About Pathway to Wellbeing
Pathway to Wellbeing offers free, supportive courses for learners with mild to moderate mental health conditions that impact daily life. Delivered in a nurturing environment, the programme helps you build new skills, boost confidence, and enjoy a positive weekly focus.
Courses are designed to support recovery and complement existing self-care or treatment. Conditions may include anxiety, low mood, PTSD, OCD, or phobias.
Self-referrals are welcome, and you will be invited to an informal appointment to ensure the course is right for you.
Course intent
Discover the creative and expressive world of zine-making. Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are self-published booklets, usually free or low-cost, that allow you to share your passions, your art, your writing, whatever you’re interested in. It’s a great low-risk way to start thinking about creative writing, journalling, drawing and painting, or some other new interest. Through hands-on activities and exercises, and guided artistic exploration, you’ll learn how to craft your own personal zines as a tool for self-expression. You will explore different themes and ideas while experimenting with collage, drawing, writing, and mixed media techniques. By the end of the course, you’ll have a collection of unique, hand-made zines that reflect your journey, insights, and creative growth.
The intent of this course is for you to learn to design and create personal Zines and through this help you improve your sense of wellbeing.
This course is part of our Pathway to Wellbeing programme for adults to support them as they rediscover their mental and emotional balance and to help them live healthy, active lives. If depression, anxiety or stress are making your life difficult, come and join one of our free courses. You can connect with others, learn new skills and create something new.
What will I learn?
This course offers step-by-step guidance to help you create personal Zines for artistic and written self-expression.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Understand simple paper manipulation techniques for zine creation
- Use different sources for inspiration such as contemporary artists, books and magazines, online resources
- Use a range of artistic and craft techniques, such as painting, drawing, mark-making, collage, printing
- Experiment with approaches to wellbeing that can be integrated into your daily life
As this course takes place over several sessions, you will find you make the most progress if you attend every lesson and complete any home practice that is suggested.
Get in touch and how to enrol
Enrolments are accepted from the end of each term. However if you missed the start of this term and you want to join the next group please contact pathway.wellbeing@surreycc.gov.uk with your enquiry and a member of the team will be in touch about how to get into the next group. We also welcome enquiries from professionals.
Existing Pathway to Wellbeing learners will be contacted by the Curriculum Team towards the end of term with next steps.
You can enrol by phone (0300 200 1044) or at one of our centres. Once enrolled, you will be invited to a one-to-one appointment to ensure the programme is right for you, explain what to expect, answer any questions, and signpost additional support if needed.
If you are interested outside enrolment periods, please contact our Learner Support Team to register your interest.
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