CLEAR groups
CLEAR offers a wide range of groups in Huddersfield and Dewsbury. Please take a look at the sections below for more information. A copy of the latest group timetable for Huddersfield and Dewsbury can be downloaded from the top right of this page.
For more information about our CLEAR service, including the referral process, click here.
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Welcome Session
A group introduction to the service, explaining who we are and what we do. This group is purely for new service users/potential service users to see what CLEAR offers. A referral form and risk assessment must have been received before you can attend the welcome session. The facilitators will explain how the service works, go through all the groups we have on offer and show you around the centre. This group is also your chance to ask questions about the service and decide if CLEAR is right for you.
Words In Mind
Join our social reading group and bring poems, short stories, song lyrics, articles or quotes, anything with words in! We centre the session around a theme chosen by the group. We read the poems and pieces aloud together and discuss them as a group and talk about what they remind us of. We also have a space in the session for you to bring any other pieces or your own work to share. Even if you don’t enjoy poetry, this is a cosy group that opens up some great group discussions as a collective. Come and be a part of it!
Creative Writing
This group explores writing through creative activities which we will do during the session. You’ll have a chance to write poetry, short stories, letters and more! No prior experience is needed to join in this group, and all levels of ability are welcome. We believe all writing is good writing! Come along and get your creative juices flowing!
All Together
Each week this group does a variety of brain stimulating activities, such as puzzles, art, games and team building exercises. The activities are aimed at improving memory, concentration and developing problem solving skills. This group is also a great chance to develop your social skills and confidence and get to know other people at CLEAR in a relaxed, informal way. This group is open to everyone at CLEAR (including clients with dementia).
Weekend Drop-ins
(Saturday Huddersfield 11-1pm and 2-4pm/ Sunday Dewsbury) 11-1pm and 1.30-3.30pm)
Our weekend creative arts group allows you to try new arts and crafts techniques. If you would like to bring in your own work and share some of your own skills come along and give it a go. Board games and books are also available. - Outdoor groups
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Allotment
CLEAR’s allotment group is run once a week on our allotment site near Far Town in Huddersfield. The site includes vegetable beds, a large polytunnel, fruit trees and a pond. There is also an area that we are developing as a ‘Zen’ or Tranquillity garden with seating under a living willow arbour, ornamental trees and beds to be filled with medicinal and aromatic herbs and wildflowers. Clients are invited to come and join in in whatever way suits them, whether this means digging, planting, pruning and weeding, learning about the whole process of growing things, building structures, painting sheds or designing the layout of new areas. All ideas are welcome. You may simply want to enjoy the beautiful views while you read, paint, write or meditate. - Social/Peer support groups
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Safe Space
A telephone group where things are discussed that affect our mental health or can be affected by our mental health. It is safe haven for clients to open up and get the peer support that is so precious to mental health recovery. Based on different subjects each week, chosen by the group itself, about the things that are important and matter to you.
“It’s brilliant that we can open up and know we’re not alone and talk about our problems.”
Men's Group
A warm and welcoming male peer support group, which aims to build confidence and support recovery through sharing experience and learning from each other. This group is led by volunteers with lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Hearing Voices
A safe space where people with shared and lived experiences can come together to chat, socialise and support one another. Where people, who hear, see or sense things that others don’t, can feel accepted, valued and understood. The Clear Hearing Voices group will be primarily peer led but sessions are facilitated and supported by a trained member of staff and/or volunteer. This group is open to anyone accessing Clear, the Insight Service or the Working Together Better Services.
BAME peer support
Monthly peer support group at CLEAR Huddersfield. A safe supportive space for people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds to share experiences and open discussion. - Wellbeing and relaxation groups
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Auricular Acupuncture
Auricular Acupuncture is a wellbeing treatment where five small needles are placed in each ear for a short treatment. It supports the brain and nervous system and can have a variety of general health & wellbeing benefits. These benefits can include being significant help in the management of depression, anxiety, reduction of addiction cravings, decreasing agitation and stress as well as helping with insomnia and overall is classed as a holistic, balancing treatment.
‘It was the first time in weeks that I was able to relax’ P.A.
Meditation Mondays (Dewsbury)/Tranquil Tuesdays (Huddersfield)
This group helps you learn mindfulness and relaxation through meditation exercises. You will learn the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and get some help to develop your own practice. Meditation can help you manage stress and other difficult emotions and increase your concentration. The group also is a space to share ideas and gain tips from one-another about how we can better practice and tune into the present moment in our everyday. No previous experience of meditation or mindfulness required.
Emotional Freedom Technique
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a type of “Energy Therapy” that uses gentle tapping on acupressure points throughout the body in combination with powerful acceptance phrases and affirmations to improve emotional wellbeing, relieve stress and anxiety and promote physical and emotional healing in the body. CLEAR is offering this powerful technique as a limited session one-to-one therapy and as continued practice and experience within a group setting. - Courses
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Confidence Course
This course explores key aspects of confidence, such as what confidence is, how it affects us, its impact on self-esteem, how our body language is influenced, and the effect on our personal values and beliefs. The course was designed by two former clients of CLEAR, who now work in Support Worker roles, and includes tools they used in their own recovery.
Anxiety Course
A four-week course aimed at understanding and managing anxiety. The course content includes looking at the CBT model of anxiety, so we can understand our triggers, thoughts and safety behaviours and we will also focus on coping strategies. This course will help you understand your anxiety, how to address it and how to cope with it in the moment. It also offers a chance for you to share your experiences and get support from people experiencing similar difficulties.
“Really informative and fun too. I feel more confident about how to cope and deal with anxiety"
Smoking Cessation Course
Clear has trained members of staff to support clients to stop smoking. Our Smoking Cessation support programme suggests using a combination of behavioural support and stop smoking medication to support you to quit, including 1:1 appointments, a peer support group and you can receive stop smoking medication
Mindfulness Course
Mindfulness can be described as the kind, open and accepting awareness that can arise through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally. It is a practice or way of being that dates back to India over 2000 years ago but more recently has been developed as a method for helping people deal with stress, anxiety, over-thinking or obsessive thoughts, chronic pain and is now recommended by the NHS as an effective method for improving well-being.
CLEAR’s six-week mindfulness course is a gentle introduction to the ideas and practice of mindfulness. The course aims to allow everyone to explore how mindfulness may be helpful to them in their particular circumstances and aims to build a safe group environment in which people can support each other in learning and reflecting on their experiences.
Anger Management
A 6 week group-work programme based on the model of CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy). Aims to help people build an awareness and understanding of anger at different stages, and offers strategies to manage in different ways. Sessions involve a mix of delivered information as well as group discussion and tasks.
Sleep Course
The aim of this course is to introduce you to some lifestyle changes that can help improve your sleep quality and reduce insomnia. In this course you will learn about the science of sleep, think about what you can do to help yourself sleep better and have a chance to practise relaxation techniques.
Wellbeing Skills
Wellbeing Skills is designed for you to work through a variety of strategies and techniques in a self-help style handbook in your own time and at your own pace. The workbook covers ways to help manage difficult emotions, building self-awareness and useful ways of communicating with others. We also have a social every three months where people working through the book can share their thoughts about the activities and what they have gained from them.