Mental health awareness training available for those working directly with people needing support for financial wellbeing in London

Thrive LDN is working with Healthy Dialogues to offer a three-hour interactive training session about mental health and the impact of financial hardships.

The training, aimed at London’s key workers and community champions, will also include an exploration of skills to engage people in conversations in mental health and wellbeing and what to do when someone is experiencing a mental health or emotional wellbeing crisis.

Beginning on Wednesday, 18 January 2023, Mental Health Awareness and Financial Hardships training is structured across three, hour-long modules (A, B, and C).

A total of 30 training sessions will be delivered at various times during the day, each for up to 30 participants. The approach is designed to support London’s key workers to complete it fully, partly or across multiple training sessions, to help support interests, previous training experience, and availability.

Training overview and outline

All training will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. Participants are asked to ensure they have a confidential space and IT access to attend before registering.

Module A: What is mental health and where to find support, will help participants:

• Develop an understanding of the psychosocial model of mental health and wellbeing and the 5-ways to wellbeing.
• Understand the relationship between mental health and stigma related to financial hardships.
• Recognise when and where to appropriately access support and information.

Module B: Having conversations about mental health, will help participants:

• Develop conversational skills for brief interventions to engage people opportunistically and empathetically in conversations about mental health, wellbeing, including financial wellbeing.

Module C: How to support someone experiencing a mental health crisis, will help participants:

• Understand what to do in an emergency situation where someone is experiencing an emotional or a mental health crisis.

The series of mental health awareness training sessions are funded and supported by the Mayor of London under the remit of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Recovery Mission, which is being delivered in partnership with Thrive LDN. The mission aims to build a coalition of wellbeing champions and empower Londoners to act to improve their own and their communities’ wellbeing.

Healthy Dialogues Ltd is a Public Health consultancy and established Health and Wellbeing training provider for the public and voluntary sector. Trainings are conducted by a team of Chartered Health Psychologists that specialise in behaviour change with a focus on positive health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals and communities.

Training times and dates

Training sessions are scheduled to take place on the following dates and times, participants will need to register for each module separately:

Date                    Module A         Module B        Module C

Wed 18 Jan         09:30-10:25        10:35-11:25       11:35-12:30

Mon 23 Jan         09:30-10:25       10:35-11:25        11:35-12:30

Wed 01 Feb         13:30-14:25         14:35-15:25       15:35-16:30

Mon 06 Feb         18:00-18:55        19:05-19:55       20:05-21:00

Tue 14 Feb           09:30-10:25       10:35-11:25        11:35-12:30

Thurs 23 Feb       13:30-14:25        14:35-15:25        15:35-16:30

Wed 01 Mar         09:30-10:25       10:35-11:25        11:35-12:30

Mon 06 Mar        09:30-10:25       10:35-11:25        11:35-12:30

Wed 15 Mar         13:30-14:25        14:35-15:25        15:35-16:30

Tue 21 Mar          09:30-10:25       10:35-11:25        11:35-12:30

If you have any questions regarding this training, please contact bookings@healthydialogues.co.uk for more information.

Registration

Participants will need to register for each module separately.

Module A

Registration for Module A can be done through this Eventbrite link or using the form below.

Module B

Registration for Module B can be done through this Eventbrite link or using the form below.

Module C

Registration for Module C can be done through this Eventbrite link or using the form below.

When registering, we have included a series of questions to help us understand a bit more about who you are, so we can better learn who we are reaching. When we ask for information about the protected characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, it allows us to monitor who we are reaching and to gain a cross-sectional perspective in order to advance equality in the work we do. Non-identifiable data will be shared with evaluation partners.

You have a right to withdraw consent of processing your personal data at any time. If you wish to withdraw consent, please contact Thrive LDN. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information you have provided us and will remove and delete your personal data.

About Healthy Dialogues

Healthy Dialogues Ltd is a Public Health consultancy and established Health and Wellbeing training provider for the public and voluntary sector. Our trainings are conducted by a team of Chartered Health Psychologists that specialise in behaviour change with a focus on positive health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals and communities.

Biographies of the trainers

Dr Ashlee Mulimba (CPsychol.), a Chartered Health Psychologist has over 15 years of health and wellbeing training experience and has developed and delivered a wide range of health and wellbeing training, including accredited training. Ashlee is passionate about upskilling the workforce to have open, respectful and productive conversations about health and wellbeing.

Dr Puja Patel, (CPsychol) is a Chartered Health Psychologist at Healthy Dialogues. As a Health Psychologist, Puja has worked on various projects specifically focusing on training development and delivery, and service evaluation for mental health and wellbeing. Puja has also previously worked within the voluntary sector for over eight years working with marginalised women and women from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and developed and delivered cultural awareness and safety training within the perinatal mental health sector.

Rebecca Maclean is an Assistant Health Psychologist at Healthy Dialogues. Rebecca has delivered a range of health and wellbeing programmes, with a focus on mental health. Rebecca has previous experience of working with older adults in addition to designing and leading health promotion sessions with forensic psychiatric inpatients.

Further details

Getting Through This Together is a new campaign which has been developed by Thrive LDN in response to the increased cost-of-living pressures.

The campaign aims to encourage Londoners to strengthen their social networks with family members and friends, and trusted others in their community – which we know is going to be a significant factor in supporting people during this period. As well as highlighting the professional support and advice services which are available.

These mental health awareness training sessions form part of the campaign’s range of tools and resources to protect and enhance people’s mental wellbeing, so that they can adapt and thrive after their lives have been disrupted by current shocks.