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Thrive™: Helping you realise your potential

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Thrive™ is an interactive in-person programme, delivered by an experienced team here at Warwick, to support students with their confidence, resilience and agency.

Why Thrive™?

Open to undergraduates and postgraduates, Thrive™ is free to attend.

Thrive™ can help you:

  • Increase your self-awareness through understanding your strengths and values
  • Grow your confidence through exploring boundary setting and assertiveness
  • Feel empowered, overcome self-doubt and increase resilience
  • Push beyond your comfort zone
  • Make connections with like-minded students, start to build a community of support

More information

Thrive is a neuroinclusive space. If you would like to have a 1-1 chat with Programme Manager Sarah Bennett to find out more, please get in touch via .

Hear from four students who took part in the pilot programme

Read feedback from some of our students

Read about some of our previous guest speakers

Find out more about the facilitators involved

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Thrive wins gold award

The Student Opportunity Thrive™ programme has been recognised in the QS Reimagine Education Awards, winning Gold in the ‘Nurturing Wellbeing and Purpose’ category.

2025/26 Thrive™ Programme

Applications will open 9am 1 October 2025.

Like to get fully immersed? Apply for our 2 day intense programme in either December 2025 (Programme 1) or February 2026 (Programme 3).

Need time to reflect? Apply for our month-long programme over 4 half days starting in either January 2026 (Programme 2) or February 2026 (Programme 4).

Please note, attendance is required at all sessions within a programme.

Programme 1

2 full consecutive days

Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 December 2025

Applications open 1 October and close 31 October 2025

Programme 2

4 half days, weekly

Wednesdays: 21 & 28 January and 4 & 11 February 2026

Applications open 1 October and close 30 November 2025

Programme 3

2 full consecutive days

Tuesday 17 & Wednesday 18 February 2026

Applications open 1 October and close 31 December 2025

Programme 4

4 half days, weekly

Wednesdays: 25 February and 4, 11 & 18 March 2026

Applications open 1 October and close 31 December 2025

Applications

Places are limited and demand is typically high! We will have a waiting list in place for each programme. If you sign up for a place, and can no longer make it, please ensure you cancel your place, so that someone else may benefit from attending.

Warwick Award

Warwick Award logo

If you are working towards the Warwick Award, through attending the Thrive™ programme in full, you can acquire 3 Core Skills Points.

Find out more about the Warwick Award here.

Build your support network

All Thrive participants are added to a Teams space and invited to further events following programme attendance, such as our annual Thrive Celebration Event and summer picnic! A Thrive book club, run by students has started. All Thrive participants are invited to become a Thrive Student Champion if they want to.

Interested in a bespoke Thrive™ programme?

If you are:

  • Warwick-based and are interested in a bespoke version of Thrive™ for students in your department, or
  • if you are external to Warwick and would like to express interest in running Thrive™ for students at your university

please contact Sarah Bennett via .

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