Wellbeing Advocates.

Get people talking.

Training that kick starts the conversations, emphasises boundaries, and keeps people safe.

An alternative to Mental Health First Aid, upskill your Advocates and Mental Health First Aiders and support them to navigate challenging scenarios with ILM Recognised training.

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Wellbeing 1st Responder: read more>

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Advocating for wellbeing.
Connection is key.

Wellbeing Advocates are one of the keys in a successful wellbeing strategy. Breaking down the barriers and stigma around mental health and wellbeing, they cheerlead for positive cultural change and open up communication channels.

Human connection is vital for a thriving organisation, and Wellbeing Advocates are instrumental in this. It’s all about opening up the chat.

In supporting others, Wellbeing Advocates also require support. There may be times when they are faced with challenging scenarios, where colleagues are in need of support which is beyond the scope of their role.

There is lots of Wellbeing Advocate training available, including Mental Health First Aid training. This can tend to focus on the bigger issues. What’s really needed is an alternative: to focus on and support the everyday workplace wellbeing issues – to upskill people in how to have safely boundaried conversations; and how to know when and what they need to signpost to.

Our training. Learning, flipped.

Our courses, Cari Wellbeing Advocate; and Wellbeing 1st Responder have been developed by an Occupational Psychologist. Using the flipped learning pedagogical approach, you will learn the concepts first then come together with your cohort and our expert facilitators to practice in a supportive environment. This approach deepens your learning experience, and encourages higher level cognitive skills.

The training is rooted in neuroscience-based techniques for communication and connection. It provides a robust grounding in scope of practice, boundaries, and how the Wellbeing Advocate can keep themselves, and their colleagues, safe.

Get started now with your online personal study, and later join the live webinar sessions at a date that suits you – or talk to us about providing bespoke, in-house sessions.

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Sarah Restall, Head of Strategic Engagement talks about her experience of the training.

Cari Wellbeing Advocate.

This can be a stand alone course, or forms 1 module of Wellbeing 1st Responder. Roughly 2-3 hours of self-learning time, with two live workshops where people can get together and ask questions and share thoughts. There is also an element of assessment as we want people to embed learning as well as come together and have a fun time!

Fostering happy and healthy cultures and encouraging people to remove the stigma around wellbeing at work: a cheerleader for connection, engagement and inclusion.

In Cari Wellbeing Advocate students learn about how to encourage conversations about wellbeing and mental health in the workplace. They will explore how to break down stigma, and engage people in fostering a positive culture – an environment where everyone feels able, and supported, to access wellbeing initiatives and support. We look at the the roles and boundaries of Cari Wellbeing Advocates, and Wellbeing 1st Responders.

The Cari Wellbeing Advocate will learn the importance of monitoring our own wellbeing, as well as encouraging people to engage in the resources and initiatives that are appropriate for each individual.

Using simple, evidence based processes to ensure proper signposting to the right wellbeing support, students will be uplifted with the skills and presence to create healthier and happier workplaces.

Price:   £190 + vat per person
Duration:   approx 2-3 hours personal study and live sessions
Programme:    Online learning and two x 1.5 hour virtual interactive workshops
Audience:   Open to all

This course is a prerequisite to Wellbeing 1st Responder

Live session 1 and 2: How to be a Wellbeing Advocate; Being a Positive Support

  • 14th November – 1300 – 1630

  1. Understand the role of the Wellbeing Advocate and Wellbeing First Responder, and how these are vital in developing healthy and connected workplaces and organisations.
  2. Understand the importance of scope of practice and setting boundaries, and how to have safe conversations about wellbeing
  3. Understand what can affect wellbeing in the workplace, and how to build a supportive and non-stigmatising culture for everyone.
  4. Reflect on and understand how to apply their learning to their role by promoting access to resources and role modelling open and engaged attitudes to wellbeing.

Wellbeing 1st Responder.

Including all the learning from Cari Wellbeing Advocate, this course builds on the knowledge gained to look at how to manage difficult scenarios safely – giving people the skills they need to provide an immediate light touch response, ensuring team members feel valued and worthy of support within a strong ethical framework. Optional ILM Recognition is available.

Wellbeing 1st Responder provides a deeper dive into how to tackle wellbeing conversations where an employee may be at risk, struggling or in crisis. Through an exploration of wellbeing in the workplace, students will understand and apply psychological principles for a healthy, effective and structured approach to conversations about wellbeing.

Placing an emphasis on wellbeing mindfulness and scope of practice, Wellbeing First Responders work to ensure that team members feel valued, worthy of support and know where to find what they need. The Wellbeing First Responder uses an understanding of neuroscience based and structured coaching conversations to bridge the gap between team members and the mental health support they may need. Through this they are a significant feature of effective wellbeing support.

This module will provide the structures for effective study, implementation and reflection on how to provide proactive wellbeing support, whilst always being aware of appropriate scope of practice and boundaries.

Facing Difficulties Together: The Wellbeing 1st Responder is able to help their colleagues in difficult scenarios or crisis, knowing how to refer each to the appropriate support. Every student that graduates from the course has demonstrated creating coaching relationships to approach these difficult scenarios safely.

Duration:   approx 4-6 hours personal study and 2x 3hr live online workshops
Audience:   Open to all

Live Session 1: The role of the Wellbeing Advocate, Being a Positive Support

  • 14th Nov 13.00-16.30

Live Session 2: Supportive Conversations, and Managing Difficult Scenarios

  • 28th Nov 13.00-16.30

  1. Understand the role of the Wellbeing Advocate and Wellbeing First Responder, and how these are vital in developing healthy and connected workplaces and organisations.
  2. Understand the importance of scope of practice and setting boundaries, and how to have safe conversations about wellbeing
  3. Understand what can affect wellbeing in the workplace, and how to build a supportive and non-stigmatising culture for everyone.
  4. Reflect on and understand how to apply their learning to their role by promoting access to resources and role modelling open and engaged attitudes to wellbeing.
  5. Understand how to contract with conversation partners, and apply this to working with practice wellbeing conversation colleagues.
  6. Understand how to manage difficult scenarios safely, within scope of practice and boundaries
  7. Contract effectively with conversation partners, set safe boundaries and practice wellbeing conversation skills.
  8. Develop effective reflection skills and apply this to their own practice of wellbeing conversations.

Wellbeing Advocates  will learn more about what their role within the organisation is: they will explore boundaries, signposting, how to support the wider agenda and how to have a nuanced conversation with someone who may be anywhere on the spectrum of poor mental health (from being stressed about a presentation to being mentally unwell)

Wellbeing 1st Responders follows on from Wellbeing Advocates, building on the learning, and is a deeper dive – it is an ILM Recognised course. Still with a strong focus on boundaries and signposting, Wellbeing 1st Responder also helps people to be equipped with the guardian questions and looks at a slightly deeper style of conversation, using neuroscience-based techniques for having coaching style conversations.

The training is a blend of online personal study, backed up by live learning webinars throughout the year to cement concepts and provide a space to ask questions, practice, and build a supportive cross-industry peer network. It’s incredibly mobile friendly and accessible, and can be done anytime, anywhere – the gym, while you’re making dinner – even on the bus!

We can also work in-house with your teams, providing training which is bespoke to your business: embedding the signposting and creating a supportive framework for your Wellbeing Advocates to thrive within.

Get started today by clicking below to enrol in Cari Wellbeing Advocate, and then progress on to Wellbeing 1st Responder

Want to know what else we can do?

An ILM Approved Centre, we offer a range of qualifications and training for your people. From webinars to support wellbeing, to ILM Level 5 qualifications in Coaching and Mentoring.

All our training is rooted in neuroscience and psychology, and focusses on connection and building relationships.

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