Welcome to the Active Hope Foundations Online Training.

In this first video, Active Hope co-author Chris Johnstone introduces the course, saying why we've developed it and how we see its purpose.

We're releasing the course in seven modules. With one instalment released each week, you can see this as a seven-week course. However, you're welcome to work through the material at your own pace, taking longer if you prefer. Each section focuses on a different theme and includes a practice that we invite you to try out in that week.

We'd be grateful if you can complete the short questionnaire after the third video in this section - it takes about ten minutes. We'll ask you to complete a second questionnaire at the end of the course - the results from these helping us find out what impact the course has, who it is reaching, and also identify ways we might be able to improve it.

Each section of the course contains videos with a range of styles - some presenting ideas, others involving interviews or demonstrations of practices you're encouraged to try out. Sometimes it takes a little while for a video to load up, so if you come to a new page and there isn't much there, please wait a moment and the video may appear. Some pages also have downloadable handouts with a link at the bottom of the page. Some others have discussion threads inviting your questions and/or comments.

All pages with video will also have a downloadable transcript of the video (lower down the page), to support participants who are hard of hearing, or for whom English is not their native language.