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The first two days of this week were spent presenting a Mental Health First Aid course for housing officers in Halifax. It was quite a large group of 15 people. Normally Community Links, on whose behalf I was presenting the course, would recommend that two instructors would be required for this number. This had in fact been the plan as I was supposed to be presenting with my colleague, Jenny Ord. We trained together and presented the first Community Links courses back at the beginning of this year. We can be a good double act.

However, Jenny phoned my over the weekend to tell me that she had come down with this awful bug that seems to be effecting people right across the country at the moment, so I went ahead alone. I have to say that this was not really a problem as I have become used to presenting to groups of 15 over the last few months, in fact it can often seem easier than teaching a smaller group because of the amount of feedback you receive.

The venue was a really well equipped training centre. The staff were all really friendly and helpful and the group were a pleasure to work with.
At the end of the course I had a very wet journey North to meet the rest of the family up in Penrith at Center Parcs for a few days break.

I returned today to find two very firm offers for a series of courses in the New Year.

If you would like to know more about Mental Health First Aid and MHFA courses then please visit my website at www.mentalhealthfirstaidnortheast.co.uk