Soundcastle Reviews

Soundcastle ran an excellent training session for us around managing mental health and finding boundaries in the arts. We received great feedback from an engaged group of participants and will definitely be in touch with the organisation again for future training events. We have also been in touch with individual members of staff as part of our mentoring programme for the past few years. Again, the feedback and learning from these sessions has been extremely positive and inspiring!

This is really important training and I really encourage everyone to do it. Kate was a fantastic teacher and the training was well structured, clear and engaging

Did the Mental Health First Aid Level 2 training and I would highly recommend it. The content was delivered so effectively and the discussions were facilitated very positively. Thoroughly enjoyed my day with Soundcastle and would highly recommend them for any community music, training needs.

An amazing course, really engaging and super delivery with a great group. Relevant, thorough and very detailed with a great energy through the day.

I did mental health first aid training with Soundcastle and can’t recommend it highly enough. It was extremely well structured and led with great resources and engaging & interactive content. The course leaders were brilliant and extremely caring. It was also quite a small group of trainees which gave us all plenty of attention and time for discussion/questions. Would recommend to all arts organisations working with vulnerable groups. Thank you!

Mental Health First Aid training was great. Lovely environment and people. Deffo recommend! Thanks again 💙

I attended a one day mental health first aid course with Soundcastle. It was absolutely fantastic. The trainers created an open and supportive environment in which to discuss challenging themes safely. The content was interesting and perfectly pitched for the group. I now feel far better prepared to discuss mental health in the future.

This course was really rewarding, and it’s so imperative that we all work to better educate ourselves on how to support others with their mental health. I would recommend this course to all employers and employee’s! Such a beautiful team of people ❤️

Brilliant course with Soundcastle. Warm and welcoming people I learnt a lot.

Excellent training

The quality of the training was extremely high. There was a large amount of training content to get through, but Hannah and Gail were excellent facilitators. They made the day very interactive, and ensured the group felt safe and supported even when covering sensitive topics. Highly recommended.

Soundcastle provided my work with mental health first aid training. I'm naturally very enthusiastic about psychology and the mind, so I was excited to be a part of the course. I wasn't too sure what to expect at first, but the content was easy to understand and explanations were clear and concise. Moreover, the structure allowed for easy assimilation of information, as it was broken up nicely into manageable chuncks, and our course teacher was experienced and friendly, and she gave wholesome answers to questions. If I could offer any constructive criticism or way of improvement, it would be that personally, simply for the fact that I believe these are pressing issues that could be talked more about, I'd have been interested to learn more about topics like neurotic and antisocial personality traits, and the impact they have. Apart from that, it was a great course and I'd recommend if anyone's looking to promote a well-oiled collective bill of mental health at their place or work.

Soundcastle delivered an engaging and thought-provoking training course. They equipped us with tools needed to better assist as mental health first aiders. Thank you Soundcastle!

Soundcastle's Mental Health Training, was fantastic. Really well delivered and invaluable for our team. The trainer managed to cover a lot of areas in which our knowledge was limited, in a pleasant and well-paced couple of sessions, that still allowed for conversation and questions around some difficult topics.

I really enjoyed our trainer Hannah Dunster’s delivery of the course. She made us feel so wellcome and created a relaxed and warm atmosphere throughout the course. Hannah is also very professional and knowledgeable and she had a good answer to any of our questions. I would definitely recommend doing this course to the people I know, and if they get Hannah as their trainer, that is an extra prize.

Really good atmosphere and hospitality,and especially was really helpful training to get more information about mental health issues and problems,will recommend 100%

This was brilliant training. Hannah was warm and welcoming, and the training moved at a really good pace. Great balance of trainer-led and group exercises, with plenty of opportunities to ask questions. Hannah was really good at helping the group relate what we were learning to our own contexts and supported everyone very individually. I feel much more confident about being able to initiate difficult conversations having taken this course and would really recommend this training.