Growing Awareness & Knowledge
Peer Support & Leadership Development
Workplace Specialist
Your facilitator, Julie Gillespie, is a Licensed Principle Master Instructor and workplace specialist with an Executive MBA and Lived Expertise with mental ill health.
Julie follows a consultative approach while Partnering with you and your organisation as she knows that it takes more than just a brief training intervention to ensure the success of the Mental Health First Aiders within an organisation.
In addition to learning about Mental Health First Aid® and it's frameworks, you will gain the skills SEE when someone is struggling and be more comfortable and confident having conversations with them.
Julie runs an interactive course where there is co-designed safety, inclusivity, and openness.
Check out Julie's reviews here for further assurance that she is not only a quality facilititor, but a valuable addition to your network.
Standard Mental Health First Aid® (SMHFA™)
Workplace Focus
The 12-hour face-to-face course for adults (18-years+).
Following the Standard MHFA™ format, we use workplace scenarios to focus the conversations to be supportive of co-workers who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves, using a practical, evidence based Action Plan.
This course provides a 3-year accreditation on successful completion of an online, competency based quiz.
Note: This course is not a therapy or a support group.
Duration: 2 days
Includes manuals
Individuals welcome to join group training in our private facility in West End or Herston.
In organisation training available.
Blended Mental Health First Aid® (SMHFA™)
Workplace Focus
The Blended course utilises an eLearning component coupled with facilitator guided sessions.
This program is workplace focused using scenarios that inspire conversations to be supportive of co-workers who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves, using a practical, evidence based Action Plan.
This course provides a 3-year accreditation on successful completion of an online, competency based quiz.
Note: This course is not a therapy or a support group.
Duration:
Choose between the following formats:
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Blended: Self guided eLearning (6-7-hours) +
in-house, face-to-face training (6-hours) -
ONLINE Blended: Self guided eLearning (6-7-hours) + virtual training (2 x 4-hour sessions)
Includes manuals
Refresher Mental Health First Aid® (SMHFA™)
Just like physical first aid, updating MHFA skills and knowledge allows people to sustainably perform this vital role confidently and safely.
To maintain accreditation Mental Health First Aiders need to attend a Refresher Course three years after their initial accreditation.
Learning Outcomes:
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Understand the latest research in the mental health field
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Learn the 3 key actions for helping someone feeling suicidal
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Work through complex mental health first aid interactions, and
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Practice mental health first aid skills.
Duration: 5-6-hours face-to-face or virtual
For up to 15 participants
MHFA™ Engaging Leaders Workshop
Julie is a leadership expert who knows that leaders are loaded, lonely, and burning out, which stops them from being able to SEE what is happening to their people. Having clear, defined, and compassionate conversations, can resolve many of these difficulties.
This workshop will help leaders, decision makers and influencers understand the benefits that MHFA™ can offer in helping to create mentally healthy workplaces.
Learning Outcomes:
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An understanding of mental health problems in the workplace
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How to recognise the signs in an employee who may be developing a mental health problem
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How Mental Health First Aid® can help in the workplace.
Duration: 2-hours face-to-face or virtual
For up to 15 participants
Includes resources
MHFA™ Conversation about Suicide
The Mental Health First Aid® Conversations about Suicide course is for any interested adult.
You will learn the skills and acquire the knowledge required to safely have a conversation with a suicidal person.
This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals.
Duration: 4-hour face-to-face only
(in-house or our training facility in West End, Brisbane)
Includes workbook
MHFA™ Conversation about Gambling
The Mental Health First Aid® Conversations about Gambling course is for any interested adult.
You will learn how to identify, approach and support someone experiencing gambling harm using a practical, evidence based action plan.
This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals.
Duration: 4-hour face-to-face only
(in-house or our training facility in West End, Brisbane)
Includes workbook
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Mental Health Awareness Workshop
This course gives participants an opportunity to understand what Mental Health is and when you should become concerned for someone. In this course you will:
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Learn what Mental Health is, the facts and the factors which affect it
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See how stigma is a barrier to getting essential support and discover ways to overcome it
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Understand the different mental disorders and their signs and symptoms
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Learn to start a conversation with someone in distress and keep yourself safe
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Know what resources are there to support you.
Duration: Lunch 'n Learn Style (30-40-minutes)
Workplace training face-to-face, virtual, or hybrid.