Mental health and wellbeing courses

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We run our mental health and psychosocial support courses for workplaces or individuals. They provide practical skills to help someone who may need mental health support. Our mental health and wellbeing courses explore why mental health matters, and provide you with some tools for your kete to support people in distress. You can book PFA individually, or email wellbeing@redcross.org.nz to book any of our courses exclusively for your organisation.

All of our courses are delivered by experienced mental health professionals. Our team includes occupational therapists, counsellors, social workers, psychological researchers, registered nurses, front line support staff, adventure therapists, and clinical supervisors. All our staff have professional experience working with individuals exposed to distress and mental illness and bring their expertise to the courses they deliver.

Psychological First Aid

7 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

Psychological First Aid is a simple, yet powerful way of helping someone in distress, so they feel calm and supported in coping with their challenges, whether it’s personal, work related or affects the whole community.

Learning outcomes

Participants will:

Understand what Psychological First Aid is and isn't.
Become familiar with distress reactions
Provide PFA using ‘The Five Elements’ and the action principles:
- Look: Know some of the warning signs.
- Listen: How to check in, listen and respond.
- Link: Connect the person and/or yourself to the right support.
Practice providing Psychological First Aid.

Course Information

Delivery: Face-to-face
Course length: Full day (7 hours)

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For individual bookings, please follow the "Individual Booking" button.

Individual bookings

For exclusive hire courses, please email wellbeing@redcross.org.nz

7 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

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Starting with mental health

4 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

This course gives participants the knowledge and confidence to cope with colleagues, customers, and whānau experiencing mental distress.

We use the ‘look, listen, link’ framework to help someone who may need mental health support:

Look: Know some of the warning signs.
Listen: How to check in, listen and respond.
Link: Connect the person and/or yourself to the right support.

Learning outcomes

Participants will:

Develop an understanding of mental health, mental distress and mental illness and how it affects family and whānau and work colleagues.
Gain a support process and practical skills of the 'look, listen, link' framework to help someone who may need mental health support.

Course information

Delivery: Face-to-face
Course length: 4 hours

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For individual bookings, please follow the "Individual Booking" button.

Individual bookings

For exclusive hire courses, please email wellbeing@redcross.org.nz

4 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

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Mental Health in the workplace

7 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

Our mental health in the workplace course helps participants understand how mental health, mental distress and mental illness affects colleagues and whānau.

The course also provides organisations and teams with the tools to better identify, understand, and manage mental health issues in their workplace.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

Develop an understanding of mental health, mental distress and mental illness and how it affects whānau and work colleagues.
Use the look, listen, link framework to help someone who may need mental health support:
- Look: Know some of the warning signs.
- Listen: How to check in, listen and respond.
- Link: Connect the person and/or yourself to the right support.
Leave with tools to help identify, understand, and manage mental health issues at work or home.

Course information

Delivery: Face-to-face
Course length: 7 hours

7 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

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Youth Psychological First Aid

6 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

Youth Psychological First Aid is aimed at young people 15 years and up, or leaders working with young people. It's a simple, yet powerful way of helping someone in distress, so they feel calm, supported and able to cope with their challenges - whether it’s personal, work-related or affects the whole community.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this workshop, you will:

Understand what Psychological First Aid is and isn't.
Become familiar with distress reactions.
Have tools to be able to provide Psychological First Aid using ‘The Five Elements’ tool and the action principles: ‘look, listen and link.’
Practice providing Psychological First Aid.

Course information

Delivery: Face-to-face
Course length: 6 hours
More information: Courses are delivered exclusively for groups of 10-20 participants.

6 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

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Are you worried about someone?

40 minutes | Online

NZQA Standards:

N/A

Starting this conversation can save someone’s life.

It is important we talk about suicide in Aotearoa.

While we may feel helpless, or as if there is nothing we can do, there is!

In this webinar you will learn to use the LOOK, LISTEN and LINK framework, which will give you the tools to support those you may be concerned about.

In understanding some of the warning signs, having safe and direct conversations about suicide, and linking the person to professional help, you may be able to save their life.

This webinar includes material from the Mental Health Foundation.

Learning outcomes

Help support someone who may be at risk of ending their life by using:

Look: Know some of the warning signs.
Listen: How to check in, listen and respond.
Link: Connect the person or yourself to the right support.

Course information

Delivery: Webinar
Course length: 40 minutes

40 minutes | Online

NZQA Standards:

N/A

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Coping with stress

4 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

Learn to identify your stressors and how to manage them to help improve your wellbeing.

Learning outcomes

You will:

Understand what stress is and how it affects you.
Develop some ways to improve your wellbeing using:
- feeling good
- functioning well, and
- connecting with others.
Understand how to enhance your resilience.

Course information

Delivery: face-to-face
Course length: 4 hours

4 hours | Face-to-face

NZQA Standards:

N/A

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Stress, Wellbeing and Resilience webinars

3 hours | Online (1 hour per webinar)

NZQA Standards:

N/A

These three 1-hour webinars give you advice and tools to manage stress, improve wellbeing and enhance resilience. You are given a workbook before each webinar with an activity to complete. This forms the basis of an activity for the next webinar.

Learning outcomes

After completing the 3 webinars, you will:

Understand what stress is and how it affects you.
Develop some ways to improve your wellbeing using:
- feeling good
- functioning well, and
- connecting with others.
Understand how to enhance your resilience.

Course information

Delivery: Webinar
Course length: 3 hours (1 hour per webinar)

3 hours | Online (1 hour per webinar)

NZQA Standards:

N/A

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