Mental Health Awareness (Workplace & Personal)

This is a short exercise, you'll need a pen and paper.  Meet Hannah, Bruce, Rolph and others talking about their experiences.  Do you think they have a mental health condition? Where would you place them on the Mental Health Continuum?  Let's find out.

Let's review your work and explore common mental health conditions and symptoms.

This is a short exercise, you will need a pen and paper.  Imaging offering support to someone with a mental health condition, how would you talk about it?  What would you say or not say?  What feels right and what doesn't?  Why?  Find out what you feel comfortable with.

Let's review your work and explain what to say and how to offer support.

Practice a short breathing and relaxation technique to help you relax and regain focus.

As many of you might not have the time to run a full 45 minute interactive training session/discussion, I have updated the course with easy to run short exercises.  You can can run these exercises in under 15 minutes remotely to raise awareness about specific areas of mental health.

This section will help you promote mental health awareness via an interactive exercise you can do remotely with your team. 

It is an ideal 15/20 minute ice breaker exercise to use at the beginning of an online team meeting (or face to face) to help break the stigma about mental health. You will explore common perceptions Vs. reality in an engaging manner.

You can use it with your team as a short 'team talk' session during mental health awareness month or when you feel it's important to raise mental health awareness.

Originally designed as an interactive game to introduce some of the most common mental health conditions via printed cards, this exercise can now be done virtually as a standalone part.

In this short video I cover how to use the hyperlinked exercise presentation to run a 20 minute standalone virtual exercise to promote Mental Health Awareness.
Make sure you download the presentation and supporting handout.

To stay aligned with my original intention, which was to give you to give you as many resources as I could to enable you to become ambassadors for mental health awareness in your workplace, this is an interactive 10 minute quiz to share with your team members. 

You can use the quiz in 3 ways:

1 - Do it for yourself to raise your mental health awareness.

2 - If you are a presenter,  use the interactive PowerPoint presentation to create an informative 10 minute game.

3 - If you don't like presenting, send the 3 page Quiz PDF to your team members, colleagues, and friends.

In this short lecture I show you how to use the interactive PowerPoint presentation to run the quiz with your team. 
I also share the best way to use the PDF format of the quiz to promote mental health awareness.

Another additional resource for you to promote Mental Health Awareness remotely and in an interactive way in 15 minutes or less. 

This short well-being quiz followed by a team conversation on self-care or preventing burnout in the workplace can be done in 3 ways.

1 - Do it for yourself to raise your mental health awareness.

2 - If you are a presenter,  use the interactive PowerPoint presentation to create an informative 10 minute session.  The quiz part will take approximately 5 minutes to run and debrief.  Then you can start a discussion on either self-care or reducing burnout.

3 - If you don't like presenting, send the 3 page Quiz PDF to your team members, colleagues, and friends.

In this short lecture I show you how to use the interactive PowerPoint presentation to run the quiz with your team. 
I also share the best way to use the PDF format of the quiz to promote general well-being, self-care and how to reduce burnout.

You will find logos and social media banners (LinkedIn, Facebook, Zoom...) to help you raise awareness.
This lecture is in the form of an article with all the downloadable materials included.

You will find logos and social media banners (LinkedIn, Facebook, Zoom...) to help you raise awareness.
This lecture is in the form of an article with all the downloadable materials included.

All the resources you need to run the course.  Familiarise yourself with all of them before going to the next lecture.

Learn how to build your personal resilience.

This is adding extra material with some useful stats, facts and links.  Because of the Covid-19 crisis there it is essential to keep your mental health in check and work at achieving positive well-being.  I have included an extensive self-assessment to look at depression, anxiety and stress and to help you take some relevant actions.

In this section, you will find some useful and practical handouts to share with your team all year round.

Each handout looks at different aspects of mental health and gives practical tools to promote positive mental well-being.   Print these out and share them with your colleagues, team members, and friends.