Jessica is a facilitator, trainer, coach and consultant. During the past 20 years, her work has been devoted to creating a shift towards positive diversity, inclusion and wellbeing. Jessica offers mental health and wellbeing training options to suit a range of timescales, budgets and audiences in the UK and Global in English and Spanish.
Jessica will work alongside you to deliver training that complements and enhances your existing wellbeing strategy. If you don’t have a wellbeing strategy, Jessica can support you on that journey.
Jessica is a compassionate leader. Born in London of Colombian heritage and passionate about listening to communities and helping them stay connected through the power of story sharing and peer support.
With a background in Health Psychology, Jessica’s career started in London working in the criminal justice system. The role was in Community Development which formed part of a national programme called Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health, designed to bring race equity to the mental health system.
The brief was to work with adults from Black, Asian and Other Minority Ethnic Groups with mental ill health who were not engaging with services. However, from listening to people’s experiences, it became clear that lack of engagement was not the main or only barrier, instead, services did not take into account the importance of cultural nuances in service provision that could support individuals in their treatment and recovery. This paved the way for working in the area of equity and inclusion in mental health.
During an amazing and sometimes challenging five years in this programme, Jessica met a network of key professionals, ambassadors and colleagues who are now considered friends. Through these special connections and Jessica’s commitment to improving outcomes for people in their recovery journeys, Jessica went on to work in service development, 1:1 coaching and mentoring, and as a mental health trainer.
Life is about story telling!! Stories hold multiple aspects of our identity which can impact us positively or negatively. Some stories are harrowing – bringing joy, learning, nostalgia or grief. Other stories may be holding us back.
Systemic Constellation work allows us to explore the stories we tell ourselves and the dynamics of family and other social systems to address unresolved issues, offering a different perspective that can foster personal and relational growth.
Jessica creates safe and confidential spaces for personal and collective exploration of themes whilst honouring identity, heritage and culture.
One to one sessions or group workshops will help you:
What are systemic constellations?
Systemic constellations, developed by the German philosopher and psychotherapist Bert Hellinger, provide a solution-focused process for addressing personal, family, social and organisational problems. ‘Constellations’ work by identifying, illuminating and offering healing resolutions to many seemingly intractable issues. The roots of these issues can lie deep in the unconscious areas of our own family and social systems (hence systemic constellations). This whole-system approach explores each person’s place in the wider and inter-connected groups or systems to which they belong, rather than simply focusing on the individual in an isolated way. These ‘systems’ may be our current family or our family of origin, our body system, workplace or even the environment in which we live.
Jessica’s journey has been bumpy, with many obstacles along the way. Without the support of family, friends, mentors and other professionals, perhaps life would look and feel very different. This support has been instrumental in Jessica’s personal and professional development.
Reinvesting with purpose is about giving access to quality mental health training either subsidised or free to community groups, grassroot projects and small charities.
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Foundation & Applied Training in Systemic Family Constellations
Compassionate Dialogue Journey & Certification
ILM Becoming an Effective Leader
PGDip Competency Training & Evaluation in Higher Education
Mental Health First Aid Instructor Training
MSc Health Psychology
BSc Psychology
Developing bespoke training and services to bring in specific expertise in response to challenges and opportunities that arise in the workplace, with teams or groups.
Training designed to be delivered virtually or face-to-face.
Training takes places through co-production and a mix of group activities, case studies, and conversations that are engaging and stimulating.
For those who would like to work individually to explore an issue or work towards achieving a goal, one to one mentoring sessions are available through Zoom. Face to face sessions are available in Farnham, Surrey. Using Systemic Constellation principles, sessions are 1.5 to 2 hours long.
Developed to address the emotional support required by individuals, communities and workplaces during transition and change. Without trusted connections, people are more vulnerable to feeling excluded and uncertain when and where to reach out for support. Utilizing Systemic Family Constellation principles to explore emerging themes and create threads (both metaphorical and physical); whilst honouring identity, heritage to resource ourselves and support others.
Intersectionality & Mental Health
Developing The Power of Insight, Awareness and Self-Compassion
Developing our Sense of Purpose through The Power of Identity, Belonging and Culture
Embedding Vulnerable Leadership to our everyday practice.
The Power of Identity, Belonging & Culture
MHFA England courses are accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health. They meet the recommended standards for a Healthy Workplace as per the Thriving at Work Report.
Options:
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
In depth understanding of the most common mental health disorders and the factors affecting wellbeing. Learners will strengthen their knowledge and skills to spot the signs of a person experiencing poor mental health, the confidence to start a conversation and the tools to signpost to appropriate support.
As a Mental Health First Aider (MHFAider®) you will be able to:
Available in person or flexible online delivery. Learners will be trained over four live sessions, covering 14 hours of content in total. Maximum 16 learners.
Providing three years of MHFAider® support and benefits including the MHFAider Support App®.
Mental Health Aware:
Learners will gain an understanding of mental health and stigma; and the common risk factors that affect wellbeing. Including an introduction of how to maintain positive wellbeing and the key stages to having a supportive mental health conversation.
MHFA Refresher
Empower MHFAiders to maintain their skills with regular refresher training – just like physical first aiders. It is a great way to keep your MHFAiders motivated and confident, whilst demonstrating your ongoing commitment for parity between physical and mental health.
The four-hour MHFA Refresher course will support your MHFAiders® by:
Other MHFA courses:
The feeling of being together and not alone can help us open up with each other to increase race confidence and increase the accountability of individuals and workplaces to be proactively anti-racist.
Learners will build awareness and understanding of the disparities experienced by people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. The course will examine the intersectionality of race, different cultures and mental health, to develop an understanding and awareness of different experiences and perspectives. Learners will explore explicit bias and the Recognise, Interrupt, Repair Protocol for meaningful and compassionate dialogue to help create psychologically safe environments for ethnically diverse people in the workplace and communities.