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:
6th January 2026 (William Foster playing fields) (FULLY BOOKED)
3rd February 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 2:
20th January 2026 (William Foster playing fields) (FULLY BOOKED)
10th February 2026 (Wigan Library)
3rd March 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 3:
24th February 2026 (William Foster playing fields) ( FULLY BOOKED)
17th March 2026 (Wigan Library)
More dates will be announced for post March and if you therefore can only attend a session 1 or 2 on this list please feel free to book this and you can book the follow up sessions once the dates are announced.
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:
6th January 2026 (William Foster playing fields) (FULLY BOOKED)
3rd February 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 2:
20th January 2026 (William Foster playing fields) (FULLY BOOKED)
10th February 2026 (Wigan Library)
3rd March 2026 (Wigan Library)
Session 3:
24th February 2026 (William Foster playing fields) ( FULLY BOOKED)
17th March 2026 (Wigan Library)
More dates will be announced for post March and if you therefore can only attend a session 1 or 2 on this list please feel free to book this and you can book the follow up sessions once the dates are announced.
This training is provided by TalkFIRST and funded by Emotional Wellbeing Group (EWG). Your information will not be used for marketing purposes and the details shared will be limited to this training session only excluding any other interactions you may have with TalkFIRST or EWG. We will not share your information with any other third parties than those listed here.
