GROWING RESILIENCE
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Growing Resilience is a free peer-to-peer program to help you improve your mental health and build resilience in times of high distress. This is for Eastern and Central Sydney Region.

Waverly Library -Training Room 1

Date:21 Januray 2025 to 25 February 2025
Time:Every Tuesday, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Venue: 32-48 Denison Street, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022

Burwood

Date: 28 Januray 2025 to 4 March 2025
Time:Every Tuesday, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Woodstock Community Centre, Hardie Room (second floor), 22 Church Street Burwood, 2134

Hurlstone Memorial Reserve Community Centre

Date: 3 February 2025 to 10 March 2025
Time: Every Monday, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Venue: 35-41 Crinan St Hurlstone Park, NSW 2193

Erskineville Town Hall

Date: 10 February 2025 to 17 March 2025
Time: Every Monday, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: 104 Erskineville Road, Erskineville, NSW 2043

Botany Family & Children’s Centre

Date: 19 March 2025 to 23 April 2025
Time: Every Wednesday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Venue: 13 Banksia Street, Botany, NSW 2019

A free resilience program accessed.
Six weekly sessions, each up to 60 minutes long.
You’ll be provided with a workbook which will help guide you through each session.
An experienced facilitator will be there to help support you and your group.
Program Eligibility
Person being referred resides, studies or works in the Central and Eastern Sydney region
Person being referred has, or appears to have, a severe mental health issue/s (no formal diagnosis required) and has associated difficulty with everyday tasks, socialising, or engaging in the workforce etc.
Person being referred is not currently receiving psychosocial supports under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

Download a flyer HERE

What we'll be covering?

1

Live in the now and hope for the future

Calming your emotions when you feel unsettled about the state of uncertainty in the world right now.

2

Feeling overwhelmed

Coping strategies for when you feel as if there’s too much going on and you don’t know where to start.

3

Exercise as a mental health medicine

Understanding how our physical health can affect our mental health and forming a plan to look after both.

4

Managing loss and gaining perspective

Understanding how the feelings we experience around loss are temporary and that we can rebuild and find happiness.

5

Managing feelings during stressful times

Identifying which feelings are not serving you well during stressful times and dealing with them.

6

Managing healthy relationships

Identifying and dealing with common triggers and patterns which affect our dealings with others.

Your questions answered

How many people are there in each group?

That varies a little but tends to be around 8-10 to keep the sessions manageable.

When do the sessions take place?

More questions?

You can contact us via email GrowingResilience@grow.org.au
or
call 1800 558 268 to speak to your local GROW office.

About GROW

GROW is a community-based organisation that has helped thousands of Australians with their recovery from mental ill-health through a unique program of mutual support and personal development.

Established in Sydney in 1957, the founders were drawn together by their first-hand experience of mental ill-health. The wisdom they gained in helping each other overcome life’s challenges and move toward recovery was carefully recorded and this forms the basis of our GROW programs.

Do you need help now?

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, you can contact the following crisis services:

Emergency	000
Lifeline	13 11 14
Kids Helpline	1800 55 1800
MensLine	1300 78 99 78
Suicide Call Back Service	1300 659 467