Training Tuesday

“I am still learning”. Michelangelo said this at the age of 87. Learning has no bounds and as humans we are learning every day. Our learning is continuous and even as we live through our mundane everyday tasks, our learning does not stop.
 

Shopping can be boring and stressful in these difficult times. Our Shopping on a Budget session will help you shop smarter and look at offers that will help you save money. As part of a nationwide project called Multiply this course is free for adults over 19 years and will also help build confidence around adult numeracy skills. Check out the many dates on offer!

If you love your garments but are unable to wear them as they need mending, join our "Make Do and Mend" course. This in person session will impart participants simple hand sewing skills such as button sewing, hemming and altering at waist, that will enable them to repair much-loved clothes and make them wearable again. 

This coming week our awareness sessions focus on the issues surrounding Diabetes, HIV and Dementia. These online sessions will give you a better understanding of these conditions and support one can provide. If you are looking for ideas on how to look after yourself, join in on an engaging webinar which will talk you through the 8 categories of self-care.

As always we look forward to your email sharing suggestions of training you would like to see in the future, and feedback on sessions you have attended.

Continue to stay informed and warm.
 

Kind regards,
Monita Marwaha
Training and Skills Facilitator

Self Care Webinar

An engaging hour-long webinar to present ideas for looking after yourself. The webinar will walk through the eight categories of self-care, discuss how to implement change, and focus on mechanisms to better look after yourself.

2nd February 2023 - 12pm - 1pm

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Make Do and Mend
In this face-to-face session in Borehamwood, participants will learn simple hand sewing techniques that will enable them to repair much-loved clothes and make them wearable again.
No sewing skills are needed. Just bring your garments that need repairing.

7th February 2023 - 10am - 1pm

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Diabetes Awareness Training

This one hour awareness session aims to impart knowledge and understanding of diabetes. The session will give an understanding of the signs and symptoms and risk factors of Type 1 and 2 diabetes. It will provide participants with preventive measures they can take and talk about the correlation between food and diabetes. 

7th February 2023 - 11am - 12pm

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Dementia Friends Information Session

This Zoom session will give you the opportunity to learn more about what it is like to live with dementia and turn that understanding into action.

8th February 2023 -  11am - 12pm

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HIV - Awareness and Support

This online course explains, among other things, the difference between AIDS & HIV, Identify routes of HIV transmission and ways to support someone living with HIV. 

10th February 2023 -  11am - 1pm

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Shopping on a Budget 

This face-to-face course in Borehamwood helps you understand the benefit of shopping on a budget. It will look at current shopping habits and highlight areas where savings can be made.

22nd February 2023 - 10am - 1pm

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Deaf Awareness training

This online session will give the confidence and basic skills to communicate with those who are living with deafness and hearing loss. It will enable them to understand deafness, signs that someone can’t hear you, body positions and communicating.

22nd February 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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Anyone can Volunteer

If you wish to take your first steps towards volunteering, this one hour online session will aim to answer the how, where, when, why and what of volunteering.

The session will cover an understanding of volunteering and its roles, volunteering with benefits, researching volunteering roles and identifying skills.

This online session is for anybody who is looking to embark on their volunteering journey.

Please note this session is on Zoom. 

24th February 2023 - 11am - 12pm

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Self Care Webinar

An engaging hour-long webinar to present ideas for looking after yourself. The webinar will walk through the eight categories of self-care, discuss how to implement change, and focus on mechanisms to better look after yourself.

2nd March 2023 - 12pm - 1pm

Register here 

Shopping on a Budget 

This in person course helps you understand the benefit of shopping on a budget. It will look at current shopping habits and highlight areas where savings can be made.

2nd March 2023 - 10am - 1pm

Register here 

Make do and Cook

This course helps you make the most of your store cupboard. It will look at the current cooking habits and highlight areas where savings can be made.

It will improve your confidence in cooking from scratch on a budget.

A chance to meet with other local people and share money saving tips and recipe ideas. 

Please note this is an in-person course. 

6th March 2023 - 10am -1pm

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Shopping on a Budget
This in person course helps you understand the benefit of shopping on a budget. It will look at current shopping habits and highlight areas where savings can be made.

8th March 2023 - 10am - 1pm
Register here

Children's Safeguarding Training

This online training session is for staff and volunteers working with children and young people in any setting.

During this course, you will learn:

- What abuse is and how to recognise the signs
- To understand the key words and phrases used in

  safeguarding work

- Accountability - including confidentiality, disclosure, 

  reporting concerns, and working within statutory agencies
- What happens next?

The cost for members is £35, and for non-members is £50.

9th March 2023 -10am-1pm.

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A New You
This is a 4 days in-person workshop covering the following topics:
- Team Work          13th March 2023 - 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Being Assertive    15th March 2023 - 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Stress Awareness 20th March 2023 - 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Communication/  22nd March 2023 - 9.30am - 2.30pm  

   Life Skills               

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Gambling and Related Harm 

This online CPD accredited training aims to help make problem gambling more identifiable for practitioners and volunteers working with women, men and young people in both generic and gender specific services. 
 

14th March 2023 - 10am - 12.30pm

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Volunteer Management training PART 1 
Topics for this session will include:
1. Volunteer Motivation; 2. Writing Role Descriptions; 3.Writing Recruitment Adverts; 4. Selection Process; 5.Induction and Support.

Ideal for those new to volunteer management and for organisations wishing to complete the 6 point promise

Please note that this is a Paid and In-person course.

15th March 2023 - 10am - 1pm

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Volunteer Management training PART 2
Topics for this session will include:

1. Volunteer Supervision; 2. Managing changing motivations; 3. Dealing with challenging or difficult behaviour; 4. Saying “Goodbye”; 5. Rewarding and recognising volunteers; 6. The Six-Point Promise.

Ideal for new volunteer managers and for organisations looking to complete the 6 point promise

Please note that this is a Paid and In-person course.

15 March 2023 - 2pm - 5pm
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Boundaries Webinar

Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. This one hour long webinar explores how to maintain good personal and professional boundaries to assist us to manage our day-to-day commitments. It explores the definition of boundaries, barriers to managing boundaries and how we can implement change.

16th March 2023 - 12pm - 1pm

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Introduction to British Sign Language

An online introduction to the British Sign Language and how it can be applied effectively to communicate with those living with deafness and hearing loss.

22nd March 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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Dementia Friends Information Session

This Zoom session will give you the opportunity to learn more about what it is like to live with dementia and turn that understanding into action.

22nd March 2023 -  11am - 12pm

Register here

Anyone can Volunteer
If you wish to take your first steps towards volunteering, this one hour online session will aim to answer the how, where, when, why and what of volunteering.
The session will cover an understanding of volunteering and its roles, volunteering with benefits, researching volunteering roles and identifying skills.
This online session is for anybody who is looking to embark on their volunteering journey.
Please note this session is on Zoom.

23rd March 2023 - 11am - 12pm
Register here

Friends against Scams

This is a National Trading Standards Scams team initiative which aims to protect and prevent people from becoming victims of scams by empowering people to take a stand against scams. Become a Friend against Scam to inspire action, highlight scale of the problem, change perceptions and make scams a community, regional and national topic.

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Spot the Signs and Save a Life

Spot the Signs Suicide Awareness Prevention Training

This online training will increase awareness and knowledge of suicide, introduce practical steps about how to respond and make you feel more confident in spotting the signs of suicide.

10th February 2023 - 12pm - 1pm

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Social Media made easy

An easy guidance on how to run your social media channels and how to get the most out of them.

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Living Well Courses

These courses have been designed to support people make positive changes in their lives. Courses and workshops will be delivered online and in their local centres by experienced and passionate Mind in Mid Herts trainers.

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Talk Cancer online workshop.

Feel confident talking about cancer with this free online workshop.

You will learn how to: reduce cancer risk, understand the need of early diagnosis, breakdown cancer myths and understand health inequalities.

4th April 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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Think CO- An Introductory workshop to Carbon Monoxide(CO) risks at home

The aim of this virtual Zoom workshop is to raise awareness of carbon monoxide risks for people who work in the homes of vulnerable people. This online, hour long workshop is aimed at front line staff and volunteers from social care, NHS, FRS, voluntary and private sectors working in the UK who visit vulnerable people in their homes every day. 

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