Whether starting your journey or continuing development
Meeting your needs
Whatever your organisation’s level of mental health understanding, we have live training solutions to meet your needs.
- Line Manager: Leading with Mental Health in mind
- Genesis First Aid for Mental Health
- MHFA Awareness
- MHFA Champion
- MHFA First Aid
- Bespoke training, workshops and webinars tailored to challenges and awareness events
All courses can be delivered live, in-person, or remotely via Teams or Zoom.
62% of managers aren’t confident to talk about mental health in their teams
Leading with Mental Health in Mind
This half-day course will develop the core skills to help managers lead their teams with mental health in mind.
Your managers will gain the knowledge and skills to be able to:
- Confidently talk about mental health in their teams
- Challenge stigmas and build an inclusive team culture
- Provide responsive and preventative approaches to support team members
- Work effectively alongside Mental Health First Aiders
” I feel better prepared to support my colleagues if and when they need me.”
Station Manager, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service
MHFA Awareness
This introductory course raises awareness of mental health.
Your employees will gain:
- An understanding of what mental health is and how to challenge stigma
- A basic knowledge of some common mental health issues
- An introduction to looking after their own mental health and maintaining wellbeing
- Confidence to offer support someone in distress or who may be experiencing a mental health issue
Format
- This is a half day course delivered either face-to-face or via online video conferencing
- Learning takes place through a mix of presentations, group discussions and workshop activities
- Limited to 25 delegates
MHFA Champion
Empower your organisation to deliver on your wellbeing strategy by building a network of MHFA Champions.
MHFA Champions have:
- Knowledge and confidence to provide Mental Health First Aid for the most common mental health issues
- An understanding of how to help build a mentally healthy workplace, challenge stigma and support positive wellbeing
Format
- This is a one day course delivered either face-to-face or via online video conferencing
- Learning takes place through a mix of presentations, group discussions and workshop activities
- Limited to 16 delegates
MHFA First Aider
This course is ideal for staff at every level who would like to become MHFAiders® to gain the knowledge and skills to spot signs of people experiencing poor mental health, be confident to start a conversation and signpost a person to appropriate support.
As MHFAiders®, your employees will be able to:
- Recognise those that may be experiencing poor mental health and provide them with first-level support and early intervention
- Encourage a person to identify and access sources of professional help and other supports
- Practise active listening and empathy
- Have a conversation with improved mental health literacy around language and stigma
- Discuss the MHFAider® role in depth, including boundaries and confidentiality
- Practise self-care
- Know how to use the MHFAider Support App®
- Know how to access a dedicated text service provided by Shout and ongoing learning opportunities with MHFA England
Format
- This is a two day course covering 14 hours of content, delivered either face-to-face or via online video conferencing
- Learning takes place through a mix of instructor-led training, group discussions, individual and group activities.
- Each session builds on the previous, enabling the learner to gain confidence in supporting others with a Mental Health First Aid action plan.
- Limited to 16 delegates
Bespoke live training
If you are looking to build awareness or develop skills around a particular challenge or provide workshops or webinars in conjunction with an event or awareness month, week, or day, we can create bespoke training to meet your needs.
Developing organisational health requires more than live training
This is why we developed Genesis, a human-led, team-based approach that fits into the flow of work and creates a psychologically secure and inclusive workplace.