Introducing Mindwell NZ Ltd offering Mental health training to New Zealand workplaces
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Mental Health Training for your workplace
In 2018 EAPworks and Life Care Consultants joined forces to create Mindwell NZ Ltd , with the goal of delivering high quality training to understand and improve mental health in the workplace.
In New Zealand each year 1 in 5 adults will experience a mental health event, yet for many people awareness of the problem of mental health issues is extremely low. EAPworks and Life Care Consultants are acutely aware of the need for good workplace mental health and have developed training packages providing participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to identify early stage mental health issues in their colleagues such as the onset of depression, anxiety, stress or substance misuse.
Both organisations are leaders in their specialist fields – Life Care Consultants in industry-specific training focused on employee health and wellness, and EAPworks with a proven track record of changing lives and transforming organisations to support a healthy and productive workplace. EAPworks provides in-person and telephone counselling, coaching, crisis management, work/life resources, wellness programmes, as well as organisational development.
MINDWELL CURRENTLY DELIVERS 5 TRAINING OPTIONS:
1. 1-hour Mental Health Seminar, a session covering mental wellbeing, common concerns such as depression and anxiety, activities to enhance wellbeing hormones and sources of assistance.
Our Mental Health Seminar helps increase employee awareness and promote a general understanding about mental illness.
This engaging, practical seminar explores mental wellbeing, common concerns and how to respond to someone who may be struggling.
2. Mental Health 101 which enables staff to recognise signs and symptoms and make a first response to help their co workers
Objectives for the session:
- To gain an understanding of the extent of mental health issues in New Zealand.
- To understand various strategies that help maintain and improve mental health in your workplace.
- To recognise the potential signs and symptoms to look out for.
- To understand possible approaches when dealing with the various mentioned conditions. This 4 hour training. is customised. to the workplace setting.
3. Managing mental health in the workplace
Good workplace mental health awareness, wellbeing and mindfulness is associated with improved staff engagement, reduced absenteeism, increased productivity, workplace harmony, improved morale and higher job satisfaction. Mental health first aid is the help given to someone developing a mental health issue, such as depression, anxiety, stress or substance misuse or, who is in a mental health crisis.
This course takes these basic skills to the next level and includes prevention strategies such as building resilience and identifying and managing bullying in the workplace as well as management of mental ill health with case studies and possible solutions.
PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORDERS IN NZ
20% of NZ adults are affected by some form of mental disorder each year
50% are affected by some form of mental disorder in their lifetime
Mental disorders are the third leading cause of health loss in NZ
AT SOME STAGE IN PEOPLES LIVES…..
20% of people with be diagnosed with DEPRESSION
10% of people with be diagnosed with ANXIETY
1% of people with be diagnosed with SCHIZOPHRENIA
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Other courses include:
4. Post Incident – Self Care
Traumatic events are any single experience or ongoing series of events that threaten a person’s sense of physical or emotional safety. In many cases, such events trigger strong stress and fear reactions that can be quite overwhelming. Recently delivered to the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce following the Christchurch Mosque attacks, this course provides practical tools and strategies to help mitigate the threat/stress response.
· Common reactions to a traumatic event · How our body responds neurologically & physically · Restoring the balance/activating feel good hormones . Self care strategies. · Knowing your supports
5. Building Resilience in the Workplace
Helping participants become more self-aware is a key component in this training course. Being able to recognize how we are really feeling, listening to what is going on in our own bodies - physically, emotionally, and psychologically, helps us to exercise our own self care, increasing personal resilience, which better equips us to be able to help others. This course reviews various stressors in and out of the workplace, with a view to implement positive change to those areas we can and become more resilient in our response to those things we can not change.
· Resilience unpacked. · Benefits of building resilience · Self Check – Stress assessment · Stress and the Brain · A resilience model · Reframing our thinking · Proactive Strategies to implement
CONSULTATION
Contact us to arrange a free no obligation consultation of your company's mental health systems and training processes to uncover areas of improvement and discuss what we can do for you.
Call Mindwell's General Manager Nadine Dixon on
0800 MINDWELL 0800 6463 9355 Nadine.Dixon@mindwell.co.nz
12 recommendations for showing kindness at work
1. Start your day with a SMILE and a 'GOOD MORNING'.
2. ENJOY each moment of your work day - seek to have a positive attitude - it makes a difference.
3. Remember the 'PLEASE' and 'THANK YOU' words - they go a long way!
4. Everybody may have DIFFERENT opinions so LISTEN, look your colleagues in the eyes, and answer politely, even if you do not agree.
5. Do an ACT OF KINDNESS every day, even if no one asks for it.
6. When you don't agree with something, STOP, taking a DEEP BREATH, and THINK before answering . It helps keep control of your emotions.
7. Don't be afraid to APOLOGISE - we all make mistakes and it is good to acknowledge them.
8.DIALOGUE is the best way to communicate - don't pay attention to gossip.. it is usually negative.
9. ACKNOWLEDGE THE SKILLS AND TALENTS AND KNOWLEDGE of your colleagues and PRAISE their achievements.
10. COLLABORATE with co workers - we all achieve more together.
11. Avoid JUDGING your colleagues, only they know what their inner battles are - show RESPECT and CARE.
12. At the end of the day - find something to be GRATEFUL for, acknowledge the GOOD THINGS that you and others have done, SMILE and say 'GOODBYE'.
Adapted from the Pan American Health Organisation Kindness material
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