You will be emailed the zoom link prior to the course starting

Session 1

Brief mental health and wellbeing advice. Aims to raise awareness of how you can support mental health and wellbeing within your everyday practice

the intended outcome of session 1 is to change the way we have mental wellbeing conversations so that we are confident and skilled to have brief conversations in which we help a person think about ways they can take action to improve their mental wellbeing

The purpose of this session is to:

• Extend participants skills and confidence to have mental wellbeing conversations within everyday practice
• Explain two public mental health models so that they can be used to frame mental wellbeign conversations
• Describe the 3 Cs of connected conversations
• Locate mental wellbeing services and resources in your area

This session focusses on conversations in which you suggest ways a person can take action to improve mental wellbeing. These conversations can include brief wellbeing advice such as “have you thought of looking at any self-help materials?” This behaviour assumes that you might not have opportunity in terms of your role or time to go a step further and, together with the person, develop a shared understanding of their mental health and wellbeing needs

This session is practical and interactive, involving a PowerPoint presentation, large group discussion, small group work and exercises in pairs.