Training and workshops

Training Programmes & Workshops

UP is the training brand at WHAG, delivering training to a variety of sectors. These include private corporate businesses, public sector and third sector charities and organisations.

Domestic Abuse Awareness for Employers and Staff

Professionally designed and developed, our Domestic Abuse Awareness Training for employers and staff is targeted for HR leads, Managers, Senior Managers, Mental Health First Aiders and SME Business owners.

The training is also provided to any staff entrusted with staff safety and wellbeing, and empowered to influence and decide on policy, procedures, and information distribution.

The programme includes:

• Identifying cases of domestic abuse.
• Effectively managing reports of abuse among employees, customers, and clients.
• Supporting those that have experienced or been exposed to domestic abuse.
• Dealing with an employee that is a perpetrator of domestic abuse.

Training Programmes & Workshops

UP is the training brand at WHAG, delivering training to a variety of sectors. These include private corporate businesses, public sector and third sector c

Positive Relationships Programme for Adults

To raise awareness, create new tools and techniques that can be developed to maintain current and new healthy relationships and develop the confidence to use skills within daily lives.

The programme will:

• Support individuals to go on a personal journey and help learners to take their learning and embed it into their current and future relationships.
• Reduce unhealthy relationships that or may lead to physically abusive relationships.
• Increase the awareness of what is healthy and what is not.
• Help develop an awareness of what people consider to be un /acceptable to them.
• Internal learning – leading to behaviour change.

The programme is not aiming to:

• Solve domestic abuse and violence.
• Replace specialist domestic violence training.
• Tell people what to do.

Introduction to the three modules:

Emotional: This module focuses on what the emotions are that influence and affect our relationships and how can these be changed to improve current and future relationships. The Emotional module is focused on how we ‘feel’.

Psychological: This module focuses on what and how we think prior to, during and after relationships end, considering the range of influences that shape how we think.

Physical: This module focuses on how we can form positive and healthy physical relationships and reduce the impact of unhealthy ones for the future.

Bespoke to your workplace or organisation

Our bespoke training packages are created specifically for your organisational needs, as we know that one size does not fit all. Whether it is training for managers or for an entire staff team, we can tailor our training packages to suit the requirements of your organisation and workforce.

These can include:

• Healthy Relationships (young people)
• Domestic Abuse Awareness
• Honour Based Abuse
• FGM & Forced Marriage

Discounts are available for third sector / charities and local community groups.

Recovery Toolkit (Rochdale)

The Recovery Toolkit is a free course of 2 hour sessions that run once a  week for 12 weeks. It aims to help people recover from the mental and psychological damage caused by being in an abusive relationship. It is run as a group session with around eight people taking part in each programme.

To take part in the programme you must have left the abuse and be living in a safe place.  Before you are offered a place on the course we will ask you to complete a questionnaire with us to check that the course is

The course was developed because people who have been in abusive relationships often say that the hardest part of recovery is to deal with the distress and trauma caused by the abuse.  This distress can affect things like your opinion of yourself, how you react to others, your drug and alcohol use , your relationships with your children and your mental health.

The course aims to:

• Help you recognise your own strengths and resources
• Help you recognise your coping skills and how you have used these to help you and your family survive the abusive relationship
• Help you develop new skills such as setting boundaries in your relationships with people
• Help you set goals for your future
• Help you build up your self-esteem and confidence
• Help you find ways of looking after your mental health and wellbeing
• Help you recognise the tactics that abusive people use to dominate and control others
• Help you to recognise potential unhealthy relationships and signs of abusive behaviour in the future

The course uses positive techniques drawn from counselling and mental health work such as positive self-talk and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).  You will be asked to practise these between sessions and record your progress in a journal.

WHAG staff and volunteers are trained and accredited to deliver the sessions, and to create a friendly and supportive atmosphere during the sessions.

For more information about the Freedom Programme and to find out about our next sessions, please contact us.

Gateway (CWAC only)

Gateway is a free course of two hour sessions that run once a week for seven weeks.  It is for anyone who wants to learn more about the reality of domestic violence and domestic abuse.  It is run as a group session, with around eight people taking part in each programme.

It aims to:

• Help you understand the beliefs held by abusive people
• Help you recognise which of those beliefs you may have come to share
• Understand the tactics that abusers use to control and dominate
• Understand the effects of domestic abuse on children
• Help you to recognise potential unhealthy relationships and signs of abusive behaviour in the future
• Help you re-gain your self-esteem and confidence, and improve the quality of your life
• Introduce you to sources of information and help in your community such as Women’s Aid, Citizens Advice, Police Domestic Violence Unit, etc.

Gateway was developed by Tools4Change CIC who have trained and accredited WHAG staff to deliver the course, and to create a friendly and supportive atmosphere during the sessions.

For more information about Gateway and to find out about our next sessions, please contact us.

Healthy relationships

WHAG has set up a community interest group to provide training and accreditation about developing and sustaining healthy relationships.

At present we have two training programmes:

• A course of 6 classroom-based sessions for year 9 students (aged 13 and 14)
• A course of three half-day sessions on developing healthy emotional, psychological and intimate relationships for adults.

For more information please contact us.