Torbay Connect 5 (Autumn - Module 1 of 3)

Connect 5 Training builds the capacity, capability and confidence – enabling people to look after their own and others’ mental wellbeing.
About this Event

Torbay Connect 5 (Spring session 1 of 3)

What is Connect 5 training?
What does mental health training involve?

Connect 5 is a training course that gives participants the skills and confidence to have enabling conversations with people in their work and lives. Informed by contemporary evidence, these conversations empower individuals to take action that improves mental health and wellbeing.

Connect 5 training builds the capacity and capability of the participants to look after their own and others’ mental wellbeing proactively.

The course is undertaken in three separate modules. Each module is 3 hours long . The programme underpins the principle of ‘Making Every Contact Count’ and supports the best use of an individuals skills and local contacts.

This training is suitable for frontline staff, volunteers or community support wokers who would like to better support their patients /clients/members of the public to live well mentally, to better mange their mental health, increase their resilience and ultimately improve their wellbeing.

This session will be module 1 of 3, with modules 2 and 3 taking part on the dates below:

Module 2 - Monday, 11th November

Module 3 - Monday, 18th November

Module 1

An introduction to Connect 5 for anyone who wants to improve their own and others mental wellbeing and has the opportunity to give brief wellbeing advice.

This module will include learning:

To extend your skills and confidence to have mental wellbeing conversations within everyday life and the workplace.
About public mental health models and recognised techniques (i.e., The 3Cs of Connected Conversations) to inform mental wellbeing conversations.
On where to find mental wellbeing resources.