MHFA Refresher
Refresh your MHFA knowledge and confidence with practical training. Revisit the action plan and build your skills to support others with confidence and care.
Refresh your Mental Health First Aider® Skills
The MHFA Refresher is a four-hour course for MHFAiders® who are ready to renew their certification. It provides an opportunity to revisit core skills, refresh knowledge of current mental health support and practise using the Mental Health First Aid action plan.
Mental Health First Aid skills, like physical first aid skills, benefit from regular practice. The refresher gives MHFAiders® time to revisit important learning, reflect on their role and renew their certification for a further three years.
Delivered by Changing Minds Training, the course is practical, encouraging and focused on helping participants maintain their confidence and continue supporting others effectively in their MHFAider® role.
What's the MHFA Refresher course?
The MHFA Refresher is a half-day course for anyone who has previously completed Mental Health First Aid training and wants to refresh their knowledge, skills and confidence.
As time passes, it’s natural for confidence to dip, memory to fade, mental health resources to evolve and key techniques to need revisiting. This course provides a supportive space to reconnect with the fundamentals of Mental Health First Aid, practise the MHFA action plan and explore how to offer appropriate support in the workplace, community or service setting.
Participants revisit the role of an MHFAider®, including listening with empathy, identifying when someone may benefit from additional support, signposting to suitable services and recognising the importance of maintaining clear boundaries.
For organisations, regular refresher training can help keep their Mental Health First Aid network engaged, informed and prepared. It supports a longer-term approach to workplace wellbeing by ensuring MHFAiders® have up-to-date knowledge and the confidence to use their skills when needed.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is suitable for anyone looking to renew their Mental Health First Aid certification. The relevance of this course ranges across different settings and sectors such as:
This course is well suited to organisations with trained MHFAiders® who want to help them keep their knowledge current, build confidence and stay connected to appropriate sources of support.
It can also support individuals who completed Mental Health First Aid training some time ago and would like to refresh their skills before continuing in the role.
What Will Learners Gain From The Course?
This Mental Health First Aid Refresher, gives clinical teams space to revisit the role of a Mental Health First Aider and strengthen the skills that support safe, supportive conversations.
During the session, learners will look at how to:
- Refresh their MHFA skills
- Explore updated information about available mental health support
- Apply the Mental Health Action Plan in realistic situations
- Use listening and empathy to guide supportive conversations
- Revisit and reflect on the MHFAider® role and the relevant boundaries
- Look after their own wellbeing whilst supporting others
- Build confidence in using their learning into practice
This course is not only practical, but reassuring too, giving learners time to revisit key knowledge, ask questions and consider how they may use their skills in everyday conversations.
It also reinforces an important part of the MHFAider® role. MHFAiders® are not there to diagnose, solve someone’s difficulties or carry responsibility for their mental health. Their role is to notice when someone may need support, listen with care, encourage appropriate help and maintain their own wellbeing too.
The Mental Health First Aid Refresher is delivered over four hours.
The Menthal Health First Aid (MHFA) Refresher can be delivered both face-to-face and online. The course combines tutor-led presentations with group discussion and practical workshop activities.
Learners have time to revisit important ideas, explore how the learning applies in practice and strengthen their confidence in a supportive setting.
Changing Minds Training creates a calm and respectful space for open conversations about mental health. Learners are invited to take part, reflect on their role and reconnect with skills they can use in a way that feels practical and manageable.
What Does The Course Cover?
The MHFA Refresher is designed to strengthen your existing Mental Health First Aid knowledge.
Learners will revisit:
Learners revisit the core principles of MHFA, refresh their understanding of the MHFA action plan and update their awareness of available mental health support.
The course provides time to reflect on key areas of the MHFAider® role, including:
- Recognising when someone may need support
- Applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- Listening with empathy and responding with care
- Signposting someone towards appropriate support
- Maintaining clear and appropriate boundaries
- Looking after their own mental health and wellbeing
- Continuing to develop confidence as an MHFAider®
As a refresher, the focus is on helping learners reconnect with the knowledge and practical skills they already have. It offers a supportive space to practise applying the MHFA action plan and feel more confident using their role appropriately in real conversations.
What Will Learners Receive?
On completion, learners of the Mental Health First Aid Refresher course receive a renewed certification and continued access to MHFAider® support and benefits.
Course takeaways include:
These resources help learners continue building their knowledge, stay connected to relevant support and feel confident in their ongoing MHFAider® role.
Why Choose Changing Minds Training?
People choose Changing Minds Training for accredited mental health, suicide prevention and wellbeing training that brings together compassion, lived experience and practical skills.
Based in Redhill, Surrey and delivering training nationwide, we work with organisations, individuals and community groups looking to build confidence around mental health, wellbeing and inclusion.
We understand that being an MHFAider® can be meaningful and rewarding, while also carrying real responsibility. The MHFA Refresher offers time to pause, revisit previous learning and reconnect with the role in a supportive environment.
Our approach is:
- Warm, human and reassuring
- Practical and confidence-building
- Sensitive when discussing mental health and suicide prevention
- Grounded in real conversations
- Clear about boundaries and appropriate signposting
- Supportive of self-care
- Relevant to workplace, clinical, care and community settings
Learners are not expected to remember every detail from their original training. This refresher is an opportunity to renew key knowledge, strengthen practical skills and continue in the MHFAider® role with greater confidence.
Public & Private MHFA Refresher Course Delivery
Public Courses
Public courses are suitable for individuals and small groups who would like to join an open course. These may be delivered online or at a public venue.
Private Courses
Private courses are delivered for one organisation at your premises, chosen venue or online. This can be a helpful option if you want to renew a group of MHFAiders® together and maintain a consistent approach to mental health support across your workplace.
This MHFA Refresher course is available for groups of up to 25 learners.
Individual Rate
Group Rate
Is this the right course for your organisation?
The MHFA Refresher is a practical option for organisations that want to support qualified MHFAiders® to renew their skills, update their knowledge and continue accessing MHFAider® support and benefits.
It may be particularly suitable if you want to:
- Renew MHFA certification for existing MHFAiders®
- Give staff time to revisit their Mental Health First Aid skills
- Strengthen confidence in using the MHFA action plan
- Update awareness of available mental health support
- Maintain an active and well-supported MHFAider® network
- Reinforce healthy boundaries and self-care in helping roles
- Keep mental health support visible across your organisation
The course can also help reinforce that meaningful mental health support is not a one-off initiative. It benefits from regular attention, reflection and continued learning.
The MHFA Refresher is for people who have previously completed the full Mental Health First Aid course. It is accredited by MHFA England and restores three years of MHFAider® support and benefits.
If you are unsure whether the MHFA Refresher is right for your team, get in touch with Changing Minds Training to discuss the most suitable option.
Enquire about MHFA Refresher training
Ready to refresh your Mental Health First Aid skills?
Changing Minds Training can help you find the right MHFA Refresher option, whether you are looking for a place on a public course or private training for your organisation.
Get in touch to discuss your needs and explore the most suitable route for you or your team.
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