Welcome to SAGE & THYME ®
SAGE & THYME: a communication skills workshop about listening to people who are worried.
We now have online versions of some of our training - see here.
You can book spaces on our existing online or face-to-face training dates in Manchester, or you can contact us for prices to organise SAGE & THYME training (online or face-to-face) specifically for your organisation.
‘SAGE & THYME’ is a mnemonic that provides a memorable structure for conversations, based on the evidence behind effective communication skills: Setting – Ask – Gather – Empathy – Talk – Help - You – Me – End.
The SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop is taught to 30 participants in 3 hours by three trained SAGE & THYME facilitators, using group work, a presentation and conversation rehearsals.
The SAGE & THYME Online workshop (equivalent to SAGE & THYME Foundation Level and delivered normally on Zoom) is taught to 20 participants in 2 hours 45 min by two trained SAGE & THYME facilitators, using group work, a presentation and conversation rehearsals.
Find out more about the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop
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There are over 10 publications on SAGE & THYME.
See the papers, reports, independent evaluations and textbooks on SAGE & THYME
The SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop has been adopted by over 60 NHS Trusts, CCGs, charities, councils, universities and hospices around the UK.
See which organisations run the workshop
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), teaches (via the SATFAC course) and licences other organisations to deliver SAGE & THYME foundation level workshops to their staff, students and volunteers.
Find out about running the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop in your organisation
The SAGE & THYME for advance care planning workshop (S&T ACP) was developed with the Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Network. It teaches effective communication skills to open an advance care planning conversation, and is suitable for GPs, community matrons and other staff who have experience of advance care planning.
Find out more about SAGE & THYME ACP
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I offer reflective practice groups to the fitness instructors working with the Prehab4Cancer programme. They were trained in S&T over a year ago. I met with them this morning for a reflective session. One instructor presented a case of a young man, in his 30s, going through chemo for a colorectal cancer. The instructor remembered to ask a question about what was going on for him (“A’ and ‘G’) and then be silent and listen. He reflected that this is something he remembered from the training that has stuck with him ever since and changed how he works with people who are struggling. He reflected that by doing so, he was really able to help this man who disclosed he was frightened and worried (emotional concerns). A great plan was devised to offer him some additional support (instructor ringing him twice a week and contacting his Clinical Nurse Specialist – the ‘Y’ and the ‘M”).
