Five ways to wellbeing: Keep Learning Here are some ideas from Living Well together with online resources to encourage you to keep learning. Try something new. Rediscover an old interest. Combat technology. Try cooking a new recipe. Explore a virtual museum. Listen to an interesting podcast. Set a challenge you will enjoy achieving. Learning new things will make you more confident as well as being fun. Meeting with others at Katharine House Reflections Our sharing memories class is an informal opportunity to write, explore ideas and reflect. We’ll look at ideas, creating characters and setting the scene. No previous experience or expertise required! Arts and crafts Making art can help many people express themselves, without having to use words. Explore your creativity and create your own art work with the support of our experienced volunteer artists. A range of materials are available including silk painting, card making, drawing, painting and craft work. You do not need to be an artist to take part, just enjoy being creative! Mindfulness Paying more attention to the present moment – to your own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around you – can improve your mental wellbeing. Learning how to be aware of sensations, thoughts and feelings has been shown to enhance wellbeing for years ahead. Discover through teaching and meditation practices how mindfulness can help you in everyday life. How to book your sessions All our classes are accessible to anyone who who is booked onto one of our programmes. Please get in touch if you would like to join any of our groups. Keep learning online General FutureLearn: explore 654 courses from top universities and specialist organisations covering a diverse range of subjects from Start Writing Fiction to Nutrition: Eating to Live Well to English Football: a Social History. The list is honestly endless! Art and craft Life Drawing with the Royal Academy of Arts: feeling creative? Take part in an online life drawing tutorial with a real male model and a miniature horse. Will Kemp Art School has over seven hours of free acrylic painting classes for you to try including still life, landscape and colour mixing tutorials. Gardening and wildlife Gardeners’ World: a trusted source of wide-ranging gardening advice and inspiration, gardening product reviews, how to guides, plant finder and gardening jobs month to month. National Trust offers a variety of gardening tips, how to guides and gardening and nature focused podcasts. Royal Horticultural Society: choose from a variety of garden-themed delights, such as the beginner’s guide to gardening, top 10 jobs in the garden this month, grow your own fruit, veg and herb guides, wildlife fact sheets and virtual tours of some of the RHS gardens. RSPB: enjoy wildlife guides, Which bird song is that?, and access to wildlife-based articles and podcasts. History BBC Sounds offers a wide selection of history podcasts on a number of topics. A History of the World in 100 Objects is a joint project between BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, comprising a 100-part radio series written and presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor. In 15-minute presentations, MacGregor uses objects of ancient art, industry, technology and arms, all of which are in the British Museum's collections, as an introduction to parts of human history. Literature At Home with Penguin: Are you a bookworm? If so, this one is for you! Penguin is inviting you into a different author’s home each week. You’ll get to see how they’re spending their time, learn about their books and even ask questions. Authors include Dolly Alderton and Marian Keyes, but you can find the full schedule here. Museums and galleries The British Museum: learn about the history of the world and the objects that helped shape in it in the British Museum’s virtual tour. Louvre: take a tour of one of the most recognisable museums in the world - the Louvre in Paris. Admire the art or explore the Egyptian Antiquities. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: take a look at The Met’s collection virtually and browse online exhibitions about Coco Chanel and Christian Dior. The National Gallery: admire hundreds of paintings through the National Gallery’s virtual tours. Rijksmuseum: one of the world’s most popular museums. Rijksmuseum From Home allows you to virtually visit some of the museums most popular exhibits, including Rembrandt’s ‘The Nightwatch’. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: take a tour of Washington DC’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Tate: virtually explore the Andy Warhol exhibition with the curators in their exhibition tour. 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