One-Hour Workshops

This 60 minute virtual workshop introduces tools to build personal resilience to thrive and feel better during times of stress. The session reviews the concept of the mental health continuum and introduces 3 personal strategies to promote improved mental health. Applying one of these strategies, participants will evaluate their own resiliency activities using a Wellness Wheel to identify areas for improvement. A brief planning activity is used to translate the learning into immediately applicable actions. Participants must have access to a laptop or desktop computer or a cellphone and have access to private space.

• What is burnout and how to know if you are at risk
• Learn how to build resilience: 3 personal protection strategies
• Apply 1 of the strategies – use the Wellness Wheel to identify areas for improvement
• Apply a brief planning tool
• Customize a resiliency building plan

This 60 minute virtual workshop will introduce tools to build personal resilience to thrive and feel better during times of stress. The session briefly reviews the concept of the mental health continuum and introduces 3 personal strategies to promote improved mental health. Applying one of these strategies, participants will evaluate their own resiliency activities against best practice using a Social Support checklist to identify areas for improvement. A brief planning activity is used to translate the learning into immediately applicable actions. Participants will receive handouts with tools, information, and resources that support the workshop activity. Participants must have access to a laptop or desktop computer or a cellphone and have access to private space.

• What is the mental health continuum
• Learn how to build resilience- 3 personal protection strategies
• Learn the 3 components of work stress- and how to make them work for you
• Apply 1 of the strategies – use the Social Support Checklist to identify areas for improvement
• Apply a brief planning tool

Any industries including manufacturing, government, education, healthcare, engineering & sciences, technology, not-for-profit, financial (banking and insurance). Can be customized for first responder audience

Through the use of structured experiences, discussions and interactions, this dynamic, engaging and interactive session is designed to increase awareness of mental health and its potential incidence and impact in the workplace, challenge existing stereotypes of mental illness. Additionally participants will have an opportunity to consider their current mental health and strategies to ensure continued health and well-being in their current context.

• Recognize the stigmas that typically surround mental health/mental ill- health
• Learn appropriate boundaries for the workplace mental health address
• Describe the continuum of mental health: From illness to wellness
• Recognize potential indicators of a possible mental health issue
• Evaluate your mental health status
• List an array of strategies/resources to promote mental health, in yourself and others in the workplace

Designed to appeal to anyone interested in acquiring more information, insights and ease with mental health in the workplace and to acquiring insights, information and ideas intended to support mental health in the workplace.

Any industries including manufacturing, government, education, healthcare, engineering & sciences, technology, not-for-profit, financial (banking and insurance). Can be customized for first responder audience

An expert occupational health consultant with a background in workplace mental health will facilitate this interactive 70-minutes unique workshop. Participants will reflect on how current challenges imposed by COVID-19 impact upon their profession and personal lives. The workshop will support participants to create a personalized resiliency plan to address their unique stress-points across the entire spectrum of needs: physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual.

Participants will choose the level of interaction they wish to have with others in the group and can remain completely private and independent if they wish. The session will be run via Zoom, so participants need access to this technology; by joining the session in a private, quiet space, participants ensure the experience is maximized for all.

• Participants will learn skills to notice when change is needed over time,
• and then adjust and adapt their resiliency plan to ensure optimal health is maintained.

Employees of all levels

This 60 minute virtual workshop will introduce tools to build communication skills related to mental health. The session introduces a framework to identify poor mental health in oneself and others and instructs on how to communicate effectively to ensure better outcomes. Participants will have opportunity to create their own conversation script and build confidence for the dialogue. Participants will receive handouts with tools, information, and resources that support the workshop activity. Participants must have access to a laptop or desktop computer or a cellphone and have access to private space.

• How to know if someone (at work) is struggling
• What to do/when to get professional help
• Privacy consideration and rules at work
• Create a conversation script

** This session is suggested to address known anxiety/worry in your workplace**

This 70 minute virtual workshop is designed to address the anxiety workers experience due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. A workplace mental health expert will explain why we feel anxious in times like this, and help participants identify their own triggers, recognize their response, and develop new skills to manage more effectively. Participants must have access to a laptop or desktop computer or a cellphone and have access to private space.

• Understand why you feel anxiety related to COVID-19
• Learn about the connection between what you think, feel, do
• Identify your own triggers related to health, financial, and other risks
• Gain two new tools to better manage your own related stressors

Through the use of structured experiences, group discussions and practical activities, this dynamic, engaging and interactive session invites participants to understand the science of stress and happiness and build skills to thrive at work. Participants will be given the opportunity to identify and evaluate their own strategies, select specific tools to create a personal resiliency practice. The workshop allows for team-building activities that create a support network at work. Participants can leave the workshop with a clear plan and specific skills to be happy at work.

• Understand why you feel anxiety related to COVID-19
• Apply the neuro-science of stress to your situation
• Learn about stress and burnout and the connection between them
• Identify your risks and develop strategies to reduce them (option for applying a screening tool for expanded time)
• Learn how to reduce your work stress while doing your whole job
• Build a personal resiliency practice