Webinar (2 part) : Life Beyond the Cubicle – Training the Trainers

Our new Life Beyond the Cubicle resources are designed to help clinicians work well with the family and friends of people who have mental health crises in order to improve care and safety.

Dorit Braun and Karen Lascelles, who led the development of the resources, will facilitate a new training programme which aims to give participants the confidence to use the Life Beyond the Cubicle films and audios in groups of NHS staff. Such groups might include clinical supervision, peer support, or learning events.

When we piloted the Life Beyond the Cubicle resources, we found that offering groups that used some of the films and audios was a good way to encourage more individual clinicians to work through the modules.  We also found that each film could provoke extremely rich and supportive discussions amongst colleagues. But often colleagues wanted more support to feel equipped to plan a programme that would be suitable for groups of clinicians from services in their own Trust. This course will equip you to do that.

The Training the Trainers programme is suitable for anyone with clinical supervision responsibilities whose work covers staff who work with patients and families in mental health crises. You need to have access to the NHS learning hub. The sessions will be interactive. Numbers are limited to 15 per Training the Trainers programme. Participants are expected to attend both sessions.

The Training the Trainers programme offers two linked sessions:

Session 1: Introduction. A two-hour session to introduce the Life Beyond the Cubicle resources and provide an overview of how they can support improved practice in working well with families.

Session 2: Putting it into Action. A three-hour session to develop participants’ confidence and skills to develop bespoke training for groups you facilitate.

There will be a task between sessions 1 and 2: we will ask you to select and show one of the films or audios to a small group.

We recommend that you familiarise yourself with the Life Beyond the Cubicle modules in advance of the course.  The programme will make use of the Guide for Group Based Learning, which is free to download from the NHS Learning Hub.

Please note that we can offer this programme as a bespoke Training the Trainers programme for individual Trusts.  If you are interested, please contact [email protected]