As a Mental Health First Aid instructor Roger can train at your organisation to provide the nationally recognised MHFA certificate. Shorter courses include: Positive Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, and Recovery Perspectives. To find out more about Mental Health First Aid providing new Mental Health First Aiders with the nationally recognised MHFA certificate visit: Mental Heath First - www.mentalhealthfirst.co.uk
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WRAP |
Balance |
These are examples of courses provided by Stop Paddling. These can be tailored to your needs.
Wellness Recovery Action Planning
Can the techniques taught to people who have suffered mental distress be taught to anyone? What would be the value of such training? The answers are Yes and the benefits can be huge as the principles and practices of recovery can be applied in so many ways whatever crisis you may face. The concepts are easy to grasp and the only essential qualification for attending such a course is the realisation that we are all to some extent at risk of stress related illnesses. The course can help participants to avoid serious mental health problems. Those with limited experience of mental distress will also gain as the course will help with relating to friends, relatives and work colleagues who may have been suffering. Wellness Recovery Action Planning
Food > Change Your Food and Change Your Mood
It is well known that our moods are very dependent on what we eat and drink. Most people already have a reasonable understanding of what makes them feel good or not so good. This session is based on a scientific view of food and mood in a very colourful style. As well as the Powerpoint and/or flip chart exercises there is the opportunity to read the packaging and eat a range of foods to gain a better appreciation of concepts such as glyceamic index. The benefit to the delegate should be better mood control and thereby a better chance of reaching an ideal weight. The benefit to the employer is simply healthier staff! food and mood - easy to print pdf
Bipolar > Introduction to Bipolar Disorder
About 1% of the UK population will be diagnosed, whilst far more feel they are experiencing moods swings and accept they could have undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Although there is far more in the press about bipolar these days it is generally not well understood. This course explores all aspects of bipolar and related mood disorders. Introduction to Bipolar Disorder
Lunchtime learning? The following course have been delivered in shorter formats:
Balance > Living a Balanced Life
You may have heard of work-life balance but there is more to learn if you are to have confidence about remaining balanced in the modern world. Participants gain a new view of the important balances in their lives and how these maintain good mental health. Employers will be left in no doubt that well balanced employees are more productive.
Stress > Understanding Pressure and Stress
Pressure, stress and mood are examined from a different perspective allowing participants to explore the perhaps alien idea that ALL stress is bad. Knowing this, they can begin to focus on having healthy amounts of pressure in their lives to achieve the mood they want for themselves and their workplace.
Support > Support & Networking
Individuals depend on relationships with other individuals but success depends on how everyone is relating to everyone else in your life or at your place of work. This short workshop allows networking to be looked at from a different perspective and gives everyone a chance to build or perhaps rebuild their own support networks.
This is the original Stop Paddling course, first presented in 2000. It stems from health professionals often not being able to explain stress and the link to mental illness in a concise way that can be fully appreciated by those at risk or in a way that might aid people in the early stages of recovery.
Note: Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Affective Disorder and Manic Depression are all discriptions of the same mental health condition. All are equally valid. Bipolar is used on this page for simplicity.
© 2009 Roger Smith Stop Paddling ©
Jan 25, 2010