Connect 5 – Changing the Conversation on Mental Wellbeing
Who this is for:
Anyone working or volunteering in community, voluntary, or organisational settings who wants to develop confidence and tools to support mental wellbeing in everyday interactions.
What you’ll get:
Practical, evidence-based tools and techniques to use in everyday conversations about mental health. learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk
A three-module course (half-day sessions) focused on recognising wellbeing, guiding others to explore what they need, and supporting positive action.
Certification and skills you can use immediately in your role.
Why it’s good:
It helps you move beyond awareness of mental health issues to doing something practical and helpful when supporting others.
Ideal if you’ve attended short awareness sessions and now want to deepen your capability.
Connect 5 is a training programme aimed at helping non-mental health staff to better understand and support poor mental health and hold effective mental wellbeing conversations. It helps people to take proactive steps to build resilience and look after themselves.
Session 1: Increase your confidence and skills in having conversations to help a person to consider ways they can take action to improve their mental wellbeing.
Session 2: Learn how to enable conversations in developing a shared understanding of a person’s mental health needs. This session also covers issues surrounding suicide.
Session 3: Learn how to empower a person to make changes to address their mental wellbeing needs. Covers strategies and techniques to support successful change process.
We are running several sessions over the next few months, and recommend you book all three sessions at once to reserve your place on the course. The sessions must be completed in order.
Training Address: Wigan Library and William Foster playing fields. Please see the venue for each session below.
Times: All 9.30am-1.30pm
Session 1:
29th May 2026 (Wigan Library)
9th June 2026 (Wigan venue TBC)
6th July 2026 (Wigan Library)
3rd August 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 2:
15th June 2026 (Wigan Library)
14th July 2026 (Wigan Library)
24th July 2026 (Wigan venue TBC)
21st August 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 3:
7th September 2026 (Wigan Library)
Connect 5 – Changing the Conversation on Mental Wellbeing
Who this is for:
Anyone working or volunteering in community, voluntary, or organisational settings who wants to develop confidence and tools to support mental wellbeing in everyday interactions.
What you’ll get:
Practical, evidence-based tools and techniques to use in everyday conversations about mental health. learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk
A three-module course (half-day sessions) focused on recognising wellbeing, guiding others to explore what they need, and supporting positive action.
Certification and skills you can use immediately in your role.
Why it’s good:
It helps you move beyond awareness of mental health issues to doing something practical and helpful when supporting others.
Ideal if you’ve attended short awareness sessions and now want to deepen your capability.
Connect 5 is a training programme aimed at helping non-mental health staff to better understand and support poor mental health and hold effective mental wellbeing conversations. It helps people to take proactive steps to build resilience and look after themselves.
Session 1: Increase your confidence and skills in having conversations to help a person to consider ways they can take action to improve their mental wellbeing.
Session 2: Learn how to enable conversations in developing a shared understanding of a person’s mental health needs. This session also covers issues surrounding suicide.
Session 3: Learn how to empower a person to make changes to address their mental wellbeing needs. Covers strategies and techniques to support successful change process.
We are running several sessions over the next few months, and recommend you book all three sessions at once to reserve your place on the course. The sessions must be completed in order.
Training Address: Wigan Library and William Foster playing fields. Please see the venue for each session below.
Times: All 9.30am-1.30pm
Session 1:
29th May 2026 (Wigan Library)
9th June 2026 (Wigan venue TBC)
6th July 2026 (Wigan Library)
3rd August 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 2:
15th June 2026 (Wigan Library)
14th July 2026 (Wigan Library)
24th July 2026 (Wigan venue TBC)
21st August 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 3:
7th September 2026 (Wigan Library)
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