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Mental health is about achieving personal balance, and finding this balance can be a learning process. CMHA Calgary workshops and training programs are available to a variety of adult groups in community organizations and workplace settings to provide participants with a strong understanding, awareness, and appreciation of mental wellbeing on their journey towards balance.

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As of April 1, 2023, CMHA Calgary will be charging a flat fee of $250 for all Community Education sessions delivered to Workplaces and Adult Groups. Workshop sessions can be offered in 15 – 90-minute durations, however the fee will remain the same regardless of the length of session booked. This fee allows CMHA Calgary to continually reinvest in the development, review, and delivery of our Community Education sessions to ensure best practices and high-quality content. All sessions must be paid for in advance. Select times are available on a first-come-first-serve basis. Once booked, sessions cannot be rescheduled or refunded. If you have any questions, or to schedule a workshop session please email education@cmha.calgary.ab.ca.

Workshops

CMHA Calgary offers a range of virtual or in-person mental health education workshops. These interactive, flexible, single-session offerings are typically delivered in 60 minute blocks, but can easily be tailored to meet the unique needs of diverse schedules and work structures. Workshop topics include:

Stress Management and Healthy Coping

Attainment of a healthy mind and body begins with understanding how to balance the ever-changing demands of life. This interactive workshop provides an overview of what the stress response is, and how it impacts our lives. Through this workshop, participants will develop an awareness of their own particular stressors, and how to cope in healthy ways.

Mental Health Awareness

Mental health is about achieving personal balance, and finding this balance can be an ongoing learning process. This workshop breaks down common misconceptions surrounding mental health, mental illness, and stigma, while providing a preventative approach to personal wellness. All workshops for adult groups are offered at a standard fee of $250.

Suicide Prevention

The Suicide Prevention workshop provides a compassionate and informative discussion around suicide as it seeks to dispel myths, outline warning signs and protective factors, and connect people to professional resources.

Peer Ambassador Training:

CMHA Calgary’s workplace or community group peer ambassador training “Connector Certified” is designed to identify and train internal supporters or “connectors”, who, through the training process, will understand the ethics, limits, and boundaries of helping, and who will resolve concerns through their competence in connecting with others. Throughout their training, connectors are exposed to a variety of topics and skills, including effective communication, healthy coping, knowing when to refer people to professional services, foundations of peer engagement, and maintaining self-care.

The Connector Certified training program provides a customizable and unique delivery approach, presented through 14 hours of intensive, interactive facilitation. Delivery is typically offered at a cost of $3,500 and can be facilitated over two full days, four half days, or in several 90 – 120 minute blocks.

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Thank you so much for your excellent, informative and engaging presentations on mental health and mental illness that you gave to our community. We appreciated your facilitator’s light touch with such a delicate subject. We found your facilitator to be respectful of people’s dignity and appreciated your caution around not diagnosing our friends and family! The depth of your knowledge showed, and we gleaned so much from your training and experience.

-Adapted from feedback following an adult learning session