Our Range of Mental Health Training

Happy New Year!

I hope our first blog of 2025 finds you well, feeling recharged after the holiday break and that you’ve had a manageable start to 2025.

What plans do you have in 2025 for yourself & your colleagues… perhaps we can help?

Business update

The business has evolved to focus on corporate clients by providing training chosen by HR Directors and L&D Directors to assist their people with the needs of 21^st Century business for wellbeing, teamwork and high performance.

2024 was a period of change for us with increasing the mental health side of the business & starting to deliver our new neuroscience based ‘psychological safety team debriefs’.

Andy’s public speaking engagements have been wide-ranging last year, which has reminded us how much people love a good helicopter rescue story, especially when it relays learning for them in their professional or personal lives.

Jennie Edmonds joined the business during 2024 to ensure our courses & events run smoothly for learners and course sponsors. Jennie organises our business calendar, course bookings, social media content & has been key in our rebranding project last year & new website development. She is fantastic – get in touch for whatever you need on email chinwag@andyelwood.com

Mental Health Training for Everyone in the Business

MHFAider® courses

These are still a core part of our business, but we have expanded to offer a range of complimentary products which enhance your organisation’s knowledge, skills and culture to promote wellbeing. This means that peers and managers can step in early to offer help, when they spot the early warnings signs. Our next public MHFA course is face-to-face in Derby 25-26 March and you can book your place by clicking the link.

MHFA Refresher

training is due for MHFA every 3 years and feedback during 2024 for Andy’s delivery was excellent. People love to get the updates in language and refresh their knowledge & skills in a safe environment online with Andy. These courses run every few months and will give you access to the new MHFAider Support App® & digital manual, which are both proving key support tools in the MHFAider® role.

Refresher courses are 4 hours long & renew your certificate for another 3 years.

Our next courses are 21st Feb & 11th April and you can book your place by clicking on the link.

Mental Health Skills for Managers

This NEW course has been very popular during 2024 and helps people managers increase their confidence to have potentially difficult conversations with team members around mental health & wellbeing.

For many organisations, this is the next logical step for training their people after training a network of MHFAiders®.

We’d love to explain more about this to you on a call or have you join us on a free webinar on the course. Email chinwag@andyelwood.com if you’d like more info on the MHSFM course to provide support and training for the people managers in your business.

Learners love Andy’s delivery of mental health training

Will You Change Your Organisation’s Culture Around Mental Health?

‘Normalising conversations about mental health’

This is our bespoke mental health awareness course for all staff during 2024 and it has gone down a storm!

People leave feeling more confident to talk to others about how they are feeling, have positive coping skills, can spot warning signs in themselves and others. They also learn how to listen and support others and we create an end-of-day checklist to help prevent burnout.

People enjoy this course as we ensure there is plenty of fun along the way, which helps people feel safe and relax into what can be a challenging and uncomfortable subject for many.

Free monthly webinars

Each month Andy will host two monthly free webinars. One is on a mental health subject and the other on psychological safety. Simply email chinwag@andyelwood.com to reserve your spot.

These are a great chance to learn something for free, meet Andy and check out his delivery style or ask some questions to a trainer who 98% of people rate as 10/10. Our next freebie webinars are: