Ten Footsteps 12 Hour Training Programme

Led by the Live Well with Pain team including clinical psychologists, pain management physiotherapists and people with lived experience of persistent pain, the Ten Footsteps Training Programme is designed to develop participants’ confidence in guiding patients to self-manage their pain.

Session 1 - Wed 1st Oct - 9.30 - 13.30 (via Zoom)

Session 2 - Wed 15th Oct - 9.30 - 13.30 (via Zoom)

Session 3 - Wed 29th Oct - 9.30 - 13.30 (via Zoom)

IMPORTANT INFO: Course info including the Zoom links will be sent to you by email directly from the LWWP Training Team roughly 1-2 weeks before the start date. Please keep an eye on your spam folder as our emails sometimes end up there! Please email lwwp.training@gmail.com if you do not receive the email.

Programme participants will:

• Gain an increased range of knowledge and skills valued by people with pain and learn about tools and resources to enable pain self-management.

• Increase their knowledge of the recent neuroscience of pain and explore effective ways of enabling patients to understand why pain persists.

• Develop skills in using key tools that enable patients to understand the impact of their pain and ways to shift conversations to a self-care approach.

• Explore the role of acceptance in self managment and ways of guiding people to move their life journey forward, with key tools for people who are ‘stuck’.

• Use the Live Well with Pain Health Check Tool to engage patients in identifying their own priorities for change.

• Explore and use techniques for developing patients’ key self-care skills, such as goal setting, pacing, managing setbacks and becoming more active.

• Understand the role of relaxation and mindfulness, and how to support patients to find trusted resources in this area.

• Learn key messages about sleep and pain, and explore ways of guiding patients to access a range of useful resources and services.

• Understand the impact of pain on moods and explore which trusted resources may be useful.

• Learn ways of guiding and measuring progress and ways to develop patients’ skills in managing setbacks, with focused setback plans.

About the course

The training is for clinicians or social prescribers, including pharmacists, working with people with chronic pain. All training is online, delivered over two half day sessions of four hours each and one follow-up session, also four hours.

We recommend spreading the sessions over a period of several weeks so that participants can practice implementing and reviewing their skills in everyday work situations between sessions. Activities will be set for participants to complete between each session.

Time is allocated within sessions for problem solving and case history support, to increase confidence in supporting pain self-management.

Pre-course preparation will consist of brief reading and video-related tasks.

Self assessment of knowledge and skills, both before and after the course, will be undertaken to enable participants to identify their learning objectives and outcomes.

About the training team

Live Well with Pain has been delivering self management training for over 15 years around the NHS throughout the UK including Northern Ireland. Recent training has included pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in North Tyneside and Wolverhampton; GPs and practice staff in Yorkshire and County Durham; and social prescribers in York.

The course leader is Dr Frances Cole, supported by clinicians with extensive backgrounds in pain, long term conditions and their management, including clinical psychologists and pain management physiotherapists.

A co-production

The trainers are joined by members of the Live Well with Pain team whose lived experience of pain brings unique insights and perspectives to the course.

Find out more

To find out more about what Ten Footsteps Training Programme can offer you and your team, please get in touch for an informal conversation.

F or more information please contact lwwp.training@gmail.com

The Ten Footsteps Training Programme was developed jointly with Durham University’s Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. It is accredited by The Personalised Care Institute.

The course is built around the respected Ten Footsteps to Living Well with Pain programme, Live Well with Pain’s online resource for clincians and people living with pain.

Find out more at: livewellwithpain.co.uk