Training & awareness

Educational programmes on mental health, delivered honestly.

Courses, seminars, and workshops for health workers, workplaces, schools, and the general public — built around mental-health awareness, stress management, and the early recognition of psychological disorders. Plus the community campaigns and stigma-reduction work we believe our practice should do.

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What guides this work

A workshop is worth its time only if people change what they do on Monday.

Most mental-health training, done badly, fills a slide deck and a compliance log and changes very little. We build programmes to change what participants notice, say, and do — with clinicians, with colleagues, with family members, and, critically, with themselves.

That means real case material, practised conversations, specific heuristics, and an honest account of what the evidence supports — and what it does not.

Who leads sessions

Specialists, not generic trainers.

Every Manadi programme is led by a named subject-matter specialist — usually a qualified mental-health professional or health educator with direct experience of the contexts the training concerns. We refuse to run any programme where the lead facilitator has not worked closely with the population the training is for.

Facilitator credentials are shared in advance with every brochure and registration confirmation.

Three audiences. Distinct programmes.

We run separate programmes for health workers, for workplaces, and for the public. The content overlaps, but pitch, depth, and case material differ significantly by audience. Below is a representative catalogue — bespoke programmes are built from the same building blocks.

For health workers

Recognising psychological disorders in primary care

A one-day CME-style workshop for general practitioners, nurses, and allied health workers. Focus on screening instruments, brief interventions, and pathways for referral.

  • Format: 1 day, in-person or hybrid
  • Group: 15–25 participants
  • Outcomes: PHQ-9, GAD-7, and AUDIT working competence
For health workers

Risk assessment & safety-planning skills

A training workshop for clinicians who, in their own practice, sometimes encounter people at risk of self-harm. We teach structured risk assessment, collaborative safety planning, and documentation that holds up under scrutiny — so participants are better equipped in the work they do themselves.

  • Format: 1 day, in-person
  • Group: up to 20 participants
  • Outcomes: Stanley–Brown safety-plan method, applied in practice
For health workers

GCP refreshers for research teams

Good Clinical Practice refresher sessions for investigators and study coordinators — protocol adherence, consent integrity, source-data verification, SAE handling.

  • Format: Half-day or 1 day
  • Group: 10–30 participants
  • Outcomes: Documented GCP refresher record per site
For workplaces

Mental health at work — for managers

A one-day programme for people managers on recognising distress, having supportive conversations, and signposting — without overstepping into clinical roles.

  • Format: 1 day, in-person or live-online
  • Group: 12–20 managers
  • Outcomes: Structured conversation framework, referral map
For workplaces

Stress, sleep, and burnout

A practical four-session educational series for employees. Evidence-informed content on stress, sleep, and burnout, and a realistic view of what organisations can and cannot address at the individual level. Participants leave with their own written action plan.

  • Format: 4 sessions of 90 minutes
  • Group: 15–40 participants
  • Outcomes: Personal action plan drafted by each participant
For workplaces

Psychological safety & team culture

For leadership teams. A facilitated examination of the norms that help or hinder difficult conversations — tailored to each team before delivery.

  • Format: 2 half-days, one week apart
  • Group: 6–12 leaders
  • Outcomes: A team charter with observable commitments
For the public

Understanding anxiety and depression

An open seminar for adults who want clear, non-patronising information about what anxiety and depression are, what helps, and when to seek professional support.

  • Format: 2-hour evening seminar, in-person or live-online
  • Capacity: 40 seats
  • Public registration via the engagements page
For the public

Supporting a family member

A two-evening workshop for family members and close friends of someone going through a mental-health difficulty. Boundaries, conversations, and care-for-the-carer.

  • Format: 2 evenings of 2 hours each
  • Capacity: 25 seats
  • Held monthly in-person in New Delhi and online
For the public

First response, for parents and teachers

A focused seminar for parents and school staff on recognising early signs of psychological difficulty in adolescents, and what to do in the first 24 hours.

  • Format: 3-hour seminar, in-person
  • Capacity: 50 seats
  • Delivered in partnership with participating schools
Stigma reduction

Awareness work that does not settle for "awareness".

We treat stigma reduction as a practical project, not a slogan. Our community programmes focus on the specific acts that reduce the distance between people in distress and the help available to them — language that does not diminish, stories that are accurate, pathways that are real.

This work is usually run in partnership with schools, resident-welfare associations, small employers, and civic bodies. We publish the materials we develop under open licences where we can, so that communities can run programmes without us once the foundations are in place.

Community interventions

What we build, and with whom.

  • Neighbourhood awareness drives — short programmes co-designed with local bodies in North-West Delhi.
  • School-based early-recognition modules — for teachers and school counsellors, with onward referral pathways to qualified external providers.
  • Peer-support training — for workplaces and communities that want informed peers who know exactly when to signpost to qualified help.
  • Language guides — short written aids on how to talk about mental illness without reinforcing stereotypes, for organisations to adapt.

A portion of community work is run pro-bono or on a cost-recovery basis; commissioned programmes are priced on scope.

How a commissioned programme comes together.

For organisations that want a programme shaped to their people, we build in four phases. Public workshops are open-registration and priced per seat on the engagements page.

01

Brief

A 60-minute scoping conversation with the sponsor. We read any existing material you have and ask about the people we'll be in the room with.

02

Design

A written programme design — objectives, content, methods, and what participants will be able to do by the end. You sign off before anything is built.

03

Delivery

We run the sessions. We adapt live to what is actually happening in the room. Materials are shared with participants afterwards.

04

Follow-through

A short written debrief for the sponsor — what we observed, recommendations, and open risks. Optional follow-up sessions four to eight weeks later to review how the material has landed.

Fees

Per-seat for public workshops, per-day for commissioned programmes.

Public workshops are registered individually — current rates are on the engagements page. Commissioned programmes are quoted from scope and typically run at a per-day rate that includes design, delivery, materials, and the follow-through debrief.

Non-profits and educational institutions: write to us. We keep a limited number of subsidised programme days each year for partners whose reach we respect.

Formats

In person, live-online, or hybrid.

In person at our office in Shalimar Bagh, at your site within the National Capital Region, or at a venue you host. Live-online via a secure platform with small-group breakouts. Hybrid for teams split across locations.

Recordings of workshops, when appropriate, are made available to registered participants only. We do not produce open recordings of training programmes.

Public workshops

Register for an upcoming seminar or workshop.

Our current public schedule, with dates and per-seat fees, lives on the engagements page. Registration is paid in advance; see the refund policy for cancellation windows.

See upcoming workshops

In-house programme

Commission a programme for your team.

For organisations wanting a programme built around their people. We start with a short scoping conversation and move to a written design.

Ask about a programme