Events

A free video based training workshop for anyone caring in a personal capacity for someone with an eating disorder. Along with others who are caring for someone with an eating disorder, you’ll learn new skills from an experienced eating disorder clinician. Helps you look at what you can do practically to support your loved one - for example, stress management at mealtimes. This project is funded by the NI Carers’ Support Fund.

ONLINE Information Lecture - A Natural Path to Health for Body and Soul through the Teaching of Bruno Groening

This practical training programme will equip service and project leads with the tools and skills they need to evaluate the impact of their service or intervention in a meaningful way. It is suitable for those who need to understand the basics of evaluation, and those who need to enhance their skills in analysing and reporting data to be able to tell their story. The programme is split into 3 sessions, and you can choose to attend online or in person - you can attend an individual session or all 3 depending on your knowledge and experience.

This 2-hour online training course is designed to assist employers in developing safe, fair, and consistent recruitment practices and better understand what having a conviction means when it comes to employment. It will help them to ensure compliance with legislative requirements, assess risks, dispel myths concerning people with convictions, and enable employers to make informed decisions when deciding whether to employ people with convictions. 

Free showing online: Documentary film: The phenomenon Bruno Groening - His words banish illness.

The essential course to give you an all-round knowledge of housing in Northern Ireland. This course will be held online over 6 half day sessions.

A free video based training workshop for anyone caring in a personal capacity for someone with an eating disorder. Along with others who are caring for someone with an eating disorder, you’ll learn new skills from an experienced eating disorder clinician. Provides a working knowledge of eating disorders and how they impact the brain and influence your loved one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. This project is funded by the NI Carers’ Support Fund.

Gain an understanding the issues in gaining access to the private rented sector.

In this session, you will learn practical strategies and tools to enhance your mental fitness and build your unique, personal resilience, enabling you to navigate life. Whether you're facing personal or professional transitions, this workshop will equip you with the skills needed to adapt and also flourish.

Unlock the secrets to accelerating your business growth with powerful lead magnets.

This qualification is for those who wish to be able to plan and deliver safe and effective weight management programmes to members of the population with Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus and/or Metabolic Syndrome.

What do you need to include in a volunteer induction? How do you make it visually appealing? Have you considered moving volunteer induction online? Do you value your volunteers, recognise they have other commitments, give them a voice? We will look at good practice and how we ensure we are being proactive and not reactive to our volunteers. We will also look at new ways to carry out Support and Supervision remotely as well as face to face. This session will also examine why Support and Supervision is important for volunteers and your organisation.

Understand what is meant by the ‘PDA Profile’ within autism, and how this may present. Explore a range of key strategies you can use in your professional role to support an individual within the PDA profile of autism. For more information, please contact our training team by calling: 028 9040 1729 (Option 4) or email: [email protected]

This 90 minute newly updated nutshell will show Advisers how to utilise regulations and guidance to better assert client rights, challenge decisions and navigate problems within Discretionary Support and beyond to Commissioner Level.

This session will inform and encourage advisers completing PIP forms to carefully consider and use the reliability and majority regulations, case law and guidance to produce stronger initial applications, mandatory reconsideration notices and appeal forms. It is also a useful companion course for those seeking to attend our 1-day course in Tribunal Representation as its content will give you the prerequisite enhanced knowledge of the benefit under appeal.

Harnessing Hope is a carer skills workshop for anyone supporting a loved one who has had an eating disorder for more than five years. The workshop will cover topics including developing and maintaining hope, the impact of starvation, accommodating & enabling behaviours, and coping with setbacks, amongst others. The workshop will also equip you with skills needed to support your loved one and yourself while you navigate this difficult time. You can read more about it on our website here: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-information-and-support/supp…

This 90-minute course has been designed to inform and update learners on the redundancy process.

This 90 minute nutshell course will refresh, inform and update learners on the different transitional protection elements available to legacy claimants moving over to Universal Credit including, Transitional SDP element, Transitional Protection element and Eligibility conditions and amounts.

Managing change is now a guaranteed part of any manager’s job. Whether you are managing change at a day to day operational level or implementing it at a strategic level—change needs managed. This master class looks at the theory of managing change and how to put it into practice in such a way to keep volunteers motivated. Using case studies and own examples, participants will start to plan for managing change in their own organisation. By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of the change process in organisations Outline the characteristics of good leadership Joining information will be sent out the day before the session.

This 90-minute nutshell course will refresh, inform and update learners on Universal Credit’s treatment of overpayments and debt collection.

This session will show Advisers how to locate and utilise key Regulations, Decision Making Guidance and Case law to better assert client rights, challenge decisions and navigate problems with the Social Security System.

This workshop is designed to provide a safe environment where Quality Assessors can receive and give practical advice and support to other Assessors whilst developing and enhancing their own skills and knowledge around the Northern Ireland Advice Quality Standard (NIAQS) requirements.

This 90-minute nutshell provides learning for advisers to ensure that inappropriate conditionality is not imposed and to help with challenging sanction decisions when something goes wrong.

This course will help learners to; Understand data processing and principles underpinning Data Protection in UK law; Identify the responsibilities of organisations and individuals; Understand and apply data subject rights; Understand legal bases for processing data, including the application and limitations of consent; Identify and report data breaches;

This qualification provides learners with knowledge and skills to apply reliable, evidence-based nutritional science and healthy eating recommendations. Learners will gain an understanding of nutritional science and their application to exercise, sport and athletic performance. This includes the limitations and risks of supplements and performance aids, and the importance of hydration for sports performance. Working within their scope of practice, learners will be able to support their clients in their understanding of the relevance of official guidelines to personal food preferences and needs, including for health and wellbeing, weight management and sports performance.