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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"[The] SAGE & THYME model made me listen to the patient's concerns and address their real issues, not what I presumed. Reassurance given at each visit to his concern, which was 'how will I be at the end, will I be asleep?' This man has leukaemia, white cells low so infection will be his cause of death eventually. All treatment stopped. [Using the SAGE & THYME model] made him address his idea of support - now has realised his best friend will ensure his wife will be cared for and will help her sort financial things out after he dies. He feels 'prepared for dying'."
