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Supporting Mental Health
2-day course
An intermediate workplace wellbeing course. Equip your line managers with the skills and confidence to support mental health effectively.
Our Supporting Mental Health course is a two-day interactive workshop tailored for businesses serious about proactive workplace wellbeing training.
Why invest in Supporting Mental Health?
- Create a thriving workplace culture by encouraging supportive relationships and open communication, resulting in higher motivation and retention
- With mental ill health cited as the leading cause of workplace absence (HSE), your organisation needs line managers who are confident to manage their teams’ wellbeing
- Boost employee engagement by empowering them through confident, compassionate conversation around mental health, using the Emotional Needs approach
- Learning for everyone: Includes free access to our e-learning platform, the E-Toolkit, for all staff if your managers complete Supporting Mental Health
What you’ll learn
Over two days, attendees will:
- Apply the Emotional Needs & Resources approach to understand emotional wellbeing and how unmet needs lead to stress
- Master clear, compassionate communication skills for supporting colleagues through distress
- Learn techniques to stay calm under pressure and ‘take the heat out’ of difficult conversations
- Use and practise the RIGAAR framework to structure support and drive sustained behaviour change with goals and strategies
- Learning is reinforced with practical case study work
Who should attend?
Ideal for:
- Line managers, team leaders, supervisors and leadership teams
- HR professionals
- Those who have completed Mental Health First Aid or one of our shorter workshops or courses and seek deeper skills
- Workplace wellbeing champions
- Support workers working with clients face-to-face or over the phone
- Anyone keen to support colleagues or clients more effectively in the workplace
Success stories
The time invested was absolutely worth it. I’ve grown in confidence to encourage better conversations within my workplace.
Paul Simon, Suffolk Chamber of Commerce
We have implemented Supporting Mental Health… our staff say it is the best training they have ever been on.
West Suffolk & East Suffolk NHS CCGs
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