SMR Wellbeing Weekend

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) represents25 Mountain Rescue Teams(MRTs) made up of highly trained volunteers who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to respond to emergencies and carry out a specialist search and rescue service in the mountains and remote communities in Scotland to keep people safe and help people if and when they get into difficulty.

Scottish Mountain Rescue

An opportunity to learn and share ideas with other Mountain Rescue team members across Scotland.

Stirling Court Hotel

Open to all Mountain Rescue team members in Scotland, the Wellbeing Weekends are opportunities to learn and share ideas. Primarily they are opportunities to gather members of teams from across Scotland together to network and consider best practice. On the Saturday we will running the Lifelines combined course: Staying Well – Understanding Resilience and Self-Care and Supporting Your Colleagues/Team.<ul><li>This intensive full day session is an opportunity to learn more about what keeps us well and how to strengthen supportive relationships. This course is suitable for all, no matter what stage you are at in your volunteering journey.</li><li>During the Staying Well: Understanding Resilience and Self-care part of the day, we discuss the things that protect our wellbeing in our roles (our protective armour) and what might threaten that, and how to stock our Psychological 1st Aid kits. We learn about the impact of trauma and stress so we can recognise when we might need some help and where we can find this. We will explore what we might mean by our stress.</li><li>The Supporting Your Colleagues/Team part of the day looks at what we can do to strengthen supportive relationships and build strong teams. We know that relationships based on camaraderie, trust and respect act as a buffer against the challenges of volunteering in mountain rescue. Some of you will also be in leadership/managerial roles. Strong teams, good leadership and peer support keep people well. You will learn how to have helpful conversations with colleagues, how to recognise signs that someone may be struggling and what to do when you are worried about someone.</li></ul> On the Sunday we will turn our attention to potentially traumatic incidents and what can influence how we might react to these.<ul><li>Most of the time we will be fine (our protective armour in place) but there are factors that might play a part in breaching that protection – perhaps jobs where we feel our lives were at risk, where we or our colleagues were injured, where we feel we fell short of providing the best outcome, or where we feel overwhelmed by the task or because we were already overwhelmed by “stuff”. Can we learn to assess some of the warning flag indicators ourselves (self-assessment) and how can we perhaps identify when an incident has the potential to be difficult for team members? We will discuss a potential post incident tool that could help individuals and incident managers.</li><li>There is also the question of how to help the friends/families/by-standers during the rescue phase while still concentrating on the main rescue. These individuals could potentially have been impacted by the unfolding event. Do we have certain individuals in our teams who are allocated to deal with these people – do we consider the skills required for this? We will be joined by Edward Kinnear, an experienced member of Kendal MRT and outdoor professional, who has a particular interest in the idea of “temporary impairment” when managing the safe evacuation of friends/families/by-standers from an incident site.</li><li>This will be an opportunity to share what is done within your own team currently and to discuss possible toolkits that might help. We will also refresh everyone on the support that we have in place for team members and their families.</li></ul>

AccommodationUnless you do not require accommodation, you will be booked into the <a href="https://www.stirlingcourthotel.co.uk/" title="https://www.stirlingcourthotel.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stirling Court Hotel</a> for the nights of Friday, 8 &amp; Saturday, 9 March 2024 on a B&B basis. Check in is available at the hotel from 2pm. Please note that no meal is included on Friday evening.Refreshments, lunch and dinner are provided on Saturday and refreshments and lunch on Sunday.CourseThe course will start at 0900hrs on Saturday in the Hermitage Iona meeting room.

Questions?If you have any questions about the weekend, please email viv@scottishmountainrescue.org.

THE SMALL PRINT!Cancellation PolicySMR reserves the right to charge a cancellation fee of £100 if failure to turn up to this course or a cancellation too late in which we cannot fill your space. This fee allows us to offset any costs which we will be incurred as a result of late cancellation. SMR Office will invoice directly to your Mountain Rescue team.

Privacy NoticeOther than trainer(s) and any accommodation provider for this course, Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) will not disclose your information to any company or person, except to help prevent fraud, or if required to do so by law. SMR believe that using your data in this manner is a legitimate interest.You have the right to see any information about you that SMR keep and you also have the right for this information to be deleted at any time. Send an email to info@scottishmountainrescue.org clearly stating you wish SMR to delete your details and we will do so within 10 working days.SMR will send you a feedback form shortly after the event and we are grateful for any feedback. Your feedback will be anonymised for the purposes of statistics and review of the training we deliver.Photographs may be taken at the event and may be used in publications or social media related to Scottish Mountain Rescue. We will seek consent prior to using photographs with recognisable faces. Where individuals are not facially recognisable we will use photographs without seeking consent.We will delete personally identifiable information collected in each financial year on April 1st each year for the financial year that commenced 4 years previously. For example in April 2023 we will delete all personally identifiable information collected in financial year 2019/20 and continue this process on a rolling annual basis. Any data we keep beyond that time for statistical and reference purposes will be anonymised.In the event of incident that requires medical treatment and completion of accident form we are required to retain this record for 7 years.For further information on Scottish Mountain Rescues' Privacy information please see http://www.scottishmountainrescue.org/privacy/

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