In May, less than a year after delivering the first YAM Instructor Course in Gujarat, India, the Mental Health in Mind team returned to Ahmedabad. This time to train five of the local Instructors to become Trainers. YAM Trainers are the individuals who train new Instructors. Instructors in turn are the individuals who facilitate YAM with young…Continue readingOur first Indian YAM Trainers!
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In the latest issue of EuroHealthNet magazine you will find an article about YAM. The article contains a succinct description of YAM, the method and evidence base as well as continued research and implementation of the program. Here’s a little information about EuroHealthNet taken from their website: “The EuroHealthNet partnership is a not-for-profit organisation made up…Continue readingYAM in EuroHealthNet Magazine
(First, Second and) Third time lucky! In the beginning of April we held our third course in Gothenburg, Sweden, and 20 freshly certified instructors have now joined the Västra Götaland team. During the week we had a lot of laughter (especially as fifteen year olds) mixed with serious and many interesting discussions about youth’s mental…Continue readingThird time lucky in Gothenburg, Sweden
In Gujarat an adaptation of YAM is currently underway. After many months of discussions and deliberations on language use, including translations and back translations into English, the youth materials are finally ready to be tested in the real world. A pre-pilot roll-out was conducted in one rural and one urban school in the Mehsana district. Another pilot school and…Continue readingYAM adaptation in Gujarat, India
YAM was recently featured in an Associated Press article that was picked up by a number of important publications across the USA, among others the New York Times! You can read the article here. The journalist participated in a YAM session in Dallas and we particularly enjoyed the pictures of role-playing in action. It is always nice to hear from…Continue readingYAM in the New York Times!
We recently finished our first Instructor Course in Norway. Norway now has fifteen YAM Instructors ready to take YAM to the Oslo and Trondheim schools. The course was held in Swedish with many interesting moments of cross-cultural aha moments and noticeable differences between, if not the cultures, then most certainly the languages. Particularly the slang of course! In…Continue readingYAM is coming to Norway!
Whilst much of New South Wales was inundated with severe storms, and most flights in and out of Sydney were grounded, YAM Trainer and Instructor Tanya Lancaster was lucky enough to be flown safely home to Sydney from the small rural town of Narrandera, about 6 hours West of Sydney. These are her trusty pilots who…Continue readingTaking YAM to new heights!
I did my YAM-trainer workshop in the beginning of December 2018. Two intense days, 134 pages and of A LOT of information to take in. Everything leading to new thoughts and questions, so much to digest and to take in. I felt like I’d been given 10 kilo grams of Swedish ”julskinka” (pork chop) without…Continue readingReflections from a rookie YAM Trainer
We are very proud to have completed our second Instructor Course in Sydney Australia from Nov 4- 9, 2018. Myself, Nat, Olivia and Lisa were very impressed with the calibre of our 16 participants who despite coming from a large variety of professional backgrounds and expertise, obviously shared a passion for the wellbeing and mental health of…Continue readingAustralian Trainers taking on their first independent YAM Instructor Course
After an active spring with several YAM Instructor Courses all over Sweden the fall term started off with two YAM courses, one in Gothenburg and one in Stockholm. At the end of September we went to Gothenburg to train 20 new YAM Instructors. This is the second group that is trained there and they will…Continue readingFall courses in Sweden