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Self-harm: understanding and responding

Wednesday 29 April, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

🏷️ From £175
🎧 Boarding staff, Head of Boarding, Deputy Head, Mental health leads working with senior boarders
📍 Online

Course outline

This is a course for all staff working in the education setting to help improve understanding and responses to self-harm presentations. A topic which is often misunderstood, highly stigmatised and hidden is delivered in a relatable manner.

Training topics will include:

  • Better understanding self-harm (definition / triggers / functions / statistics)
  • Relationship between self-harm and suicide
  • Signs and indicators of self-harm
  • Broaching suspected self-harm
  • Best practice response to disclosures (alternative strategies / language use / general response)

Learning outcomes:

  • Understand what self-harm behaviours are and what can lead to them
  • Understand the importance of asking about suicidal thoughts when presented with self-harm
  • Have improved confidence in broaching and responding to disclosures, appreciating the importance of appropriate language use

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Speaker:

Satveer Nijjar, Independent Trainer

Satveer is passionate about reducing stigma around mental ill health, with a particular focus on improving understanding and responses to self-harm. She graduated in 2012 with a First-Class Honours degree in Psychology, winning the Bernice McAuley Memorial Prize for her dissertation on self-harm and culture. She went on to found Attention Seekers Training, delivering CPD-accredited self-harm awareness sessions across the UK and internationally. In 2023 alone, she trained over 23,000 people. Her work spans education, health and corporate sectors, and features in Head Talks, the Boarding Schools Association Magazine, and books by Natasha Devon and Jonny Benjamin.

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  • Virtual (Zoom) – This event will NOT be recorded
  • United Kingdom + Google Map