MHFA Refresher
Keep your Mental Health First Aid skills up to date with practical refresher training that helps you renew your confidence, revisit the MHFA action plan and continue supporting others with care.
Refresh your Mental Health First Aider® Skills
The MHFA Refresher is a four-hour course designed for people who are renewing their MHFA certification. It refreshes existing skills, updates learners’ knowledge of available mental health support and provides further practice in applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan.
Just like physical first aid, Mental Health First Aid skills are most helpful when they are kept fresh. This course gives MHFAiders® the opportunity to revisit key learning, reflect on their role and renew their certification for another three years.
Delivered by Changing Minds Training, the MHFA Refresher course is practical, supportive and designed to help learners feel more confident continuing in their MHFAider® role.
What is the MHFA Refresher?
The MHFA Refresher is a half-day course for people who have previously completed Mental Health First Aid training and want to renew their skills.
Over time, confidence can fade, support options can change and people may benefit from revisiting the MHFA action plan in a safe, guided environment. The MHFA Refresher helps learners reconnect with the core skills of Mental Health First Aid and consider how they can continue offering appropriate support in their workplace, service or community.
We reinforce the role of an MHFAider®, including listening without judgement, recognising when someone may need support, signposting appropriately and maintaining healthy boundaries.
For organisations, the MHFA Refresher can help maintain a confident and active network of Mental Health First Aiders. It supports ongoing workplace wellbeing by helping trained MHFAiders® keep their knowledge current and their skills ready to use.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is suitable for anyone renewing their MHFA certification. It is relevant across a wide range of organisations and settings, including:
The course is especially useful for organisations that already have trained MHFAiders® in place and want to make sure their knowledge, confidence and access to support remain up to date.
It may also be helpful for individuals who completed their original Mental Health First Aid course some time ago and want to feel more confident continuing in the role.
What Will Learners Gain From The Course?
By the end of the MHFA Refresher, learners will have revisited the key skills and knowledge needed to continue supporting mental health conversations with care.
Learners will explore how to:
- Renew and refresh their MHFA skills
- Update their knowledge of mental health supports
- Practise applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- Revisit the importance of listening, empathy and appropriate signposting
- Reflect on the MHFAider® role and its boundaries
- Continue supporting themselves while supporting others
- Build confidence in using their learning in real conversations
The course is designed to be practical and reassuring. It gives learners space to revisit important knowledge, ask questions and reflect on the situations they may come across as MHFAiders®.
It also helps learners remember that their role is not to diagnose, fix or take responsibility for someone else’s mental health. Their role is to notice, listen, reassure, encourage appropriate support and look after their own wellbeing too.
The Mental Health First Aid Refresher is delivered over four hours.
The MHFA Refresher can be delivered both face-to-face and online. The course includes presentations, group discussion and workshop activities.
This format gives learners the opportunity to revisit key concepts, practise applying their skills and build confidence in a supportive environment.
Changing Minds Training creates a warm, respectful learning space where mental health can be discussed openly and safely. Learners are encouraged to participate, reflect and reconnect with their role in a way that feels practical and manageable.
What Does The Course Cover?
The MHFA Refresher focuses on renewing and strengthening existing Mental Health First Aid knowledge.
Learners will revisit:
The core principles of Mental Health First Aid and refresh your understanding of how to apply the MHFA action plan in supportive conversations. The course also helps you update your awareness of available mental health support, so they feel better equipped to signpost people towards appropriate help.
The course includes time to reflect on:
- The role of the MHFAider®
- Applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- Recognising when someone may need support
- Listening and responding with empathy
- Signposting to appropriate support
- Maintaining boundaries
- Looking after your own mental health and wellbeing
- Continuing development as an MHFAider®
Because this is a refresher course, the emphasis is on renewing confidence, strengthening practical application and helping learners continue using their MHFA skills appropriately.
What Will Learners Receive?
After completing the MHFA Refresher, learners receive renewed certification and continued access to MHFAider® support and benefits.
Course takeaways include:
These resources are designed to support learners beyond the course itself, helping them stay connected, informed and confident in their MHFAider® role.
Why Choose Changing Minds Training?
People choose us because we deliver accredited mental health, suicide prevention and wellbeing training built around compassion, lived experience and practical skills.
Based in Redhill, Surrey and delivering training nationwide, we support organisations, individuals and community groups to build confidence around mental health, wellbeing and inclusion.
We understand that being an MHFAider® can feel rewarding, but it can also carry responsibility. The MHFA Refresher gives learners a chance to pause, revisit their learning and rebuild confidence in a supportive space.
Our approach is:
- Warm, human and reassuring
- Practical and confidence-building
- Sensitive around mental health and suicide prevention
- Focused on real conversations
- Clear about boundaries and signposting
- Supportive of self-care
- Suitable for workplace, clinical, care and community settings
Learners are not expected to have remembered everything perfectly from their original training. This course is there to refresh, renew and support them so they can continue in the 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.
The 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 strong option if you already have trained MHFAiders® and want to keep their knowledge, skills and certification up to date.
It may be particularly useful if you want to:
- Renew MHFA certification for existing MHFAiders®
- Help staff refresh their Mental Health First Aid skills
- Rebuild confidence in applying the MHFA action plan
- Update knowledge of available mental health support
- Maintain an active workplace MHFAider® network
- Support good boundaries and self-care for people in helping roles
- Keep mental health support visible and consistent across your organisation
This course can also be a helpful reminder that mental health support should be proactive and ongoing, not something that is only revisited when difficulties arise.
If you are unsure whether the MHFA Refresher is the right option, Changing Minds Training can help you compare courses and choose the most suitable pathway for your team.
Enquire about MHFA Refresher training
Ready to renew your Mental Health First Aid skills? We can help you find the right MHFA Refresher course, whether you need a place on a public course or private training for your organisation. Get in touch to discuss the best option for your needs
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