PRIME Teaching Programmes
PRIME offers one-off courses and conferences, as well as input into longer-term programmes and education resources.
PRIME Core Teaching
PRIME’s core teaching programmes are now available for online or in-person delivery. Requests can be made on behalf of a group of people for either one-off sessions or a short series.
We are always keen to recruit new tutors to help deliver these programmes in different contexts, both online and face-to-face. If you are interested in joining a teaching team please visit our 'Join a PRIME Team' page.
Whole Person Care
A series of sessions introducing PRIME and our principles, including:
- Introduction and taster
- What is Whole Person Care?
- Why is Whole Person Care so important?
- Communication skills supporting Whole Person care
- What is Spiritual Care and how to provide it
Mental Health
Our free online Mental Health programme consists of four sessions:
- Listening well & psychological support
- Psychological First Aid for all
- Helping families manage children’s difficulties
- We need to talk about suicide
Palliative Care
Our Palliative Care programme consists of seven session. They are designed to work together as a short programme or can be made available as stand alone session.
- What is Palliative Care?
- Communication & Truth Telling
- Pain and Whole Person Care
- Safe Use of Morphine
- Basic Symptom Control
- Identifying Dying
- Loss and Bereavement
Values Added
Our well-established Values Added programme is designed for Christian healthcare professionals and provides a comprehensive package of PRIME teaching to support Christian values-based professional development. It includes:
- Values in practice – being a good health care professional
- Kingdom values
- Compassion - being a compassionate health care professional
- Integrity
- Professionalism and an introduction to ethics
- What does the patient think?
- Whole person healthcare
- Forgiving fallibility – how do you cope when you make a mistake
- Leadership
- Spiritual care in the consultation
- Evidence based healthcare
- Surviving as a health care professional
Church Leader Training
A six-module programme for church leaders and those in training. It includes tools which can be used to help them serve their communities. The programme has so far been delivered to ordinands and lay ministers in several UK dioceses. The materials developed for this programme could form a basic Whole Person Care programme for non-clinicians from a variety of contexts in the UK and around the world. They include:
- Concepts of health, wholeness and suffering
- Restoring the Whole Person
- Self-Care: Looking after your own health and well-being
- Caring for a congregation
- Mental Health
- End of Life Care
We are open to requests to deliver programmes via online or face-to-face teaching.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
All PRIME teaching, online and face-to-face are based on the PRIME principles of whole person care and interactive education. They will always include small group discussions and often involve role play participation by attendees. In order to foster relationships and to role model our core values these sessions are recommended to be undertaken live using video conferencing, though they may be recorded to allow those who are unable to attend or wish to watch again the opportunity of accessing them later.
Our volunteer tutors develop teaching resources and modules tailored to specific need.