Psychological Skills Training

At Healthy Minds, we offer evidence-based training to enhance resilience, help build skills for stress management and improve performance in schools and workplaces. Stress and mental health can be huge factors in performance decline and dissatisfaction in the workplace or an educational setting.

Our psychological skills training equips you with the tools to build mental resilience and manage stress effectively. How? The training promotes active implementation of skills and tools that help regulate emotions, moods and periods of high stress. You can never truly dominate psychological ability, but the first step to effectively managing these skills is to identify triggers and warning signs before they are out of your control.

At Healthy Minds, we’ve done the scientific research to understand the ingredients behind a strong mindset and the skills needed to manage stress successfully.

What Is Psychological Skills Training?

Mental well-being is at the forefront of our psychological skills training. Studies have shown that mental well-being is a constant process, where individuals need to practice healthy mechanisms to ensure that they have the skills needed to navigate challenging situations. Our training focuses on:

The teaching of cognitive and behavioural tools that help individuals navigate challenges and regulate their emotions.
The Healthy Minds focus on teaching people lifelong tools that they can take with them in their personal and professional lives.

It’s about more than just being prepared for mental challenges. We believe that learning and implementing these skills helps to navigate moments of crisis before they hit, ensuring that you have the skills needed to handle a situation or period of stress without losing your grip on your mental health.

Core Skills We Focus On

Every-day mental resilience is about more than what you’d usually think. We’ve all heard take deep breaths and go outside to be with nature, and whilst these are excellent coping mechanisms, there is more to mental regulation that we often forget to train. For example:

Helpful Thinking

Through cognitive restructuring, we can help you identify unhelpful thought patterns and reframe them to be more constructive or positive.

Stress Management

Skills like structured breathing or mindfulness help to regulate your nervous system and the fight or flight response.

Emotional Regulation

Our training focuses on techniques that help you manage intense emotions, distress and maintain professional boundaries when your emotions take over

Attention and Focus Control

This trains the mind to stay present and focus on the tasks at hand, which minimises the impact of distractions and anxiety.

How We Tailor Our Training To Your Environment?

It’s all well and good to understand the psychological skills needed to navigate challenging emotions and periods of heightened stress, but the real challenge is in applying them to your real life.

We roll out our mental resilience training to workplaces where psychosocial hazards are most prominent. For instance, workplaces can benefit from mental resilience training to reduce burnout, implement better conflict resolution and improve team culture. And psychological skills training focuses on equipping both students and teachers with the tools to prevent anxiety and improve academic focus at earlier stages.

Psychological Skills Training with HealthyMinds

Corporate workplaces can often overlook the importance of mental health, but at HealthyMinds, we know better. Our world-leading research has developed strategies and tools that are designed to enhance your mental resilience, performance and health.

The difference with Healthy Minds is that we aren’t offering you therapy. Our approach is focused on providing you with development programs that help you get ahead of the curve and build skills that will help you succeed when you are faced with stressful periods or complex emotions.

Contact us today, and we’ll help implement our training in your setting. We offer workshops, live webinars, or digital self-paced courses, so there’s something for everyone. Our directors Nick Lee and Tom Nehmy are happy to speak with you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is psychological skills training just for people struggling with stress and mental health?

No! Psychological skills training is for everyone. It equips you with the skills to navigate future stress and prevent emotional disregulation.

How long does it take to see the benefits?

Particular techniques or methods can provide you with immediate relief and support when you’re in periods of stress. But with our training program, consistency is key. So, by regularly practising our skills and approaches, you’ll build long-term resilience and clarity that you can use moving forward in all aspects of your life.

Become an Accredited Healthy Minds Workplace

We offer an accreditation process which maintains quality practices and adoption of the latest developments in corporate mental health. By becoming an accredited Healthy Minds workplace, you provide your staff with the skills and knowledge to be their best, and establish your organisation as a leader in employee wellbeing.

Here are some of the organisations we have helped.