Mental Health Basics

Training to become
"Mental Health Supporters"

Training to become a "Mental Health Supporter"

The training to become a "Mental Health Supporter" is a quick and compact way to introduce the topic of mental health to the world, either personally or in teams and groups.
This short training is particularly useful for employers who want to offer a central contact person for mental health on site in their company - this can be health managers, HR staff, works councils, executives or even interested employees.

Training objectives

A trained "Mental Health Supporter" is the contact person for all matters relating to mental health in a company, in a commercial context or in a private context.

With this basic training, a "Mental Health Supporter" is able to recognize when he or she and those around him are stressed or mentally unbalanced and has small strategies ready to regulate emotions and build up resources.

Course of training to become a "Mental Health Supporter"

The training to become a "Mental Health Supporter" is a so-called "Blended learning concept", this means that you first work independently on digital content in our e-learning portal, so that all participants have the same basic information at the beginning of the live training in order to start the practical exercises.

In the live training, we will then practice the theoretical content together in small groups via Zoom and expand it with short exercises.

After the training, you will also receive additional material in the e-learning portal.


Contents of the training to become a "Mental Health Supporter"

During the training, you will receive theoretical basics about definitions, content and goals of mental health, the stimulus-response cycle of people, the risk and protective factors model, the seven pillars of resilience as well as many additional quotes, worksheets and exercises.

After completing the training, you will be able to better recognize when you and others lose their mental balance, how to build up resources and thus start powerfully through change processes.




TERM 2023/2024


The training takes place as blended learning.
The development of digital content can begin at any time.
Scope of training:approx. 5 hours e-learning(depending on reading and processing speed)
plus 3 x 90 minutes = 4.5 hours of live training.
All participants receive a digital certificate after successfully completing the training.

Live training – online:

Still in the planning stage.


Live training – presence (Duisburg)

Still in the planning stage.

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