Self-harm training – virtual (1-day workshop)
Aims and target audience
Training objectives:
To provide deep insights into self-harm resulting in better understanding and becoming better equipped to support someone who self-harms.
An in-depth, fully interactive session catering to different learning styles and plenty of opportunities for discussion
CONTENT:
- Exploring the complexity of self-harm
- Dispelling some of the common myths
- Methods of self-harm & different presentations depending on the person’s age
- Self-harm and autism
- Roots of self-harming behaviour
- Triggers
- How people feel through different self-harm stages
- What people get out of self-harm
- Building healthier strategies
- How to provide effective support
- Self-harm addiction
- The relationship between self-harm and suicide
Learning outcomes
At the end of the session the learner will be able to understand the complexities of self-harm, its many forms, what causes it, why people use it, how to have helpful conversations using appropriate language and how to support someone who self-harms.
Delivery methods and styles
Fully interactive virtual workshop with activities and group discussions
Knowledge and skills required of the trainers
The Battle Scars founder and CEO, Jenny Groves, delivers this workshop. Jenny has 7 years’ experience of delivering self-harm training in a very open, honest fashion, ensuring a safe space where any question can be asked and all are answered.
The session is enriched by the presence of a Battle Scars helper (volunteer or staff – subject to availability) adding their own experiences and another dimension (please bear in mind there is no guarantee such a helper will be present)
Involvement of people with lived experience
The entire workshop has been written by people with lived/living experience of self-harm enriched by the input of hundreds of professionals we have trained over the years.
Assessment, CPD credits, certification
A Battle Scars certificate is issued upon completion.