Practical Mental Health Skills for Outdoor Leaders

As an outdoor professional, you know that supporting the mental and emotional wellbeing of the people you lead is essential.

This CPD course gives you the vital knowledge and practical skills to confidently manage situations where clients experience emotional distress, anxiety, fear and panic. You’ll gain:

• The ability to monitor for signs of distress, prevent escalation, and support clients who experience emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or panic during an activity.
• A clear understanding of the brain and nervous system's stress response, and why it varies from person to person.
• The confidence to use a range of quick, non-intrusive techniques to calm distressed participants, adapted for use in a dynamic outdoor environment.
• Two digital handouts plus a Certificate of Completion: the full course slide deck and a signposting guide to sources of professional help

Participants consistently praise this highly specialised course as engaging, practical, and clear.

It’s a suitable complement to standard Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training, which focuses identifying mental health conditions and supportive conversation. Practical Mental Health Skills for Outdoor Leaders, by contrast, is squarely centred on proactive crisis management in dynamic outdoor settings.

All outdoor leaders are welcome, from forest school leaders and Scouts permit holders to Winter Mountaineering Course Instructors and paddlesports leaders. The course confers 1 CPD credit for members of MTA, AMI, and BAIML (Core).

Cancellation policy

As a micro business, our cancellation policy helps us ensure that our costs are covered and to protect the ongoing viability of our events.

• If you notify us more than 4 weeks before your booking’s start date, you'll receive a Credit Voucher or refund for the amount you've paid to us, minus a Cancellation Charge that is equal to 10% of the total Booking Cost.
• If you notify us less than 4 weeks prior to your booking’s start date, you'll forfeit the amount that you have paid to us. We may offer you the option to attend at a later date.

Please read our Terms & Conditions carefully before you book. They include important information, e.g. full details of our cancellation policy.