Petawawa Workshops and Briefings

Social Wellness Courses

• Managing Angry Moments
  This course is an interactive, educational tool to help individuals identfy situations in their daily lives that cause anger. Participants will also learn how to apply new skills on how to safetly address these situations.
  
  This course is designed as a prevention tool and is not intended to be used for anger-management counselling or treatment.
  
  The "Managing Angry Moments" course consists of 7 modules filled with information and strategies to manage anger.

  1. Understand anger
  2. Anger, stress and mental fitness
  3. Trigger thoughts, coping thoughts and strategies
  4. Reframing thinking errors
  5. Assertive communication: Resolving conflicts while managing anger
  6. Managing anger with forgiveness
  7. Maintaining positive changes
• Mental Fitness Suicide Awareness
  This one day program is specifically designed for military personnel in leadership positions. Topics include Mental Fitness Execises, Suicide Awareness, the ACE (Ask, Care, Escort) Model and Mental Fitness & Leadership. This workshop has a MITE code which will be added to personnel's MPRR upon successful completion.
• Respect in the CAF (RitCAF)
  This interactive course is intended to promote respect in the CAF through awareness and understanding, to empower CAF members to take a stand against sexual misconduct and to support affected persons. This workshop is designed to foster a sustained change in attitudes and behaviours' in order to build a respectful climate within the CAF.
• Stress: Take Charge
  This is a self-directed course designed to teach participants how to manage stress through self-awareness, changing behaviours and skill building. Participants will be empowered to manage their stress by using stratetgies that they already use. They will also be encouraged to learn and practice new strategies identified during the course.
  
  The "Stress:Take Charge" course consists of modules filled with information and opportunities to manage daily stressors.
  Participants will:

  • understand the stress reaction in a military context
  • choose and practice specific skills and strategies used to decrease stress and build resiliance
  • benefit from regular practice of the relaxations response

Nutritional Wellness Courses

• Essential Nutrition
  This interactive training provides practical ways to eat healthy even in challenging environments. It explains the science of nutrition, and covers topics like food budgeting, tips for easy meal planning, healthy recipes and much more! Develop practical knowledge and skills to optimize your peak performance and become confident in your food decisions.
  
  The Essential Nutrition course is comprised of 5 modules where you will gain an understanding of the impact of healthy nutrition on your performance.

  1. Nutrition Fundamentals
  2. Understanding Food Labels
  3. Meal Planning
  4. Stretch Your Food Dollar
  5. Mindful Eating

Social Wellness Briefs

• Health Promotion 101
  This brief explains what Health Promotion is, the Social Ecological Model and how it can be applied to the Canadian Armed Forces. This brief describes how the Health Promotion Team can be a useful partner for leadership interested in improving the health and well-being of their units.
   
• Stress and Anger
  This brief helps participants understand stress and anger responses and develop practical skills to help defuse hot moments.
• Stress Management
  This brief provides helpful personal stress management skills that improve health and well-being. Partcipants will identify strategies that they already use and will learn to implement new strategies to manage their stress.
• Inter-Comm
  In this brief, participants learn to understand conflict and increase active listening skills, use a collaborative model for resolving conflict built on interest-based communication skill, use collaboration and communication to support health and well-being in relationships.
• Managing Angry Moments
  This brief touches on issues of anger (while they are still manageable) to prevent the possibilityof their escalation to physical or verbal aggression. Participants will learn to recognize their triggers and thought patterns as well as strategies to effectively handle anger.
• Mental Fitness
  This brief is the 1st half of a full day Mental Fitness Suicide Awareness course. Topics covered include characteristics of mentally fit members, resilience and strategies to improve mental fitness.
• Suicide Awareness and the ACE Model
  This brief is the 2nd half of the full day Mental Fitness Suicide Awareness course. Topics covered include stigma, identifying risk factors and protective factors, the ACE Model and resources.
• Sleep 101
  This brief explains the basics of sleep and how it works, the influence of different substances on our sleep (such as alcohol, cannabis and caffeine) and tips for promoting good sleep hygiene.
• How to Comat Stress Series
  1. The Stress Response
  This brief explains how the body responds to challenging and stressful events, the difference between acute and chronic stress and ways to identify good and bad stress.
  
  2. Master Your Mindset
  Stress is triggered by our perceptions of an event. This brief provides practical strategies to change your mindset and make choices to reduce stress.
  
  3. Resilience and Relaxation
  This brief equips you with tools to improve resilience and mental fitness as a way of preventing stress. It includes a practical portion for developing tactical breathing skills and other relaxation methods used to interrrupt the stress response. Participants are asked to attend in comfortable attire.

Addictions Awareness & Prevention

• Substance Use
  In this brief, members learn about alcohol and cannabis use, the effects on health, the workplace and the CAF overall. Members are also given low risk guidelines and strategies to create a substance free workplace.

Nutritional Wellness Briefs

* All Nutrition briefings align with the CAF Physical Performance BALANCE Strategy

• Nutrition Series
  1. Nutrition 101
  This brief covers macro and micronutrients, what a healthy balanced meal looks like, and how to develop SMART nutrition goals.
  
  2. What's on Your Plate?
  This brief aims to improve participants' understandinding of daily energy needs, how to design a plate to meet those needs and applying this information to a SMART nutrition goal.
  
  3. Shopping for Health
  This brief describes how to read a food label, tips on how to shop healthy and prep meals to support a SMART nutrition goal.
  
  4. Dining Out
  This brief covers how to maintain a SMART nutrition goal when eating out by making healthy menu choices. This presentation also includes the nutritional effects of alcohol consumption.
• Nutrition for Iron Warrior
  This brief provides an overview of nutrition basics, and informs participants of optimal nutrient timings for pre, during and post training. How to hydrate, electrolyte fueling and considerations regarding alcohol and caffeine are also covered
• Nutrition for Training
  This nutrition for action program provides up to date and accurate nutritional information for individuals who are physically active, training for specific athletic events, preparing to deploy or looking to fine tune their current diet for an active lifestyle.

Injury Prevention & Active Living

• Injury Reduction Strategies
  This brief will increase your knowledge and understanding of where injuries occur in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). It will also provide you with strategies that you can use to reduce your chances of being injured. It also provides the latest scientific evidence concerning injury prevention in sports and physical training. The focus of this briefing is to increase local support for injury prevention initiatives.

Programs

• Behavior Change Program
  Health Services referral or self-referral
  The Health Promotion Petawawa Behaviour Change program is designed to support members in meeting their health goals.Using motivational interviewing and strategic goal setting, one of our Health Promotion Specialists will support participants in identifying motivations for change, improving knowledge of health behaviour, checking-in with their change journey and connecting participants with resources. Please note that our team will refer to specialists where appropriate, such as dietitian or mental health professional if participant goals fall outside our scope of practice.
• BUTT OUT
  Tobacco and/or e-cigarette, vaping cessation program.
  Group support or self-manged program available.
  
  Participants are supported to quit tobacco/vape use and stay quit over the course of 8 sessions over 12 weeks. Participants are given the tools and skills to build their motivation to quit use, cope with challenging cravings and successfully navigate relapse. The program is delivered through drop-in group sessions (please call Health Promotion at ext 4685 to confirm time and location) or through a self managed program where participants may work through the workbook in their own time. This program involves a partnership with Health Services Pharmacy and provides participants with access to Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) to support their quit journey.