Awareness & Education
Here at Mates in Mind, we believe that one of the best ways to create long lasting change within an organisation, is by educating and informing a workforce. In order to support organisations to change their workplace culture and generate vital awareness about mental ill-health, we have developed three core courses, which act as a key pillar to our overall Support programme.
Find out how we can help you.
Public training courses
Mental Health First Aid
A 2-day course for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of mental health.
If there was an incident on site – would you know what to do? If it was first aid related, you’d get your first aider to attend to it. So why not do the same thing if it related to a mental health condition?
Get in touch with our team today to learn more about booking.
In company training
Start the Conversation
A 45-minute awareness session about mental health in the workforce.
It’s important to create general awareness and understanding of the issues facing your workers. Stigma is still one of the biggest barriers, particularly in the workplace. A good place to begin is by starting a conversation.
Get in touch with our team today to learn more about booking.
Manage the Conversation
A half-day (3 hours) training course to increase awareness of mental ill health amongst foremen, supervisors and managers.
Manage the Conversation training for line managers and supervisors provides an excellent framework for leaders increasing their understanding and awareness of mental health, how to spot the signs, support their team and how to have conversations about mental health.
Get in touch with our team today to learn more about booking.
Listen, Support & Signpost.
Our Listen, Support and Signpost workshop provides support and guidance to in-house mental health and wellbeing champions. This is a one-hour interactive workshop that provides mental health and wellbeing champions with the opportunity to discuss issues openly with peers, and explore how they can adapt their role and support to colleagues.
Workplace Health and Wellbeing Training Course for Directors
This course aims to provide directors and senior managers with an understanding of how to support the health and wellbeing of people in their organisation.
Workplace Health and Wellbeing Training Course for Line Managers
This course provides line managers with an understanding of how to support the health and wellbeing of people within their team.
Workplace Health and Wellbeing Training Course for Employees
This course on health and wellbeing will show employees how to increase their resilience, drive better engagement, reduce sickness absence and enable higher performance and productivity.
We are pleased to be able to also offer a suite of mental health e-learning courses, which are available for Mates in Mind Supporters and contacts to purchase delivered by our sister charity, British Safety Council.
E-learning courses are a cost-effective solution to providing mental health training to a number of staff across multiple sites or divisions. The courses also can be used to supplement face to face training as a refresher or for remote staff. Once enrolled, users have access to the course for one year and may review the content at any point.
E-Learning Courses
Managing stress within your team
Essential for every responsible manager, this course highlights some of the pressures their teams might face, helps managers become more aware of their own actions and behaviours, and most importantly it helps manage and reduce stress levels within their team.
Stress Awareness
This practical online course will help employees identify, manage and reduce their own stress. It will also make them aware of the consequences of not doing so.
Resilience training
Increase employee engagement with our unique online course built in partnership with 7Futures.
Boosting the emotional and physical resilience of your employees is an essential part of any wellbeing strategy and is simple to address with our online Resilience course.
Booking bespoke training
We have extensive experience developing relevant bespoke interventions (including training programmes) that are built around the specific identified needs of your organisation. If you would like to find out more about organising bespoke training for your workplace, get in touch with our team today.
Become part of the community
As a Mates in Mind Supporter, you will have exclusive access to a range of resources, training and support, designed to help you organisation implement their workplace mental health program.
- Access an annual assessment of their programme and a tailored recommendations report to help identify any gaps in their approach
- Free access to our 'Start the Conversation' course, an all-employee general mental health awareness programme
- Access to a dedicated Support Manager to act as a guide through your organisations mental wellbeing journey and offer any new resources as they become available
- Access to a suite of courses to ensure that all levels of management are confident and equipped to fulfil their duties in looking after employee mental health.
- Benefit from counselling through the National Counselling Society at a discounted rate, to help staff members who may need a little extra support
We look forward to welcoming you to our community.
Continue reading - Information and Resources
We offer organisations a number of tools and resources to help them improve the mental health of their workforce, such as; awareness day resource packs, posters, infographics, factsheets and much more.
Learn more about our Information and Resources