Training

LivingWorks Start 55+

Thanks to the generous support of Bell and the Government of Ontario, we are delighted to announce FREE online learning opportunities for adults 55 and older.  

 

In just 90 minutes online, LivingWorks Start trains participants to recognize when a person may be thinking about suicide and how to connect them to help and support.  Click the following link for more details: LivingWorks Start information.

 

To register for this course please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your name and email address.  We will then forward you the instructions on how to register for this event at no cost.

 

This course is offered online at your own time and pace.  

This online training is currently only available in English.

Living Life to the Full 

Want to know how to feel happier, more confident, and worry less right now? Would you like to learn new ways of dealing with what life throws at you? Living Life to the Full is a fun and interactive course that will help you understand your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and what to do about them!

Living Life to the Full is a mental health promotion course designed to help people deal with everyday life challenges and learn self-management skills using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles. Course content and materials are practical and easily applied to everyday life situations.

 

What you learn:

✔ Self-confidence

✔ Problem-solving

✔ Stress management

✔ Motivation

✔ Dealing with unhelpful thoughts

✔ Anger management

 

Adult Program 18+

When: Every Monday and Wednesday in June

             (June 3-5, 10-12, 17-19, 24-26)

Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Cost: Free

Deadline to register: May 30th

Virtual sessions on MS Teams

 

Program sponsored by:

 

   Learn the skills. 

   Help save a life.

  

Suicide is preventable. Anyone can make a difference.

The LivingWorks’ ASIST program is recognized as the world’s leading suicide intervention workshop supported by numerous evaluations including independent and peer-reviewed studies. The training is available to anyone wanting to apply suicide first-aid skills and be better able to:

• recognize and assist a person with thoughts of suicide
• discuss suicide with a person with thoughts of suicide in a direct manner
• demonstrate and apply the skills required to intervene
• learn about the facts of suicide and dispel the myths
• identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them and
• list the types of supportive resources available to someone with thoughts of suicide

 

Date: June 25-26, 2024

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: Centre de santé communautaire de l’Estrie (841 Sydney Street, Unit 6, Cornwall)

Language: English

Cost: $226.00 ($200.00 + HST)

 

For more information, please contact Geneviève Desrochers: 613-551-1017

 

ASIST works. Learn more and see the evidence at www.livingworks.net/asist