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This spouse programme is very much needed for AF Spouses
The UK Armed Forces Spouse Personal Development Programme
Our Original Enhanced Version
The ‘Enhanced’ 10-week online personal development programme was designed specifically for spouses, civil or long-term partners of serving personnel in the UK Armed Forces. Over the past four years, 60 spouses have graduated from six cohorts, with participants reporting significant positive changes in multiple areas of their lives.
A testament to the difference the programme has made is that more than one-third of graduates have answered the call to help us evolve it into something more sustainable and affordable, enabling spouses to have the option to self-fund their own personal development..
Previously, due to limitations in available funding, less than half of the spouses who applied to take part in the programme were able to do so. Creating a self-funded version means you don’t have to wait for funding to become available, and our Core Programme makes the programme available at a more affordable price.
Our New Core Version
A more affordable version of the programme is now available.
Like the original programme the Core version recognises the barriers AF spouses face in accessing job, career and business opportunities. The Core Programme allows spouses/partners the opportunity to consider the best way forward for both them and their families. This can include exploring new employment opportunities and considering the possibility of developing their own business. However it can also include deciding more holistically that employment is not currently a priority.
What will you get from the programme?
You create your own, unique personal development plan and associated action plan to move forwards towards your ideal life on your terms. But that is only the beginning…
As aspirations differ for each participant, so will the outcomes. These are some of the other benefits reported by participants:
- Increased confidence
- Reconnection with what is most important
- Tools and processes to help decide your next steps
- Clarity of direction
- Courage to undertake action in areas of importance
- Permission to say ‘no’ to those things not in line with your overall plan
- Deep understanding that you are not the only person struggling with change
- Clearing away of hesitation and indecision
- Empowerment to make change
- Alleviation of the sense of being paralysed by too many options
- Satisfaction from moving forward, even the tiny steps
- Joy in seeing your wisdom assist others
- Development of new friendships
- Realisation of how close you already are to having your ideal life
- Help to find the right job or business opportunity for you
- Practical advice to help you move forward with your small business or job seeking
Is this opportunity for you?
- Are you wanting a bit more out of life?
- Do you want to improve your career or job prospects?
- Are you juggling family, service and career obligations?
- Are you thinking of starting your own business?
- Are you considering turning your idea/hobby into a business?
- Wondering what job or business could move with you?
We have proven the 'Enhanced ' programme changes lives!
Sixty graduates of the ‘Enhanced’ programme reported an improvement across all 15 parameters measured listed below. In addition, the programme demonstrated a statistically significant and very large positive effect on participant mental wellbeing (Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale: N=52, Cohen’s d=1.16).
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Improvement in Confidence
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Improvement in Feeling Supported by Family & Friends
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Improvement in happiness Work / Career
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Improvement in happiness Personal Growth & Learning
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Improvement in happiness Money
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Improvement in happiness Health
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Improvement in happiness Fitness
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Improvement in happiness Physical Environment
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Improvement in happiness Spirituality
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Improvement in happiness Fun & Leisure
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Improvement in happiness Friends
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Improvement in happiness Extended Family
Like to see more of the programme results?
Testimonials
Hear about the programme first-hand from Beccy, Gemma, Nina and Emma, who have kindly shared their experiences of the programme and what it has meant for their lives.
Further information about the Enhanced Programme
More information on the programme
Information Session Recording – This is a recording of an information session about the Enhanced Programme. In this you will meet the Programme Team, hear how the programme evolved and have some questions answered.
Reports from previous cohorts of the Enhanced Programme
- Report on the pilot programme and the positive impact on the spouses (PDF, 652 KB)
- Report on the second cohort of the programme replicating positive impact on spouses (PDF, 738 KB)
Our Programme Team
Donate or Sponsor?
If you are kind enough to donate, we will allocate your contribution at random to those who apply. If you would like to Sponsor an individual, group or to select a specific service – please let us know by sending an email to support@yournewwings.com with the details of who the sponsorship is for and we will gladly allocated the funds.
“You are the expert in your life – you have all the answers – you just need the time, the space and the focus to listen to your inner voice, and the courage to act on what you know to be the right path…”
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