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Workshops and courses

Welcome to the practical approach to Mental Health Training.

The Mental Health Toolkit provides practical resources to help us understand emotional health, its importance, and its connection to physical well-being.

The toolkit is designed for everyone, including families, friends, and colleagues, and aims to create emotionally healthy environments. It offers courses on essential topics like emotional health, sleep, and relaxation techniques.

The Mental Health Toolkit: The Essentials

This award-winning half-day workshop takes you through the Mental Health Continuum – the spectrum of mental health that we are all on – and introduces you to the Emotional Needs & Resources approach.

The workshop also covers sleep and depression, security and trauma, how to meet your needs, and how to use your innate resources to help meet those needs.

 

The Essentials workshop will help you:

  • Undo misconceptions about mental health
  • Raise awareness of your emotional needs
  • Support yourself and those around you
  • Reduce the cost of sickness absence
  • Create a healthier place to work

Book the Essentials 

The Mental Health Toolkit: Keeping Calm

Our online one hour stress reduction workshop £200 (up to 10 people)

Understand your mind and body and how breathing can help you to manage your emotions and reduce stress with our Keeping Calm workshop.

This one hour interactive group session is facilitated by a qualified trainer.

 

Our Keeping Calm workshop will help you:

 

  • Learn a powerful and practical breathing exercise
  • Increase awareness of how the mind-body system works
  • Lower stress

The Mental Health Toolkit: Sleep Well, Work Well

 

Our online 1.5 hour sleep workshop £400 (up to 50 people)

  • Sleep Well, Work Well is an interactive online workshop that helps to raise awareness of the importance of sleeping well and the affect this can have on our daily life. It is based on up-to-date sleep research, and is facilitated by one of our qualified Emotional Needs & Resources trainers.
  • Sleep is as important to our health as eating, drinking and breathing. Insomnia and poor quality sleep are linked to physical ill-health as well as mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression.

 

Sleep Well – Work Well will help you:

 

  • Remove the barriers to getting a good night’s sleep
  • Address insomnia
  • Learn vital skills to improve sleep
  • Improve mental wellbeing
  • Instil healthier sleeping habits

Sleep Well, Work Well covers:

 
  • Good sleep vs. bad sleep habits

  • The role of dream sleep

  • How to reduce worrying

  • How to wake up refreshed and ready to go

  • Practical tools and techniques for improved sleep

  • Improving your performance at work starts with a good night’s sleep. Make an enquiry to learn how you can sleep well with The Mental Health Toolkit.

Outcomes for The Essentials attendees:

 
  • 10 out of 10 previous attendees made plans to use the content of The Essentials workshop to help themselves or their workplaces
  • One month later, nine out of 10 said they have implemented those plans
  • 95% of previous attendees made plans to support themselves

The Keeping Calm workshop covers:

 
  • What is Mindful Breathing?

  • What are the benefits of diaphragmatic breathing?

  • Our parasympathetic nervous system

  • Attention, which is an emotional need and a resource

  • How to do Mindful Breathing – supported practice in the session

Outcomes for Keeping Calm attendees:

 
  • 10 out of 10 previous attendees made plans to use the content of The Essentials workshop to help themselves or their workplace
  • One month later, nine out of 10 said they have implemented those plans
  • 95% of previous attendees made plans to support themselves
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Book our Keeping Calm workshop

 

Please contact us at training@mnessexmind.org or call us on (01206) 764 600

Outcomes for Sleep Well, Work Well attendees:

 

  • Before attending, 55% of participants told us their quality of sleep was poor or very poor
  • By the end of the training, new sleeping habits were planned, such as creating allocated time for fulfilling Emotional Needs

Book our Sleep Well, Work Well workshop

 

Please contact us at training@mnessexmind.org or call us on (01206) 764 600

Our upcoming events…

Colchester – Fully booked

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Thursday 30th January 2025
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Tuesday 4th February 2025
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Brightlingsea

Thursday 6th February 2025
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Maldon

Tuesday 18th February 2025
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Thursday 27th February 2025
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Why it’s time to invest in mental health training

Poor mental health has a significant impact on work productivity and work retention:

  • 1 in 6 people in work will be experiencing a common mental health problem (stress, depression, anxiety) at any one time 
  • In 2020/21 work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 50% of all work-related ill health 
  • 14.3 million workdays are lost due to stress, anxiety and depression 
  • The estimated cost to UK employers of mental ill-health (through absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover) is £42-45 billion annually 
  • The average return on investment for every £1 spent on mental health in the workplace is over £5 

Looking for bespoke training?

Whatever your training needs, we are here to help.

As your local leading mental health charity, we can support you with your workplace wellbeing activities and training needs.

Email our training team at training@mnessexmind.org or call us on 01206 764600

Sources

1 McManus et al, 2014
2 HSE, 2021
3 Health Matters, Public Health England
4 Deloitte, 2020

The Mental Health Toolkit

The Essentials is a training workshop designed and owned by The Mental Health Toolkit and provided by Mid & North East Essex Mind under licence, and can only be sold within Mid & North East Essex Mind. Copyright The Mental Health Toolkit © 2024.