Training Workshops with Alison Awuku, Trustee at The Mustard Tree – for staff and volunteers part of The Mustard Tree
Training Workshops with Compass Recovery College – for staff and volunteers who are part of The Mustard Tree
Mental Health Awareness Training
Thursday 7th April 2022 10 am – 12pm Just like our bodies can sometimes suffer poor health, so can our minds. Good health not only entails our physical wellbeing but also our mental and emotional wellbeing. So, what is mental health? Mental health comprises our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act. Our mental health determines how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Having good mental health is just as important as having good physical health. The aim of this interactive workshop is to heighten awareness of common mental health problems such various anxieties and depression and how we can support ourselves and others by recognising the signs of poor mental health and highlighting ways to avoid and address problems associated with poor mental health. Sign up here: https://startingpoint.org.uk/events/Self-Care
Thursday 14th April 2022 10am – 12pm The idea of self-care is becoming increasingly popular, but what does it mean and how do we go about ensuring we are adequately looking after ourselves? Self-care is not about believing that being super busy is a badge of honor and making yourself so exhausted that you self-sabotage in ways that aren’t actually good for you. It’s about taking time to take care of yourself because you truly know that you aren’t broken and don’t need fixing. Once you start doing the real self-care, you start realizing that loving yourself and compassionately being there for you might just solve many of your problems. This workshop will explore the need for and importance of selfcare – its impact on the brain, body, our relationships and our levels of productivity. Sign up here: https://startingpoint.org.uk/events/Training Workshops with Compass Recovery College – for staff and volunteers who are part of The Mustard Tree
Professional Boundaries
Wednesday 11th May 2022 10 – 12.30pm The Mustard Tree (training room) This session explores how voluntary sector staff and volunteers can set professional boundaries when working with mental health challenges. These boundaries can support our work and provide a safe and secure environment from which to work with our service users. These sessions will support us to be mindful of when it is appropriate to self-disclose, the danger of too much self-disclosure and the risks of transference and counter transference. The aim is to enable service users to take charge of their wellbeing by providing opportunities for growth and self-development. Sign up here: https://startingpoint.org.uk/events/Emotional Boundaries
Wednesday 29th June 2022 10 – 12.30pm The Mustard Tree (training room) This session explores how as volunteers and voluntary sector staff we can set up emotional boundaries that support our own wellbeing within our work. When supporting others, we need to understand how to put our own self-care in place to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue and to identify when our wellbeing is being compromised. Sign up here: https://startingpoint.org.uk/events/Mock Interviews for Mentees
1 hour slot between 12pm and 5pm Starting Point, 90 London Street, RG1 4SJ An opportunity for young people to gain valuable interview practice and feedback. Your mentee does not have to be actively applying for education, employment, or training, but a mock interview can be a positive way to kickstart that journey. It will be a helpful way to boost their confidence and establish what they could work on ahead of the ‘real’ thing. Interviews are led by Tim Cawdron who has been hiring manager for a number of years and runs his own local HR company. Interviews can be booked through your Starting Point Coordinator and pre-interview information on how to help your mentee prepare will be given at that point. Spaces will be limited to 5 young people per cluster. Cluster 01: Thursday 21st April Cluster 02: Thursday 21st July Cluster 03: Thursday 22nd September Cluster 04: Thursday 24th November Sign a mentee up for a mock interview here: https://startingpoint.org.uk/events/