Training

Are you looking to enhance your approach to mental health within your creative domain? Our courses are tailored to enrich mental health practices in the entertainment industry, equipping you with a comprehensive toolbox, a wider network, and increased confidence for addressing mental health in your creative endeavors. Designed to benefit both seasoned professionals and aspiring students in theatre and film, our coursework is now more accessible and adaptable than before.

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association of mental health coordinators core curriculum workshops

Building Safety focuses on moving the concept of "safety" from a concept, to a core condition understood through biological, social, systemic, and emotional lenses.

Collaboration & Conflict addresses the ways in which creative people show up to conflict, common pitfalls, and suggested structures for holding conflict as a healthy part of the collaboration process.

Care Culture & Policy ensures that your toolbox is full of structures to support yourself and your team, walking through best practices for creative spaces that support mental health and connection.

Upcoming Core Curriculum Dates:

Foundations of
Mental Health Coordination

Building on the skills present in our core curriculum, this course focuses on direct applications to your creative workspace. Whether you are a theatre professor looking to more confidently navigate student mental health challenges, or a film director getting ready to direct a challenging short, feature, or series, you’ll find the tools you need here!

Topics Include:

Advanced Container Practice for Challenging Stories
Advanced Applications of AGNC
Advanced Conflict Navigation and Policy
Scope of Practice, Referrals, and Creative Change

Pre-Requisites:

All Core Curriculum

Foundations is on offer Spring 2024!

All classes will take place via Zoom on May 4 through June 8 on Saturday afternoons ET.

Enrollment will open in the new year.

Mental Health Coordinator
Professional Training

This is a ten-week program to train mental health professionals and entertainment artists in tools to support creative, ethical storytelling, including content notes, crisis management, access needs, and much more.

This training is designed for entertainment professionals who wish to work as mental health coordinators OR creative leaders who interact with mental health challenges in their spaces (either with their colleagues or in depiction).

Culminating in a capstone project, successful completion of this program results in certification as a professional Mental Health Coordinator.

This program is by application only, with one of following pre-requisites series:

AMHP certification OR
Core Curriculum + Foundations OR
Core Curriculum + a master’s degree in a clinical mental health discipline

Applications for our 2024 Cohort have closed.
To apply in the future, make sure you've completed all listed pre-requisites!

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