Description
Platfform Wellbeing offer a two-day training course designed to challenge existing assumptions about how we understand mental health, and how we can better support ourselves and others in work and outside of work. The course is informed by the latest mental health research and policy and explores the shift away from medicalisation of mental health towards a more holistic understanding. In providing an alternative to the medical model, the course emphasises the important impact of our previous experiences and how we make sense of them, as well as our environments, our cultural experiences and our physiology on our mental health.
To build confidence and skills in supporting mental health in the workplace, the course covers management of risk and safeguarding, as well as emotional regulation theory and strategies. The Platfform Compass (Connection, Courage, Curiosity and Compassion) is provided as a tool to help guide delegates to implement key practices in the workplace that help create a culture where people can feel supported and thrive.
What you will learn
Key learning objectives for the two days are:
• To develop an understanding of a holistic, rights-based and relational approach to mental health.
• To rethink how we can helpfully understand mental health diagnoses.
• To understand what we can do and how to support people experiencing difficulties with their mental health.
• To develop an understanding of social inequality and its role in our mental health.
• To reflect on our own lived experiences of mental health in the workplace.
• To recognise and understand the impact of vicarious trauma.
• To understand how to manage risk and safeguarding.
• To understand the role of relationships in building psychological wellbeing at work and in our personal lives.
• To understand what we can do and how to support people experiencing difficulties with their mental health at work.
• To be able to draw on the four key concepts of wellbeing (Connection, Courage, Curiosity and Compassion) to create a culture where people can thrive.
• To think about what we need in our workplace.
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