Want to understand mental health better? 

Posted on: September 9, 2025

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.
Info and tickets

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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