Mental Health Workshop — UK
Half day or full day. Three core topics. One speaker who's been through it — and come back to help your team do the same.
What It Is
Most workplace mental health training gets forgotten by Thursday. Danny's workshop doesn't — because it isn't training in the conventional sense. It's a conversation. A real one, led by someone who has genuinely been to the edge and come back.
Danny Sculthorpe played over 300 games of professional rugby league. He had eight England caps. He also attempted suicide. His friend Terry Newton died by suicide in 2010. He has spent fifteen years turning that experience into something that saves lives in workplaces across the UK.
The workshop covers three topics that sit at the heart of workplace mental health — resilience, work-life balance and anger management. Delivered in either half-day or full-day format, it meets teams where they are and leaves them in a genuinely different place.
No slides. No buzzwords. No tick-box exercises. Just Danny and your team — and the kind of honesty that changes things.
"People left that session knowing what to do. Not just what to feel."
"By the afternoon, people were having conversations they'd never had in 20 years of working together."
Choose Your Format
Both formats cover the same three core topics. The question is how deep you want to go — and how much you want to change.
Focused, practical and done before lunch. Danny's half-day format combines lived experience with structured mental health tools your team can use immediately. Perfect for away days, team development events or as a standalone session.
View Half Day DetailsFor organisations who are serious about lasting culture change. A full day goes deeper on every topic — more discussion, more exercises, more time for the conversations that don't happen in shorter sessions. Your people leave different.
View Full Day DetailsWhat We Cover
Danny chose these three topics because they are the ones that come up again and again — in every sector, at every level, in every conversation about workplace mental health. Each one is grounded in his own life. None of them are abstract.
Resilience isn't a personality trait — it's a skill. Danny's approach to resilience is built on the hard reality of what it takes to recover from a genuine breakdown, and what organisations can do to build genuine resilience before crisis strikes. Not motivational posters. The real thing.
The always-on culture is one of the biggest drivers of poor mental health in UK workplaces. Danny cuts through the standard guidance and gets to what actually changes behaviour — helping people protect their energy, communicate their limits and show up properly for both work and the people who matter to them.
Workplace anger is rarely what it looks like on the surface. Danny brings a level of personal honesty to this topic that most trainers simply can't — because he's lived it. Teams learn to recognise patterns, understand what's really driving the behaviour, and respond in ways that protect relationships rather than destroy them.
Why Danny
Danny isn't a therapist or a corporate trainer. He's someone who has been through it, survived it and spent fifteen years helping others do the same.
Danny has attempted suicide, lost a close friend to suicide and built a career helping others talk about mental health. That authenticity can't be trained into someone — and audiences know the difference.
Every session is delivered live, in person, without a deck of slides or a corporate script. The workshop is a conversation — and Danny leads it differently every time based on the room in front of him.
Danny has run workshops with construction workers, police officers, elite athletes and NHS teams. His background in professional sport gives him immediate credibility with audiences that typically disengage from mental health training.
Resilience, work-life balance and anger management — not chosen because they're safe topics, but because they're the ones Danny has genuinely had to work through himself. That comes through in every session.
Who It's For
The workshop adapts to your audience. Danny tailors every session to the sector, the team and the specific challenges they face.
High-risk, high-pressure environments where mental health is talked about least and needed most.
Leadership teams and HR professionals who need to shift culture, not just tick boxes.
NHS and private healthcare teams carrying the weight of other people's worst days.
Teachers, pastoral staff and support workers dealing with an accelerating mental health crisis.
Police, fire and ambulance — teams trained to be strong who need permission to not be.
Elite and community sport environments where performance culture drives mental health underground.
FAQ
The workshop is built around three core topics: resilience training, work-life balance and anger management. Each is grounded in Danny's own lived experience and delivered in a way that connects with real people, not just HR professionals.
The half-day runs approximately 3 to 3.5 hours and is focused and practical. The full-day format goes deeper on each topic, with more discussion, more exercises and more time for the conversations that don't happen in shorter sessions. Both cover all three core topics.
Up to 25 per group. Both formats are designed for smaller groups to keep the session genuine. Larger organisations can run multiple groups on the same or consecutive days.
Yes. A keynote for a larger company audience in the morning followed by a workshop for a smaller group in the afternoon is one of the most popular and effective formats for away days.
Yes. Danny delivers across the UK for all sectors.
Danny's workshop is about awareness, culture and conversation skills for the whole team. MHFA training is a formal two-day qualification for designated first aiders. They are very different and complement each other well.
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Ready to Book?
Get in touch and Danny's team will come back to you within 24 hours. No pressure, no hard sell — just a conversation about what your organisation needs.
