Flourish Groupwork Programme

Our Flourish groupwork programme is for children and young people aged 8-17. It aims to equip you with a better understanding of mental and emotional health, coping strategies and emotional resilience through a range of creative and engaging interventions.

There is a maximum of 8 young people in any group that will be of a similar age to you. It is a rolling group, so young people will join and leave at different times. The group will be at the same time each week for 1 hour.

Topics covered include:

8-11 yrs (6 week programme)

• Understanding anxiety
• Anxiety management
• Improving self-esteem
• Communicating emotions
• Building resilience
• Mood management

Click here to download our 8-11 Flourish information for young people

11-17yrs (8 week programme)

• Understanding anxiety
• Coping strategies
• Managing low mood
• Challenging negative thoughts
• Improving self-esteem
• Managing stress
• Building resilience
• Physical wellbeing and responding to problems

Click here to download our 11-17 Flourish information for young people

When you arrive to your first session, you will be guided into our waiting room by our friendly receptionists, they will ask you to complete some short paperwork which you can do with the support of your parent or carer. Our Flourish deliverers will then come and collect you from the waiting room and take you upstairs to our Flourish room. The same deliverers will normally be in your group every week. Each session can be different, sometimes we may talk, draw, or use worksheets.

Everything you say in the group will remain confidential; this means it will stay private. However, confidentiality may be broken if the deliverers are concerned you are at risk. This will be explained to you in your first group.

Our Flourish room

“Flourish has really helped me and made me aware that there are other people that feel like me!”

“The Flourish workers were really nice and non-judgemental; it was a very nice experience.”

“Thank you Flourish for giving me techniques that are so good that I share them with my friends. I was really nervous about coming at first, but it was not as bad as I thought, and I enjoyed it.”

Flourish Clients