Self-harm: understanding and responding

17 April 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Date: April 17, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 250, Non-member – £350
Audience: Boarding staff, Head of Boarding, Deputy Head, Mental health leads working with senior boarders
Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar

Course outline

This is a course for all staff working in the education setting to help improve understanding and responses to self-harm presentations. A topic which is often misunderstood, highly stigmatised and hidden is delivered in a relatable manner.

Training topics will include:

Better understanding self-harm (definition / triggers / functions / statistics)
Relationship between self-harm and suicide
Signs and indicators of self-harm
Broaching suspected self-harm
Best practice response to disclosures (alternative strategies / language use / general response)

Learning outcomes:

Understand what self-harm behaviours are and what can lead to them
Understand the importance of asking about suicidal thoughts when presented with self-harm
Have improved confidence in broaching and responding to disclosures, appreciating the importance of appropriate language use

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Speaker: Satveer Nijjar

Satveer has had a passion for reducing stigma around mental ill health, specifically improving understanding of, and response to self-harm behaviours.

In 2012 she graduated with a First-Class Honours in Psychology, winning the Bernice McAuley Memorial Prize for her dissertation on self-harm and the role of culture. From this point her focus became on the creation and delivery of sessions on self-harm awareness.

Over the last 12 years she has successfully set-up ‘Attention Seekers Training’, in 2023 alone Satveer delivered to over 23,000 people. Through the business she delivers her own CPD Accredited Self-harm Awareness course in the UK and beyond. Her client base is broad and ranges from the education sector, to health to corporate. Satveer has been involved in includes having a video featured on Head Talks, written for the Boarding Schools Association Magazine and featured in Natasha Devon’s best-selling book ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Being Mental’ and Jonny Benjamins ‘101 Voices on Overcoming Adversity’.

All her sessions are consistently met with excellent feedback with specific comments referring to the delivery style, relevance and enjoyability of the course.