Table 3 Healthy Parent Carers programme: outline of session content and activities

Session 1: Introduction to health and wellbeing

• Introductions and agreeing group ground rules

• Health and wellbeing and what influences them for parent carers (group discussion)

• Introduction to CLANGERS

• Resilience (group game and discussion)

• Managing responsibilities (group activity and discussion)

• Self-assessment of health and wellbeing

• Action planning

Session 2: Connect and Learn

• Ice-breaker activity, review of the week (group sharing)

• Introducing ‘Connect’ (group brainstorming)

• Personal connections and sources of support (group activities and discussions)

• Introducing ‘Learn’ (group brainstorming)

• Learning to make a paper box (group activity)

• Action planning

Session 3: Be Active and Notice

• Ice-breaker activity, review of the week (group sharing)

• Introducing ‘being Active’ (group brainstorming, video, group discussion)

• Introducing ‘taking Notice’ (group brainstorming, video, group activities and discussion)

• Action planning

Session 4: Give and Eat Well

• Ice-breaker activity, review of the week (group sharing)

• Introducing ‘Give’ (group brainstorming, activities, and group discussion)

• Introducing ‘Eat well’ (group brainstorming, video, group activity and group discussion)

• Action planning

Session 5: Relax and Sleep

• Ice-breaker activity, review of the week (group sharing)

• Introducing ‘Relax’ (group brainstorming, activities, and group discussion)

• Introducing ‘Sleep’ (group brainstorming, activity, and group discussion)

• Action planning

Session 6: Keeping healthy

• Ice-breaker activity, review of the week (group sharing)

• Managing stress (group brainstorming, video, activity and group discussion)

• A group walk

• Reflecting on progress, self-assessments of health and wellbeing

• Long-term action planning

• Recap of the programme and conclusions