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Mind Your Mood

A workplace Mental Health Program

Mind Your Mood

The Mind Your Mood program is a workplace, evidence-based mental health program. The program has delivered sustainable, positive outcomes for the productivity of our partners and the health of their workforce.

We built the program on the latest research along with our applied research. Every time we deliver Mind Your Mood, we customise the material specific to the organisation and its industry. The program leverages three levels of influence to ensure we achieve real organisational change:

A healthy organisation

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The organisation, its capability, environment and culture can often have the most substantial impact on an employees health, and mental health is no different.

Our system identifies an organisation’s strengths and weakness when it comes to providing a mentally healthy workplace. From there, in partnership, we develop a strategy to develop that capability further.

Healthy Leadership

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Supportive leadership is one of the most powerful predictors of good workplace health and wellbeing.

The Leading the Black Dog program ensures leaders have the knowledge, skills & confidence to support those who are unwell to thrive at work.

A healthy, resilient workforce

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The Mind Your Mood workshops cover a wide range of areas linked to employee emotional wellbeing & resiliency.

Stress, mental health, happiness, mindfulness, resiliency, change & supportive connections; we use the latest evidence in all of these sessions, and we tailor them to your workforce needs.

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Create a mentally healthy workplace

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A Mentally Healthy Workplace

Is the workplace a mentally safe & healthy one?

That’s the question we are trying to answer. It’s fundamental to WHS.

Our step-based approach has proven its ability to support strategy development for continual improvement that is specific to the needs & outcomes of your organisation:

  1. How (mentally) healthy is the workforce? The answer to this is critical. It guides the deployment of workforce strategies, allows us to measure the impact of future initiatives & allows us to understand the relationships between mental health organisational performance.
  2. How does work impact emotional health & well-being? In other words, what are the psychological risk factors present within the organisation? You can’t control the risks until they have been identified.
  3. How capable is the organisation in providing a mentally safe & healthy workplace? How well does the organisation protect employees from psychological distress? How capable is the organisation in supporting those who are unwell or in pain? How does the organisation pursue the positive to provide a landscape where employees may flourish?

Once our process has explored these questions, we then collaborate with key stakeholders to develop a Corporate Mood Minding Action Plan. A continual improvement plan built on three layers of best practice. It starts with the must do’s (React Well), and overtime works towards creating an optimal environment for workplace emotional health (Thrive).

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What participants say:

We invest heavily in culture & engagement. This process showed that investment to be supportive for the mental health of our team. However, it also highlighted that we weren’t able to protect people from psychological harm. We didn’t even have a plan for supporting a person to return to work after a period of absence.

Through this process we have realised that some of our great work (education, EAP) has been undermined by failing to consider and invest in how the workplace itself influences the mental health of our people.

Andrew was really supportive in taking us through the process. Not just the process of the audit but also how the recommendations might look for our business, with remote / transient workers. 

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Leading the Black Dog

 About the program

Supportive leadership is one of the most powerful predictors of good workplace health and well being. Conversely, when quality leadership is missing, employees are at risk of emotional distress.

Leading the Black Dog provides leaders with the knowledge & skills to support a mentally safe & healthy workforce. It provides the skills needed to be able to spot an employee who may be unwell and how to create opportunities for safe and meaningful conversations. The outcome is to support those who are troubled to be at their best while at work. The program also steps through how to help & protect someone who is at risk of self-harm.

We deliver the program over three parts that are ideally scheduled overtime to allow for consolidation of learning outcomes. However, the program can be completed in one day.

Part 1: Minds & Moods

  • The way we perceive and respond
  • Understanding mental illness: neurobiology, learned response, etc
  • Types of mental illness – indicators, contributing factors, likely treatments
  • Resiliency / factors for protection

Part 2: Creating a safe and healthy workplace

  • Why? The legal, moral, economic reasons for managing mental health
  • A risk management approach
  • Workplace factors linked to psychological distress. Helpful or harmful?
  • Case studies that explore relationships between supportive and harmful risk factors
  • Taking a policy approach

Part 3: Supporting others to thrive

  • Legislative responsibilities of the employer and the employee
  • Spotting the signs
  • Step based approach for having crucial conversations
  • Supporting those at risk of self-harm
  • Performance management
  • Reasonable adjustments
  • Inherent requirements of the role
  • Internal & external support pathways
  • Self-protection

100% of participants have said that they would recommend this program to a colleague. 

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What participants say:

Having suffered both anxiety and depression I understand the value of managers and peers having this level of understanding and ability to respond

The presenter of the session was first class. The content was well paced and there was plenty of room for questions

This session was so valuable to keeping our employees safe

I think the information is incredibly powerful, and so relevant to professional and personal relationships. Great session. Invaluable for Line Managers

The simple structure for having conversations when concerned about suicide was really valuable. Having a method to be able to tick off in your mind when in a high stakes moment has increased my confidence in asking the question “Are you OK?”.

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Dealing with adversity, adapting to change

Reduce stigma, educate the workforce.

Resilient, healthy workforce

About our workshops:

The Mind Your Mood program includes a range of team workshops that can be delivered as a one-off initiative or integrated into an organisation’s strategy depending on their needs.

We ensure the latest evidence underpins all the Mind Your Mood sessions. They utilise storytelling to ensure the learning outcomes and skills are relatable. Finally, behaviour change strategies are embedded to ensure participants can self-assess throughout the session and apply the scenarios & strategies to their own life. Workshops include:

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The Red Zone

Our perceptions & our response, what is stress, why do we stress? Understanding the difference between positive stress & negative stress, how to cultivate positive energy & control from threatening or scary moments in time.

Key Outcomes: Recognising personal response to stress, Understanding why we respond with stress, The difference between helpful and harmful stress, Strategies to gain control, generate energy, find moments for recovery & adaptation in the face of stress.

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Feeling Blue

What is mental health? How are we most likely to be affected? What are the signs of anxiety & depression? Why suicide? Helping others; what to do in a crisis? Prevention and management of feeling blue

Key Outcomes: Increased mental health literacy, Reduced stigma relating to mental health problems, Personal signs and symptoms of poor mental health, Language and steps required to support those in crisis, personal strategies to prevent/manage mental health problems.

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Get your smile on

Authentic happiness, what is it? Who is the happiest? What makes us happy? Positive psychology strategies to get above the line, build immunity against feeling blue to thrive.

Key Outcomes: The role purpose & meaning plays in happiness, evidence-based factors linked to higher authentic happiness and immunity against poor mental health. Happiness is a product of expectation vs experience, attention, and what we focus on influences perspective, self-reflection on personal strategies to increase optimism, hope and self-belief.

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Get Connected:

Why are connections important in life and at work. What are the different types of connections? Crucial conversations & how relationships form, supportive relationships vs high-quality connections, social intelligence & getting connected.

Key Outcomes: Awareness of benefits of high-quality connections at work, how we can cultivate different relationships, the role social intelligence plays in improving supportive workplace connections, personal inventory on supportive relationships and adaptive tools.

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Adapting to change

What is change, what happens when change is forced upon us? Why does organisational change seem so threatening? Adaptive and maladaptive responses to change, re-framing circumstance, gaining control and evolving.

Key Outcomes: Proven strategies to support participants to identify their pathway to change and to take steps to move forward. Strategies also focus on building self-awareness as to why resistance to change may exist.

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Let’s Bounce

What does it mean to be resilient? How do we become resilient? Why is it important? Let’s Bounce provides participants with the knowledge and tools to be resilient in the face of distressing/confrontational moments.

Key Outcomes: Increase a participant’s awareness of their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to their response to potentially distressing situations. Gain insight if that response is harmful or helpful, and build a suite of tools to adapt. All of which is delivered in context to the participants day to day working life.

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Now!

An introduction to mindfulness, mindfulness meditation and being present in the present moment. The session steps through the proven health benefits of mindfulness, explains the difference between being mindful and mindfulness meditation, daily strategies to increase mindfulness and resist jumping to the future or dwelling in the past, techniques to build the attention muscle through daily meditation.

The session is built on quick mindfulness-based group activities. These activities ensure the workshop is an energetic, team-based experience that results in participants enjoying the power of a guided meditation session that anyone can reproduce.

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