Psychological Health, Resilience and Mindset Training for Healthcare Professionals
High-pressure healthcare environments demand more than technical and clinical skills - they require teams and leaders who are resilient, psychologically safe, and equipped to respond to stress and challenges.
Our psychological health and resilience courses and workshops provide evidence-based frameworks that help healthcare teams:
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Recognise and respond to psychological stress in themselves and others
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Respond and communicate with patients using a psychologically safe lense
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Understand human responses to trauma, adversity and loss, tailored to the healthcare workplace setting
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Strengthen resilience, wellbeing and performance under pressure
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Build psychologically safe workplaces that improve staff engagement, retention and therefore patient outcomes
Hospitals, GP Clinics and Community Health, Allied Health, Aged Care, Disability
Browse our workshops below, or contact us for a tailored program
Trauma-Informed Practice - Recognising and Responding to Trauma in Healthcare Settings
Trauma and adversity are at the forefront of many healthcare presentations and interactions
Help your team to understand how trauma and adversity impacts the brain, behaviour and emotional responses. With trauma and adversity so prevalent amongst both patients and staff, this workshop will help to recognise signs of stress in themselves, patients and colleagues, how it may be triggered and to formulate helpful, compassionate responses. We delve into the impact on patients, on witnesses and on those who care for people in times of trauma and adversity, and how to protect yourself psychologically as a healthcare professional.
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Suitable for Doctors, Nurses, Care Workers, PCA's and Allied Health Staff
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Prevalence of trauma, abuse and violence
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Understanding trauma and the impact on development, the body, mind and human behaviour
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Individual differences in responses to trauma and coping mechanisms - culture, gender and diversity
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Using environmental psychology principles to create a safe, calming and recovery focused environment
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Avoiding re-traumatisation and triggers, and how to manage the behavioural consequences of traumatic events
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Responding to disclosure of trauma and abuse
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Assisting those who have been impacted by trauma to recognise their own strengths, and promote resilience and recovery
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Vicarious trauma and managing the impact of witnessing others trauma, or caring for those who have experienced trauma
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Witnessing or suspecting trauma or abuse - mandatory reporting, rights and responsibilities, ethics and difficult conversations
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Maintaining resilience, positivity and engagement in challenging environments
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Promoting recovery and healing from trauma
Compassionate Care Workshop
Compassion is the core of patient care
Help you or your team to understand the positive and negative impacts of how we interact with patients and delve into understanding the patient as a whole person, what drives negative behaviour and how to create a compassionate, caring, psychologically safe environment.
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Suitable for Doctors, Nurses, Care Workers, PCA's and Allied Health Staff
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What is compassionate care, and a psychologically safe environment?
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The elderly person (or patient) as a whole being - they were young once too, with mobility, independence and full lives
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Take a moment to reflect on them as human beings and what it means to be in an aged care facility (For aged care settings - contextualised for other settings, i.e. disability)
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Patient communication techniques
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Positive psychology as a driver for healthy environments
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Trauma-informed care and the impact of trauma on human behaviourStress, burnout and compassion fatigue - how stress impacts compassion
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Self-refection and empathy as a tool for understanding others
Psychological C.P.R. for Healthcare Teams
Our signature trademarked program tailored specifically to align to the needs of healthcare teams
Does your healthcare team need cultural, behavioural and psychological CPR?
Communication & Culture, People & Prevention, Respect & Respond
A specialty training program only available at SL Training Centre, which helps teams understand the drivers of human behaviours, what constitutes disrespect in the workplace, the science of stress and burnout and all aspects of maintaining psychological safety at work.
Designed to help managers and teams understand obligations of Psychological Health & Safety OHS Regulations, how to prevent and respond to disrespect or psychological harm, and create cohesive and high-performing workplaces.
Psychological C.P.R. goes beyond tick list workplace respect modules and delves into the drivers of human behaviour, communication and psychological health in the workplace
Between-the-Rounds TM Resilience Training Program for Healthcare Teams
Our signature Psychology and Resilience training trademarked program, designed to elevate professional performance, personal wellbeing, physical health and mindset
A premium resilience training program, Between-the-Rounds TM teaches the pillars of resilience and overcoming adversity and challenges, taught in an experiential format derived from the principles of martial arts.
Participants are guided through 4 'rounds' of learning, where they leave energised, inspired and ready to face challenges
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Resilience training for healthcare leaders - how to become a resilient leader, and lead resilient teams
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High-performing healthcare teams, and thriving beyond adversity
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Mindset training, and growth mindset
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Wellbeing and the impact of lifestyle on health, life, mental state and ultimately, the workplace
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Managing stress and burnout in healthcare
Communication for Healthcare Teams
Communication is at the heart of healthcare.
It forms the basis of consent, colleague and patient interactions, and ultimately patient safety and care.
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The science of behaviour and personalities, and influences on human behaviour
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Effective communication - factors that influence communication and understandingNavigating difficult conversations
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What is said v what is heard - how to ensure patients and colleagues understand the spoken word, not just hear it
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The importance of adequate documentation in communication with teams
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Neurodiversity and communication challenges
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Dementia, brain injuries and neurotrauma, and the impact on communication and behaviour
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Self-reflection - the importance of reflection of self in communicating with others
Compassion-fatigue, loss and emotional sustainability in specific settings
Choose from Aged Care, ICU, NICU, Disability, Acute Hospital Settings, Palliative Care, or tailored to the needs of your speciality area.
When your patient's become ill or pass away, the next one takes the room and life goes on - but healthcare workers become very close to their patients. Bereavement in Healthcare settings can have a profound impact on staff.
This workshop unpacks psychological and behavioural impacts, coping mechanisms and how to maintain positivity and resilience in changing and challenging environments. We also offer a chance to simply debrief and share stories, in a safe environment.
Facilitator will stay back post session for opportunity for individuals to talk/open-up or debrief one-on-one if desired.
Stress, fatigue & burnout prevention and management for healthcare workers
Healthcare has some of the highest rates of burnout, stress and fatigue than any other industry
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Learn how stress impacts the body, brain, mood, behaviour and decision making
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How stress impacts health in the short and long term
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Difference between stress and burnout
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How to prevent and manage burnout in healthcare
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How to manage stress, and stressful situations
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Lifestyle factors that impact responses to stressful events
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The impact of your own trauma and adversity on the stress response, and response to adversity in others.
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Learning how to self-reflect to understand our own reactions
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How does diversity, culture, neurodiversity and personality type impact stress responses
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All participants receive and stress and burnout take-home toolkit
Want to see other psychological health, wellbeing and mindset training options we can tailor to your healthcare needs?
Visit our corporate psychological health and mindset & wellbeing pages to explore program topics in more depth, and discover our single topic webinar options, which can be tailored to the needs of healthcare teams
Looking for clinical training?
SL Training Centre collaborates with education and training providers to deliver clinical training on a variety of topics, such as immunisation updates, infection control, life support and more....Contact us to discuss your needs.