Mental Health in the Workplace

This workshop is designed to help both professionals and those touched by grief to understand its complexities and explore links with mental health and personal wellbeing.

The De-escalation Skills course has been redesigned specifically for an online learning setting and will support workers to recognise when a person is becoming distressed or when a situation is escalating, and it provides a set of tools and strategies to respond in ways that are likely to result in positive outcomes.

The course explores the concept of change - including but not limited to global changes such as COVID - and considers its impact on our work and our wider environment.

This course is facilitated by CrossCultural Intellect, an established training and service development consultancy organisation. With a cumulative wealth of practical experience in working effectively alongside ethnoculturally diverse groups, CrossCultural Intellect specialises in developing strategies for successful transcultural engagement across a range of settings.

This course will look at how effective supervision plays a strong role in attracting, retaining, and providing ongoing support to a motivated and highly skilled workforce.

This two-day course is about building our confidence as first responders to support someone experiencing a mental health challenge. It prepares participants to know how to recognise signs of mental health issues and how to respond in an effective way.

The two-day Everyday Counselling Skills course provides participants with the opportunity to practice using a range of tools that can be applied to a wide range of issues, in their practice as well as in their daily lives.

This course provides tools in helping to identify and respond to mental distress in people with any kind of disability (including co-existing disability).

People often experience both mental health challenges and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) issues. The intersection of mental health and AOD use is recognised as presenting complex challenges across both domains. This course examines each challenge and its interrelationship with the other.

This course is designed to assist individuals to recognise when a person is becoming distressed or when their behaviour is escalating, and it provides a set of tools and strategies to respond in ways that are likely to result in positive outcomes.

This course is designed to support workers to recognise when a person is becoming distressed or when their behaviour is escalating, and it provides a set of tools and strategies to respond in ways that are likely to result in positive outcomes.

Participants will learn from this course how to establish and build safe and person-centered relationships that are strengths-focused. Participants will also learn practical strategies to support their clients with their recovery goals.

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Trauma Informed Training for people working in the community sector or wanting to work in the community sector to assist in implementing trauma informed care and practice principles.

This workshop discusses talking safely with someone who has been impacted by trauma and teaches simple strategies to support recovery, respond to someone experiencing triggers and improve the experiences of people impacted by trauma when seeking support.

Increase your knowledge and understanding of positive wellbeing, resilience and mental health strategies using positive psychology practices.

This course examines the nature of boundaries and how to work within boundary frameworks while maintaining care and compassion.

This course has been designed for people who are accredited MHFA aiders and it offers the opportunity for them to extend their accreditation for a further 3 years by completing the refresher course.

This course is an introduction to the broad spectrum of mental health challenges and is a good foundation for workers who need a solid understanding in this area and who want to develop their skills using practice tools to respond to real-life scenarios.

Build capacity to support others who self-harm. As well as the knowledge component, participants will develop their practical skills by using practice tools to respond to real-life scenarios.

This course provides tools in helping to identify and respond to mental distress in people with any kind of disability (including co-existing disability).

This course provides participants with the opportunity to practice using a range of tools that can be applied to a wide range of issues, in their practice as well as in their daily lives.

The course explores the concept of change - including but not limited to global changes such as COVID - and considers its impact on our work and our wider environment.

This course explores the common mental health challenges faced by seniors, key risk factors, the signs of symptoms of mental health challenges and the co-occurrence of mental health and other issues, including cognitive and physical health difficulties.

This course examines the nature of boundaries and how to work within boundary frameworks while maintaining care and compassion. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their current model of practice identifying aspects of their work that can be improved through the theory and practical strategies presented.

Many non-counselling professionals find themselves in day-to-day situations where they are called to support another person emotionally, such as responding to someone experiencing distress, anger, confusion, anxiety or fear.

This course facilitates an understanding of what meditation is, how it works and most importantly provides experiential, person-centred learning in a safe environment. The course strips meditation from any religious orientation; grounding it in a secular, rational perspective suitable for all.

This workshop is about building our confidence as first responders to support someone experiencing a mental health challenge. It prepares participants to know how to recognise signs of mental health issues and how to respond in an effective way.

People often experience both mental health challenges and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) issues. The intersection of mental health and AOD use is recognised as presenting complex challenges across both domains. This course examines each challenge and its interrelationship with the other.

This workshop discusses talking safely with someone who is impacted by trauma and teaching simple strategies to support recovery, respond to someone experiencing triggers and improve the experiences of people impacted by trauma when seeking support.

Increase confidence to safely de-escalate an event. This course is designed to assist in the understanding of emotional escalation, triggers, distress, sense of the adolescent self and coping strategies to effectively de-escalate an adolescent.

This course explores the common mental health challenges faced by older people, key risk factors, the signs and symptoms and the co-occurrence of mental health and other issues, including cognitive and physical health difficulties.

A two-day interactive course, MHFA will equip you with the skills and resources to recognise and respond appropriately to someone experiencing a mental health crisis, until professional help arrives.

This course is an introduction to the broad spectrum of mental health challenges and is a good foundation for workers who need a solid understanding in this area and who want to develop their skills using practice tools to respond to real-life scenarios.

This course was developed to provide participants with practical tools that they can use in their work as well as in their daily lives to build and maintain resilience and a sense of wellbeing. The course blends theory/practical activities to provide a pathway to an improved sense of wellbeing.

Build capacity to support others who self-harm. As well as the knowledge component, participants will develop their practical skills by using practice tools to respond to real-life scenarios.

Participants will learn from this course how to establish and build safe and person-centered relationships that are strengths-focused. Participants will also learn practical strategies to support their clients with their recovery goals.

Prevention and minimalization of harm and bolstering recovery from co-occurring mental health and AOD challenges is possible for consumers and their families by encouraging hope and cultivating resilience.

The 4-hour, in-person Mental Health First Aid Conversations about Suicide course is for any adult interested in learning practical skills to improve your confidence to provide mental health first aid to someone who is feeling suicidal.

If you have lived/living experience as a consumer, carer or family member and want to share your experience, this professional development opportunity may be for you. This workshop series will be facilitated by the WAAMH Lived Experience Engagement Coordinator.

The LivingWorks safeTALK is a half-day alertness workshop that will prepare you, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper.

The two-day ASIST workshop provides skills to intervene with someone at risk, and working with them to help them feel less overwhelmed and suicidal.

The WA Association for Mental Health in partnership with Domestic Abuse Resource and training (DART) presents a one-day foundation workshop on Domestic Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV). The DFSV course has been designed for people working and intersecting with families experiencing or at risk of experiencing family violence.

This condensed half-day refresher course is perfect for those with foundational knowledge on this topic. In this course participants will revisit the topic with the focus on building their confidence in recognizing and safely de-escalating situations and developing an awareness of strategies to use.