MHFA Champions 1-day Course

Adult MHFA 1-Day Champions Course

Also available as an online course

What will I learn?

Our one day mental health awareness and skills course qualifies you as an Adult MHFA Champion.

MHFA Champions have:

An understanding of common mental health issues
Knowledge and confidence to advocate for mental health awareness
Ability to spot signs of mental ill health
Skills to support positive wellbeing

The course is split into 2 sessions:

Session 1

Mental Health First Aid

About Mental Health

What influences mental health

Depression

Anxiety disorder

Eating disorders

Self-harm

Psychosis

Substance misuse

Session 2

Early warning signs of mental ill health

Suicide

First aid for suicidal crisis

First aid for mental health issues

Building a mentally healthy workplace

Useful statistics

How will I learn?

The sessions will be a mix of presentations, group discussions and group work activities. Our trainers provide a very safe learning environment and are trained to support you throughout the whole course. If you don’t feel comfortable joining in certain bits, then don’t, we won’t make you do something you aren’t comfortable with. Due to some of the sensitive subjects of our course, including suicide, we limit numbers to 16 people. We want everyone to feel safe and our instructors can help if people find some bits particularly difficult.

You will receive a Adult MHFA One Day reference manual and workbook that you can take away with you at the end of the course and also an attendance certificate from MHFA England to say that you are now a Mental Health First Aid Champion.

Who can attend?

The course is simply for everyone. All we ask is for you to be above 16 yrs of age.This is due to some of the content being quite sensitive and can be upsetting to some. We want to ensure that we create a safe and suitable learning environment for all our attendees.

How do I book on a course?

Current planned course dates are shown here. For enquiries about course cost or to register your interest in attending a course or to organise a course for your company or organisation in the future please contact us here. This will send an email to our administration office who will get in touch with you.

Please do not book any travel or accommodation until you have received an email from us confirming you have been allocated a place on a course.

Testimonials

6 Nov 2024

Thank you for the thorough and thought-provoking course. I left the room with newly acquired skills to help how to best approach and manage mental ill health.

The course was very informative and I learnt a lot. I also improved my knowledge on different mental health disorders and conditions as well as learning how to deal with them better.

Engaging instructor, helpful and practical course with good learning materials. Thoughtful and good course timings with ample breaks.

Excellent course, thoroughly well presented.

Steve was professional without being stuffy. He presented every word with confidence as if reading from a script, with

8 Oct 2024

Comfortable atmosphere maintained by the instructor, informative and full of lots of knowledge, yet in a simple format.

My confidence and knowledge has vastly improved following this refresher training, very good instructor.

Information was detailed and clearly delivered - although a little basic for a recap though.

The course itself is very good, however a lot of the services that we would advise people to access are getting more and more difficult.

18 Jan 23

Excellent course, very informative and I learnt so much during the day.

Steve is a very knowledgeable trainer! He was extremely helpful and willing to support us all through the course, making it comfortable, safe and relaxed environment. Thank you Steve!

Steve is very knowledgeable, a really good course.

Very enjoyable course and definitely information I will use in my work role.

The training has really improved my confidence and knowledge to be able to talk about mental health and to help those in mental distress.

Thank you, we really enjoyed the training.

17 May 19

Good content, well presented. Right level of interaction and well paced.

The day was excellent with great content.

Steve was amazing and taught me a lot that I wasn't aware of. Such an amazing use of time and would highly recommend this course to others.

Very good and made it clear and enjoyable.

Overall the course leader was great, he was very knowledgeable. Overall I fully enjoyed the course.

A fantastic course with great content.

Steve was great and very relatable. Brilliant course.

Very well delivered.with some tough content.

The course was very engaging and enjoyable. Learnt a lot of useful knowledge.

Excellent presenter and very much encouraged the group to talk openly.

1 May 19

Thoroughly enjoyable, very well conducted and informative.

Steve was engaging and positive with a sense of humour. Extremely beneficial. I am interested in further training.

Very informative course and a lot of useful tools to use going forward. As someone who has experienced an anxiety disorder and friends who have struggled, it was really interesting to see what's available.

The courses was structure really well, a lot of information to go through on a sensitive subject, handled really well. Enlightening and very helpful in supporting us, support others. Practical elements were enjoyable and taught me a lot. Steve was engaging and positive. Thank you.

Very informative and shed light on the different mental illnesses.

Steve was very professional, gave very good examples. Found the course very interesting and helpful.

Steve made the course easy to understand and well portrayed. Course itself very insightful.

Great course and I found Steve extremely knowledgeable. I learnt a lot, thank you!

Long day but it's needed in this area of expertise. Really informative.

11 Mar 19

Very good delivery, kept the course interesting and fun. Instructor had great knowledge and impressive memory of the manual.

Very good course and would recommend to others

Good instructor, very knowledgeable and fun.

Very good and informative.

Excellent course, provided reassurance and useful techniques to use.

Very informative and information clear and concise.

Vast topic covered very well in the time available and encouraged further study.

Excellent course, very useful.

7Feb 19

Very knowledgeable and enthusiastic instructor.

The instructor was very engaging and very knowledgeable - thank you!

One of the best courses I have attended.

Having depression myself, I feel this is going to help me out, thank you.

Well delivered, engaging and good breaks to break up the sessions.

Well structured to minimise intensity and maintain concentration. Fun instructor.

The overall content of the course was excellent. It was quite intense at times and a lot to cover.

6 Feb 19

Great course to raise awareness

Very good instructor

Great course, Steve was very supportive and knowledgeable

Fantastic course, would love this to be rolled out further within the company.

Great instructor, engaging and noticed when we needed a break.

This mental health course is very good

As a result of the training I am less likely to judge people with mental ill health issues negatively.

20 Nov 18

Excellent course, great facilitator, good pace. I learned a lot, resources super helpful.

Steve was great and had loads of energy and enthusiasm. A lot of content for 1-day.

Really insightful session, great instructor.

Very informative and interesting.

Great, informative session with useful takeaway technique to support mental health.

Lots of intense information for 1-day, but great instructor.

I feel much more confident to discuss mental health to help others.

Steve was really knowledgeable;e, articulate and personal and had an engaging delivery style. I really liked the fact that he added a bit of humour into the topic that was hard hitting.

A lot of info, but only did the one day course so expected it.

22 May 18

I got a lot from the course and feel more confident to help with mental health in my workplace and in my private life.

I feel the facts and stats used were very useful.

Excellent course and superb instructor.

A lot of information to take in, in the sessions, but well documented and explained for further study at home after the course in the manual.

Super!

Very good throughout

Overall, a very good course.

Excellent delivery, with strong examples.

Very well presented, clear and understandable.

Steve was engaging, I feel confident about how to approach mental health issues now.

Really helpful refresher on my existing knowledge and the application for supporting myself and others.

23 May 18

Very much enjoyed the course, it was very interesting and i think it is a very good idea to deliver this course to big groups so that mental health is

Excellent all round course, very informative and good use of practical reinforcement exercises.

Incredibly insightful.

Very good instructor.

I found it thought provoking and helpful. Steve was brilliant, friendly and approachable.

Well presented and paced, Light touch when needed but also serious when necessary.

Very interesting and informative.

The instructor set ground rules and engaged all members in the group.

Very interesting, Steve did a good job!

Really good session, well taught.

Excellent eye opening course; lots of thoughts on being more self-aware.

Important information and great to see in workplace training.

Very much enjoyed the course, it was very interesting and i think it is a very good idea to deliver this course to big groups so that mental health is not considered abnormal, and so we can help people with mental health problems.