Choose a group that starts on a day that will work for you to meet each week for all 11 weeks.

Check for a specific experience group that you relate to.

We will send you the Animo workbook and your facilitators will email you all the information you need to connect with your group.

This is the first of the 11 meetings. Get to know your facilitators and peers, the meeting platform, and group guidelines.

Week 1 – Basic Wellness

Understand how sleep, nutrition, and physical movement affect us

Understand medication as a tool

Understand why we might use substances to cope

Week 2 – Understanding Emotions

Become aware of the feeling of an emotion

Be able to name emotions so we can process them

Learn tools to cope with uncomfortable emotions

Week 3 – Adjusting Thoughts

Understand the ways we think

Be able to notice our thoughts

Learn to adjust an unsupportive thought into something realistic

Understand our values so we can live intentionally

Week 4 – Aligning with Values

Be able to recognize beliefs that we hold that influence our behaviours

Week 5 – Managing Expectations and Priorities

Be able to notice when we have an expectation

Be able to adjust our expectations

Understand and manage our priorities

Make effective decisions

Be able to recognize and work through a problem

Week 6 – Solving Problems and Setting Goals

Understand the steps we need to take to achieve a goal

Week 7 – Communicating Effectively

Understand different styles of communication

Be able to set boundaries by asking for what you need and saying “no”

Be able to give and receive feedback

Week 8 – Working with Guilt and Worry

Understand and work with our guilt

Understand and work with our worry

Be aware of what makes us vulnerable so we can maintain what we’ve learned

Week 9 – Maintaining Change

Understand why we resist change, even if the change supports us

Week 10 – Reflections

Reflect on our Animo journey and how we will continue to use our tools