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Our workplace mental health training programs have satisfaction rates of over 97%. After participating in our trainings, over 90% of training participants report increased knowledge of the workplace mental health topic, applied lessons learned, and would recommend the training to others.
An external evaluation conducted by the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research found participants in our workplace resilience training series reported significantly higher levels of coping skills, lower levels of stress as it relates to burnout, and higher levels of psychological well-being.
Trainings are offered in-person and virtually.
Training Session Content
Workplace Mental Health 101: Introduces the importance of mental health and how challenges shows up in the workplace. Reviews evidence-based strategies employees can use to support their mental health to address competing demands of the workplace. Discusses how to reach out to and support colleagues.
Manager Training #1: Managing for Mental Health in the Workplace: Provides managers with skills to discuss mental health challenges with employees in a supportive way while respecting professional boundaries and maintaining their own mental well-being.
Manager Training #2: Balancing Compassion and Accountability in the Workplace: Describe elements of creating a performance management system that facilitates accountability for all employees while providing support for employees who may be struggling.
Building Resilience in the Workplace: Focuses on the importance of developing resilience as a skill in response to challenges and the opportunity for growth in the workplace. It concludes with an actionable, evidence-based model of skills to develop resilience that can support employees to manage uncertainty.
Under Pressure: Identifying and Managing our Stress Responses: Teaches employees how to cultivate self-awareness to identify and manage unhealthy coping mechanisms in response to stress and replace them with healthier coping strategies. Provides tactical emotional and solutions-based coping skills for the workplace.
Accentuate the Positive: Cultivating Positive Emotions: Helps employees increase their experience of positive emotions by teaching positive psychology techniques, realistic optimism, gratitude practices, and encouraging flexible thinking to create space to adapt and learn from challenges.
Leverage Strengths for Work & Life: Helps employees examine their work and personal priorities to identify strengths, increase skills in balancing competing priorities, and make time for activities that promote recovery.
Burnout: Causes & Solutions: Provides an overview of burnout, how it differs from stress and other mental illnesses, and identifies the six main causes of burnout in the workplace. This training also discusses strategies to mitigate the causes of burnout. It also includes strategies to help people recover from burnout.
Coping with Trauma: Describes the impact of the cascade of traumas on the workplace. Discusses resilience and how to cultivate awareness to recognize how we are coping. Provides emotion and solution-based coping strategies while balancing processing the trauma of the outside world while at work.
Supporting Employee Mental Health as HR Professionals: Provides strategies for HR professionals to respond to individual mental health crises in the workplace and community crises in general, as well as elements of compassionate postvention communication. This can be tailored to include other teams involved as well.
Compassionate Connections: Tools to Support Yourself & Others: Provides skills to employees who commonly interact with individuals or family members affected by mental illness. Prioritizes employees’ mental health by providing tools to practice self-care and cope during and after challenging interactions.
Caregivers in the Workplace: Stress affects caregivers’ physical and mental health, yet many caregivers do not share this in the workplace. This training provides evidence-based strategies for how caregivers can thrive in the workplace, including tools to cope with stress, connect with colleagues, and support loved ones.