• Healthy Conversation is an approach to behaviour change that utilises the millions of day to day interactions that organisations and people have with other people to encourage changes in behaviour that have a positive effect on the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and workplaces.
• Healthy Conversation Skills is essentially about enabling the people to recognise the opportunity they have in facilitating people to have greater awareness of their health and wellbeing. It is then about empowering people to seek out their own solutions to supporting their own health and wellbeing.
• It enables organisations and individuals to develop and be able to use a different approach to working with people to address health and wellbeing. 
• It is widely known, that telling people what to do or just handing out information is not the most effective way to help people make positive change. 
• It is about altering how we interact with people through learning how to recognise opportunities to talk to people about their wellbeing.

What is a “Healthy Conversation”?

If a conversation is a chat, talk or discussion, the word “healthy” suggests the content would be about fitness, wellbeing and all things that are good for your health; but also “healthy” in the sense of a beneficial or psychologically sound style of conversation: supporting someone in an empowering and positive way. A “healthy conversation” supports an individual to explore their own world/context, find the solutions from within and plan to make a change.

What is the Healthy Conversations Skills workshop?
In this training program, participants will learn essential communication skills to foster healthy interactions, particularly in personal contexts. We address common challenges related to change acceptance, fear of sharing thoughts and emotions, and feeling isolated. By the end of the course, attendees will gain confidence in supporting others, engage in meaningful conversations, and understand effective signposting techniques.
 

The Format   

Duration: 4 hrs with breaks.

Style: Live & interactive - Learning takes place through a mix of group activities, presentations, and discussions. 

Some of the topics we cover

• How to gain confidence in supporting one another.
• Approach & Support
• Open Discovery Questions
• Health Conversation Skills.
• Help and support - Signposting

On completion

Everyone who completes the course will receive a Cedar Tree certificate of attendance. 

The Cedar Tree Healthy Conversation Skills training is based on the NHS Wessex Module of Making Every Contact Count.