Mind in West Essex

Want to understand mental health better? 

Mind in West Essex offers a range of training workshops help you to manage your mental health and provide support to others – at work, home or in the community.

Complex Mental Health and Personality Disorders
📆 3 October, 12.30pm-3.30pm
📍 Uttlesford Community Hub, Dunmow

Understand complex mental health conditions and self-harm, explore stigma and learn how you can support recovery.
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Equity and Inclusion
📆 14 October, 10am-1pm
📍 Uttlesford Community Hub, Dunmow

Build an understanding of the importance of fairness and inclusivity in the workplace and wider society.
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Trauma & Recovery Awareness
📆 21 October, 9.30am-12.30pm
📍 Uttlesford Community Hub, Dunmow

Learn about brain development and how this impacts behaviour and life chances. This session is ideal for people who work in helping professions.
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The Mental Health Toolkit: The Essentials
📆 11 November, 9.30am-1pm
📍 Wellbeing Hub, Bush Fair, Harlow

The foundation for workplace wellbeing, introducing you to the Mental Health Continuum and the Emotional Needs & Resources approach.
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Suicide First Aid Lite
📆 26 November, 9.30am-1pm
📍 Uttlesford Community Hub, Dunmow

Gain skills to have a conversation with someone who may be thinking about suicide and signpost them to appropriate help using a first-aid approach.
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Qualified MHFAider® (4-day course, half-day sessions)
📆 1, 3, 8 and 10 December, 9am-1pm
📍 Uttlesford Community Hub, Dunmow

Train as a Mental Health First Aider, certified for 3 years with access to ongoing benefits like resources, learning and 24/7 support.
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You can find out more about all of our face-to-face and online workshops, as well as our self-help and e-learning courses, on the Training Academy website.

 

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The Mental Health Toolkit: The Essentials

Looking for mental health training that helps you both at work and at home? The Mental Health Toolkit: The Essentials is for you.

Brought to you by Mind in West Essex, This half-day workshop introduces you to the Mental Health Continuum and the Emotional Needs & Resources approach.

It helps you to better support yourself and those around you – in your personal and professional life.

Places cost just £75 per person. Find out more, see upcoming dates and book your place here: MentalHealthTraining.org.uk/mht-essentials/

 

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Using virtual reality to deliver mental health support

Mental health Study by Mind in West Essex

The University of Manchester, local Mind charities and Tend VR are conducting a study exploring an innovative way to deliver mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), an approach to helping people with depression and/or anxiety. We are recruiting adults who have experienced recent anxiety or depressive symptoms to test this innovative approach over a 10-12-week period. The delivery of this mental health innovation will be at Mind in West Essex, 45 Stortford Road, Dunmow and 10-11 Corner House, Bushfair, Harlow.

Get involved

If you would like to take part, we will be asking you to complete questionnaires and possibly an interview to provide feedback on your experience receiving this innovative approach to MBCT delivery. The programme and the VR equipment will be provided, free of charge but you will need to have access to a smart phone so that you can download a mobile app that accompanies the MBCT programme.

If you are interested in participating in this mental health study and advancing the progress of VR to improve mental health, please complete the Expression of Interest Form (EOI): https://form.jotform.com/250412035857352

Get in touch

If you have any questions after you have looked at the EOI then please email research@tend-vr.com. You can find a taster video of the immersive VR programme here:

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