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Two Day Emotional First Aid Training
Emotional First Aid Limited

Recommended for all people who have supervisory, management and/or Leadership responsibilities for others

Summary

Price
£270 inc VAT
Study method
Onsite
Duration
2 days · Full-time
Qualification
No formal qualification

Overview

Emotional First Aid Training
Emotional First Aid combines the wisdom and knowledge of science, human traditions,
experts by experience, experts by training and research, to create training in understanding
and navigating our emotional worlds.
Emotional First Aid is designed to contribute towards creating cultures in organisations
where there is emotional awareness and intelligence. Environments where there is a shared
commitment and understanding of what helps people to be healthy and happy.
In our version of First Aid, the first aid is focused upon people looking after themselves.
Providing people with the knowledge, awareness and skills that, when coupled with the
strengths and skills that people already possess, enables them to understand and care for
themself. For when people are doing so they are then in a better position to “pay it
forward” to others. Something that neuroscience calls co-regulation.
Emotionally intelligent cultures recognise that co-regulation sets the climate, therefore
having a significant impact upon staff retention, satisfaction and performance. What have,
in the past, been referred to as “soft skills”, are now being recognised as essential for
successful work environments. Something that then strengthens how people are able to live
in their lives away from the workplace.
In Emotional First Aid, our approach is to move away from a conventional understanding of
First Aid. As when it comes to the emotional needs of people, we believe that it is unrealistic
and unhelpful to expect one person to respond to the emotional needs of their colleagues.
However, if there is shared responsibility and awareness, cultures can be created that are
more conducive to people’s emotional wellbeing. We therefore do not train individuals to
become an Emotional First Aider. Instead we recommend that everyone receives the
training, and are then supported and encouraged to take good care of themselves.
In all workplaces there are already people who have a responsibility towards the emotional
wellbeing of staff. These being; Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors and Directors. We
therefore recommend that they receive additional training so as to appreciate, not only the
content about how to take care of yourself, but also why and the evidence that underpins
the EFA approach.

What makes EFA unique
Emotional First Aid offers employers, groups and individuals something that is different. By
offering perspectives on the emotions of human beings that is; inclusive, respectful,
liberating and which reinforces how amazing and resourceful people already are.
• Our training moves away from a model that views the first aid for our emotional
struggles and psychological challenges as being the same as for physical
emergencies.
• Our training has been co-produced with experts by experience and is informed by
trauma and adversity.
• Emotional First Aid have created a theme that makes our training stand out and be
memorable. The theme is one of each person having their own unique Life
Landscape or map, with its own distinct climates, which provides a way of
understanding their emotional world. The training breaks things down into stages
and includes The Three C’s of; Compassion, Curiosity and Creativity, which we
encourage people to see as their compass for navigating their Life Landscape.
• We are collaborating with the Emotional First Aid Academy in Bangalore, India, as
well as the producers of the Pillars approach in the USA.
• Customer feedback – We have piloted our approach with the University Hospital
NHS Trust in London and St Mungo’s homelessness charity. Although very new, of
everyone who has done the training so far, 100% have said that they would
recommend it to others. People have found the information engaging and helpful in
their work and their life.

Description

Two Day Emotional First Aid Training

Recommended for all people who have supervisory, management and/or Leadership responsibilities for others, this course offers people the opportunity to discover an approach to the emotional wellbeing of people that is affirming and liberating.

Affirming, as it encourages people to appreciate the skills, knowledge and resources that all human beings possess and have built up through the course of their lives. Liberating, as it recognises everyone’s fundamental human right to make choices and establish beliefs that they think are the right ones for them.

This course provides a structure that helps people to understand and respond to the complexity that makes up every person. It gives Learners the knowledge, skills and awareness that can help them to care for themselves. As it is the first act of compassion for others to show compassion towards yourself.

Two day Emotional First Aid training = £4500 + VAT for groups up to 20 Learners

Learning Objectives for Emotional First Aid
• To ensure that our first aid emotionally should always be towards ourselves, for it is
an act of compassion for others to ensure that we care for ourselves
• To appreciate the complexity and the skills of being human
• To consider and learn how we are shaped by the things that happen to us, our
stories
• To have a framework of understanding emotions, and themes that help us to
remember how to care for ourselves and for others
• To ensure that we listen actively and that we are safe people to talk to
• To learn how we may be able to help people who are feeling overwhelmed
• To support the creation and maintenance of a culture of compassion, curiosity and
creativity
• To have an evidence base and framework that supports all of the above so that
people feel that they are on solid ground and well supported


Contents include;
• The First Aid is for you
• What it is to be a human being
• Active listening
• Seeing people
• Life Landscapes and Climates
• Your Bag for Life
• Your Self Care
• The Three C’s of; Compassion, Curiosity and Creativity
• Listening to our bodies
• Learning from trauma
• Keeping your flame alive
• The Power Threat Meaning Framework
• The Drama Triangle
• Being and feeling safe
• Threat responses
• Self-soothing
• When there are no words
• A drug centered approach
• Creating space to process thoughts and feelings


Design
The training days will contain a mixture of:
• Theory
• Experiential learning
• Discussion and debate about practical application
• Opportunity for reflection

The evidence behind the approach

Emotional First Aid utilises the Power Threat Meaning Framework as a base for much of its
approach. The PTMF was commissioned by The British Psychological Society and published
in 2018. Power Threat Meaning Framework | BPS.
Already translated into many languages around the world, the PTMF pulls together research
and approaches to human beings that offers an alternative to the medical model which sees
emotional distress as part of illness and disorders.
As well as the PTMF, EFA uses research from Professor Richard Bentall, Dr Bruce Alexander,
Dr Gabor Mate, Dr Bessell Van Der Kolk, Dr Steven B Karpman, Dr Peter Levine, Dr Steven
Hayes, Dr Robert Waldinger, Deb Dana and Dr Steven W Porges. Their work covers the link
between trauma and our bodies and emotions, how we understand relationships, and what
makes relationships helpful.
Doctoring the mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail – Professor
Richard Bentall
Addiction Expert, Speaker and Best-selling Author Dr. Gabor Maté
Best-selling Trauma Research Author | Bessel van der Kolk, MD.
The Official Site of the Karpman Drama Triangle
Peter A Levine, PhD — Ergos Institute, inc™
The Good Life: A Discussion with Dr. Robert Waldinger – Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health
and Happiness
Polyvagal Institute | Stephen Porges
Polyvagal Guided Living | Rhythm of Regulation – Deb Dana
Home - Steven C. Hayes, PhD

In addition, a recent strategy document issued by the World Health Organisation and the
United Nations, signals a change in how countries are recommended to address mental
health. In this latest paper entitled, “Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance
and practice” Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said “Our ambition
must be to transform mental health services, not just in their reach, but in their underlying
values, so that they are truly responsive to the needs and dignity of the individual. This
publication offers guidance on how a rights-based approach can support the transformation
needed in mental health systems”. Something that is at the heart of Emotional First Aid.

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