How can we help you start or advance discussions pertaining to mental health in the workplace?
With 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiencing mental illness in a given year, someone in your workplace is struggling. Knowing how to recognize and support these employees is the key to meeting performance, business, and financial expectations. We have designed trainings, workshops, keynote addresses, and presentations to help leaders understand the most common ways mental illness appears in the work setting and how to legally and effectively address it.
Most Popular Training Sessions
Elephant in Your Office
The original presentation introducing three types of “elephants” who show up in the workplace, i.e. employees experiencing poor mental health, and how to recognize and support them. Practical, useful, and free resources enable participants to immediately make positive change in the workplace.
Mental Health for Managers
In this session, managers learn how mental illness commonly shows up at work. Through scenario-based examples, they discover legal and effective ways to interact with employees experiencing poor mental health and communicate more confidently about sensitive and personal topics.
Improve Employee Wellbeing without Touching the Budget
“Know your audience” is the first rule of successful marketing, public speaking, and improving the mental health of your workforce. In this session, learn five straightforward ways to enhance company culture and employee wellbeing while staying within your approved budget.
Why Mental Health is Essential to Your DEI Initiatives
Today’s workforce represents a diverse mixture of cultures, identities, attitudes, and life experiences. This session explains core issues affecting various populations and how efforts to improve mental wellbeing go a long way in creating an equitable and inclusive environment.
Professional Burnout, Resiliency, and Toxic Positivity
During this session, learn the root causes of professional burnout and simple ways to restore balance. Discover fun and effective resiliency techniques like the Beauty Break and how to avoid creating an environment of toxic positivity.
Strategies to Address Disruptive Events and Actions
A physical, verbal, emotional, or violent outburst in the work setting is traumatic for everyone involved. In this session, leaders will learn how to handle a disruptive event as it occurs and the importance of an honest and compassionate follow-up discussion with those involved.
What format suits your company’s schedule and needs? Our training sessions can be in person or virtual, live or pre-recorded, given as one-hour presentations, two-hour workshops, or combined into a half or full-day of education. Pricing depends on several variables, so contact us to discuss.
Interested in Human Resources topics? We also offer the following training sessions.
ADA and Reasonable Accommodations
Learn how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to people with psychiatric disabilities, simple, inexpensive accommodations to help them succeed, and benefits of using the interactive process.
Behavioral Health Equity
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act requires insurance providers to ensure every person can access quality behavioral health care. Find out if your health plan is compliant and straightforward actions your benefits team can take to remove barriers to care.
LGBTQ and Belonging
Learn how to navigate and improve the intersection between the workplace culture and LGBTQ+ inclusion/belonging.
Return-to-Work Plan for Mental Illness
Employees who take a leave of absence to manage or recover from a period of poor mental health need the same return-to-work considerations as an employee recovering from surgery, managing chemotherapy treatment, or any other major medical issue. Learn what “light duty” means for mental health and a timeline for regaining strength and occupational function.
Unconscious Bias and Empathy
All humans have unconscious bias. This session provides information, examples, and tools to understand and work with unconscious biases. It also addresses the power of empathy from a leadership perspective.
Poor Mental Health – an Occupational Safety Hazard
Poor mental health can affect focus and concentration, lead to the use of drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism, and create a dangerous work environment. This session focuses on labor and manufacturing industries and provides plain-language strategies for talking about mental health, suicide, and safety.