Want to know how to feel happier, more confident, and worry less right now? Would you like to learn new ways of dealing with what life throws at you? Living Life to the Full is a fun and interactive course that will help you understand your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and what to do about them!

Congratulations, you’re about to change your life!

Too much to do? Is someone close to you is ill? Can’t sleep? Feeling lonely? The way you feel is affected by things that happen to you, and you feel bad because you’re in a vicious cycle. Learn how to stop the cycle!

Living Life to the Full is a mental health promotion course designed to help people deal with everyday life challenges and learn self-management skills using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles. Course content and materials are practical and easily applied to everyday life situations.

What you learn:

✔ Self-confidence

✔ Problem-solving

✔ Stress management

✔ Motivation

✔ Dealing with unhelpful thoughts

✔ Anger management

When: Every Wednesday from October 16^th – December 4^th (8 weeks)

Location: Cornwall Public Library

Time: 10:30am - 11:30pm

Cost: Free

Deadline to register: October 14^th

This couse is for people 55⁺

Refreshments will be provided.

If you attend at least 6 of the 8 sessions, you will be entered to win a wellness prize.

Program sponsored by CMHA Champlain East

FRENCH Guardian Network Training

Inviting agricultural businesses and community members who want to be there for their neighbours, family, co-workers, clients, and friends to attend the Guardian Network training. The Guardian Network is a community of passionate mental health advocates that supports Ontario’s farming community. The Guardian Network includes a one-day suicide prevention training and ongoing peer connection and continuous learning for trained Guardians. The role of a Guardian is to reduce mental health stigma in agricultural communities by fostering mental health conversations with farmers who may be in distress and connecting them with appropriate mental health and crisis resources.  

Date: November 29th, 2024

Time: 9am - 4pm

Location: Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, Three Sisters Hall, 901 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa

The training is in-person and lunch will be provided.

This training is open to anyone over the age of 18 who have direct relationships with the farming community.

   Learn the skills. 

   Help save a life.

Suicide is preventable. Anyone can make a difference.

The LivingWorks’ ASIST program is recognized as the world’s leading suicide intervention workshop supported by numerous evaluations including independent and peer-reviewed studies. The training is available to anyone wanting to apply suicide first-aid skills and be better able to:

• recognize and assist a person with thoughts of suicide
• discuss suicide with a person with thoughts of suicide in a direct manner
• demonstrate and apply the skills required to intervene
• learn about the facts of suicide and dispel the myths
• identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them and
• list the types of supportive resources available to someone with thoughts of suicide

Date: June 19 - 20, 2025

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: CMHA Boardroom, 329 Pitt St., Cornwall

Language: English

Cost: $226.00 ($200.00 + HST)

For more information, please contact Chantal Tessier 613-551-7493

ASIST works. Learn more and see the evidence at www.livingworks.net/asist