About

WHAT?

SL TREE is a Scottish business partnership providing Compassionate Mental Health Talks from Experience, for adolescents, and parents (primary care givers).

 

Our aim is to:

• Reduce harm, improve quality of life, and aid recovery from mental health issues, and challenging experiences.

 

Objective:

• Appropriately raise awareness & understanding of the existence, causes, and effects of challenging experiences and mental health issues on physical, emotional, relational, and lifestyle health.

• Effectively present the common and possible responses to those challenges and mental health issues.

• Demonstrate the benefits of truth, reason, encouragement, and empathy for identifying, understanding, and responding to challenging experiences and mental health issues. 

• Teach the skill of reasoning, to enable participants to identify which responses are the healthiest.

• Encourage and signpost to appropriate, truthful, reasonable, encouraging, and empathetic sources of help, including professionals and services.

 

Evolved from delivering & developing existing, and creating 'new' health & wellbeing lessons in another education service since 2006, and established in 2015 when we agreed to a request from schools to deliver PSE lessons to their pupils.

 

Using the principles of Truth, Reason, Encouragement, and Empathy, SL TREE communicates the real possibility of reduced harm, improved quality of life, and/or recovery from challenging experiences and mental health issues.

 

WHY?

We talk because our familiarity with both the negative impact of mental ill health, and the positive impact of recovery, having experienced both ourselves, will benefit others.

 

We talk because there are people who need to know that improved quality of life, reduced harm, and/or recovery are possible.

 

We talk hoping that our voice is a welcome and useful source of help for those who suffer because of their own, or a loved ones’, mental ill health.

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Our overall aim is to reduce harm, improve quality of life, and aid recovery from mental health issues.

 

HOW?

We research, develop, & create topical mental health related lesson plans, including sexual health & relationships, for 9-12, 11-14, 13-16, & 16+ year olds, and their primary care givers, delivering them as talks or webinars.

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Our overall objective is to research, develop, create, and deliver Compassionate Mental Health Talks from Experience, founded on and proclaiming the benefits of truth, reason, encouragement, and empathy.

 

WHERE?

Primarily our talks have been delivered in Scottish schools, but we can provide talks as webinars from our home to your home, and are willing to talk in other settings, such as youth groups, conferences, the workplace, further education, and religious settings.

 

WHEN?

Primarily in person talks are delivered Monday-Friday between 10 and 1pm, with webinars taking place in the evening from 8pm, however, other times and dates are considered.  

 

WHO?

We are a Scottish husband-and-wife team, born in the 1980’s, currently residing in central Scotland with our children. We love the beauty, ingenuity, creativity, and humour our country is known for, but recognise there are still areas in need of improvement and try to play a part in making it a better place for children, and adolescents.

 

We have skills and experience that enable us to speak positively and productively into the common mental health challenges that people face.