Mental Health First Aid in Milton Keynes
Dr AJ had a great couple of days teaching Mental Health First Aid at Willen Hospice this week – thanks to everyone there for making him feel so welcome!
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More Confidence To Support Those Who Are Struggling
Dr AJ had a great time yesterday teaching Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health at Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes. The learners all gelled really quickly, and everyone had lots of valuable input, making the course very interactive and fun to teach! Congratulations to everyone for passing the course with flying colours, and now
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It’s NOT Mental Health Awareness Week
That’s next week. But as we should consider our mental health EVERY week, Essendon Accounts & Tax Limited asked Dr AJ to give a presentation on the importance of wellbeing at Aiimi yesterday morning. It’s always a joy for us to chat to so many engaged people, and impart some simple takeaway messages when it
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Opening the Tap on Your Stress Container
On the Mental Health First Aid courses, we always discuss your stress container (the place where you dump your stress). Whilst there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to mental health, it IS vital to regularly open the tap on your stress container in order to stay mentally resilient. After a busy week of teaching
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Supporting Both Physical AND Mental Health
Had a great couple of days helping to support the health & well-being of staff at KidsOut, with a couple of in-company courses – Emergency First Aid at Work on Tuesday, and First Aid for Mental Health yesterday. In-company courses are a really cost-effective way of looking after those that you work with – get
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Why Can’t Training Be Fun?
Great couple of days this week has seen Dr AJ teach another Supervising First Aid for Mental Health course at the wonderful Willen Hospice. This very engaged group threw themselves into all the discussions/activities and all are now better equipped to support someone who is starting to struggle with their mental health.
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Supervising First Aid for Mental Health
Absolutely brilliant Supervising First Aid for Mental Health course run at Willen Hospice last week. Great to be able to help local businesses & charities who are working to support the well-being of both staff and clients. Congratulations to everyone for successfully passing the course, including the staff from the Henry Allen Trust and IPS…
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In-Company Courses
Having previously trained some of the staff Mental Health First Aid, it was great to be asked to run an in-company one-day Emergency First Aid at Work course for M A Simmonds Installations Ltd today. Helping businesses support the health & well-being of both staff & clients is something we love to do, and having
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“In-Company” Online Courses
Another option for organisations who have a number of people to train but who are geographically remote is to arrange online Mental Health training at times to suit them. Today saw the end of an online two-day Mental Health First Aid course for YourCash Ltd which was run on two separate days on consecutive weeks,
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Online Mental Health First Aid
One thing that the COVID pandemic has shown us is that flexible ways of working can be useful. The online MHFA courses weren’t even a thing two years ago, but are now a really useful resource and have allowed us to geographically extend the reach of this vital training. Today saw us bid farewell to
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