Online Wellbeing Champions (Two Day)

This two day course is being held virtually via Microsoft Teams!

By booking onto day one you will be automatically enrolled onto day two which will always take place the next day. This will be highlighted in any emails we send from livewell.workplacehealth@nhs.net.

Day one training modules:

• Wellbeing Champions Introduction 09:00 - 12:00
• eMECC (Making Every Contact Count) 12:30 - 16:00

Day two training modules:

• Connect 5 Session 1 09:00 - 12:30
• Resilience & Self-care 13:00 - 16:00

You will not be signed off as a Wellbeing Champion until both days and all four course modules have been complete. Full course dates below:

Please ensure you have support from your Line Managers/Organisation before attending this course.

Becoming a Wellbeing Champion

A Wellbeing Champion is someone who has an interest in creating a healthy and enjoyable setting, whether you are attending this session for your Workplace or Community setting. A Wellbeing Champion will also have an interest in Mental Health and Wellbeing (Mental Health, Physical Health, Social events, Exercising, staying healthy).

This course aims to give you the tools to promote healthy lifestyle choices to your work colleagues, to be able to support your colleagues when having conversations about mental health and wellbeing. This will include promoting your organisations wellbeing stratagies.

Course Content

Wellbeing Champions Introduction

This first session will guide you through the role of a Wellbeing Champion, the support you can receive from the Wellbeing at Work Team and to start to talk and think about mental health and wellbeing within your workplace or community setting.

eMECC (Making Every Contact Count)

Making Every Contact Count (MECC) focues on using our everyday encounters with other people to support healthier lifestyles. MECC is not about telling other people ‘what to do’ - and you’re not being expected to do extra work. MECC is based on having brief empathetic conversations - which can help support a person’s motivation to change.

Resilience & Self-care

Selfcare is important when it comes to supporting our own resilience. This course is

designed to help support your ability to cope with different levels of stress we

experience daily. You will be encouraged to explore ways to help your own wellbeing

and how you process emotions. You will develop a general understanding around

resilience and self-care.

Connect 5: Session 1

Connect 5 is a workforce training programme, created to up skill non-mental health specialists to better understand and feel confident to have everyday conversations about mental health and wellbeing in their everyday encounters. This course aims to provide participants with skills and competencies that build confidence in having conversations about health and wellbeing in their routine practice so that they can be more effective in helping people to manage mental health problems and increase their resilience and mental wellbeing through positive changes.

The Connect 5 pre course info will be sent out directly via our trainer Mandy Chapman, so please look out for this email prior to your course start date.

Connect 5: Session 1 is part of a 3 session programme. We recommend booking Connect 5 Session 2 and 3 if you would like to complete additional training following the completion of your Wellbeing Champions training.

Connect 5: Session 2

Connect 5: Session 3

Important information

Wellbeing Champions is a two day MS Teams course where we provide a dedicated link for your person and this cannot be used by another person in your absence. If you are unable to attend, please let us know in the first instance.

Any emails from Eventbrite may go into your junk email so please do check for your confirmation email and e-Learning package.

To attend this course you must have a camera and have it turned on throughout the duration of the 1 hour online discussion for the comfort and safety of you, the other delegates and the trainers. We have the right to turn you away if you do not have your camera on. (laptop/computer recommended for more comfortable viewing and participation)

If you have any queries, please contact us at livewell.workplacehealth@nhs.net.