Workshops
SRSH workshops are designed for university students to improve skills and confidence in talking about mental health. Many students are informally supporting friends with mental health problems. While friends can, and do, play a vital role in supporting recovery from mental health problems, taking on the responsibility of caring for a friend can be a considerable strain. Our workshops help students understand the basic psychology underlying mental health problems that commonly affect university students and highlight steps that friends can take to be supportive. Our workshops also focus on the importance of boundaries, of supporting friends to seek formal support and of taking steps to care of your own mental health.
All of our workshops have been developed in collaboration with psychiatrists, psychologists and young people with personal experience of mental health problems.
Our workshops are either designed to run over one day or one afternoon. Timings for these workshops flexible. Our workshops can be run at your university, in which case we ask that you arrange a suitable venue for the workshops to take place on your campus. We are able to help promote the workshops to students on your campus if you wish, please let us know.
All of our workshops have been developed in collaboration with psychiatrists, psychologists and young people with personal experience of mental health problems.
Our workshops are either designed to run over one day or one afternoon. Timings for these workshops flexible. Our workshops can be run at your university, in which case we ask that you arrange a suitable venue for the workshops to take place on your campus. We are able to help promote the workshops to students on your campus if you wish, please let us know.
Feedback
"I just wanted to say a big thank you for today's seminar. We all hugely appreciated your presentation and the wealth of experience and suggestions you brought to the students today. I have just bumped into one of the JCR participants who spoke very highly of the session saying he now felt a lot more knowledgeable about eating disorders and how to provide supportive care. He said he found it extremely enjoyable thanks to your engaging, clear and encouraging manner - thank you for providing such a well-led, informative and interesting welfare seminar. I think the students, as well as myself, appreciated the way you encouraged active participation and offered concrete and thoughtful ways of talking to and supporting people. It made for a truly interactive and insightful session, the level of participation and the questions showing a great response and interest."
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Talking Allowed
An interactive one day workshop exploring psychological aspects underlying common student mental health problems. The workshop encourages students to think about simple things that they can do to be supportive and focuses on the importance of setting boundaries to facilitate a manageable supportive relationship.
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Talking Allowed (Short Session)An interactive afternoon session encouraging students to feel confident supporting friends with mental health problems. The session addresses what mental health is and how to create space to talk through active listening. Through the workshop we discuss key traits of poor mental health and practical steps that can be taken to improve mental health. We encourage students to think about the boundaries they need to facilitate a manageable supportive relationship and how encourage friends to seek further help.
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How to Save a Life
This workshop gives students time and space to reflect on the stresses and strains that they face supporting a friend with an eating disorder.
The workshop addresses the psychological traits underlying eating disorders and provides students with practical suggestions for supporting friends. |
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TimeRecommended Capacity LimitCost |
6 hours (not including a lunch break)
25
£450
(£300 if Oxford based) |
2 ½ hours
20
£350
(£150 if Oxford based) |
3 hours
20
£350
(£150 if Oxford based) |
