Workshop Catalogue

Building Resilience

Celebrate MHERC's 30th Birthday with this free webinar! Learn how to become more resilient by proactively developing a mental reservoir that you can draw upon, replenish and never fully exhaust.

Suicide Prevention: Simple Skills for Communities

This free workshop will provide valuable skills for those working in the community.

Connecting Through Motherhood

Weekly educational discussion group for new mums

School Avoidance

Free Online Webinar for parents, caregivers and anyone working with children and teens who may be avoiding school.

Te Pūtaketanga: Introduction to Te Reo Māori (Part Two)

Join us online each week for 45 minutes of interactive learning.

Improving Sleep for Wellbeing

Free Mental Health Awareness Week Webinar on Sleep

Burnout: Dampening the Burn

The challenges over the last few years, have resulted in increasing experiences of depletion, exhaustion and ultimately burnout, which has been identified as resulting from an imbalance between chronic stress and coping resources.

A Review and Comparison of Modern Health and Wellbeing Literature with the Te Whare Tapa Whā Model

An in-depth review and comparison of the modern Health & Well-being literature and the four traditional core concepts of the Te Whare Tapa Whā Model involving Tinana, Hinengaro, Wairua, and Whānau in addition to presenting ideas for further integrated research.

Rainbow Diversity and How to Be a Supportive Ally

Free interactive educational groups to learn about rainbow diversity and practical tips and resources on how to be a supportive ally.

Making a Difference

Join us in celebrating MHERC's 30th Birthday with this lunch time talk with Sharon Bennett!

Moving Towards Restorative Responses in Healthcare: A Scoping Day to Identify the Needs of Neurodivergent Mental Health and Addictions Clients

This hui in Ōtautahi, Christchurch and online is to bring neurodivergent people and their allies together around the topic of restorative practice in healthcare.

Elevating the Lived Experience Voice – Being Agents of Change

Workshop for the CPSLE workforce with lived experience.

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 1)

Have you heard about CPSLE, but are unsure of its meaning? Join us to develop your understanding of CPSLE and the advantages of peer support.

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 2)

Have you heard about CPSLE, but are unsure of its meaning? Join us to develop your understanding of CPSLE and the advantages of peer support.

What is Peer Support? What does Lived Experience mean? What does CPSLE stand for? How can you support this workforce?

We have the answers to these questions. Join us to deepen your understanding of lived experience roles in the mental health and addiction sector, the history of the movement and the principles that drive them. Explore different CPSLE roles and discover how we can create supportive workplace environments for people to thrive.

Habits and Hints for Wellbeing

Free, weekly one-hour sessions to learn and gain skills around mental health.

Te Pūtaketanga: Introduction to Te Reo Māori

Basic Te Reo Māori to use in the workplace.

Tools for Managing Anxiety

Free online series for information and tips to help with anxiety

Tools for Managing Anxiety

Free online series for information and tips to help with anxiety

Connecting Through Motherhood

Weekly educational discussion group for new mums

Habits and Hints for Wellbeing

Free, weekly one-hour sessions to learn and gain skills around mental health.

Rainbow Diversity and How to Be a Supportive Ally

Free interactive educational groups to learn about rainbow diversity and practical tips and resources on how to be a supportive ally.

Co-existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

Explore an overview of working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Co-Existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

This workshop provides an overview and update of current approaches to working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Navigating Alcohol and Other Drug Services

Explore alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues for individuals. Recognise problematic AOD use, understand the impacts and how to access support services in Canterbury. 

Methamphetamine and Synthetic Substances: What You Need to Know

Explore synthetic drugs in today's society. Learn about longer term effects and gain tools and strategies around harm minimisation.

Understanding and Supporting Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Recognise the signs and symptoms of FASD, understand how it is diagnosed and learn how to adapt treatment to the different needs of those with the neurodisability.

Effective Brief Interventions for People Experiencing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

In this highly interactive, practical workshop, explore information on AOD use and develop response to AOD issues in your setting.

Relapse Prevention and Growing Recovery Capital

This highly interactive, practical workshop explores the process and stages of relapse. Participants will apply theory to practice and case studies.

Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Youth: Motivational Tools for Harm Reduction

Develop your skills and increase your knowledge around supporting young people who present with alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues, from a harm reduction perspective.

Understanding School Avoidance and How to Re-engage Young People

Boundaries and Ethics in Health and Community Settings

Develop an understanding of significant ethics and boundaries concepts and explore an ethical dilemma problem-solving framework.

Debriefing: Understanding the Benefits and Learning Fundamental Skills

Explore an overview regarding the benefits of debriefing alongside identifying fundamental skills in relation to the debriefing process.

Communication and Breakaway Techniques: De-escalation Refresher

Revisit verbal de-escalation strategies and environmental considerations to ensure that both you and your client are kept as safe as possible in an actual or potential physical assault situation.

Effective Communication to Manage Distress: De-escalation Techniques

Gain the skills to identify and de-escalate an agitated person while keeping yourself and others safe. Gain confidence in managing distress and aggression, and strategies for self-control.

Effective Note Writing for Community Support Work

Develop your skills to effectively and clearly document your work in supporting people with mental health conditions.

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: Recognising the Signs and Strategies for Prevention and Recovery

Know how to respond and recover from empathy fatigue and emotional burnout – essential tips and strategies.

Enhancing Skills to Ensure Safe and Supportive Client-Focused Relationships

Learn skills to engage in safe and effective relationships with clients in support-focused situations while maintaining your own safety and boundaries.

Home Visiting in Community Work

When working in the community and in private homes, we need to ensure everyone’s safety and be respectful. Develop your confidence and skills to decrease risk and manage difficult situations.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Healthcare

Explore Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a lens of understanding and opportunities for healthcare practitioners and services in the broader healthcare setting.

Understanding the Mental Health System: Specialist Services, NGOs and Community Agencies

This workshop will introduce those new to the Mental Health workforce or those working outside of this sector, an insight into the workings of the Mental Health sector.

Understanding Māori Health Models

This interactive workshop will explore Māori Models of Health for participants to develop and enhance their work practice and cultural competency.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Healthcare

Explore Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a lens of understanding and opportunities for healthcare practitioners and services in the broader healthcare setting.

Navigating Conflict and Difficult Conversations: Achieving Collaborative Solutions and Strengthening Relationships

This workshop will equip you with key skills that can help you manage conflict, and transform challenging conversations into constructive and beneficial discussions.

Cultural Intelligence (CQ): Effectively Working in Diverse Cultural Contexts

This workshop encourages participants to explore challenges, opportunities, and tools to apply CQ to their professional practice.

Cultural Safety and Diversity: Taking Your Practice to a New Level

This workshop will guide you to provide the support and care that meets the client’s needs in a way that maintains their and your personal, social and cultural identity.

Enhancing Skills to Ensure Safe and Supportive Client-Focused Relationships

Learn skills to engage in safe and effective relationships with clients in support-focused situations while maintaining your own safety and boundaries.

Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse People (CALD)

Explore refugee and migrant experiences, principals of working with interpreters, cultural framework and values.

Understanding Different Personality and Communication Styles in the Workplace

In all aspects of our daily lives we are interacting and communicating with others yet so often there are times when there is miscommunication and confusion leading at times to conflict and less than satisfactory outcomes in the workplace.

Understanding and Supporting Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Recognise the signs and symptoms of FASD, understand how it is diagnosed and learn how to adapt treatment to the different needs of those with the neurodisability.

Insight into Autism: Understanding People with Autism and Adapting Support to Meet Their Needs

Develop your understanding of people with autism, so that you can better respond to, and support them.

Anxiety Disorders: Understanding and Providing Effective Support

This workshop will provide a general introduction to the experiences and impacts of anxiety. Particular focus will be given to Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder and Generalised Anxiety Disorder.

Understanding and Supporting People Experiencing Psychosis

This workshop will provide a general introduction to the experiences and impacts of Psychosis.

Understanding and Supporting People Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder

Develop your understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and learn strategies for effective support.

Understanding and Supporting People Diagnosed with Mood Disorders

Explore an overview of people diagnosed with mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar. Identify ways you can offer support and what treatment options are available.

Personality Disorders: The Impact on Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviour

Explore and identify personality disorders, the aetiology of personality disorders including trauma and other life impacts, and key features of each personality disorder.

Beyond the Label: Understanding Different Mental Health Diagnoses and What They Mean for People

(Formerly ‘Common Mental Health Disorders’) This workshop will explore mental diagnosis and conditions, such mood disorders, psychosis, and anxiety disorders.

Supporting People Experiencing Suicidal Ideation and Non-Suicidal Self-injurious Behaviour

Develop your confidence in how to manage persons experiencing suicidal ideation and nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviour. Explore models and frameworks in your setting.

Advanced Suicidal Ideation and Nonsuicidal Self-injurious Behaviour: Models and Strategies for Interventions

An advanced workshop for professionals with some level of training and experience in screening and managing youth and adults with self-injurious and suicidal behaviours.

Co-Existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

This workshop provides an overview and update of current approaches to working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Children’s Anxiety: What Adults Need to Know and Strategies for Management

Gain a basic understanding of anxiety and how it particularly relates to children and how to support parents and workers.

Understanding the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and Ways to Support Clients

Understand what traumatic brain injury (TBI) is, how it affects people, strategies to support them and how to access specialist services.

Multiplicity: Plural Aspects of Self

Gain an insider’s view on multiplicity (also known as Plurality) from a mental health professional with lived experience, and learn ways to provide effective support.

Co-existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

Explore an overview of working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Alternative Experiences of Reality: A Fresh Perspective of ‘Psychosis’

Explore a trauma-informed, lived experience and person-centered approach to alternative states of reality (aka ‘psychosis’).

An Insider’s View on Autism: Recognising Autistic Culture and Experience

Learn about autistic experiences compared to those of people who are seen as ‘normal’ (neurotypical), from a lived experience facilitator who is autistic.

Mental Health First Aid

Become a certified mental health first aider

The Connection Between Nutrients, Nutrition and Mental Health

Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, rates of mental illness have been on the rise. Scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: What we eat is affecting our mental health.

Debriefing: Understanding the Benefits and Learning Fundamental Skills

Explore an overview regarding the benefits of debriefing alongside identifying fundamental skills in relation to the debriefing process.

Trauma Informed Care for Practitioners: Applying Principles to Practice and Responding to Challenges

This advanced workshop explores how the principles of trauma informed care could be applied to your particular field of practice.

Men's Mental Health and Wellbeing: What's Different and What Works

This focused workshop explores how best to support men’s wellbeing, how to identify signs of distress and how to engage in a way that resonates with them.

Rainbow Wellness: Supporting LGBTTQIA+ People’s Wellbeing

This workshop will provide an introduction to the influences which shape LGBTTQIA+ people’s wellbeing and practical strategies in how to support them.

Sleep Matters in Mental Health

Learn strategies and tools to optimise sleep ‘health’ for self-management and/or to help clients.

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: Recognising the Signs and Strategies for Prevention and Recovery

Know how to respond and recover from empathy fatigue and emotional burnout – essential tips and strategies.

Resilience: Build, Adapt, Grow

This workshop will explore how we develop, maintain, adapt and sustain our resilience in order to preserve our wellbeing in demanding times.

Building Resilience

Celebrate MHERC's 30th Birthday with this free webinar! Learn how to become more resilient by proactively developing a mental reservoir that you can draw upon, replenish and never fully exhaust.

Making a Difference

Join us in celebrating MHERC's 30th Birthday with this lunch time talk with Sharon Bennett!

Navigating Conflict and Difficult Conversations: Achieving Collaborative Solutions and Strengthening Relationships

This workshop will equip you with key skills that can help you manage conflict, and transform challenging conversations into constructive and beneficial discussions.

Gender and Gender Expression

This ‘101’ level workshop is designed to equip you with the foundational knowledge and tools needed to support trans individuals in your workplace community. It is our recommended starting point for building cultural competency around trans inclusion and allyship.

Insight into Autism: Understanding People with Autism and Adapting Support to Meet Their Needs

Develop your understanding of people with autism, so that you can better respond to, and support them.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Understanding the Impact on Adult Mental Health and Pathways to Healing

Gain an insider’s view on the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma and develop effective ways to provide support.

An Insider’s View on Autism: Recognising Autistic Culture and Experience

Learn about autistic experiences compared to those of people who are seen as ‘normal’ (neurotypical), from a lived experience facilitator who is autistic.

Autism/ADHD: Two Core Features of Neurodiversity Experience

The second workshop in this series focuses on autism and ADHD as two core features of neurodiversity experience.

Neurodiversity: An Overview of its Origins and Place in Society

The first workshop in this series will cover an overview of the origins of neurodiversity, current diagnoses and the experiences that are associated with neurodiversity.

Multiplicity: Plural Aspects of Self

Gain an insider’s view on multiplicity (also known as Plurality) from a mental health professional with lived experience, and learn ways to provide effective support.

Moving Towards Restorative Responses in Healthcare: A Scoping Day to Identify the Needs of Neurodivergent Mental Health and Addictions Clients

This hui in Ōtautahi, Christchurch and online is to bring neurodivergent people and their allies together around the topic of restorative practice in healthcare.

Sleep Matters in Mental Health

Learn strategies and tools to optimise sleep ‘health’ for self-management and/or to help clients.

Rainbow Wellness: Supporting LGBTTQIA+ People’s Wellbeing

This workshop will provide an introduction to the influences which shape LGBTTQIA+ people’s wellbeing and practical strategies in how to support them.

Men's Mental Health and Wellbeing: What's Different and What Works

This focused workshop explores how best to support men’s wellbeing, how to identify signs of distress and how to engage in a way that resonates with them.

School Avoidance

Free Online Webinar for parents, caregivers and anyone working with children and teens who may be avoiding school.

Connecting Through Motherhood

Weekly educational discussion group for new mums

Tools for Managing Anxiety

Free online series for information and tips to help with anxiety

Habits and Hints for Wellbeing

Free, weekly one-hour sessions to learn and gain skills around mental health.

Suicide Prevention: Simple Skills for Communities

This free workshop will provide valuable skills for those working in the community.

Building Resilience

Celebrate MHERC's 30th Birthday with this free webinar! Learn how to become more resilient by proactively developing a mental reservoir that you can draw upon, replenish and never fully exhaust.

Resilience: Build, Adapt, Grow

This workshop will explore how we develop, maintain, adapt and sustain our resilience in order to preserve our wellbeing in demanding times.

The Connection Between Nutrients, Nutrition and Mental Health

Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, rates of mental illness have been on the rise. Scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: What we eat is affecting our mental health.

Elevating the Lived Experience Voice – Being Agents of Change

Workshop for the CPSLE workforce with lived experience.

Enabling Equity Through Exploring Power and Privilege

Explore the dynamics of power and privilege in a safe, reflective and collaborative space. Reflect on your experience of disadvantage, discrimination and privilege.

Understanding the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and Ways to Support Clients

Understand what traumatic brain injury (TBI) is, how it affects people, strategies to support them and how to access specialist services.

Autism/ADHD: Two Core Features of Neurodiversity Experience

The second workshop in this series focuses on autism and ADHD as two core features of neurodiversity experience.

Neurodiversity: An Overview of its Origins and Place in Society

The first workshop in this series will cover an overview of the origins of neurodiversity, current diagnoses and the experiences that are associated with neurodiversity.

Te Pūtaketanga: Introduction to Te Reo Māori (Part Two)

Join us online each week for 45 minutes of interactive learning.

Improving Sleep for Wellbeing

Free Mental Health Awareness Week Webinar on Sleep

Burnout: Dampening the Burn

The challenges over the last few years, have resulted in increasing experiences of depletion, exhaustion and ultimately burnout, which has been identified as resulting from an imbalance between chronic stress and coping resources.

Rainbow Diversity and How to Be a Supportive Ally

Free interactive educational groups to learn about rainbow diversity and practical tips and resources on how to be a supportive ally.

Cultural Intelligence (CQ): Effectively Working in Diverse Cultural Contexts

This workshop encourages participants to explore challenges, opportunities, and tools to apply CQ to their professional practice.

Mental Health First Aid

Become a certified mental health first aider

What is Peer Support? What does Lived Experience mean? What does CPSLE stand for? How can you support this workforce?

We have the answers to these questions. Join us to deepen your understanding of lived experience roles in the mental health and addiction sector, the history of the movement and the principles that drive them. Explore different CPSLE roles and discover how we can create supportive workplace environments for people to thrive.

Let’s Talk Concussion: Understanding the Effects of Concussion and Ways to Support People

Understand what concussion is, how if affects people and strategies for support.

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 2)

Have you heard about CPSLE, but are unsure of its meaning? Join us to develop your understanding of CPSLE and the advantages of peer support.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Understanding the Impact on Adult Mental Health and Pathways to Healing

Gain an insider’s view on the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma and develop effective ways to provide support.

Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide: Masterclass for Working with Youth

This comprehensive workshop aims to equip people working with youth with strategies and tools to effectively identify and address suicide risk in young people. Participants will gain a understanding of the factors contributing to youth suicide and learn evidence-based approaches to support young people in crisis.

Self-Hypnosis for Managing Stress and Boosting Productivity

Learn simple yet impactful techniques for utilising self-hypnosis to manage stress, enhance mental clarity and boost your productivity.

Harnessing Hypnosis: Therapeutic Tools for Clinical Practice

Explore how to utilise hypnosis in your clinical practice as a method for mental and somatic therapeutic change.

Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Youth: Motivational Tools for Harm Reduction

Develop your skills and increase your knowledge around supporting young people who present with alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues, from a harm reduction perspective.

Sleep Matters in Mental Health

Learn strategies and tools to optimise sleep ‘health’ for self-management and/or to help clients.

Rainbow Wellness: Supporting LGBTTQIA+ People’s Wellbeing

This workshop will provide an introduction to the influences which shape LGBTTQIA+ people’s wellbeing and practical strategies in how to support them.

Men's Mental Health and Wellbeing: What's Different and What Works

This focused workshop explores how best to support men’s wellbeing, how to identify signs of distress and how to engage in a way that resonates with them.

Debriefing: Understanding the Benefits and Learning Fundamental Skills

Explore an overview regarding the benefits of debriefing alongside identifying fundamental skills in relation to the debriefing process.