Courses

Course Duration: 14 hours

Course Delivery – Online or Face-to-Face

This course is ideal for individuals who would like to become an MHFAider® to gain the knowledge, awareness, and skills to spot signs of people experiencing poor mental health, be confident to start a conversation, and signpost a person to appropriate support.​

This course trains you 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® 

Everyone who completes the course gets:

• A copy of the workbook to support their learning throughout the course
• A digital manual to refer to whenever they need it
• A wallet-sized reference card

​​Following the course, your will be invited to join the Association of Mental Health First Aiders – England’s first and only membership body for MHFAiders, and the largest community of its kind.

Course Duration: 4 hours

Course Delivery – Online or Face-to-Face

The MHFA Refresher course will enable learners to: 

• Keep their knowledge, awareness, and skills of mental health support current  

• Update their knowledge of mental health and what influences it

• Practice applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan

Once you have completed your MHFA Refresher course, you will be certified for three years and will be invited to become or stay a member of our Association of Mental Health First Aiders – making sure you have everything you need to feel confident when supporting others. 

Course Duration: 1-hour (1-hour CPD)

Course Delivery – Online or Face-to-Face

This Aware course introduces the topic of neurodiversity in the workplace. It increases attendees understanding of neurodiversity, learning how to support neurodiverse employees and unlock their huge potential. 

Some of the topics we delve into: 

• Introduction to terminology around neurodiversity.

• Be able to list the main neurodiverse differences and the set of strengths that are common with each condition.

• Explore some of the common myths around neurodiversity.

• Gain a better understanding of the challenges faced by neurodiverse individuals in terms of communication and social situations.

• Gain an insight into the positive impact that reasonable adjustments can make.

Course Duration: 4.5-hours (4.5-hours CPD)

Course delivery – Online or Face-to-Face

Course Description:

This course is designed for anyone that wants to become a Neurodiversity Champion – someone who wants to educate and change the way that neurodiversity is viewed in your company. It follows on from the Aware course.

The aims of this workshop are:

• to lead acceptance of neurodiversity across the workplace and beyond
• help facilitate and change the culture in your workplace around neurodiversity and its acceptance.

The result of completing an Aware webinar and a Champion workshop combined means that you will become a Thrive Neurodiverse Standards Employer. 

Some of the topics covered:

• Confidently list the main neurodiverse conditions and the set of strengths common to each condition
• Develop an understanding of how an individual living with each condition may present within the workplace
• Gain a basic understanding of executive functioning and understand the concept of neurodiversity in terms of executive functioning within daily life
• Understand why it’s important for diversity and inclusion to include neurodivergent individuals
• Understand how meltdowns and shutdowns occur and the negative impacts they have
• Discover ways to create a more sensory-safe working environment
• Create a mental health and wellbeing virtual toolbox to support yourself and anyone else experiencing a crisis
• Learn the importance of clear communication and develop an understanding of how complicated communication actually is
• Start to understand that all behaviour is communication and aim to support rather than judge.
• Discover the importance of supporting those who self-identify as neurodivergent
• The positive impact that you can make through reasonable adjustments

Course Duration: 3.5-hours (3.5-hours CPD)

Course delivery – Online or Face-to-Face

Course Description:

We understand the challenges managers can experience working within a neurodiverse team, so this training is specifically tailored for team managers.

• Do you want to improve communication in your workplace?
• Do you want managers to create an inclusive culture?
• Do you want to learn how diversity can be an asset?

This workshop develops in detail the themes from the Aware webinar and Champion course. It’s designed to nurture an acceptance and change of culture around neurodiversity. This workshop features many hands-on learning opportunities.

This is designed to follow on from the Champion course.

Delegates will learn:

• Contemporary attitudes and actions regarding neurodiversity management
• Case study – examine and discuss a real-life example in the workplace
• Policies that currently support neurodiverse employees or managers
• What policies should be in place to offer the necessary support
• Reasonable adjustments that can be implemented immediately
• Enabling effective long-term support

Course Duration: 3.5-hours (3.25-hours CPD)

Course Delivery: Online or Face-to-Face

This course is ideal for all employees and teaches delegates to be more aware of their mental health and wellbeing and explains how to proactively look after your mental health.

Topics covered include:

• Education about personal wellbeing and mental health
• Recognise your own mental health status and take positive action to sustain or improve it by being aware of risk and protective factors
• Manage your wellbeing through ownership and a proactive approach
• Have a greater understanding about stress and able to manage it more effectively
• Understand what a healthy work/life balance looks like and learn to put it into practice
• Identify intrusive thoughts and learn to manage them
• Understand the importance of quality sleep and how to achieve it
• Able to create a self-care plan and implement it into everyday life
• Takeaways include a self-care plan, a stress management plan and a weekly check-up plan 

Course Duration: 3-hours (2.75-hours CPD)

Course Delivery: Online of Face-to-Face

Course Description:

This course is ideal for managers, team leaders and supervisors to gain knowledge on how to take a proactive approach to mental wellbeing. It educates delegates how to support their team’s mental wellbeing by leading by example and encouraging postice action.

Topics include:

• Understand the importance of supporting your team’s mental wellbeing
• Learn how to create an inclusive environment
• Understand the importance of communication skills and how to use them
• An introduction to the seven main neurodivergences
• Have a greater understanding on how to support your team’s wellbeing
• Learn the 5-ways to wellbeing and the PERMA V model and encourage your team to implement it in everyday life
• Be able to implement wellbeing exercises for your teams to undertake

Total Course Duration: 25-hours

Course Delivery: Online of Face-to-Face

Course Description:

Increasingly organisations are expected to support employee’s mental health and wellbeing.

A role which is increasingly being seen in the workplace is that of a Wellbeing Champion.

This suite of training courses is perfect for your organisation and by undertaking the training courses listed below your Champions will have a well rounded education to support all employees across the business.

Training includes:

• Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training 
• Take control of your mental wellbeing
• Neurodiveristy in the workplace – Aware
• Neurodiverisity in the workplace – Champion
• Managing your personal finances
• Supporting managers to support thier teams