Direct Face to Face Bespoke Mental Health Workshops
We have become expert in designing training for an organisation that uses “gold standard” evidence based Mental Health resources but is targeted specifically for you. We will seek to understand your business and workforce needs, using that knowledge to fine tune the materials.
Our workshops can vary in time duration, group size and key group learning outcomes.
- Line Manager workshops
- Special purpose workshops for Human Resource staff and key Senior Managers
- Workforce workshops
Our expertise is understanding your business sector and Mental Health, but we go further. We bespoke the training materials to your particular needs. To achieve the “lightbulb moment” specially designed interactive exercises are agreed with you prior to the training event.
We can include any number of mental health themes or topics into our bespoke workshops including:
How Covid 19 may be affecting your workplace.
Restart and recover your business ; preparing your workforce for coming out of lockdown and preparing for social distancing psychological change.
How the long term affects of Covid 19 may occur in your workforce.
How to better cope with particular workplace pressures to increase work productivity.
Building resilience in a Covid 19 workplace.
Supporting your Line Manager’s better support staff grieving with loss.
How does good stress change to poor stress in your workplace in a time of rapid change ?
How can life at home affect your mental health at work and what are the warning signs you are becoming burnt out ?
Promoting coping strategies in your company such as journaling, great ways to start the work day, positive affirmations and how to use them, useful CBT self-help tools and “mini” mindfulness exercises.
Understanding a mental health condition and the range of treatment options in a time of stretched NHS resources..
Signposting skills and Mental Health professional services in your area.
Signposting skills and local self-help services in your area and the best apps for Mental Health.
How to choose the right self-help option for you.
How to alert professionals to “it’s not working”.
We are alert to and track newly emerging national mental health topics:
How to support your staff as work and home stress pressures are likely to remain in the stretch zone much more than they would normally do.
How to adapt to ongoing economic recession issues and remain mentally well.
We bespoke “train the trainer” workshops for particular company training needs:
Providing post workshop mentoring.
Using the Zoom online workshop environment to observe and coach in order to verify newly acquired Mental Health training skills.
We can help with trainer recruitment and selection.
“Riding a virtual bike was easy, did not fall off once!”
Direct Face to Face Mental Health First Aid Workshops
MHFA England is the only provider of licensed Mental Health First Aid Instructor Training in England. We can help you decide on what is best for you by understanding what you do as an employer and where you want be in the future.
We can deliver:
MHFA Workshop | Purpose | Duration | Min-Max Delegates |
|---|---|---|---|
Half Day Mental Health Aware | An introductory course designed to increase Mental Health awareness and give an understanding of how to look after wellbeing and challenge stigma. | 4 hrs | 8-25 |
One Day MHFA Champions | Teaches you to recognise the main signs of common Mental Health problems, provide initial support/signposting and develop an understanding of how you can create and maintain a healthier workforce. | 8 hrs | 8-16 |
Two Day Mental Health First Aiders | A practical skills and awareness course designed to give you a deeper understanding of Mental Health, Practical skills to spot triggers and signs, confidence to step in and support a person in distress and knowledge to help that person recover by guiding them to professional help. | 16 hrs over 2 days | 8- 16 |
Mental Health First Aid Refresher | If you are a Mental Health First Aider or MHFA Champion take the refresher course every three years to keep your Mental Health awareness current, update your knowledge and practice applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan. | 4 hrs | 8-25 |
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England is calling on hundreds of thousands of people it has trained in mental health skills and awareness to join the national effort to tackle the invisible impact of the coronavirus.
With the virus heightening stress, anxiety and social isolation, Mental Health First Aiders and Champions can use their skills to support those struggling with their mental health.
“Having a trainer who could answer all our questions, made all the difference”