• MECC Healthy Conversation is an approach to behaviour change that utilises the millions of day to day interactions that organisations and people have with other people to encourage changes in behaviour that have a positive effect on the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and workplaces.
• MECC is essentially about enabling the people to recognise the opportunity they have in facilitating people to have greater awareness of their health and wellbeing. It is then about empowering people to seek out their own solutions to supporting their own health and wellbeing.
• MECC enables organisations and individuals to develop and be able to use a different approach to working with people to address health and wellbeing. 
• It is widely known, that telling people what to do or just handing out information is not the most effective way to help people make positive change. 
• MECC is about altering how we interact with people through learning how to recognise opportunities to talk to people about their wellbeing.

What is a “Healthy Conversation”?

If a conversation is a chat, talk or discussion, the word “healthy” suggests the content would be about fitness, wellbeing and all things that are good for your health; but also “healthy” in the sense of a beneficial or psychologically sound style of conversation: supporting someone in an empowering and positive way. A “healthy conversation” supports an individual to explore their own world/context, find the solutions from within and plan to make a change.

What to expect

We limit numbers to 16 people per course so that the instructor can keep people safe and supported while they learn. Young people are welcome on the course but if you’re under the age of 16 we need consent from your parent or guardian.

Learning takes place across two half day session of approximately 3-4 hours. In addition to this, there is an online e-learning segment that will need to be completed between the two session.

When you complete the two days you'll get a certificate to say you are a Youth Mental Health First Aider.

There is also a MECC lite course comprising of just the one half day.  Please enquire directly for more information.

"This is a great course to do after completing the 

Mental Health First Aid course, as it gives 

you really good listening and healthy conversation skills."