Courses - Pete's Dragons

ASIST:

ASIST is an award-winning 2-day interactive workshop that prepares caregivers to provide life-assisting suicide first-aid intervention using the Pathway for Assisting Life (PAL) model. Research shows that ASIST provides long term financial benefit to communities and that ASIST trained caregivers help those with thoughts of suicide feel less suicidal and more hopeful.

safeTALK - Suicide Alertness For Everyone:

Whether directly or indirectly, most people with thoughts of suicide invite help to stay safe. safeTALK is a 3 – 4-hour training that prepares participants to recognise these invitations and connect a person with thoughts of suicide to intervention resources. Powerful videos illustrate the importance of suicide alertness, while discussion and practice stimulate learning.

5 Steps To Suicide Awareness:

The 5 steps to Suicide Awareness is a short but powerful workshop which aims to provide a general overview of suicidality and the impact of suicide. It demonstrates the simple steps which can be taken to help someone who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts. The second half of the session lends itself to a detailed Q&A session where participants are encouraged to explore the implementation of those steps with qualified trainers to boost confidence and understanding. This combination of information and implementation leads to participants ending the session with an extra tool in their life skills toolbox.

Bereavement & Loss:

The short course provides an overview of bereavement and loss theory translated into a framework designed to aid practitioners in identifying individual grief patterns and behaviours. Practical skills and tools relatable to the most common grieving patterns are explored with opportunities to practice.

Suicide First Aid - Understanding Suicide Interventions:

Teaching the theory and practice of suicide intervention skills that can be applied in any professional or personal setting, captured in a one-day event accredited by City and Guilds of London.

The Suicide First Aid through Understanding Suicide Intervention (SFAUSI) course gives learners the knowledge and tools to understand that suicide is one of the most preventable deaths.

The programme teaches and practices the skills and knowledge needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide and competently intervene to help create suicide-safety as a first aid approach.

Taught over 6 hours using tutor facilitated Socratic learning, tutor-led role-play, mini lectures, group work and audio-visual presentations.

This is a highly interactive and emotionally engaging learning experience. The course has been accredited by City & Guilds of London.

Suicide First Aid Lite:

Teaching the theory and practice of suicide intervention skills that can be applied in any professional or personal setting, this programme is delivered over 3 hours as a suicide prevention awareness session.

The programme teaches the skills needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide and to pass the person onto a suicide first aider.

Taught using tutor facilitated Socratic learning, tutor-led role-play, mini lectures, group work and audio-visual presentations.

This has some interactive elements and is an emotionally engaging learning experience.

4MH Emotional Resilience:

This is a self-care course to increase participants ability to cope with emotional distress or stressful life events by knowing more about wellbeing, emotions and how to share them. Develop understanding of wellbeing and resilience and to begin to develop a personal plan to build your own wellbeing & resilience plan. Equips delegates to have a greater emotional literacy and know how to enhance their resilience (not mental toughness).

4MH Community Suicide Awareness:

This program is designed to meet the differing mental health training needs across a broad spectrum of sectors: health and social care; statutory bodies; further and higher education; workplaces and the wider community. The flexible, ‘bite size’ modular training is informed by evidence-based principles, lived experience and current best practice. The modules cover; myths, stigmas and barriers, helping delegates understand how distress develops and how people can best be supported and developing common language between community, services and those in distress.