CARES

Understanding innate emotional needs and resources; the three barriers to securing good mental health; planning a strategy which meets emotional needs.

Gain the essential knowledge that underpins emotional wellbeing.

Understanding the mental health continuum; the REM state, stress and psychosis; the role of excessive worrying and dreaming in generating depression; how anxiety disorders, phobias and PTSD arise; the REM state, emotional trance states and learning.

Gain profound insights about the mental health continuum and the REM State.

Four points of intervention when planning a strategy; unconscious patterns in the brain; understanding fight-or-flight; the language of emotion; the gendered brain and the stress response; the relaxation response; the 3 ‘P’s’; challenging negative thinking and self-talk.

Maximise the effectiveness of your interventions with up-to-date knowledge.

The relationship between mental health and addiction; the three components of any successful strategy to overcome addiction; reward and punishment mechanisms in the brain; the motivational cycle of change; the addictive component of self-harm and eating disorders; why self-medicating is so prevalent.

Become more effective at supporting co-morbid conditions.

Understanding the motivational cycle of change; essential language skills for moving people on; separating people from problems; staying solution focused; what not to say!; drawing upon innate resources for motivation; using subjective scales.

Motivate your clients for positive solution focused change.

Reflective re-framing; pacing & mirroring; unpacking abstractions; the language of change; solution focused language.

Help the most entrenched clients find the positive in every situation

Spotting and unpacking unhelpful metaphors; using simple metaphors to reframe experiences; the use of therapeutic storytelling.

Learn why metaphors shape how we see and who we are.

Why ethical practice is rooted in emotional wellbeing; what an emotionally healthy organisation looks like; the role of pattern-matching and perception in shaping culture; the two types of context-blindness in organisations and how to avoid them.

Protect your organisation from context-blindness and toxic attitudes.

Why the imagination is the most powerful ally for change- and the most powerful enemy; constructive and destructive use of the imagination; using guided imagery to lower stress levels; when not to use guided imagery; rehearsing change.

Make the single most powerful tool for change work for your clients.

Rapport building, Information Gathering, Goal Setting, Accessing Resources, Agreeing a Strategy, Rehearsal for change.