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photo of people at a training sessionLearn about the issues around mental health in the workplace with these instructor lead workshops and presentations. Each workshop is available in either English or French and delivered by a Mental Health Works Trainer.

These multimedia presentations range from one-hour information sessions to full day interactive sessions with exercises and group discussion. Each presentation includes video clips of real people who live with mental health issues, describing their symptoms and the effects of mental health issues on the workplace.

Schedule one of the following presentations for your next training session, conference, retreat, staff development day, union or association meeting, lunch and learn, or power breakfast. All presentations can be customized for your situation. Download a brochure of our services.

For detailed pricing information, please contact us. (Prices range from approximately $1000-$4000).

We also offer scheduled public sessions of some of the workshops below, across Canada. Visit the events page for a list of scheduled workshops in your area.

"Complex Issues. Clear Solutions." Management Workshop ©

This award-winning training enables management to more effectively:

  • Discuss sensitive or contentious issues with employees
  • Resolve conflicts more effectively
  • Separate performance issues from mental health issues
  • Create accommodation strategies that work
  • Avoid discrimination and human rights violations
Target Audience:
  • Frontline Managers/Supervisors

Advanced Strategies: Working Through the Tough Stuff ©

This 7-hour workshop provides advanced strategies to enhance management effectiveness in working through the tough stuff like mental health concerns, complex performance issues, conflict and addiction. From frontline supervisors to the executive office - learn to prevent and address challenging situations in order to help build, sustain and retain a successful workforce in today's competitive environment.

Target Audience:
  • Frontline Managers/Supervisors
  • Leaders and Executives

Affecting Workplace Mental Health ©

This 3-hour workshop looks at systemic and organizational factors that affect the mental health of workers. It asks participants to consider the factors that research show have a protective or negative impact and to create action plans for those items that affect their own unique workplace situation.

Target Audience:
  • Leaders and Executives
  • Workplace Specialists (OCC Health, HR, RTW)

Assisting Workers with Mental Health Issues ©

This 3-hour workshop is intended for union representatives and stewards. It is a unique look at the role of the union in helping members through workplace conflict, accommodation, and disability issues. It helps increase recognition of the early signs of mental health problems, considers how to effectively encourage members to seek help, and discusses workplace hazards that may contribute to mental health problems.

Target Audience:
  • Union Representatives

Awareness of Workplace Mental Health ©

This 1-2 hour presentation is intended for employees and general audiences. It uses video and stories to help build awareness of what it is like to experience conditions like depression or anxiety at work.

Target Audience:
  • General Audience/Employees

Combined Awareness/Workplace Influence ©

This 4 hour presentation is based on a combination of our Awareness workshop and our Workplace Influence workshop.

Target Audience:
  • General Audience/Employees

Human Resources: Return-to-Work Strategies ©

This 3-4 hour workshop is for human resources personnel who become involved in the return-to-work or performance management of people with mental health issues. We use case studies to engage participants in considering approaches to the most difficult situations including behavioural issues, fear of violence, perception of “faking it”, and the hostility of co-workers or supervisors towards the individual.

Target Audience:
  • Workplace Specialists (OCC Health, HR, RTW)

Issues and Solutions ©

This dynamic 1.5-2 hour presentation is for those that want an overview of the Mental Health Works approach. We discuss our philosophy, our strategy and provide some level of awareness and recognition of mental health issues in the workplace. This fascinating look at the issues and solutions is provocative and engaging.

Target Audience:
  • Leaders and Executives

Managing the Return-to-Work ©

This 3-4 hour presentation is for managers/supervisors who already have a good working knowledge of mental health and communication skills.

Target Audience:
  • Frontline Managers/Supervisors

Mental Health and Psychological Safety: the Role of the Joint Workplace Health and Safety Committee ©

This full day workshop is designed for the Health and Safety Committee Co-chairs and members. It addresses the role the Committee can play in the prevention and recognition of mental health issues in the workplace and actions to take once recognized.

Target Audience:
  • Workplace Specialists (OCC Health, HR, RTW)

Occupational Health Strategies: Return-to-Work after Mental Illness ©

This 3-4 hour workshop looks at the role of occupational health professionals in facilitating a successful return to work for people who have experienced mental illness. We address working with physician notes that are unclear, supervisors who do not ‘believe’ this person ‘deserves’ an accommodation, management who thinks you should not send people back to work until you ‘fix’ them and employees who do not seem able to access effective treatment.

Target Audience:
  • Workplace Specialists (OCC Health, HR, RTW)

Vital Workplace ©

Vital Workplace© is a process for building, maintaining or restoring a culture of fairness, civility, respect and a sense of psychological safety within teams, departments and units – wherever people have to get on with one another to get the job done.

This goal is achieved by involving group members in a facilitated process in which they review how they function as a team and then plan how to improve their level of functioning

The Vital Workplace Survey©, a unique evidence-based assessment, is central to this process. This assessment provides a profile of the group with regard to job satisfaction, stress, civility, respect and a relatively new concept called “psychological safety”.

Target Audience:
  • General Audience/Employees
  • Frontline Managers/Supervisors

Workplace Influence ©

Workplace Influence is a 3 hour presentation intended for all employees. It engages the audience in considering how our responses to workplace challenges and stressors can affect our well-being and the well-being of those around us.

Target Audience:
  • General Audience/Employees

Other Workshops

Topics:

  • Risk, ROI, Hazards? Measuring workplace mental health
  • Psychological Health and Safety: Setting the Standard at your organization
  • Governance Fundamentals: Workplace Mental Health what are they talking about?
  • Peer Support in the Workplace: Why and how to engage a peer focus in your workplace.

Still haven’t found just the right workshop for your group? No problem, we offer custom solutions.

Feel free to contact us for more information.

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