What Our Clients
and Partners Say

We greatly value feedback from our HAT course participants and partners. Below you can learn more from those who have joined our programmes and who have shared their experience of our unique training approach. The HAT Community is a truely international group, with particpants from a wide range of professional settings and locations.

Staff  within the Western Health and Social Care Trust who attended Health Action Training have advised that it is a highly valued course which they would highly recommend for all nurses to attend to enhance their communication skills, knowledge and ultimately their interactions with patients, relatives and colleagues.

Donna Keenan

Director of Nursing, Western Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland

Health Action Training (HAT) has helped Nurses and Midwives transform Aboujaoudé Hospital, in Lebanon into a space of hope and renewal where uncertainty and emotional strain brought about by ongoing conflict in our country makes our job very difficult. Our Nurses and Midwives have gained practical tools and emotional grounding in Person Centredness. Sympathetic presence, truly listening, comforting, and supporting without judgment now anchor our care. The experiential learning, reflection, and embodied practices in HAT like the breathing techniques, the role play, and the reflective exercises have become everyday tools to help us stay grounded and respond with kindness and compassion and despite the challenges be the professionals we all aspire to be.
Rita Akiki

Director of Nursing, Aboujaoudé Hospital, Lebanon

This course was very informative, interactive and the content related to events and challenging situations that are encountered by our Nurse Advisors in their new role telephone triage, providing them with experience and resilience to use in both their professional and personal lives.

Emma Graham

RN, Nurse manager for Western Urgent Care, HCSNI, and Qualified HAT trainer

Health Action Training is a dynamic and creative approach to teaching communication skills. The HAT approach is underpinned by innovative methodologies, including applied drama, person-centred practice, actor training, and role play and is uniquely adapted to global healthcare. HAT provides an inspiring approach to enhancing healthcare professionals’ skills.

Professor Elizabeth Adams

Director of professional development Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, Elected President of the European Federation of Nurses Association

Health Action Training provides a dynamic and cutting-edge approach to developing Advanced Communication skills, at a time when the system and people that work in it are under increasing pressure.

Participants that have undergone this training have universally and significantly improved their practice and knowledge. It is suitable in any setting for any healthcare professional. I have seen the development of HAT and have been very impressed with both its academic base and its skills-based approach.

Dame Christine Beasley

Former CNO England (2004-2012)

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