Mental Health First Aid in the Performing Arts

• Language and mental health issues
  
• What is mental health?
  
• Mental health problems
  
• Supporting people in distress
  
• Our own emotional wellbeing
  

• Be able to identify the discrimination surrounding mental health problems.
  
• Be able to define mental health & some mental health problems.
  
• Be able to relate to people’s experiences.
• Be able to spot the signs of a wide range of common mental health issues in themselves and others around them.
• Be taught how to provide help and reassurance on a first aid basis

Maria Pattinson has over twenty-five years of experience in both public and private sector training programmes for professional development with a diversity of clients. She has a Master’s Degree in Ethical Leadership from King’s College London and specialist knowledge of social ethics in training and development.

MHFA England provides mental health awareness training and consultancy to a wide variety of organisations, businesses and communities – with the primary aim of increasing the population’s mental health literacy and reducing the stigma often associated with mental ill health.   

£325+VAT, Non-Members

£285+VAT, UK Theatre & SOLT Members after 12 August 2020, ITC, FST, ABTT and ABO Members

£245+VAT, UK Theatre & SOLT member earlybird - book before 12 August 2020