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Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide 

Published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and written by Dr.Russ Harris, this is a stress management guide for coping with adversity. The downloadable guide aims to equip people with practical skills to help cope with stress. A few minutes each day are enough to practice the self-help techniques. The guide can be used alone or with the accompanying audio exercises, and is available in different languages.

Future Learn – Psychology & Mental Health Courses

Want to improve your own mental wellbeing or increase your awareness of complex mental health issues? Get mental health training or explore the science and psychology behind human development with our online mental health and psychology courses.

Duolingo

The best way to learn a new language – for free!

Google Digital Garage

Sign up to the Google Digital Garage and take part in a range of free online courses designed to help boost your digital skills for work and everyday life.

Virtual Tours

Immerse yourself in some culture with a huge range virtual tours available online. Museums, zoos and theme parks – this article has links to 30 different virtual experiences to start you off!

TED talks

Ideas worth spreading. Influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages.

Skillshare

Browse thousands of free classes for your career, passions and everything in between. Our classes are taught by the world’s best practitioners in design, business, photography and more.

The Mental Elf

For those of you that like to know the latest research and evidence, do check out this website ‘keeping you up to date with reliable mental health research, policy and guidance’.

The Science of Happiness

We all want to be happy, and there are countless ideas about what happiness is and how we can get some. But not many of those ideas are based on science. That’s where this course comes in.

Onward Mental Health

Integrative mental health gives you a remarkably diverse set of options that include, but go well beyond, medication.  Craig Wagner argues that although there is no “silver bullet” for mental health recovery, 27 broad non-drug options have been validated by thousands of scientific studies and affirmed by the experience of many who have reclaimed their lives.

Working with ACT

This website aims to translate the latest evidence from behavioural science, mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) into the workplace.

Authentic Happiness

A fascinating positive psychology website from the University of Pennsylvania with lots of interesting information. You can gain some self insight with their on-line questionnaires if you join their research programme.

What Works Wellbeing

Set up in 2014, this Centre has commissioned an evidence programme to bring together research about what works, initially in three areas: work and adult learning, community wellbeing, culture and sport. This is alongside work on wellbeing across the life course, measurement, analysis of data, definitions and identifying area for further research in relation to wellbeing.