Resiliency and Self Compassion Training Webinars with Ed Sipler, May –June 2024
Training and resources with Ed Sipler in the South Eastern May, June 2024
These workshops are being delivered in partnership with the Western Health Improvement
Team and Health Development in the South Eastern Trust. They are open to anyone across Northern Ireland. The focus of training this year is to support the workforce making use of online self-help resources with their service users.
These topics, all using zoom, are planned for May and June, 2024. All workshops run from
10 am to 1 pm. Participants can sign up them through Eventbrite from the Western Trust with the exception of using the Polyvagal theory to improve well-being. The link to Eventbrite is not out yet and people can sign up directly through emailing Ed Sipler at ed.sipler@setrust.hscni.net
It is recommended that practitioners complete the on-line work for themselves to become familiar with the content. This is a suggestion, not a requirement. Workers who use the on-line work for themselves are asked to complete the evaluation link on the appropriate platform to help gauge impact.
By attending any training, you are agreeing to provide a short evaluation after the training to give feedback of the impact of this training and using what was covered in the training and the email you give us will be used to contact you.
Training sessions include:
- May 1st – As part of World Maternal Mental Health Day – Using low intensity CBT based tools to build resilience (revised Bend Don’t Break)
- June 18th – As part of Autism Pride Day – Making Our Nevous System Work For
Us- Using the Polyvagal Therory to Improve Well-Being
- May 19th – Using Self-compassion to improve well-being
- June 25th – Building emotional regulation in children with parents using Building our Children’s Developing Brain.
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Using guided self-help to build resilience – Bend Don’t Break Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental health problems before, during and after pregnancy. We believe Bend Don’t Break will be a useful tool to support maternal mental health
Good thinking skills, support and self-care are central to supporting well-being and resilience.
Low intensity work means the member of staff has the skills to coach people through the use of CBT-based self-help material. The training will build the confidence and skills of participants to use a low intensity resource, Bend Don’t Break with their clients which has been revised with a 2023 version.
As the workshop is linking in to Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week it will also touch on the resources to support self-compassion which has a strong evidence base of supporting well-being
Date: May 1st 2024 10:AM to 1:00 PM on Zoom To Sign up visit
Bend Don’t Break Workshop Tickets, Wed 1 May 2024 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
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Making Our Nevous System Work For Us- Using the Polyvagal Therory to Improve Well-Being. To mark Autistic Pride Day – a day to recognise and embrace their unique strengths, we are exploring what the Polyvagal Theory has to offer us all, whether we are somewhere on the autistic spectrum or not. The Polyvagal Theory is based on the work of Stephen Porges and the Vagus nerve and the way that it works within the body to help us interact with our world.
We all have times when the stresses of life shift our nervous system into a fight / flight or shutdown response. Learning to apply the Polyvagal Theory has the potential for us all, not only to understand autism better, but to help make our nervous system work with more flexibility.
In this workshop, particiapants will increase learning about our nervous system, the role of the Vagus nerve, and the Polyvagal Theory. With an on-line version of the workbook, it will enable using this material with service users, with exercises to help to improve self-regulation This work is psycho-eduction to present information and introduce self help that is up to the particapants how they make use of it. Date: – 18th of June 2024 10:AM to 1:00 PM on Zoom Sign up by conacting Ed Sipler – ed.sipler@setrust.hscni.net
Self-Compassion People in Northern Ireland tend to be their own worst critics. We tend to see our weaknesses, not our strengths and can be really hard on ourselves. There is good evidence that when someone practices self-compassion, it improves not only their physical health and well-being, it also helps them achieve goals and make changes in their lives that are important to them.
The first step is to being to practice it in our own lives and model it in our interactions with family and service users. What you will get from attending the workshop: An introduction to selfcompassion, what it is and the evidence behind it, how to make the most of it, experience some of the exercises, and explore a way forward to integrate self-compassion in your work.
Date: 19th of June 2024 10:AM to 1:00 PM on Zoom
To Sign up visit Self-Compassion: Why The Way We Talk to Ourselves Matters Tickets, Wed 19 Jun 2024 at 10:00 | Eventbrite ______________________________________________
Building emotional regulation in children through working with parents. This one-half day workshop will equip workers to use Building our Children’s Developing Brain adapted from The Whole-Brain Child’ by Dan Siegel & Tina Bryson with practical parenting strategies to help the different parts of our children’s brains work together. It is important to stress this is not infant mental health work, but the stage beyond this. The main booklet used can be seen on the Trust’s website at Building-Our-Childs-Developing-Brain-V4-1.pdf (hscni.net) The material can be used by those trained in 1-1 work or with groups of parents (participants will be provided a PowerPoint guide to deliver the work in groups)
Date: 25th of June 2024 10:AM to 1:00 PM on Zoom
To sign up go to: Building our Children’s Developing Brain Tickets, Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 10:00 | Eventbrite |
On-line Resources
Increasing help seeking for mental health – on-line tools: An important question is how do we reach people earlier for support? In Partnership with ASCERT and the Autism team we took four self-help resources currently in existence to create on-line versions to enable people to do the work from these resources at their own pace. Opens best in EDGE. Copy the link into your search browser. Each has an evaluation link to gauge impact.
Building our Children’s Developing Brain for parents to help build their children’s emotional regulation is aimed at parents to help build emotional regulation. It is not infant mental health but beyond that as children get verbal and into school. https://view.pagetiger.com/selfcareforfamilies
Using Self Compassion to Improve Wellbeing and Support Growth https://www.ascert.biz/self-compassion
Teams can request sessions to introduce self-compassion to their teams by contacting ed.sipler@setrust.hscni.net
Bend Don’t Break: Low intensity CBT based self-help to support resilience. Bend Don’t Break | ASCERT https://www.ascert.biz/bend-dont-break/
Making Our Nevous System Work For Us- Using the Polyvagal
Therory to Improve Well-Being. A workbook is currently available to improve wellbeing. It is not a quick fix but will require effort to put it into practice. It can be down loaded from the South Eastern Trust website. Click the healthy living tab, then building a toolkit for change, then building resilience in ourselves or click https://setrust.hscni.net/wpcontent/uploads/2023/02/Nervous-System-Brochure-Final.pdf
An on-line version is under construction and will be completed by March 2024
You Tube Clips for psych-education and to support conversations
Three you tube clips on well-being have been developed
- How stress and trauma affect our nervous system ideas for healing and self-care
- Dealing with worry.
All 3 clips have written resources the viewer can download from the description on the You Tube site. To find these clips search Ed Sipler on the You Tube or visit www.ascert.biz under the resources section.