Growth Mindset - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

This uplifting, 6‑week course helps you develop a growth mindset—the belief that your abilities can grow through effort, practice, and learning from challenges. Through reflective activities, guided meditations, and practical tools, you’ll explore how to reframe setbacks, build resilience, and strengthen flexible thinking. Each week introduces simple strategies you can use at home, work, or study to support continuous learning and personal growth. No previous experience needed—just curiosity and a willingness to explore new ways of thinking.

Over the duration of the course, we will cover:

Week 1 — What Is a Growth Mindset? Explore the foundations of mindset theory, identify fixed vs growth thinking, and experience grounding meditation.

Week 2 — Embracing Challenge Understand why challenge is essential for growth and practice reframing discomfort as opportunity.

Week 3 — Flexible Thinking in Action. Learn practical tools for shifting perspectives, adapting to change, and staying open to new approaches.

Week 4 — Learning From Setbacks Reflect on past setbacks, explore emotional responses, and discover how to extract learning from difficult moments.

Week 5 — Resilience & Self‑Belief Strengthen resilience through reflective exercises, evaluate personal patterns, and practice a confidence‑building meditation.

Week 6 — Continuous Learning Plan Create a personalised growth plan, set future goals, and celebrate progress.

Resources required:

Bottle of Water.

Pen & Paper for notes/Journal.

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.