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Bespoke school mental health training for educators and events

Empowering School Staff to Support Mental Health
Our bespoke mental health training equips school and college staff with practical strategies to promote wellbeing, build resilience, and create mentally healthy learning environments. Whether you’re planning an INSET day, CPD workshop or education event, we deliver expert-led, impactful training tailored to your needs.

Tailored CPD for Teachers, Leaders and Education Professionals

Minds Ahead partners with schools, trusts, colleges and organisations to build confidence and capacity in supporting mental health – for students, colleagues and the wider school community.

Mental health training designed for you and your school

Minds Ahead can support your school, college or event by helping your staff understand the role they can play in strengthening mental health in schools. This ensures that colleagues have increased confidence and understanding of how to support students, each other and themselves.

Custom Topics

Sessions shaped around your priorities – from mental health awareness to strategic leadership.

Popular topics include:

Mental health awareness for educators
Trauma-informed approaches
Staff wellbeing and burnout prevention
Supporting pupil resilience
Responding to mental health needs
Creating a mentally healthy school culture
Supporting neurodivergent pupils’ mental health
Grief, loss, and bereavement
Leading mental health in schools (for SLT and Mental Health Leads)
Inclusive mental health support for LGBTQ+ pupils

Looking for something else? Let us know – we’ll design a session around your specific needs.

What We Offer:

Expert Facilitators

Our sessions are delivered by experienced professionals who work at the intersection of education and mental health. Whether it’s a school leader, mental health practitioner or national speaker, each brings insight, empathy, and practical knowledge.

Practical and Engaging

Every session is designed to be interactive, relevant, and actionable. We combine evidence-informed content with practical tools and reflective activities that support meaningful change – not just in understanding, but in day-to-day practice.

Flexible Delivery

We offer sessions in-person, online, or through a hybrid model to suit your needs. Whether it's a twilight CPD slot, an INSET day, a conference keynote or ongoing staff development, we’ll find the format and timing that works best for your setting.

Why Minds Ahead?

Skilled and Trusted

Proven Impact: Trusted by a range of organisations and senior leaders to contribute to and lead key initiatives.

Expert led: Our consultants are actively working in schools and mental health, ensuring practical, real-world expertise.

Tailored solutions: Every consultancy engagement is bespoke, designed to meet the unique needs of your LA, trust, school or organisation.

Actionable Insights: We focus on delivering practical strategies that drive measurable improvements and build the capacity of the school system.

Testimonials

LA Wide Training

“Minds Ahead have provided several large training sessions to senior leaders from every school in Derby City… Feedback from these events has been overwhelmingly positive. I would certainly recommend the Minds Ahead team as public speakers in the area of mental health in schools.”

Ingrid Sanfey, Emotionally Healthy Schools Project Manager, Derby Opportunity Area

Whole MAT Training

“The training was well-received and is now informing Trust-wide developments… on key issues such as parental awareness, transition challenges, anger management and exam stress.”

Marilyn Toft, Active Learning Trust

Learning Partnership

“An excellent session – really positive and thought-provoking. Adam’s honesty was refreshing, and his real-life examples made the strategies relatable and actionable.”

School Development Support Agency, Leicester

School Inset

“We had an excellent speaker. The ideas and questions posed were thought-provoking and helpful. I’ll be reviewing our staff wellbeing culture as a result.”

Class Teacher

ECT Training

“The course has provided me with a toolkit to use in my future teaching career. I feel I have a better understanding of some of the children I will encounter.”

Laura McPhillips

National Conference

“Dean has chaired and spoken at numerous Westminster Insight conferences with high levels of professionalism. He conveys his deep knowledge with passion and sincerity. Feedback is always positive – we highly recommend working with him.”

Oliver Ratcliffe, Senior Conference Producer, Westminster Insight

Pricing

We tailor every training offer to your school’s needs and budget.
Let’s talk about what would work for your team:

Looking for longer-term programmes? Explore our School Mental Health Qualifications Framework.

Want to drive strategic change? Visit our Consultancy Services.

FAQs

How long are the training sessions?

We offer flexible formats – from 1-hour CPD slots, keynote speeches to full-day INSET or conference workshops. We’ll advise based on your needs.

Can we request a specific topic or focus?

Absolutely. All training is bespoke. We’ll shape it around your school’s goals, context and audience.

Do you offer training for school leaders or governors?

Yes – we regularly deliver sessions for SLTs, governing boards, MAT exec teams and senior mental health leads.

Can we combine face-to-face and online training?

Yes – hybrid delivery is available. We’ll help you find the most effective format.

Is the training suitable for both primary and secondary staff?

Yes – we work across all phases, including early years, AP and SEND settings.

Do you provide speakers or workshops for conferences and large events?

Yes – we frequently speak at local, regional and national education conferences. Whether you need a keynote, panel contributor or breakout session facilitator, we’ll match you with an experienced speaker who can tailor content to your audience.

How far in advance should we book training?

Our calendar fills up quickly, especially around INSET days and term transitions. We recommend booking as soon as possible to secure your preferred dates – though we’ll always do our best to accommodate shorter notice where possible.