Courses & Events

Carers Bromley Awareness Training

The aim of this training is to raise awareness amongst health professionals of adult and young carers, including those in marginalised groups.

The training aims to give staff the ability to identify carers using their services and understand the issues they face. This will enable them to interact with carers in a sensitive way and give them the confidence to signpost them to relevant support agencies such as Carer's Bromley.

The free training sessions will be four hours in length with lunch included.

Venue: Various (see booking form)

E-mail: help@carersbromley.org.uk

Link to: Carers.Bromley.Training.2010.pdf

Managing Your Panic

A Bromley Mind Coping With Life Course

By the end of the course participants will:

• Have greater awareness of the physical and psychological causes of panic and triggers.
• Be able to identify and change negative thought patterns that feed panic attacks and, by using a number of coping strategies, control panic more effectively.

Coping With Life courses aim to help people learn and develop coping strategies for themselves and are not therapy groups.

Venue: Kentwood Centre, Kingsdale Road, Penge, SE20 7PR

E-mail: anna.nugent@bromleymind.org.uk

Link to: Managing.Your.Panic.pdf

Managing Your Anxiety

A Bromley Mind Coping With Life Course

The aim of the course is to help participants understand anxiety better, learn what causes anxiety and develop coping strategies to manage everyday difficulties and challenges.

Participants will be taught relaxation techniques, self-management and coping skills and at the end of the course will have an action plan for future self-management.

Coping With Life courses aim to help people learn and develop coping strategies for themselves and are not therapy groups.

Venue: Bromley Central Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent BR1 1EX

E-mail: anna.nugent@bromleymind.org.uk

Link to: Managing.Your.Anxiety.pdf

Managing Your Depression

A Bromley Mind Coping With Life Course

The aim of the course is to give participants an increased understanding of depression and improve their coping skills to enable them to better manage the effects of their depression on a day-to-day basis.

Coping With Life courses aim to help people learn and develop coping strategies for themselves and are not therapy groups.

Venue: Orpington Library, The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington, BR6 0HH

E-mail: anna.nugent@bromleymind.org.uk

Link to: Managing.Your.Depression.pdf

Supporting Parents Programme*
Expert Patients Programme

*Please note new dates

A course for parents or guardians of children who have long term conditions, or life limiting conditions or disabilities. The course aims to provide support and develop self confidence to help you feel more in control.

Venue: Riverside School, Main Road, St Paul's Cray, Orpington BR5 3HS

E-mail: sandra.christmas@bromleypct.nhs.uk

Link to: Supporting.Parents.Programme.Flyer.pdf

Coping with Significant Loss and Change

A Bromley Mind Coping with Life Course

This course aims to help participants understand their grief responses as a natural reaction to a range of losses through anything from redundancy to death.

By the end of the course participants will:

• Understand what grief is and how it affects their lives.
• Be able to use practical skills and exercises to regain a sense of control and adjust to life beyond the loss experienced.

Coping With Life courses aim to help people learn and develop coping strategies for themselves and are not therapy groups.

Venue: Anchor House, 5 Station Road, Orpington, BR6 0RZ

E-mail: anna.nugent@bromleymind.org.uk

Link to: Coping.with.Significant.Loss.and.Change.pdf

User-led Organisations: 2010 and beyond

One-day conference

The success and sustainability of User-Led Organisations is a vital part of the transformation of Adult Social Care and the wider personalisation agenda. The Department of Health, working closely with its colleagues in the government regions, has been leading the delivery of Recommendation 4.3 of the Improving the Life Chances of disabled People report: that each Local Authority with social services responsibilities should have a User-Led Organisation in place by 2010.

This conference is an opportunity to learn about and celebrate the successes achieved by ULOs throughout the duration of the DH's work. It is also an opportunity to come together and consider the world facing ULOs in 2010 and beyond.

Venue: London Hilton Metropole, Edgware Road, London W2 1JU

E-mail: tamsin.retzlaff@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Link to: User-led.Organisations.pdf

Making Recovery Real Roadshow - Stranraer

SRN is now accepting bookings for our final Making Recovery Real Roadshow event. This event will take place on 24 March 2010 at the North West Castle Hotel in Stranraer.

The aim of these events is to:

• Raise awareness of recovery from mental health problems.
• Encourage local action that supports recovery.
• Gather new insights about mental health and recovery.

This event is open to anyone with an interest in mental health, recovery and wellbeing.

Venue: North West Castle Hotel, Stranraer

E-mail: info@scottishrecovery.net

Link to: register-for-making-recovery-real-oban-and-stranraer.html | Making.Recovery.Real.pdf

USPRA’s 35^th Annual Conference

This is a conference that you don’t want to miss out on. With a theme of “Expanding the Horizons of Psychiatric Rehabilitation,” this conference will mark the first time in USPRA’s history that we will be offering workshops and institutes on children’s services!

Venue: Boise, Idaho, USA

E-mail: conference@uspra.org

Link to: index.cfm?pageid=3571