Understanding Mental Health

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

Gain an overview of mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder. Explore how these experiences may affect people's lives and learn practical ways to provide compassionate support.

Develop your understanding of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and learn strategies for effective support.

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

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

Become a certified mental health first aider

Deepen your understanding of maternal mental health, matrescence and perinatal wellbeing to enhance your ability to support mothers and parents.

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.

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

Understand menopause’s impact on mental health, recognise common symptoms, learn support strategies, and reflect on wellbeing to set a helpful action step.