Designed and delivered by experienced practitioners and co-produced by people with lived experience of pain, our training courses develop practitioners’ confidence in guiding people to self-manage their pain.

Our flagship Ten Footsteps programme is accredited by the Personalised Care Institute. This 12 hour programme is based on the core self-management themes embedded in Live Well with Pain’s respected Ten Footsteps approach as set out in this website, which is increasingly being adopted by practitioners across the UK. The three sessions are spread over a number of weeks allowing practitioners to introduce newly gained skills from the sessions into their clinical work.

Our More Skills, Less Pills course is split over two half day sessions. The course focuses on person-centred approaches to chronic pain and shifting from the biomedical view of pain. Expert input from a Principal Pharmacist provides insights into the practicalities of moving your patient from ‘pills to self-management skills’ in dealing with their pain.

We also offer a range of shorter workshops. Often covering single topics of particular interest to practitioners – such as how to encourage health sleep patterns, supporting people to become more physically active, or advising on nutrition and pain – these highly focused half-day workshops will build your practical skill-set and enable to you move people towards greater self-efficacy in managing their pain.

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