Course Overview
This immersive one-day training gives you the opportunity to experience all three No Barriers Here workshops first-hand, developing the confidence and practical skills to facilitate the approach in your own setting.
Throughout the day you will:
- Experience each of the three No Barriers Here workshops as a participant.
- Explore the evidence and rationale for using creative, arts-based approaches to support conversations about palliative and end-of-life care.
- Understand the role of No Barriers Here in advancing equitable advance care planning with underserved people and communities.
- Discover the core principles, values and essential components that underpin the No Barriers Here approach.
- Develop the knowledge and confidence to facilitate No Barriers Here workshops safely, inclusively and effectively.
- Become familiar with the resources, guidance and support available to help you deliver workshops within your organisation or community.
- Reflect on how No Barriers Here can contribute to reducing inequities, strengthening death literacy, and ensuring more people have the opportunity to express what matters most.
By the end of the training, you will have a thorough understanding of the No Barriers Here approach and be equipped to facilitate meaningful, creative conversations that empower people to explore their wishes, values and priorities for the future.
What’s Included?
Your No Barriers Here Facilitator Training includes everything you need to begin delivering workshops with confidence:
- A full-day experiential learning experience facilitated by two experienced No Barriers Here trainers.
- A complimentary delegate resource pack, including the creative materials used throughout the training.
- The No Barriers Here Facilitator Resource Guide, providing practical guidance to support workshop delivery.
- Six No Barriers Here resource bags, sent to you after the training, enabling you to facilitate your first workshops.
- A Certificate of Attendance recognising your completion of the facilitator training.
- Access to the No Barriers Here Community of Practice, where facilitators can connect, share learning, exchange ideas and access ongoing support as part of a growing network committed to equitable advance care planning.
Who should attend?
No Barriers Here Facilitator Training is designed for health, social care, voluntary and community sector professionals who are passionate about reducing inequities in palliative and end-of-life care and supporting more inclusive approaches to advance care planning.
The programme is suitable for both registered and non-registered professionals working across a wide range of settings, including healthcare, social care, hospices, community services, local authorities and voluntary organisations.
This training is ideal for those who want to:
- Develop the knowledge and skills to facilitate creative, arts-based approaches to advance care planning.
- Increase confidence in engaging underserved people and communities in conversations about what matters most.
- Promote more equitable, person-led palliative and end-of-life care.
- Strengthen death literacy within the communities and organisations they work with.
Please note: Participants should already have a good understanding of advance care planning and possess well-developed communication skills, as the training builds on existing knowledge and experience to prepare facilitators to deliver No Barriers Here workshops safely and effectively.
Cost
The No Barriers Here Facilitator Training costs £375 per person for a full-day immersive learning experience.
The course fee includes all training materials, your facilitator resource guide, six No Barriers Here resource bags to support your first workshops and a Certificate of Attendance.
There are no additional licence fees to deliver No Barriers Here following completion of the training.
If you require additional No Barriers Here resource bags, these can be purchased separately through The Mary Stevens Hospice. As each pack is prepared to order, please allow a minimum of six weeks’ notice for additional resource requests.
