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Multiple Days | Max. 20 Participants
2 days
Workshop Outcomes
- Recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health problems in adults
- Use an evidence-based action plan to initiate a mental health first aid conversation
- Know the barriers to help-seeking and how to overcome these
- Assess for a range of crisis situations and provide initial support
- Understand the prevalence and impact of mental illnesses, risk factors and treatments and supports available
- Apply self-care practices as a Mental Health First Aider
Topics Covered
- This course covers common and disabling mental health problems and crisis situations. Participants learn how to apply mental health first aid to adults across a range of situations, including:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Psychosis
- Substance use problems
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
- Panic attacks
- Non-suicidal self-injury
- Traumatic events
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to face
Overview
The Mental Health First Aid workshop will teach participants how to provide initial support to another adult who may be experiencing a mental health problem or crisis until professional help is received or the crisis is resolved. Participants learn about the signs and symptoms of common mental health problems in adults, how to recognise and respond to an emerging or worsening mental health problem and the treatments and support available. Using a practical, evidence-based action plan, participants will learn how to approach someone they are concerned about and initiate a conversation about those concerns. Participants will also learn how to offer initial support and information and encourage the person to seek professional help or other support. Participants who complete the course become Mental Health First Aiders, equipped with the knowledge, confidence, and skills to provide someone with mental health information and support when it matters.
Workshop Outcomes
- Recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health problems in adults
- Use an evidence-based action plan to initiate a mental health first aid conversation
- Know the barriers to help-seeking and how to overcome these
- Assess for a range of crisis situations and provide initial support
- Understand the prevalence and impact of mental illnesses, risk factors and treatments and supports available
- Apply self-care practices as a Mental Health First Aider
Topics Covered
- This course covers common and disabling mental health problems and crisis situations. Participants learn how to apply mental health first aid to adults across a range of situations, including:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Psychosis
- Substance use problems
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
- Panic attacks
- Non-suicidal self-injury
- Traumatic events
Who is this workshop for
Suitable for individuals, workplaces of all sizes and volunteer and community-based groups.
Any adult (aged 18+) can attend.
Handouts/materials provided
Workbooks and Mental Health First Aid book
What to bring
Pen, Paper and meals
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Rebecca Hannan is a Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategist, coach and facilitator who helps people think well, lead well and live well. Her career spans over four decades across mining, education, local government, justice, community and private sectors. She also holds a Psychology Honours degree focused on workplace mental health. Rebecca brings a rare mix of lived, practical and research-informed experience to every room she works in.
Rebecca has designed and delivered a wide range of mental health and wellbeing programs and presentations across mining, oil and gas, the public sector, government and private enterprise. Her work across these industries has given her a deep understanding of how communication, culture, and change shape the wellbeing of people at work and at home.
Her Honours research explored the barriers and facilitators to putting evidence-based mental health interventions into practice in workplaces, using a systems thinking approach. It means her coaching looks beyond the individual to the leadership, culture and wider systems that help people thrive or hold them back.
Rebecca coaches leaders and teams in:
• Communication, assertiveness and setting professional boundaries, including how to have the conversations people tend to avoid
• Recognising unconscious bias and microaggressions, and building inclusive, culturally safe workplace behaviours
• Working effectively across multicultural and multigenerational teams
• Navigating organisational change and building personal and team resilience
• Supporting others through change, career planning and professional development
Having built several businesses from the ground up, including leading a team of 20 as Director of a real estate company, Rebecca understands the pressures leaders face.
Away from work, you’ll find her walking in nature, preparing healthy food and spending time with the family she adores.
Nature lover, mother, businesswoman, wife, salad queen, risk-taker, organiser, coast dweller, starter, finisher, negotiator, listener, chaos buster... The Momentum Maker.
Key Expertise
- Workplace Mental Health
- Mental Health Literacy
- Suicide Prevention
- Leadership Development
- Psychosocial Safety
- Wellbeing
Industry Focus
- Corporate
- Mining
- Education
- Government
- Construction
- Small - Medium Enterprise (SME)
- Health Care
Based in:
About the facilitator
Rebecca Hannan is a Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategist, coach and facilitator who helps people think well, lead well and live well. Her career spans over four decades across mining, education, local government, justice, community and private sectors. She also holds a Psychology Honours degree focused on workplace mental health. Rebecca brings a rare mix of lived, practical and research-informed experience to every room she works in.
Rebecca has designed and delivered a wide range of mental health and wellbeing programs and presentations across mining, oil and gas, the public sector, government and private enterprise. Her work across these industries has given her a deep understanding of how communication, culture, and change shape the wellbeing of people at work and at home.
Her Honours research explored the barriers and facilitators to putting evidence-based mental health interventions into practice in workplaces, using a systems thinking approach. It means her coaching looks beyond the individual to the leadership, culture and wider systems that help people thrive or hold them back.
Rebecca coaches leaders and teams in:
• Communication, assertiveness and setting professional boundaries, including how to have the conversations people tend to avoid
• Recognising unconscious bias and microaggressions, and building inclusive, culturally safe workplace behaviours
• Working effectively across multicultural and multigenerational teams
• Navigating organisational change and building personal and team resilience
• Supporting others through change, career planning and professional development
Having built several businesses from the ground up, including leading a team of 20 as Director of a real estate company, Rebecca understands the pressures leaders face.
Away from work, you’ll find her walking in nature, preparing healthy food and spending time with the family she adores.
Nature lover, mother, businesswoman, wife, salad queen, risk-taker, organiser, coast dweller, starter, finisher, negotiator, listener, chaos buster... The Momentum Maker.
Key Expertise
- Workplace Mental Health
- Mental Health Literacy
- Suicide Prevention
- Leadership Development
- Psychosocial Safety
- Wellbeing
Industry Focus
- Corporate
- Mining
- Education
- Government
- Construction
- Small - Medium Enterprise (SME)
- Health Care
Based in:
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