Training to help people recognise common assumptions about mental health, understand the effect stigma can have and approach conversations with greater openness and understanding.
Ideas about mental health are shaped by experience, language, culture and things we may have heard many times without questioning them. Misconceptions can influence the way people interpret behaviour, respond to someone who is struggling or feel about asking for help themselves.
Training can create space to examine some of those assumptions without blaming or shaming people for holding them. The courses below explore stigma from different angles and help participants consider how language, attitudes and understanding can contribute to more supportive responses.
Practical mental health first aid for people who may be the first to notice when someone in their community is struggling.
Understand how anxiety can affect people, recognise when someone may be struggling and feel more confident offering practical, supportive help.
Recognise how depression can affect everyday life, challenge common misconceptions and feel more confident starting a supportive conversation.
Explore how stigma, stereotypes and everyday language shape the way we think and talk about mental health, and how more thoughtful responses can help.
Understand alcohol, drugs, addiction, warning signs and practical ways to support someone who may be struggling.
Understand self-harm with less fear and judgement, recognise when someone may be struggling and feel more confident starting a supportive conversation.
Understand psychosis more clearly, challenge common fears and misconceptions and feel more confident responding calmly when someone may need support.
Build a clearer understanding of suicide, warning signs, stigma, supportive conversations, immediate safety and routes to appropriate help.
Explore what mental health recovery can mean and how to offer hopeful, practical support without taking over or deciding what recovery should look like.
Tell us what you would like the training to help with and we can talk through the options.
