Ethics
Everything we do is in the interest of improving mental health. This aligns us with your organisations objectives as everyone works best with healthy staff. We are also in business to reduce the stigma/shame associated with suffering stress and mental health problems.
We work with The Copeland Center, USA, with our ways of working based on the Copeland values and ethics. In the 1980's Mary Ellen Copeland's research established that recovery from a crisis is determined by 5 key concepts:
Hope, Personal Responsibility, Self Advocacy, Education, Support
Working with people in recovery it is often the self advocacy that people struggle with. The problem can be that staff and people in recovery are often not given the information needed for decision making. Your clients need good information to be able to speak up for themselves (self advocacy) and to make choices (self agency).
We provide staff training that clarifies fundamental information clients need for recovery and wellbeing. On each course we provide the traditional views (the memes) and present alternative views (the counter-memes). We can say what worked for us, what worked for people we have met and what is working for many around the world. This provides course participants with information needed for making informed choices.
Terms and Conditions : General terms and conditions 2010-2011
Training courses can be at your place of work or we can arrange training facilities to match your requirements. Each course can be tailored to your needs. For example: A course such as Food & Mood may have all the same slides but new workshop activities may be introduced.
Tailored support is available where we can meet with small groups of employees to answer questions and discuss anything to do with moods in greater depth than is possible in a larger group.
This is different from counselling as the objective is to equip staff with understanding others moods - often through a better understanding of their own feelings.