Stress Awareness Month Listening Room
2024-04-17 11:00 - 11:45 (Europe/London)
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Culture and Inclusion Team are running a series of themed listening rooms for all Lancashire and South Cumbria staff system-wide.
Stress Awareness Month – Wednesday 17th April 11:00-11:45 Click here to join the meeting
A special listening room has been arranged to mark Stress Awareness Month.
This session will be for ICB and ICS system-wide staff members and provides a safe space for colleagues to share their experiences in the workplace, to learn and to ask questions in a safe environment.

What is Stress Awareness Month?
Stress Awareness Month has been held every April since 1992 to raise awareness of the causes of (and cures for) our modern-day stress epidemic. It is an opportunity to start conversations about stress within our organisations and communities, in order to begin to break down barriers and to reduce the stigma that surrounds stress and mental health.
Evidence shows that the act of talking about stress itself can significantly reduce its impact, so the campaign aims to encourage individuals to open up and discuss any problems and challenges that they may be experiencing, together with any coping mechanisms that they have found helpful, in the hope that they may be beneficial to others who are also experiencing symptoms of stress.
What is a listening room?
Listening rooms are one of the elements of wellbeing support offered to staff internally. Generic listening rooms held once a week are reactionary mental wellbeing spaces where health and wellbeing champions provide an informal safe space for staff to take a short break, discuss any issues or just chat with colleagues. Following listening rooms, champions have provided mental health first aid support, signposting/referral to specialised support and taken anonymous feedback to the leadership team to improve staff experience. HWB champions are mental health first aid (REACT) trained and trained to have effective wellbeing conversations, therefore they are well equipped to provide support to staff and signpost where required.
Listening rooms are safe spaces for staff and sometimes sensitive issues are discussed in the listening rooms, therefore all colleagues attending are expected to respect one another and maintain confidentiality. Anything heard in the listening room will not be shared outside the room by champions unless there is a risk of harm. Listening rooms are not recorded.

NHS Support Offers: Wellbeing Webinar
2024-04-22 12:00 - 13:00
A webinar to explain the offers the NHS currently hosts for all NHS staff.

An opportunity to ask questions and give feedback on this service.

The NHS offers a wide range of Health and Wellbeing resources for all staff. This webinar will give a good explanation of these services and will give you a good understanding and show you and your staff where to go when looking for these resources.

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

Having effective wellbeing conversations training
2024-05-21 09:00 - 10:30
The NHS People Plan sets out the ambition that every member of the NHS should have a health and wellbeing conversation with their line manager or a peer.
As part of this conversation, line managers will be expected to discuss an individual’s health and wellbeing, and any flexible working requirements, as well as equality, diversity and inclusion.
This training will enable you to:

Have a supportive conversation with colleagues
Support colleagues with their health and wellbeing
Signpost to appropriate support

Email ambreen.bhatti@nhs.net or Teams message to book a place.

REACT mental health conversations (mental health first aid) training
2024-05-22 09:00 - 10:00
People with management, supervisory and supportive roles can have a significantly positive (or negative) impact on the mental wellbeing of the people in their teams and communities.
REACT mental health conversation training equips NHS managers, supervisors and those with caring responsibilities for NHS people to confidently hold supportive and compassionate mental health and wellbeing conversations.
This training will enable you to:

Identify people in your team or community who may be struggling with their mental health
Initiate a supportive wellbeing conversation
Confidently hold the conversation using active listening skills
Signpost to appropriate support.

Email ambreen.bhatti@nhs.net or Teams message to book a place.

Handling Difficult Conversations Training
2024-05-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-06-19 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-07-22 13:00 - 14:00
This one hour session will cover compassion, compassion fatigue, listening skills, how to de-escalate a situation with helpful language, fast and slow thinking.
This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

You will receive a certificate post training for your attendance. Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us.
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub and with the Training Provider, NHSE and the ICB, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

Launch of the Big Green Week!
2024-06-07 12:30 - 13:00
The Great Big Green Week 8th-16th June 2024: All on-line events will take place 12.30-1pm
Come along and meet Dr Sarah Hopkins, the ICB’s Clinical Lead for sustainability.
Find out why she is so passionate about the NHS green agenda and what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint.
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Promoting Wellbeing: Wellbeing Webinar
2024-06-10 12:00 - 13:00
Learning outcomes
By the end of this session the participant will:

Understand the factors which contribute to wellbeing
Know how wellbeing can be measured
Be aware of the steps to maintain wellbeing
Understand how stress and distress can affect wellbeing • Recognise stress and distress
Be able to proactively help people to maintain their wellbeing

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

How to reduce waste- from food to furniture Part of the Big green week
2024-06-10 12:30 - 13:00
The Great Big Green Week 8th-16th June 2024: All on-line events will take place 12.30-1pm
There is some great work underway to reduce waste in our hospitals. Sian from Lancashire Teaching Hospital will share stories about Warp-it, Paper and
Recycling Mobility aids.

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Sustainability Medicines & Pathology Part of the Big green week
2024-06-11 12:30 - 13:00
Join us to hear about some of the exciting projects the Medicines Management and Pathology teams have underway to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Sustainability in a GP practice - Part of the Big green week
2024-06-12 12:30 - 13:00
Join Judie and Corrie to gets some ideas around how to implement sustainability initiatives. It could be improving the green space around your building, energy saving changes or visiting patients on an e-bike!

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Green Spaces for Health & Wellbeing
2024-06-13 12:30 - 13:00
Evidence is clear- having more Green spaces improves the mental and physical health not just of our patients but of staff too. Be inspired by 2 projects currently underway:
Blackpool Teaching Hospital will tell us about their Green Therapy project and
Richard from Groundwork will explain how he has worked with the social prescribing team to develop the rear garden at Colne Health Centre

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Active Travel Part of the Big Green Week!
2024-06-14 12:30 - 13:00
We need to reduce the number of single occupancy cars to reduce pollution and congestion! Active travel is about walking or cycling instead of getting in the car. Blackpool Teaching Hospital will tell us about Peddle Power and Julie will walk us through the ICB cycle challenge.
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2 Day Health Coaching Core Skills Programme - Kendal
2024-06-20 09:00 - 17:00
20th June & 27th January 2024 – Castle Street Community Centre, Kendal
Health coaching is a supported self-management intervention and is part of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to make personalised care business as usual across the health and care system.
Health Coaching Development of health coaching skills focuses on training health and social care staff, voluntary sector representatives, and carers to use health coaching skills as part of consultations or conversations.
This involves supporting practitioners to develop their own health coaching skills, conversation frameworks and mind-set, so they can use a health coaching approach in their daily role to support personalised care and encourage self-management and shared decision making.
To apply for a place please fill out the Health Coaching Application form Health Coaching 2-Day Training Application Form – June – Dec 2024 UPDATED in full and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk
Initial confirmation of registration will be advised. Once all participants have been registered on the course a Briefing Pack and further info’s will be sent to all participants.
All applications are registered on a first come, first serve basis.
This 2-Day Health Coaching Course is being delivered by Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB & Active Lancashire for the benefit of Lancashire & South Cumbria population, to assist people to become more active in their own health and care.
See flyer here: HEALTH COACHING FLYER – JUNE – DEC 2024

2 Day Health Coaching Core Skills - Preston
2024-06-21 09:00 - 17:00
21st June & 27th January 2024 – – Corpus Christi High School, Preston
Health coaching is a supported self-management intervention and is part of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to make personalised care business as usual across the health and care system.
Health Coaching Development of health coaching skills focuses on training health and social care staff, voluntary sector representatives, and carers to use health coaching skills as part of consultations or conversations.
This involves supporting practitioners to develop their own health coaching skills, conversation frameworks and mind-set, so they can use a health coaching approach in their daily role to support personalised care and encourage self-management and shared decision making.
To apply for a place please fill out the Health Coaching Application form Health Coaching 2-Day Training Application Form – June – Dec 2024 UPDATED in full and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk
Initial confirmation of registration will be advised. Once all participants have been registered on the course a Briefing Pack and further info’s will be sent to all participants.
All applications are registered on a first come, first serve basis.
This 2-Day Health Coaching Course is being delivered by Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB & Active Lancashire for the benefit of Lancashire & South Cumbria population, to assist people to become more active in their own health and care.
See flyer here: HEALTH COACHING FLYER – JUNE – DEC 2024

2 Day Health Coaching Core Skills Programme - Lancaster
2024-07-02 09:00 - 17:00
2nd July & 9th July 2024 – The Storey, Lancaster
Health coaching is a supported self-management intervention and is part of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to make personalised care business as usual across the health and care system.
Health Coaching Development of health coaching skills focuses on training health and social care staff, voluntary sector representatives, and carers to use health coaching skills as part of consultations or conversations.
This involves supporting practitioners to develop their own health coaching skills, conversation frameworks and mind-set, so they can use a health coaching approach in their daily role to support personalised care and encourage self-management and shared decision making.
To apply for a place please fill out the Health Coaching Application form Health Coaching 2-Day Training Application Form – June – Dec 2024 UPDATED in full and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk
Initial confirmation of registration will be advised. Once all participants have been registered on the course a Briefing Pack and further info’s will be sent to all participants.
All applications are registered on a first come, first serve basis.
This 2-Day Health Coaching Course is being delivered by Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB & Active Lancashire for the benefit of Lancashire & South Cumbria population, to assist people to become more active in their own health and care.
See flyer here: HEALTH COACHING FLYER – JUNE – DEC 2024

MECC – Make Every Contact Count 1-Day Chat to Change Train the Trainer Course – Face to Face - Carer's Link, Accrington
2024-07-11 09:00 - 17:00
Free MECC Train the Trainer Chat to Change 1 Day Face to Face Course – Thurs 11th July – Carer’s Link, Accrington
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle
information via brief or very brief behaviour change interventions, enabling individuals to engage in
conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.
Colleagues who work across health and care within the NHS, local authority and voluntary sectors have
thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing.
MECC provides an opportunity to discuss health and wellbeing lifestyle pathways which can support and
enable behaviour change for key risk factors including smoking, alcohol, healthy eating, weight, physical
activity, hypertension and mental health.
Using your day to day contact with individuals as an opportunity to encourage and deliver key health
messages to improve their physical and emotional wellbeing, small changes can be made.
People cannot be forced to change, but by using opportunities for raising the issue of a healthy lifestyle in
a non- judgemental way, people’s awareness, confidence and motivation to make changes in their lives may occur
from a brief conversation.
Who is MECC TTT training aimed at?
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to improving the health of the population that everyone can
use, it is not restricted to one person, specific profession or organisation. It is aimed at giving staff from a wide
range of organisations the skills they need to encourage individuals to make choices that will prevent illness and
improve their lifestyles and wellbeing
For Lancashire & S Cumbria organisations, MECC can provide staff with the leadership, environment, training
and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
For staff, MECC means having the competence and
confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages, to help to encourage people to change their behaviour,
directing them to local services that can support them.
July – Dec 2024 – MECC 1-Day TTT Course Dates
Arrival 09.15, start 09.30, finish 4.30pm
20 x places available per TTT course
Face to Face
MECC TTT FLYER – JULY – DEC 2024
Course Requirements:
The MECC 1 Day is a Chat to Change ‘Train the Trainer
course’.
 We recommend wherever possible that all
participants try to complete a MECC online elearning session in advance of attending the
MECC face to face course (This link is sent out as
part of your course info’s)
 Complete a pre-course and post-course selfevaluation. This is a link sent out to all
participants and takes no longer than 4 minutes
to complete for each evaluation. (This link is sent
out as part of your course info’s and after your
course has been completed)
 Attend any Train the Trainer modules that are
advertised by ourselves.
 Once your 1 day TTT training is complete we ask
you to deliver a minimum of x 6 MECC sessions
per year, in order to embed the MECC approach
within your own organisation/community or
third-sector.
This could be either a 7 minute brief
intervention, a 1 hour or a 3 hour MECC session.
These sessions can be delivered in a variety of
ways such as at team meetings, 1:1 discussions
with colleagues, group chat etc.
 Attend a half day follow-up workshop (approx. 6
months post-training- where possible)
 Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the
programme on request including submitting
numbers and dates of any MECC training you
have delivered to the workforce/ community.
This would be requested every 3-6 months and
takes no longer than a few minutes to complete.
Course Registration:
To apply for a place on the 1-day MECC Train the Trainer
course please fill out the attached application form in full MECC TTT Chat to Change 1-Day Training Application Form – July – Dec 2024
and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk

2 Day Health Coaching Core Skills Programme - Morecambe
2024-07-24 09:00 - 17:00
24th July & 31st July 2024 – Venue TBC Morecambe
Health coaching is a supported self-management intervention and is part of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to make personalised care business as usual across the health and care system.
Health Coaching Development of health coaching skills focuses on training health and social care staff, voluntary sector representatives, and carers to use health coaching skills as part of consultations or conversations.
This involves supporting practitioners to develop their own health coaching skills, conversation frameworks and mind-set, so they can use a health coaching approach in their daily role to support personalised care and encourage self-management and shared decision making.
To apply for a place please fill out the Health Coaching Application form Health Coaching 2-Day Training Application Form – June – Dec 2024 UPDATED in full and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk
Initial confirmation of registration will be advised. Once all participants have been registered on the course a Briefing Pack and further info’s will be sent to all participants.
All applications are registered on a first come, first serve basis.
This 2-Day Health Coaching Course is being delivered by Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB & Active Lancashire for the benefit of Lancashire & South Cumbria population, to assist people to become more active in their own health and care.
See flyer here: HEALTH COACHING FLYER – JUNE – DEC 2024

Wellbeing webinar: Eat. Sleep. Refract. Repeat
2024-07-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Online event
Take a moment to think about what you had for dinner last night. Leftovers? Takeaway? Maybe you rustled something up from scratch.
Next, try and recall the details. What did you eat first? What did you savour until the end? What time did you eat? How long did it take you to finish? What did you drink? Did you have a pudding? A late-night snack? What had you done beforehand? How about afterwards? What time did you go to bed? Do you even care?
But what if you knew that all of those teeny decisions affect every single aspect of your life: from the size of your clothes; to your mood; energy levels; the ability to concentrate and perform tasks; your sleep quality; risk of disease; and even how long you’ll live.
This webinar will explore how making simple lifestyle adjustments to three key ‘pillars’ – sleep, nutrition and exercise – can deliver significant long-term benefits to both physical and mental wellbeing.
The session is free and open for practitioners and the wider practice team to attend.
Please use the following link to book your place. This events is free to members and non-members
Wellbeing webinar: Eat. Sleep. Refract. Repeat (aop.org.uk)

Recognising Stress: Wellbeing Webinar
2024-08-12 12:00 - 13:00
Come join us and learn how to recognise stress and develop plans to cope with stress.

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

MECC Train the Trainer Chat to Change 1 Day Face to Face Course Chorley
2024-08-15 09:00 - 17:00
Free MECC Train the Trainer Chat to Change 1 Day Face to Face Course – Thurs 15th August – Strawberry Fields Hub, Chorley
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle
information via brief or very brief behaviour change interventions, enabling individuals to engage in
conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.
Colleagues who work across health and care within the NHS, local authority and voluntary sectors have
thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing.
MECC provides an opportunity to discuss health and wellbeing lifestyle pathways which can support and
enable behaviour change for key risk factors including smoking, alcohol, healthy eating, weight, physical
activity, hypertension and mental health.
Using your day to day contact with individuals as an opportunity to encourage and deliver key health
messages to improve their physical and emotional wellbeing, small changes can be made.
People cannot be forced to change, but by using opportunities for raising the issue of a healthy lifestyle in
a non- judgemental way, people’s awareness, confidence and motivation to make changes in their lives may occur
from a brief conversation.
Who is MECC TTT training aimed at?
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to improving the health of the population that everyone can
use, it is not restricted to one person, specific profession or organisation. It is aimed at giving staff from a wide
range of organisations the skills they need to encourage individuals to make choices that will prevent illness and
improve their lifestyles and wellbeing
For Lancashire & S Cumbria organisations, MECC can provide staff with the leadership, environment, training
and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
For staff, MECC means having the competence and
confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages, to help to encourage people to change their behaviour,
directing them to local services that can support them.
July – Dec 2024 – MECC 1-Day TTT Course Dates
Arrival 09.15, start 09.30, finish 4.30pm
20 x places available per TTT course
Face to Face
MECC TTT FLYER – JULY – DEC 2024
Course Requirements:
The MECC 1 Day is a Chat to Change ‘Train the Trainer
course’.
 We recommend wherever possible that all
participants try to complete a MECC online elearning session in advance of attending the
MECC face to face course (This link is sent out as
part of your course info’s)
 Complete a pre-course and post-course selfevaluation. This is a link sent out to all
participants and takes no longer than 4 minutes
to complete for each evaluation. (This link is sent
out as part of your course info’s and after your
course has been completed)
 Attend any Train the Trainer modules that are
advertised by ourselves.
 Once your 1 day TTT training is complete we ask
you to deliver a minimum of x 6 MECC sessions
per year, in order to embed the MECC approach
within your own organisation/community or
third-sector.
This could be either a 7 minute brief
intervention, a 1 hour or a 3 hour MECC session.
These sessions can be delivered in a variety of
ways such as at team meetings, 1:1 discussions
with colleagues, group chat etc.
 Attend a half day follow-up workshop (approx. 6
months post-training- where possible)
 Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the
programme on request including submitting
numbers and dates of any MECC training you
have delivered to the workforce/ community.
This would be requested every 3-6 months and
takes no longer than a few minutes to complete.
Course Registration:
To apply for a place on the 1-day MECC Train the Trainer
course please fill out the attached application form in full MECC TTT Chat to Change 1-Day Training Application Form – July – Dec 2024
and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk

MECC Trainin the trainer Chat to change 1 day face to face course Blackpool
2024-08-20 09:00 - 17:00
Free MECC Train the Trainer Chat to Change 1 Day Face to Face Course – Tues 20th August –Blackpool Football Club, Blackpool
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle
information via brief or very brief behaviour change interventions, enabling individuals to engage in
conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.
Colleagues who work across health and care within the NHS, local authority and voluntary sectors have
thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing.
MECC provides an opportunity to discuss health and wellbeing lifestyle pathways which can support and
enable behaviour change for key risk factors including smoking, alcohol, healthy eating, weight, physical
activity, hypertension and mental health.
Using your day to day contact with individuals as an opportunity to encourage and deliver key health
messages to improve their physical and emotional wellbeing, small changes can be made.
People cannot be forced to change, but by using opportunities for raising the issue of a healthy lifestyle in
a non- judgemental way, people’s awareness, confidence and motivation to make changes in their lives may occur
from a brief conversation.
Who is MECC TTT training aimed at?
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to improving the health of the population that everyone can
use, it is not restricted to one person, specific profession or organisation. It is aimed at giving staff from a wide
range of organisations the skills they need to encourage individuals to make choices that will prevent illness and
improve their lifestyles and wellbeing
For Lancashire & S Cumbria organisations, MECC can provide staff with the leadership, environment, training
and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
For staff, MECC means having the competence and
confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages, to help to encourage people to change their behaviour,
directing them to local services that can support them.
July – Dec 2024 – MECC 1-Day TTT Course Dates
Arrival 09.15, start 09.30, finish 4.30pm
20 x places available per TTT course
Face to Face
MECC TTT FLYER – JULY – DEC 2024
Course Requirements:
The MECC 1 Day is a Chat to Change ‘Train the Trainer
course’.
 We recommend wherever possible that all
participants try to complete a MECC online elearning session in advance of attending the
MECC face to face course (This link is sent out as
part of your course info’s)
 Complete a pre-course and post-course selfevaluation. This is a link sent out to all
participants and takes no longer than 4 minutes
to complete for each evaluation. (This link is sent
out as part of your course info’s and after your
course has been completed)
 Attend any Train the Trainer modules that are
advertised by ourselves.
 Once your 1 day TTT training is complete we ask
you to deliver a minimum of x 6 MECC sessions
per year, in order to embed the MECC approach
within your own organisation/community or
third-sector.
This could be either a 7 minute brief
intervention, a 1 hour or a 3 hour MECC session.
These sessions can be delivered in a variety of
ways such as at team meetings, 1:1 discussions
with colleagues, group chat etc.
 Attend a half day follow-up workshop (approx. 6
months post-training- where possible)
 Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the
programme on request including submitting
numbers and dates of any MECC training you
have delivered to the workforce/ community.
This would be requested every 3-6 months and
takes no longer than a few minutes to complete.
Course Registration:
To apply for a place on the 1-day MECC Train the Trainer
course please fill out the attached application form in full MECC TTT Chat to Change 1-Day Training Application Form – July – Dec 2024
and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk

Wellbeing Champion Drop in Session
2024-08-23 11:00 - 11:45
Are you a voluntary Wellbeing Champion in practice?
Do you have any burning questions for other Champions or do you have some fabulous ideas to share with other champions?

Take some time out of your role, for your self care.

Come and join us for a 45 minute drop in session to share best practices or ask questions to other champions.

There will be opportunities to ask questions, get involved and be supported in this session.

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us.
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub and with the Training Provider, NHSE and ICB, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

Promoting Wellbeing: Wellbeing Webinar
2024-09-06 12:00 - 13:00
Learning outcomes
By the end of this session the participant will:

Understand the factors which contribute to wellbeing
Know how wellbeing can be measured
Be aware of the steps to maintain wellbeing
Understand how stress and distress can affect wellbeing • Recognise stress and distress
Be able to proactively help people to maintain their wellbeing

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us.
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub and with the Training Provider, NHSE and ICB, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

Menopause Drop in Session
2024-09-16 12:30 - 13:15
We are hosting two menopause drop in sessions to offer a support network to those experiencing menopausal symptoms or who are going through the menopause.

This is not a formal session but just a drop in to chat and share experiences; good or bad.
We are delighted to be joined by Claire Morgan (GPN) from Library House Surgery who has a special interest in women’s health

There will be opportunities to ask questions, get involved and be supported in this session.

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us.
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub and with the Training Provider, NHSE and ICB, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

MECC Train the Trainer Chat to Change 1 Day Face to Face Course Wigan
2024-09-19 09:00 - 17:00
Free MECC Train the Trainer Chat to Change 1 Day Face to Face Course – Thurs 19th September – Nuvenu Conf Centre, Wigan
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle
information via brief or very brief behaviour change interventions, enabling individuals to engage in
conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.
Colleagues who work across health and care within the NHS, local authority and voluntary sectors have
thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing.
MECC provides an opportunity to discuss health and wellbeing lifestyle pathways which can support and
enable behaviour change for key risk factors including smoking, alcohol, healthy eating, weight, physical
activity, hypertension and mental health.
Using your day to day contact with individuals as an opportunity to encourage and deliver key health
messages to improve their physical and emotional wellbeing, small changes can be made.
People cannot be forced to change, but by using opportunities for raising the issue of a healthy lifestyle in
a non- judgemental way, people’s awareness, confidence and motivation to make changes in their lives may occur
from a brief conversation.
Who is MECC TTT training aimed at?
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to improving the health of the population that everyone can
use, it is not restricted to one person, specific profession or organisation. It is aimed at giving staff from a wide
range of organisations the skills they need to encourage individuals to make choices that will prevent illness and
improve their lifestyles and wellbeing
For Lancashire & S Cumbria organisations, MECC can provide staff with the leadership, environment, training
and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
For staff, MECC means having the competence and
confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages, to help to encourage people to change their behaviour,
directing them to local services that can support them.
July – Dec 2024 – MECC 1-Day TTT Course Dates
Arrival 09.15, start 09.30, finish 4.30pm
20 x places available per TTT course
Face to Face
MECC TTT FLYER – JULY – DEC 2024
Course Requirements:
The MECC 1 Day is a Chat to Change ‘Train the Trainer
course’.
 We recommend wherever possible that all
participants try to complete a MECC online elearning session in advance of attending the
MECC face to face course (This link is sent out as
part of your course info’s)
 Complete a pre-course and post-course selfevaluation. This is a link sent out to all
participants and takes no longer than 4 minutes
to complete for each evaluation. (This link is sent
out as part of your course info’s and after your
course has been completed)
 Attend any Train the Trainer modules that are
advertised by ourselves.
 Once your 1 day TTT training is complete we ask
you to deliver a minimum of x 6 MECC sessions
per year, in order to embed the MECC approach
within your own organisation/community or
third-sector.
This could be either a 7 minute brief
intervention, a 1 hour or a 3 hour MECC session.
These sessions can be delivered in a variety of
ways such as at team meetings, 1:1 discussions
with colleagues, group chat etc.
 Attend a half day follow-up workshop (approx. 6
months post-training- where possible)
 Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the
programme on request including submitting
numbers and dates of any MECC training you
have delivered to the workforce/ community.
This would be requested every 3-6 months and
takes no longer than a few minutes to complete.
Course Registration:
To apply for a place on the 1-day MECC Train the Trainer
course please fill out the attached application form in full MECC TTT Chat to Change 1-Day Training Application Form – July – Dec 2024
and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk

Health and Wellbeing Champion Training
2024-09-20 10:30 - 11:30
Come join us for the L&SC PCTH Health and Wellbeing Training.
Wellbeing should be a shared value across the organisation and not owned by one person or team​
This training will empower primary care organisations to create or upskill a team of employees to work alongside the Wellbeing Guardians and Wellbeing Champion Leads in the development, delivery and improvement of well-being within their workplace.

The goal is to align with the NHS Peoples Plan and the ICS to embed a positive culture of health across primary care ​

The training will be delivered by well-being leads and cascaded in TTT technique to champions

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.

Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us.
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub and with the Training Provider, NHSE and ICB, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

2 Day Health Coaching Skills Programme - Lancaster
2024-10-09 09:00 - 17:00
29th October & 16th October 2024 – The Toll House, Lancaster
Health coaching is a supported self-management intervention and is part of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to make personalised care business as usual across the health and care system.
Health Coaching Development of health coaching skills focuses on training health and social care staff, voluntary sector representatives, and carers to use health coaching skills as part of consultations or conversations.
This involves supporting practitioners to develop their own health coaching skills, conversation frameworks and mind-set, so they can use a health coaching approach in their daily role to support personalised care and encourage self-management and shared decision making.
To apply for a place please fill out the Health Coaching Application form Health Coaching 2-Day Training Application Form – June – Dec 2024 UPDATED in full and send to:
workforcetraining@activelancashire.org.uk
Initial confirmation of registration will be advised. Once all participants have been registered on the course a Briefing Pack and further info’s will be sent to all participants.
All applications are registered on a first come, first serve basis.
This 2-Day Health Coaching Course is being delivered by Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB & Active Lancashire for the benefit of Lancashire & South Cumbria population, to assist people to become more active in their own health and care.
See flyer here: HEALTH COACHING FLYER – JUNE – DEC 2024

5 Ways to Wellbeing: Wellbeing Webinar
2024-10-11 12:00 - 13:00
NHS supports the evidenced-based 5 ways to improve mental health and wellbeing:

Connect. Feeling close to, and valued by, other people
Be Active
Take Notice. Being aware of what is taking place in the present
Learn
Give

This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.
