Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing Workshop

Workshop

Mental health and wellbeing fundamentals

- What is mental health and how do you detect mental health issues in your business?

- What part does the employer play? Where does that role begin and end?

- What is organisational wellbeing? Explore short- and long-term wellbeing issues

- Understanding the impacts of stress in your workplace

Understanding employer and employee responsibilities and risks

- Navigating legal WHS requirements and responsibilities

- Effectively handling pre-employment medicals to help manage risk and exposure

- Workers compensation issues and optimal return to work outcomes

- ROI for investing in mental health - making the case to your business

Understanding mental health in the workplace

- Common workplace mental health issues

- Indicators of positive mental health

- Mental health concern vs mental illness

- Tackling common mental illnesses - anxiety, depression and substance abuse

Wellbeing and resilience for managers and employees

- Workplace wellbeing interventions

- Encouraging employee resilience

- Discussing wellbeing with employees and managers

- Manager self-care

Workshop

Day Two

Facilitating behavioural change across your organisation

- Create clearly defined roles, effectively manage relationships and conflict

- Understanding people’s stress reactions - body, mind, behaviour and emotions

- Use mindfulness to choose when and how to engage with employees

- Balancing advocacy with inquiry and tackling resistance

Enabling managers to engage effectively

- The role of the manager - what to do and what not to do

- Identify early warning signs and educate leaders

- Practical intervention and support strategies

- Managing difficult conversations

Strategies to destigmatise conversations from senior leadership levels down

- Educate organisational leaders about psychological health and wellbeing

- Executive-level ‘champions’ in creating a psychologically safe work culture

- Top-down organisational leadership around mental health and wellbeing

- Supporting executive managers and staff

Summary of key ideas, strategies and action plans

- Wrap-up and discussion of organisational perspectives on mental health and wellbeing

- Communication strategies to destigmatise, engage managers and senior leaders

- Supporting your managers with self-care strategies

- Summarise specific steps for action in your organisation