Highland Mental Wellbeing

Laughter Yoga: Inverness (in person)
2023-08-18 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Inverness
Laughter yoga is a great way to reduce stress and increase positivity. It helps to improve your mood and provides a natural energy boost. Taking a laughter yoga class can also help boost your immunity and reduce blood pressure. It can be a great way to connect with yourself and others, while promoting good health and wellbeing. Laughter yoga can also help to improve your self-confidence, reduce feelings of loneliness and most importantly, it is fun!
This is an in-person session that will take place in Inverness, exact location to be confirmed.
Course type:Wellbeing
Location:Inverness – single session
StartAugust 18, 2023 2:00 pm
EndAugust 18, 2023 3:00 pm
To book: https://centred.scot/course/laughter-yoga/

Suicide Prevention: Suicide Intervention and Prevention Programme (SIPP)
2023-08-18 10:00 - 2023-08-25 12:00 | Online
Bookable course online via Teams (2 x 2 hrs). Attendance at both sessions is required.
Session 1 – Friday 18th August 2023 10-12pm
Session 2 – Friday 25th August 2023 10-12pm
Courses are booked through Turas Learn. To register for the training, click here.If you don’t have a Turas Learn account, you will need to visit the registration page. This video demonstrates how to create your own account.
Please make sure you can attend both Session 1 and 2 before booking your place.
There is an option to add to the waiting list if fully booked

Suicide Prevention: Suicide Intervention and Prevention Programme (SIPP)
2023-08-09 10:00 - 2023-08-16 12:00 | Online
Bookable course online via Teams (2 x 2 hrs). Attendance at both sessions is required.
Session 1 – Wednesday 9th August 2023 10-12pm
Session 2 – Wednesday 16th August 2023 10-12pm
Courses are booked through Turas Learn. To register for the training, click here.If you don’t have a Turas Learn account, you will need to visit the registration page. This video demonstrates how to create your own account.
Please make sure you can attend both Session 1 and 2 before booking your place.
There is an option to add to the waiting list if fully booked

Laughter Yoga (Online Session)
2023-08-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Laughter yoga is a great way to reduce stress and increase positivity. It helps to improve your mood and provides a natural energy boost. Taking a laughter yoga class can also help boost your immunity and reduce blood pressure. It can be a great way to connect with yourself and others, while promoting good health and wellbeing. Laughter yoga can also help to improve your self-confidence, reduce feelings of loneliness and most importantly, it is fun!
Course type:Wellbeing
Location:Online – single session
StartAugust 4, 2023 2:00 pm
EndAugust 4, 2023 3:00 pm
To book: https://centred.scot/course/laughter-yoga-online/

Youth Climate Advocate (online sessions)
2023-08-03 14:00 - 2023-08-17 16:00 | Online
Are you aged 16-24? Do you worry about the environment? Does the state of our climate make you anxious? This accredited course will introduce you to the science of what’s happening and what can be done. You’ll also take part in a college climate project.
Run in partnership with Keep Scotland Beautiful and the Highland Waste Partnershop, this accredited course provides an introduction to the science and impacts of climate change as well as what we all can be doing to address it. Climate change can seem overwhelming, so during this course we emphasise what actions are being taken globally, but particularly in the Highlands, and what you can do to help.
Course type:Wellbeing
Location:Online
StartAugust 3, 2023 2:00 pm
EndAugust 17, 2023 4:00 pm
To book: https://centred.scot/course/youth-climate-advocate/

Listen to Support (online session)
2023-07-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Samaritans use active listening skills and techniques to support people experiencing emotional crisis, including those who are having suicidal thoughts. This course will explore some of those active listening skills and techniques so that participants will be able use them in supportive conversations with other people. We’ll also cover tips for starting a conversation with someone you might be concerned about, how to bring that conversation to a close when needed and – most importantly – keeping yourself safe throughout.
This is an excellent introduction to listening skills and is the perfect way to learn how to better support the people around you (while caring for yourself) and to also explore whether you might like to volunteer for Samaritans or other organisations.
This is a single 90 minute session.
Course type:Mental Health, Personal Development
Location:Online
StartJuly 13, 2023 2:00 pm
EndJuly 13, 2023 3:30 pm
To book: https://centred.scot/course/listen-to-support-samaritans/

Lean into Leadership (Online Sessions)
2023-07-12 14:00 - 2023-07-26 16:00 | Online
Do you think you might have untapped leadership potential?
Would you like to have a say in all aspects of the Discovery College?
Can you relate to other people’s lived experience and share your own?
Then this might be the course for you…
Running in blocks of three sessions we will work together on the development of the Discovery College while also sharing leadership tips, tools, and skills.
Sessions will run weekly on a Thursday morning from 10.30-12.30 (online) and begin on Thursday the 11th of May.
Course type:Employability, Personal Development
Location:Online – 3 sessions
StartJuly 12, 2023 2:00 pm
EndJuly 26, 2023 4:00 pm
To book: https://centred.scot/course/lean-into-leadership_2/

Self- Care Sessions: Wick
2023-07-07 10:30 - 2023-07-28 12:30 | Rosebank Playing Fields, Wick
Come join us for four weeks of self-care! Our weekly sessions run for two hours, with a tea break in between to recharge. Enjoy relaxing yoga, creative mindfulness activities, and a final calming meditation. Take time for yourself and make new friends.
Suitable for anyone 16+. We can provide adjustments and chair yoga guidance for anyone with mobility issues, just let us know when you book your space.
Friday mornings in Rosebank Pavilion, Wick, Caithness
Each session begins at 10.30 and finishes at 12.30
Course type:Wellbeing
Location:Rosebank Playing Fields, Wick – 4 sessions
StartJuly 7, 2023 10:30 am
EndJuly 28, 2023 12:30 pm
To Book: https://centred.scot/course/selfcare_sessions/

Making Space for Me Course: Caithness
2023-07-04 14:00 - 2023-07-25 16:00 | caithness
Making Space for Me is a course for anyone supporting those living with a mental health or substance use concern. Do you feel guilty when you take time for yourself? It can often be hard to find balance and your needs might end up on the back burner. In this class, you will learn to understand your supports, learn personal coping strategies and be reminded to continue to focus on pursuing your own dreams and ambitions, all through an interactive workshop style.
Over four sessions you will meet other people in the same circumstances as you and will come together to make space for each other and yourselves.
Course type:Mental Health, Substance Use, Wellbeing
Location:Stepping Stone, Thurso, Caithness – 4 Sessions
StartJuly 4, 2023 2:00 pm
EndJuly 25, 2023 4:00 pm
To book: https://centred.scot/course/making-space-for-me/

Trauma Informed Training
2023-06-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session will raise awareness of the impact of trauma and adversity and explore how to adapt the way we work to make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people affected by trauma.
The Highland Cares Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Training is offering a series of training led by the Highland Council Education Psychology Team between April and June.
Booking is not needed. Joining links are provided below:
Google Meet Video call link:
https://meet.google.com/nsd-hnoz-uej

Health inequalities : money counts [level 1]
2023-05-31 10:00 - 11:45, 2023-05-17 10:30 - 11:15, 2023-04-19 10:30 - 11:15, 2023-04-04 14:00 - 14:45 | Online
The aim of this course is to support staff and volunteers to know why and how to ask about money worries and where and how to refer on. It aims to build the confidence of staff or volunteers in a position of working with people that may benefit from income maximisation help and introduces resources for how to do refer onto these services.
Bookable course online Via Teams (45 minutes). Delivered by NHS Highland. Courses are booked through NHS Highland using Turas Learn. To register for the training, click here.
If you don’t have a Turas Learn account, you will need to visit the registration page. This video demonstrates how to create your own account.

Children in Scotland Mental Health Conference 2023
2023-05-30 09:00 - 16:00 | Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
This conference will provide a platform for learning about intersectional approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health. We will explore inequalities and how these can compound to affect children and young people. There will be opportunities to explore latest research, hear from diverse voices and share experiences to support your work with children and young people.

Key Learnings

Understand how intersectional inequalities effect children and young people
Examine recent research on diverse groups of children and young people
Explore ways to challenge assumptions and support family units
Build confidence in identifying inequalities and removing barriers

Contributors include: Harikoa, Kibble, LGBT Youth Scotland, Multi-Cultural Family Base, One Parent Families Scotland, Engender Scotland, Salvesen Mindroom Centre, See Me, University of Strathclyde and more to be announced.
For more information and tickets please visit: Children in Scotland’s Mental Health Conference 2023 Tickets, Tue 30 May 2023 at 09:00 | Eventbrite

Suicide Awareness Training
2023-05-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session will raise awareness of how we can all have a role in preventing suicide and to think about how best we can do that within the different roles that we have either within a workplace or within our communities.
The Highland Cares Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Training is offering a series of training led by the Highland Council Education Psychology Team between April and June.
Booking is not needed. Joining links are provided below:
Google Meet Video call link:
https://meet.google.com/azy-dpdf-maz

Supporting Teenage Mental Health Training
2023-05-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session is to raise awareness about teenage development and what we need to pay attention to and support them with in terms of their mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The Highland Cares Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Training is offering a series of training led by the Highland Council Education Psychology Team between April and June.
Booking is not needed. Joining links are provided below:
Google Meet Video call link:
https://meet.google.com/okz-kvwp-hsy

Trauma Informed Training
2023-05-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session will raise awareness of the impact of trauma and adversity and explore how to adapt the way we work to make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people affected by trauma.
The Highland Cares Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Training is offering a series of training led by the Highland Council Education Psychology Team between April and June.
Booking is not needed. Joining links are provided below:
Google Meet Video call link:
https://meet.google.com/qua-xgaj-wkq

Suicide Awareness Training
2023-05-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session will raise awareness of how we can all have a role in preventing suicide and to think about how best we can do that within the different roles that we have either within a workplace or within our communities.
The Highland Cares Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Training is offering a series of training led by the Highland Council Education Psychology Team between April and June.
Booking is not needed. Joining links are provided below:
Google Meet Video call link:
https://meet.google.com/ayx-ybqh-xgd

Maternal Mental Health Week – Highland Online Event
2023-05-03 11:00 | Online
We look forward to welcoming you on the 3rd May to a special online event in partnership with Home-Start Caithness, NHS Highland Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Team and Breathing Space at NHS 24.
The theme for the Maternal Mental Health Week is ‘Together in a Changing World’ and Aimee Millington (Homestart Caithness), Lisa-Jane Dock (Breathing Space at NHS 24) and myself (Donna Cowan, Specialist Midwife with NHSH Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Team) invite you to hear short presentations about Maternal Mental Health and the support available in Highland for pregnant and new parents you are working with.
This webinar will be held on Wednesday 3rd May 2023 at 1100 via MS TEAMS link.
For more information and the link to note your interest & receive the MS TEAMS Link please do complete our registration form by clicking the link below.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=veDvEDCgykuAnLXmdF5Jmpmkv0UNQLBKoRmryOZi1PdUQzJSS1c4Rk9EMzZPOUJXNjNXNU1QWTZOMy4u

Health inequalities : money counts [level 2]
2023-04-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
This aim of this course is to build the confidence of staff working with people that may benefit from income maximisation help. It aims to increase staff’s understanding of poverty and the importance of asking about money worries, and increase knowledge of what support agencies can provide to those needing financial support.
Bookable course online Via Teams (1.5 hours). Delivered by NHS Highland. Courses are booked through NHS Highland using Turas Learn. To register for the training, click here.
If you don’t have a Turas Learn account, you will need to visit the registration page. This video demonstrates how to create your own account.

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Highland: Planning Meeting (Zoom)
2023-04-25 13:00 | Online
The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Highland is an annual event organised in partnership with local artists, groups and organisations including Creativity In Care, Centred, Mikeysline, Befrienders Highland, HUG (Action for Mental Health), Highland Mindfulness Group, Ewen’s Room, N4H, Rag Tag n Textile (Skye), North Coast Connection and High Life Highland.It’s part of the Scotland-wide festival (https://www.mhfestival.com) overseen by the Mental Health Foundation which aims to support the arts and challenge stigma and preconceived ideas about mental health.
This year the festival theme is ‘Revolution’ which was chosen by the nationwide teams to reflect a desire – in the midst of turbulent political and economic times – to address the impact of economic barriers and social inequality on mental health. It also reflects the ambitions at the Mental Health Foundation to identify the changes we need to make as a society to achieve good mental health for all, with a focus on those who are at greatest risk.SMHAF 2023 will be an exercise in ‘art as activism’, with a programme designed as a collective statement and manifesto for social change.What kind of ‘revolution’ would you like to see? What needs to happen for everyone to have the opportunity to live mentally healthier lives? How can we be more radical when it comes to mental health and the arts?
We also have a Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/SMHAFHighland/
How to take part?
The next festival will take place in October 2023 and we would love to get more community groups and organisations 2023 involved across the Highlands. If your organisation would like to take part, please contact SMHAF Highland co-ordinator Graeme Watson on smhafhighland@gmail.com
Planning for the Highland 2023 festival programme is now underway. Meetings are held via Zoom and you can email smhafhighland@gmail.com to request the Zoom link. The next SMHAF Highland planning meeting will be held on Zoom on Tuesday 25 April at 1pm

‘Conversations with Vulnerable People’ – One Day Fully Funded Digital Course
2023-04-24 09:30 - 2023-04-25 12:30 | Online
Samaritans Scotland is the UK’s leading suicide prevention charity and they are pleased to be offering our ‘Conversations with Vulnerable People’ training course to employers and communities in the West Highlands and Skye, free of charge.
The course equips participants with the skills and confidence to have supportive and effective conversations with vulnerable people – allowing them to manage those conversations effectively, and with confidence and sensitivity. This course would also be useful for managers who may support staff members who are experiencing poor wellbeing or struggling to cope.
The course is led by an expert Samaritans facilitator and uses a variety of tools to encourage interaction and group learning.
This course will take place in two three hour sessions as detailed below. You need to attend both sessions to receive a certificate.
24/04/23 – 9.30 – 12.30
25/04/23 – 9.30 – 12.30
More information and to book your space can be found here: Conversations with vulnerable people – Digital course Tickets, Mon 24 Apr 2023 at 09:30 | Eventbrite
For further information on the Samaritans West Highland and Skye Project please contact Fiona Thompson, West Highland and Skye Project Manager, f.thompson1@samaritans.org

Supporting Teenage Mental Health Training
2023-04-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session is to raise awareness about teenage development and what we need to pay attention to and support them with in terms of their mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The Highland Cares Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Training is offering a series of training led by the Highland Council Education Psychology Team between April and June.
Booking is not needed. Joining links are provided below:
Google Meet Video call link:
https://meet.google.com/ndi-ahvh-bdc

Supporting Mental Health for Community Leaders / Coaches Course
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
This course is aimed at providing community leaders with a basic understanding of mental health issues in the community and how to respond.
The course consists of the following elements:

Introduction to mental health awareness
Discussion on what is mental health
Recognition of mental health issues
Response to mental health issues.
Where to signpost for help

Delivered by Highland Cares.
Teams Link:
Click here to join the meeting

Suicide Prevention – how to deliver Community Toolbox Talks
2023-04-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
This course will assist you in preparing and delivering Toolbox Talks in your community, with a range of topics focused on Mental Health and Wellbeing
This course is aimed at community leaders, voluntary organisations, coaches, and any anyone in a position to deliver toolbox talks in the community.
Delivered by Highland Cares.
Teams Link:

Click here to join the meeting

Personal and Family Recovery Informative Session
2023-04-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
A short but informative session on recovery from addiction and support for the person and their family.
Delivered by Highland Cares.
Teams Link:
Click here to join the meeting

Drug & Alcohol Awareness Training
2023-04-13 15:00 - 2023-05-31 16:00 | Online
An experienced practitioner delivers a session on the impact of drugs and alcohol on individuals and the community.
Delivered by Highland Cares.
Teams Link:
Click here to join the meeting

Suicide prevention : suicide intervention and prevention programme (SIPP)
2023-04-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Bookable course online via Teams (2 x 2 hrs). Attendance at both sessions is required.
Session 1 – Thursday 6th April 2023 10-12pm
Session 2 – Thursday 13th April 2023 10-12pm
Courses are booked through Turas Learn. To register for the training, click here.If you don’t have a Turas Learn account, you will need to visit the registration page. This video demonstrates how to create your own account.
Please make sure you can attend both Session 1 and 2 before booking your place.
There is an option to add to the waiting list if fully booked.

Suicide prevention : suicide intervention and prevention programme (SIPP)
2023-04-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Online
Bookable course online via Teams (2 x 2 hrs). Attendance at both sessions is required.
Session 1 – Tuesday 4th April 2023 2-4pm
Session 2 – Tuesday 11th April 2023 2-4pm
Courses are booked through Turas Learn. To register for the training, click here.If you don’t have a Turas Learn account, you will need to visit the registration page. This video demonstrates how to create your own account.
Please make sure you can attend both Session 1 and 2 before booking your place.
There is an option to add to the waiting list if fully booked.
