Bellbird facilitates opportunities that provide learning and training that supports us all to feed our knowledge, develop our skills and grow a strong community of practitioners. We are able to deliver one or two hour practice forums, through to one or two days trainings, or facilitate organisational processes and provide support to achieve identified successes.

Facilitation

Facilitation is all about “making things easy” or simplifying processes. The role of a facilitator is to help individuals or groups achieve their goals and objectives more easily. Rather than focusing on content, facilitators guide conversations and processes.

As a facilitator, our role is to ask the insightful questions, enabling participants to find their own answers. Facilitation plays a crucial role in various contexts such as strategic planning, community engagement, idea generation, problem-solving, consensus-building, and partnership brokering. At its core, facilitation is the art of fostering effective conversations.

Talk to Bellbird today about how we can facilitate a journey for you.

Training

Developed through experience working in the social sector and backed by research and data, our training is designed to support practitioners to be confident and competent when working with complexity across a range of topics.

Examples of available training

See a selection of our current modules, or contact us to discuss a tailored training programme for your team.

• Mental Health First Aid
• Child Protection
• Protecting Our Practice – navigating ethical practice in social work delivery
• Toitoi Manawa – developing public speaking and facilitation skills
• Team Dynamics
• Practice-based skills such as: Casenote Writing; Assessments; Goal Planning; Safety Planning; Effective Engagement; Privacy; and more.

Get in touch to develop a Custom Training Programme

If you would like Bellbird to develop something specific for you and your team, then please talk to us today. The Bellbird team are experienced speakers, and have extensive experience delivering trainings, workshops and presentations, at both national and international conferences as well as local events.

Mental Health First Aid

A Mental Health First Aid course will teach you how to provide initial support to adults who may be experiencing mental health challenges or mental health crisis, until the crisis resolves, or specialist help is accessed, using a practical evidence-based Action Plan.

Evaluations consistently show that Mental Health First Aid training improves understanding of the mental health challenges people experience, their options for treatments and helpful first aid strategies. Participants report increased confidence in their ability to offer Mental Health First Aid which enables early access to help. The training also decreases stigma and discrimination that many people with mental health and addiction challenges experience.

What does the training cover?

Mental Health crises covered:

• Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
• Non-suicidal self-injury
• Panic attacks
• Traumatic events
• Severe psychotic states
• Severe effects from alcohol or other substance use
• Aggressive behaviours

Mental Health challenges covered:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Psychosis
• Substance use problems

Cost

Talk to us about the cost to facilitate a Mental Health First Aid course for your organisation.

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