It has been a while since I’ve blogged, I have been meaning to post about some recent training events for a while. During January I have trained a local branch of the Samaritans, a group of support workers and counsellors at a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre, and attended a Connexions training day for teachers.

The more training I do, the more confident I am in the usefullness of the information we provide. The feedback is always positive and even if sometimes I think I haven’t really presented my best, I get a lot of questions and interest in our leaflets and website. The only trouble is there is just so much to say!

I strongly believe that the best thing people can do to start helping who self-harm is to read more about it, and thus education can lead to a better understanding of what is needed from them. We cannot answer questions on how to deal with individual cases, because we are all coping with very different things but if people can begin to grasp the fact that many people who self-harm have issues with control or self-esteem or that it can feel like this is the only way we can say how we are feeling, then they are in a much better position to be of help.

LifeSIGNS Training Brochure [PDF Version; 300KB]