PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

Learn about the issues around mental health in the workplace with these one- to seven-hour presentations. Each presentation is delivered by a Mental Health Works Certified Trainer. Schedule one of the following presentations for your next training session, conference, retreat, staff, union or association meeting, lunch & learn, or power breakfast.  All presentations can be customized for your situation and guest speakers who live and work with mental health issues can often be added to expand the experience for your audience.

Select from the following presentations:

1. NEW Mental Health and Psychological Safety: the role of the Joint Workplace Health and Safety Committee

This 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. Return to Work strategies and how committee members can increase the chance of a successful and workable return to work plan are discussed.
Cost: please call for more information.

2. New Accommodating Mental Health Issues in the Workplace: Facilitating Stay@Work and developoing successful RTW plans c

Full-day workshop designed for managers and union leaders who have already taken Mental Health Works training or equivalent.   This interactive workshop focuses on solutions to better manage Stay@Work and RTW, and techniques to help you address workplace conflict, performance and behavior issues..  The emphasis is on effective communication and problem solving with employees who may be emotionally distressed.  Case studies and simulations help you work through more complex situations.  Cost:  $250 + GST per person, plus expenses.   Limited to audiences of 40 or less.

3. Advanced Strategies: Working Through the Tough Stuffced Strategies: Working Through h 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. Cost: $225/person plus expenses if taken CICS ($250 if not).

Development of this workshop was sponsored by The Great-West Life Assurance Co.

*We strongly advise that managers complete the workshop Complex Issues Clear Solutions (CICS) prior to attendance at this workshop. CICS assists managers in recognizing mental health issues and understanding accommodation and return to work strategies.

4. 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.  The objectives are to reduce discomfort in talking about these issues, reduce fear when faced with a co-worker who is ill, and increase our ability to respond in a supportive manner. 

This presentation has been shown at workplaces across the country and to conference and meeting goers everywhere.  It has always been enthusiastically received as ‘thought-provoking’, ‘fascinating’, and ‘engaging’.  Cost is $800 plus expenses for any size audience.

5. 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.  We share our stories about challenging, but successful cases that will change the way you think about these issues forever.  

Issues and Solutions is suitable for a wide range of audiences and has been delivered in boardrooms and auditoriums to groups ranging from 4 to 200.  It was originally developed for high-level executives who want to know what Mental Health Works is all about. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for any size audience.

6. 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.  If your union members rely on you as an advocate and confidante in times of needs, this workshop can help you to reduce your own discomfort or uncertainty in fulfilling this very important role. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for any size audience.

7. 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.  We look at this honestly and candidly to assist you in your role of helping people remain productive at work. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for audiences of 50 or less.

8. 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.  This workshop is intended for those who have the power to influence or change workplace processes and wish to do so in a way that will positively affect the mental health of workers. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for audiences of 50 or less.

9. 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.  The information presented is based on research into the factors that influence our mental health at work.  We ask the participants to consider ways in which they can positively influence both their own mental health and that of their co-workers.  The objective is for employees to be more aware of how to take control of their own responses at work, how to reduce stress from things outside their control, and how to help co-workers who seem to be losing control. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for any size audience.

10. 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.  If this sounds familiar, you will enjoy the case studies presented and especially the practical strategies that you can use to overcome some of these challenges. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for audiences of 50 or less.

11. 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.  This can include people who have attended previous Mental Health Workshops and want to get more ‘hands on’ in how they juggle the competing interests of the returning employee, co-workers, organizational demands and their own time management, especially when the return-to-work involves a history of workplace conflict, performance issues, or behavioural problems.  This workshop is especially relevant for those managers who do not have an occupational health or human resources department to handle this for them. Cost is $200 per participant plus expenses with a minimum of 12.

12. Combined Awareness/Workplace Influence

This 4 hour presentation is based on a combination of our Awareness workshop and our Workplace Influence workshop.  Cost is $2000 plus expenses for any size audiences.

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