1 in 5 Australians will have a mental health problem in any given year!
Brain Ambulance offers many presentations and workshops for workplaces.. All of these courses are also available for YOUR workplaces.
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Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
Sometimes we have limited understanding of how someone’s behaviour can change or be affected simply as a result of what is happening to them with their mental health problem. Frustration, anger, fear, annoyance – all of these can be difficult behaviours to manage. This workshop is about identifying the behaviours and learning strategies to manage communication and some degree of harmony in the situation. Come prepared with some thoughts of the behaviours that really cause problems in your situation.
Juggling Caring – Fitting ‘my life’ into my caring role!
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
When you become a carer in the life of someone with a mental health problem, your life can be thrown into chaos. What about work? What about life? Where does the care role stop and the parenting role start? This workshop aims to explore the ‘thinking’ and strategies that are necessary to deal with ‘crisis situations’, long term caring requirements and the maintaining the other commitments of ‘your life’.
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A Carer’s ‘Toolbox’ for Caring in Tricky Situations
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
Many people just find themselves in the role of carer. This presentation aims to give carers some simple tools to effectively maintain boundaries, sanity and coping. It hopes to encourage you to recognise the ‘power within the other person’, deal with seesawing emotions and to look at dealing with things situation by situation....What works for me with other people, at work, with other children, with my relatives – so – what will work for me here????
Anxiety & Depression – Building Resilience through Understanding
Target audience – general public
Synopsis
Not everyone has the time to complete the 12 Mental Health First Aid course so this workshop aims to focus on these prevalent mental health problem of anxiety and depression so that you may have a better understanding of what causes them, what the symptoms are and how to deal with, help and care for the person experiencing the problems.
Walking on Eggshells - Dealing with conversations when relationship become tough
Target audiences – unpaid carers – 5 x 2.5hrs paid carers – 5hrs session
Synopsis
When we are mentally well, it is sometimes difficult to understand the thinking and the things that an unwell person and reacts to. This workshop is about learning a few simple processes and strategies to help open communication and approach topics that are of concern to you but may cause a negative reaction in an unwell person – i.e. ‘I’m not sick – you are the one that needs help!’
How do you bring up a sensitive topic? When is the time right? What can you do to emotionally protect yourself whilst conversing with someone who might want to lash out because of the negative way they are feeling? This 6 week series of 2.5 hour workshop helps with this topic – it doesn’t provide solutions to every problem but it does give you some very good frameworks to implement.
Reducing Stigma in the Workplace
Target audience – general public
Synopsis
This 2 hour workshop is a great introduction to identifying what stigma is who has it, who is affected by it and how we can be more aware of it. This workshop is not just about being ‘politically correct’! We will look at the impact stigma has on getting help, living life, relationships and being ‘on the job’. This workshop is presented in a humorous manner but with the very real message of ‘building resilience and strength’ in your workplace! A must for every manager, worker, employment agency staff member and employer. See you there......
Tricky Issues & Identifying Obstacles
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
When you become a carer or a focus person in the life of someone with a mental health problem, the issues that can develop for yourself, themselves and others, can be huge. What about work? What about life? Why does the simple seem so hard? This workshop aims to explore this thinking and help put strategies and perspectives in place to benefit those involved.
Loss & Grief
Target audience – carers
Synopsis
When someone is caring for a person with a physical illness, it is easy to understand that some of the responses and emotions they are experiencing are a result of the grieving process. When it comes to the impact of dealing with someone who has a mental illness, many people do not recognise themselves in the caring role and nor do they identify the areas of loss they maybe experiencing such as: loss of parent figure, loss of an intimate life partner, loss of expectations you may have had shared as a couple or as a parent. Understanding this process and identifying some of your emotions, helps you to deal with the impact of someone else’s illness on your life!
When Wellness Comes – Carer’s helping Recovery
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
I have cared for this person for a long time and have adjusted my life around their needs. Now they are well, what about me! In the role of carer, it is sometimes difficult to know when to ‘reduce’ your role. Mental illnesses can cause such ups and downs that recovery is often just a period of time we go through until the person gets sick again. How do we ‘let go’? How do we ‘rebuild our own lives’? This seminar will cover these issues and give carer’s the opportunity to learn about the recovery process and how it affects everyone involved.
Communication reminders and boundary setting for paid carers
Target audience – paid carers
Synopsis
This workshop is a very good collection of things we probably know but need reminding of for our own safety and sanity and for the wellbeing of our clients. What is good to say.....what not to say....How to say???????? Take time out to rethink the basics and add a few more ‘string to your bow’!
Dealing with verbal and physical abuse
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
When thinking about abusiveness in different types of relationships, many people often believe that emotional abuse is not as serious as physical abuse. While it may not be causing damage that is visible, it is still very harmful to a person’s self-esteem, and is a serious matter that should be dealt with in the early phases before it escalates. This workshop is about identifying types of verbal and physical abuse, recognising the effects and providing some practical strategies to reduce escalation and keeping you physically and mentally safe!
Communication with professionals
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
Why do we sometimes feel like it is us and them????? This workshop is about recognising our rights as carers, our boundaries and our limits when communicating with professionals in the medical and mental health system. It is about helping you to best help the consumer, the professional and yourself.
Compassion Fatigue or Carer’s Stress
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
Because of the emotional and financial pressures of care giving and the challenge of juggling work responsibilities, many caregivers experience high levels of emotional and physical "strain", termed caregiver stress. Caregiver stress can manifest in emotions such as loneliness, exhaustion, anger, frustration, and more.
This workshop is about looking at practical steps which can be taken by the caregiver in order to help prevent the mental and physical effects of caregiver stress.
Dual Diagnosis
Target audience – general public
Synopsis
Dual diagnosis means someone has both a mental illness and a substance use problem. Many people with alcohol and drug problems have a range of mental health problems at higher rates than the general community. This includes increased instances of anxiety and depression. The abused substance could be tobacco, prescribed medication, illegal drugs or alcohol.
This workshop is for family, friends and support people to gain an understanding of the issues of dual diagnosis and to gain some awareness of how to cope with someone experiencing the problem.
Future Planning
Target audience – unpaid carers
Synopsis
As carer’s we sometimes forget that we might not be in a position to always be there! We might know that we are the best person for the job but the is workshop is a start to thinking about finding and creating the best ‘plan b’. This workshop offers things to think about and alternatives to consider. It will give you thoughts to take away and ponder but will also be followed up by individually assisting you, when you are ready, to create a future plan for your situation.
Coping with emotions
Target audience – consumers
Synopsis
Everyone has emotions and everyone at some stages of their life will having difficulty dealing with them. We are not that different. As consumers or a person with a mental health problem, we have trouble sometimes coping with emotions. This workshop is run by a fellow consumer who ‘get’s it’! This workshop is about helping ourselves whilst recognising that we are ‘human beings’ just like everyone else!