Training

Peer2Peer offers people with lived experience the opportunity to build their knowledge and skills in supporting others on their recovery journey.

Delivered over six weekly sessions, the course is experiential and highly participative, encouraging learning through shared experience and reflection.

 It covers a wide range of topics related to mental health recovery, supporting participants to enhance their own wellbeing while developing the confidence, understanding, and skills to help to support others.

The course can be delivered at Stepping Stones on at external organisations and venues. There are usually 2 facilitators and group sizes no larger than 12

Please check the calendar for upcoming course dates, or register your interest by contacting us.

Positive Futures is a 6 week course on managing anxiety for a positive future.

The course can be delivered at Stepping Stones on at external organisations and venues. There are usually 2 facilitators and group sizes no larger than 12.

Topics covered include:

• Recognising Anxiety
• Lifestyle & Anxiety
• Mindfulness & Relaxation
• Challenging Unhelpful Thinking
• Thought Stopping and Flashcards
• Staying Organised and Planning for the Future

Please check the calendar for upcoming course dates, or register your interest by contacting us.

Healthy Minds is a universal resource which aims to promote basic awareness and understanding of mental health and topics that are associated with and can impact on mental health and wellbeing.

It is a tool to raise awareness of basic mental health and areas that can impact on mental health and wellbeing. The focus of Healthy Minds is prevention and early intervention.

There are up to 20 short topics covered, most are available in person or online. Stepping Stones facilitate Healthy Minds sessions throughout West Dunbartonshire.

Frequently requested topics include:

Basic Mental health Awareness Adults

• Emotional Literacy
• Loneliness and Isolation
• Long Term Conditions
• Loss and Grief
• Sleep

Please check the calendar for upcoming course dates, or register your interest by contacting us.

The Scottish Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA) course takes 12 hours to complete. It can be presented in a range of formats to suit different groups. The course is presented by a qualified SMHFA instructor and quality is continuously monitored by Public Health Scotland.

The course can be presented in the following formats:

• 2 full days
• 4 half days
• 6 two-hour sessions.

The following is a brief outline of what is covered on the course:

• guidance on being a Mental Health First Aider
• attitudes to mental health issues
• equalities
• the recovery message
• the impact of alcohol and drugs on mental health
• introduction to suicide intervention
• listening skills
• understanding depression
• how to offer first aid to someone experiencing depression
• understanding anxiety
• how to offer first aid to someone experiencing anxiety
• understanding psychosis
• how to offer first aid to someone experiencing a psychotic episode.

The course does not train people to be mental health workers. It offers basic general information about mental health problems. The knowledge presented and understanding developed in the course helps to remove stigma and fear and to give confidence in approaching a person in distress.

Mental Health First Aid is an initial response to distress and all participants on the course understand that this help is given only until other suitable or professional help can be found

Please check the calendar for upcoming course dates, or register your interest by contacting us.

Awareness & Information sessions can be tailored to meet the needs of an audience. Often this is when Stepping Stones will host an information stall, give a presentation or attend as a speaker at an event.

You can also find our information stalls at the Vale of Leven Hub throughout the year.

Please check the calendar for upcoming course dates, or register your interest by contacting us.