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Indigo Course List
- Anxiety
- Adult Mental Health First Aid
- Boundaries Plus
- Brain Bitz
- Communication Reminders and Buffers for Coping
- Dealing With Verbal Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Living Happy
- Managing Challenging Behaviour
- Partners in Depression
- Standing in their Shoes
- The Carer’s Recovery & Self-Empowerment
- Walking on Eggshells
- Youth Mental Health First Aid
Adult Mental Health First Aid
Four sessions
Provides you with information on different types of mental health issues including: depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders and the causes, symptoms and treatment options, including crisis management.
Anxiety
One sessions
Takes a detailed look at anxiety – what it is, how it shows itself, types of disorders, types of treatment available and who can help. It also provides practical strategies for facing anxiety, dealing with it, living with it and most importantly, recovering from it.
Brain Bitz
An introduction to mental health with a focus on anxiety & depression
One session
Bust some myths, kill some stigma and get some basic information on: What is a mental health problem? Who gets it? How do you do get it? What can you do to help yourself? What can you do to help others? The main focus - depression and anxiety.
Boundaries Plus
One Day
This one day workshop is designed specifically for carers and looks at Self Awareness to help understand where you are at. It takes a new look at caring and what is involved, and gives a great insight into boundaries including recognising them, setting them, putting them in place and maintaining them. This workshop also looks at communication of boundaries and provides practical strategies.
Communication Reminders and Buffers for Coping
One Session
This workshop is a very good collection of things we probably know but need reminding of for our own safety and sanity and for the wellbeing of our family member/friend with a mental health issue. What is good to say.....what not to say....how to say?
Dealing with Verbal Abuse
One Session
Many people believe that emotional abuse is not as serious as physical abuse. While it may not be causing damage that is visible, it is still very harmful to a person’s self-esteem, and is a serious matter that should be dealt with in the early phases before it escalates. This workshop is about identifying types of verbal abuse, recognising the effects, and providing some practical strategies to reduce escalation and keep you mentally safe!
Dual Diagnosis
One Sesssion
Dual diagnosis means someone has both a mental illness and a substance use problem. People with alcohol and drug problems have a range of mental health problems at higher rates than the general community. This includes increased instances of anxiety and depression. The abused substance could be tobacco, prescribed medication, illegal drugs, or alcohol. This workshop is for family, friends and support people to gain an understanding of the issues of dual diagnosis and to gain some awareness of how to cope.
Living Happy
One day
A day about you for you. This Workshop will give the skills to better understand and manage many of the everyday challenges at work, home and in relationships.
* Learn how thoughts affect your memory and behaviour.
* Learn how emotions impact on your personal / work relationships.
* Learn how past memories can limit present and future life plans.
* Learn how to deal with life’s challenges every day.
So as Einstein said " You cannot solve your problems with the same level of thinking that caused the problems in the first place".
Managing Challenging Behaviour
One Session
Sometimes we have limited understanding of how someone’s behaviour can change or be affected simply as a result of what is happening to them with their mental health problem. Frustration, anger, fear, annoyance – all of these can be difficult behaviours to manage. This workshop is about identifying the behaviours and learning strategies to manage communication and some degree of harmony in the situation. Come prepared with some thoughts of the behaviours that really cause problems in your situation.
Partners in Depression - Supporting those who care.
Six sessions
Do you know, love, or care for someone experiencing depression? Find out more about depression, how to help someone with depression, and how to better look after yourself. This evidence-based education program aims to address your information and support needs in a forum in which you can ask questions about depression and your support role, with others with similar experiences. Topics include: What is depression? Treatments for depression, Suicidality and self-harm, How do you best support someone with depression? Communication strategies, Importance of self-care.
CLAN WA facilitators have completed training in this national program, an initiative of the Hunter Institute of Mental Health. Further information on this course can be gained on the website www.partnersindepression.com.au
Standing in their Shoes
One Session
You could sit in a wheelchair for a day and get a feel of what it is like not to use your legs. You could lead your partner blindfolded all day to see how difficult it is for a blind person. With mental illness, we can only imagine what it is like for someone who is hearing voices or who is so depressed that they don’t want to shower. This presentation will give you insight of what it is like for a person with a mental illness. It will explain:
* the challenges for them to do some things that they used to do without thought or care;
* the level of disability they experience so you can more readily understand how far you can ‘push them’;
* the impact stigma has on their lives.
The Carer’s Recovery & Self-Empowerment
Two sessions
This workshop will look at defining recovery, what it takes to become a recovery catalyst, examines stress/distress and healthy ways of being in the world. Topics include- Defining and deliberating, What does it require from you? Benefits and Fears, Commitment and action. Some Take home home tools, Involving others and what works for you, Stress responses and Getting grounded.
Walking on Eggshells
Three sessions
Dealing with conversations when relationships become tough. We know some conversations are going to be difficult. Sometimes we feel like we are ‘walking on eggshells’ in certain relationships. Another person’s mental health issue is often an underlying reason why we feel like this. This series of three workshops gives you the opportunity to look at what makes some situations, topics, circumstances, or relationships tricky. Exploring your own ‘eggshell situations’, the workshops provide strategies for buffers, communication techniques, and practical ideas to help give you focus and confidence. Please come prepared with examples of ‘eggshells moments’ for you
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Four sessions
Provides you with information on different types of mental health issues as they are experienced by youth,including: depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders, eating disorders, self harm and substance abuse disorders, and the causes, symptoms and treatment options, including crisis management.
