1. Boost Your Mood Week 6 Let’s Talk Course

2. Week 6 Review of what we learnt over the course Action Plans and potential difficulties Possible setbacks and how to manage them Question Time – Any questions you want to ask

3. Feedback In small groups - Feedback from weekly tasks: – How did you find using your thought diary – How did you find working with your weekly planning sheet for Behavioural Activation – What did you notice? – Use your homework sheets – Links to your mood

4. In pairs… Write down a negative thought you frequently have Your partner asks suitable questions to help you come up with evidence for and against You come up with an alternative thought 5 minutes each

5. Group task In small groups: Review treatment goals set at week one As a large group: Feedback

6. Course summary CBT model Motivation to change SMART goals Lifestyle tips Behavioural Activation Thought Challenging Relapse prevention (to come) Any questions?

7. What will you take away with you? Every person identify one learning point that has helped with mood improvements What do you plan to do to keep this going?

8. Relapse prevention As a group – How will you maintain your progress? What are your future goals?

9. What have I learned? How can I build on this? What’s my Plan of Action? What will make it difficult for me to put this Plan of Action into practice? How can I deal with these difficulties to put this Plan of Action into practice? What might make problems worse? For example, stresses, life problems, relationships. If that happens, what can I do? Blueprint for the Future

10. Relapse Prevention Start to complete your Blueprint for the Future

11. Ongoing Tasks… Continue using Behavioural Activation – Remember: Your activities influence your mood! Ensure you use a mix of activities – routine, pleasurable and necessary Continue using Thought Challenging – Remember: Your thoughts influence your mood! Look for evidence for and against that thought Try and find a new, alternative thought that could also explain the situation

12. What Next… Practise Continue weekly tasks for a few weeks and complete your Blueprint for the Future Phone us up for more help if needed after this Step 2 options and Step 3 options

13. Service User Group We encourage people who have accessed our services to join the service user group to help make changes to our services. One role might be to help out as a ‘Meet and Greeter’ on one of our courses. If you would be interested please take a form and fill it in and send it back to the address on the letter.

14. Evaluation forms please! Please complete course evaluation forms and return before you leave Letter to be sent to you with your progress graph and certificate Would you like to volunteer to be a meet and greeter?

15. Thank you for participating on the course and all the best for the future! Enjoy achieving your goals!