Training & Events

Training to foster a healthy and resilient workforce

Investing in health and wellbeing for individuals and teams

May 18, 2021

Management of Sexual Violence

Sexual Assault and harassment is increasingly recognised as a risk to men and women working internationally within the sector.

This course aims to help your organisation respond appropriately in the event of sexual assaults. You will be provided with the opportunity to reflect on your current organisational policies and practice, from a medical and psychological perspective.

We will be focusing on the needs of the individual in the first seven days after an assault and how you can respond effectively.

We are pleased to present our new booklet for field workers and line managers, providing clear guidance on how to support and respond to the immediate needs of a colleague who has been sexually assaulted.

Sexual Assault Kits are also available through our online shop and can be purchased after a travel health consultation with one of our nurses.

  • Critically evaluate the problem of sexual assault for those working internationally.
  • Apply learning in their own context from the experience of colleagues in supporting survivors of sexual assault in the field.
  • Identify common dilemmas faced by HR and security managers.
  • Describe the medical issues around sexual assault immediately after the incident and how this impacts advance planning for HR and security policies
  • Recognize the range of psychological responses to a sexual assault and appropriately manage shock after an incident, drawing on each other’s experiences of supporting someone through this initial phase.
  • Effectively use the InterHealth sexual assault kit and advice booklet to support your staff.
  • Identify some of the medium- and long-term medical issues for the survivor and the kinds of supports these require.
  • Think creatively about cross-cultural implications when responding to sexual assault.
  • Compare and contrast common experiences, feelings and defences after an assault and consider how to use this awareness to aid recovery.
  • Link the psychological advice given to the individual with broader recommendations to the organisation.

This day will include presentations but also several elements where participants will be asked to participate in group learning from their experience (if any) of supporting survivors of assault. Participants with lots of experience as well as none are welcome - our aim is to all come away striving to support survivors better.

MAY 15, 2021

Infant & Child First Aid

InterHealth’s medical professionals have designed an interactive one day training course to equip parents and caregivers with the skills to provide timely first aid and to know when medical support may be required.

The training include how to communicate effectively for medical assistance and how to respond to some of the commonest illnesses and injuries encountered by infants and children.

Course Objectives

1. To be able to assess an emergency situation safely

2. Provide first aid for an infant and a child if:

  • Unresponsive, including child and infant resuscitation
  • Has foreign body airway obstruction
  • Bleeding
  • Injuries to bones, joints and muscles.
  • Burns, scalds or electric shocks
  • Bites or Stings
  • Minor injuries, including cuts, grazes, bumps, bruises, splinters & nose bleeds
  • Eye & ear infections
  • Head and spinal injuries

3. To identify and administer first aid to an infant and a child with illnesses, including:

  • Fever
  • Asthma attack
  • Allergic reactions
  • Diarrhoea
  • Meningitis
  • Febrile convulsions and fits.

To takeaway:

Each participant will receive a manual covering the topics of the training. We encourage this manual to be kept in your home to serve as a memory aide in the event of an incident.

MAY 12, 2020

Mindfulness : Morning Session

InterHealth and the Transforming Surge Capacity Project are currently working together to explore the use of mindfulness in the sector, and to support the research being conducted.

As such, we are offering a series of half-day ‘Introduction to Mindfulness’ sessions to agencies and staff interested in exploring mindfulness-based approaches to reducing stress and increasing wellbeing.

These taster sessions will be experiential in practice, and introduce the basics of mindfulness, allowing agencies and participants to explore what mindfulness is, and how it may be incorporated within our organisations. It is essentially a prelude for individuals potentially undertaking further training, such as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training, or for agencies considering using mindfulness within their organisations.

Each session will cover:

  • The effects of Stress on Mind and Body
  • Autopilot Thinking vs Self-Awareness
  • Using mindfulness tools during the working day
  • Cultivating a mindfulness practice for life

The practices introduced in the session will include:

  • Mindfulness of breath
  • Body-scan exercise
  • Guidance in developing mindfulness practice

In addition, handouts and guided audio sessions for further home practice will be provided.

MAY 10, 2020

Mindfulness : Afternoon Session

InterHealth and the Transforming Surge Capacity Project are currently working together to explore the use of mindfulness in the sector, and to support the research being conducted.

As such, we are offering a series of half-day ‘Introduction to Mindfulness’ sessions to agencies and staff interested in exploring mindfulness-based approaches to reducing stress and increasing wellbeing.

These taster sessions will be experiential in practice, and introduce the basics of mindfulness, allowing agencies and participants to explore what mindfulness is, and how it may be incorporated within our organisations.

It is essentially a prelude for individuals potentially undertaking further training, such as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training, or for agencies considering using mindfulness within their organisations.

Each session will cover:

  • The effects of Stress on Mind and Body
  • Autopilot Thinking vs Self-Awareness
  • Using mindfulness tools during the working day
  • Cultivating a mindfulness practice for life

The practices introduced in the session will include:

  • Mindfulness of breath
  • Body-scan exercise
  • Guidance in developing mindfulness practice

In addition, handouts and guided audio sessions for further home practice will be provided.