Training and Events
CPD certificates available on request
Vicarious Trauma Inoculation
This 4 x 3-hour session programme provides an in-depth exploration of vicarious trauma and how this affects us in our lives both at work and at home. It provides practical therapeutic skills that can be utilised long after the course ends and will help increase resilience in those attending.
Week 1 - Taught via interactive discussion - What is Vicarious Trauma and what effects can it have
Week 2 & 3 - Experiential using creative methods - How does vicarious trauma affect me? Strategies for self-care
Week 4 - Future proofing - utilising therapeutic methods to increase resilience and address compassion fatigue.
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4 x 1/2-day face to face sessions
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Experiential personalised learning in a relaxed environment with no more that 8 participants at each session
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Practical therapeutic skills that they can continue to employ long after the sessions end
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Refreshments during sessions
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Evaluation ​
Venue can be provided at cost in Portsmouth. Nationally, venue provided by host organisation. Administration by host organisation.
Risk and people in distress
Bespoke training for Mental Health Practitioners working in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary mental health services. The following themes will be apparent throughout the day and learnt predominantly via experiential case study exploration:
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Different types of risk.
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Risk and MH - the impact of stigma.
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Positive risk taking.
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Risk assessment and tools.
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Responsibility and risk.
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Price includes:
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Writing bespoke training
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Delivery 1 day face to face full training or update for follow on at 3 hours
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slides with notes for delegates after session
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Evaluation
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Venue can be provided at cost in Portsmouth. Nationally, venue provided by host organisation. Administration by host organisation.
Dementia and Delirium Basic Training
A comprehensive two day training event in Dementia, Delirium and mental health Aim of training is to increase knowledge, skills, and resilience to support existing staff and to create a robust, up-to-date package for practitioners, carers and anyone working with dementia on a daily basis. This training is evidence based utilising the most up to date research and best practice recommendations.
Day 1 – Dementia and Delirium
Day 2 – Managing depression alongside dementia. Anticipatory grief & looking after ourselves – including managing vicarious trauma
General - These days would be provided 0930 to 1600 with regular breaks. Lecture style sessions 20 - 30 minutes maximum interspersed with interactive discussion and exercises aimed at allowing participants to explore the issues raised in a supportive way which is easy to apply to their work lives.
Maximum 30 people per day
Venue - Central Portsmouth
Direct booking Per person charge = £50 for 2 days training ( minimum needed for making the day tenable is 18)
Organisations - £1300 for up to 30 delegates for the two days training.
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2 days face to face training from recognised experts
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refreshments throughout (lunch extra)
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Evaluation of training
Working with people in distress
Working with people in distress
Bespoke training for people working with those in mental distress. This could include healthcare professionals with little prior mental health training, carers, support workers, teachers, police and youth workers. The following themes will be apparent throughout the day and learnt predominantly via experiential case study exploration:
Highs. Lows Fears and Aberrations – Decoding diagnoses to find the person - the impact of stigma
The impact of trauma and its effects on personality and behaviour.
Communication that counts.
Looking after ourselves is the best gift to others – tools for life.
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Price includes:
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Writing bespoke training
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Delivery 1 day face to face full training
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slides with notes for delegates after session
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Evaluation
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Venue can be provided at cost in Portsmouth. Nationally, venue provided by host organisation. Administration by host organisation.
Highs, Lows, Fears and Aberrations
This 4 week, closed, or 1 day training workshop is for people who work with those in mental distress without any formal training. It contains all you will need to help you understand distress behaviours, it will equip you to begin to understand the impact of trauma on people's lives and decode the commonly used diagnostic labels in mental health services. You will leave feeling better equipped for your work as a support worker, carer, police person, teacher etc with some practical tools to help you along the way to care for others more effectively and to care for yourself.
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4 x 90 minute sessions - £80
Max. participants 8
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1 x day (10:00 - 16:00) - £80
Max. participants 25
Self harm and suicide
Bespoke training for people working with those at risk of self-harm or suicide. This could include healthcare professionals with little prior mental health training, carers, support workers, teachers, police, and youth workers. The following themes will be apparent throughout the day and learnt predominantly via experiential case study exploration:
· Self-Harm – what, why and who?
· The impact of trauma.
· Suicide.
· Helping people to reconnect with life.
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Price includes:
· Writing bespoke training
· Delivery 1 day face to face full training
· slides with notes for delegates after session
· Evaluation
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Venue can be provided at cost in Portsmouth. Nationally, venue provided by host organisation. Administration by host organisation.
Training delivered by: Dr Sandra Walker
Sandy is a mental healthcare innovator and clinical academic working across Bristol and Hampshire. She has been a practising mental health nurse for over 30 years most recently (for 18 years+) working within Emergency Departments with people who have self-harmed or tried to end their lives. She has worked as a mental health lecturer at Southampton University and now works at Portsmouth university. Her PhD was looking at the experience people who self-harm have of contact with mental health services whilst in a general hospital. She is director of Sanpau CIC and delivers training and healthcare via her own brand of love-based healthcare. In the 90s Sandy spent time as a patient of mental health care and this aspect of her experience helps shape her practice and training to this day. An award-winning educator with a reputation for thought provoking and sometimes status quo challenging content Sandy’s training is always well received.
'Sandy is an incredibly knowledgeable and holistic practitioner who has challenged me to question my own practice to better improve the care I provide, this is so powerful to do and I am grateful.' 2021​