SAGE & THYME training will teach your staff, students and volunteers how to speak to and support people who are worried.

This will help:

• Your patients to feel listened to and supported
• Your staff, students and volunteers to support each other with their worries
• Your staff, students and volunteers to feel more satisfied and in control of conversations.

We can run SAGE & THYME workshops for your staff. 

However, our main focus is on training up your staff and giving you access to all the SAGE & THYME training materials so that you can run the SAGE & THYME workshops for yourself.

We have found that most organisations prefer to teach SAGE & THYME workshops face-to-face, but some find SAGE & THYME online workshops helpful.

Step 1 - Find out more about how the SAGE & THYME training works

Learn more about SAGE & THYME training.

Our 'basic guide' provides a summary of all the information you need in one place.

Step 2 - Learn how other organisations run SAGE & THYME training

Read some case studies to understand how other organisations have adopted SAGE & THYME training.

Then contact us to get any questions answered.

Step 3 - Make a case for the funding             

Use our 'business case guide' to put a business case together.

You can find example costs in our 'basic guide'.

Step 4 - Consider who will become your facilitators

There is a person specification that acts as a guide for finding the right people.

This is explained in the 'Becoming a facilitator' guide.

Commonly, facilitators are:

• Specialist nurses
• Doctors
• Social workers
• Staff working in psychological support (including Clinical Psychologists)
• Chaplains
• Human resources and organisational development staff and managers
• Preceptorship staff
• Allied health professionals (AHPs)
• Community staff
• Training department staff
• Occasionally non-clinical staff

Step 5 - Organise for your staff to be trained as SAGE & THYME facilitators

You can either send your staff to Manchester to be trained, or if you have sufficient people (normally twelve) then we can give a quote for the cost of our trainers delivering this locally in your own venue.

Each person wishing to become a SAGE & THYME Facilitator must attend a SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshop followed by a SATFAC course over the following two days.

Step 6 - Organise a licence from us to run SAGE & THYME training

You need a licence from us to use the copyright materials and SAGE & THYME logo when you run the SAGE & THYME workshop.

Step 7 - Start teaching SAGE & THYME workshops

Once your staff are trained up and the licence is signed, you can start running SAGE & THYME workshops.

SAGE & THYME Facilitators and organisers can log into the 'Trainer Area' of this web site to access the resources they need to:

• Prepare for the workshop
• Run the workshop