and your goals?
You will learn:
✨ What boundaries are and how to assert them well.
✨ How boundaries differ across different relationship types
✨An understanding of what’s best for you for each relationship type in your life.
✨ How to avoid getting into situations where someone oversteps your boundaries and how to do damage control if they do!
“Bex is without a doubt one of the best teachers I've had. They’re so helpful and really prepares their lessons to perfection. They challenge you as well as building your confidence."
Meet & Greet!
This group brings together like-minded, positive and understanding neurodivergents who love to get out in nature or use nature to manage their neurodiversity. Most social events are local and outdoors, but there are also some online workshops to help members. We are a positive and fun group based in Southend-on-Sea and you will find us hanging out on the beach, in woodlands for walks or (in the colder months) meeting in cafes near the sea front for talks on neurodiversity, nature and wellbeing!
How to Overcome the 'Boom Bust' Cycle - Pacing Workshop
How to Overcome the 'boom bust' cycle Workshop!
Are you:
🌱 Feeling overwhelmed with all you have to do?
🌱 Constantly feeling exhausted and frustrated with life?
🌱 Worried you are heading for burnout or a flare up of a chronic illness?
🌱 Diagnosed with ADHD and find exhaustion is one of your main symptoms?
Burnout and exhaustion are all too common. This workshop by Bex Harper Earth Coaching explores how you can avoid burnout and manage life through pacing.
This is not just useful for folks with chronic illnesses and neurodivergents, but also managers and leaders in business.
We cover:
✨ What pacing is and how to do it well.
✨ The different kinds of energies and how to discover which ones are affected by your condition(s).
✨ How to avoid burnout, fatigue, overwhelm and chronic illness flare ups!
Book your place on this free workshop!
Learning Self-sustainability
An introduction to learn skills in self-sustainability and permaculture. We will cover the basics of growing food, storing food and keeping hens. You will have a chance to get involved practically and learn new skills.
Online Talk: How Do We Thrive In Our Current State?
Covid Pandemic, war, food shortages, rising costs. It’s been a stressful few years for many. How do we thrive in our current state of the world? Bex Harper looks at techniques to address emotional and physical exhaustion, low mood, overwhelm and trauma to move from barely surviving to beginning to thrive.
Meditation Taster (Online)
This online course provides a good overview of meditation practice, as well as some guided meditations, which help you learn how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice.
Her Story (Chelmsford)
Why are men are at the forefront when we talk about history? Who are the forgotten, yet ground-breaking, women of history? How does gender affect our daily lives and how has this changed over time? From Anne Lister’s diaries to the second wave feminists’ idea of wages for housework, from early animationist Lotte Reiniger to the quite recent Magdalene Laundries, we examine changing perceptions about gender and gender roles through the last 300 years.
Over the 8 sessions you will widen your knowledge of history and gender studies and enable them to discuss the impact of women in history. This course is for beginners and improvers.
By the end of the course I should be able to:
Describe the impact that one of the women studied has had on society at the time.
Describe the impact that one of the women studied has had on our study of history.
Outline struggles that women have faced in the past.
Present your ideas to the group and engage in small group work.
What else do I need to know?
Bringing a notepad, a folder for handouts and writing equipment would be helpful.
Investment: £63.20
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 2QL.
Book your place through the WEA Website.
Meditation Taster (Online)
This online course provides a good overview of meditation practice, as well as some guided meditations, which help you learn how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice.
This course, ideal for beginners and improvers, introduces you to the principles of meditation and relaxation with the view to improving your wellbeing and reducing stress and anxiety in your day-to-day life.
By the end of the course I should be able to:
do basic meditations.
recognise ways to help you to relax.
recognise meditation practice.
decide whether to progress onto a longer meditation course with this tutor.
What else do I need to know?
A blanket, cushion and glass of water would be helpful.
Investment: £4.80
Book your place through the WEA website.
Meditation, Relaxation & Mindfulness Course (Braintree)
This course in Braintree provides a good overview of meditation practice, as well as some guided meditations, which help you learn how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice. It also teaches you how to be mindful in your day-to-day life. It consists of 12 weekly sessions, each lasting an hour and a half.
This course, ideal for beginners and improvers, introduces you to the principles of meditation, mindfulness and relaxation with the view to improving your wellbeing and reducing stress and anxiety in your day-to-day life.
By the end of the course I should be able to:
do basic meditations.
describe the key principles for meditation and relaxation.
recognise at least 2 ways to help you to relax.
describe how mindfulness can improve wellbeing.
recognise the role that nature plays in wellbeing and mindfulness.
What else do I need to know?
It would be helpful to have a cushion, a blanket and a glass of water.
Investment: £57.60
Venue: Tabor Centre, Bocking Place, Courtauld Road, Braintree, Essex, CM7 9BT.
Book your place through the WEA website.
Earth Coaching & Forest Meditation
Weekend Festival with one-to-one earth coaching appointments and a group forest bathing meditation workshop.
Contact me to book a place to obtain one of these appointments or register for the workshop.
Grow Your Own Mindfulness Taster (Online)
Try out mindfulness techniques and de-stress with this relaxed and friendly taster session. This taster course is an introduction to what mindfulness is and gardening, as a mindful activity. During the pandemic there have been many difficult things to deal with. Explore ways to help yourself and others as we move towards coming out of lockdown.
In this course for beginners, learn about gardening mindfully, sowing cress seeds and sprouting vegetable left-overs. Explore how gardening and engaging with nature can be a mindful activity.
By the end of the course I will be able to:
Give a definition of mindfulness
Recognise two or more ways in which gardening can benefit physical and mental health
Recognise two or more ways mindful activities can benefit mental health
Describe 2 or more different ways to propagate plants
What else do I need to know?
Investment: Free to Cambridgeshire residents
Venue: Online
Book your place through the WEA website.
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