1. Training & Development

Who: All Employees, Managers, Teams

How:  Instructor-Led

Module-Based

Live, Virtual, In-Person, or Blended 

Why?

Some stats say 1 in 5, some 1 in 4, some 1 in 3!  These are the stats of the prevalance of people who are not well because of a mental health issue, illness or challenge. Hundreds of thousands of workers are off work every week because of a diagnosed mental illness or are in a place of struggle that makes work that day beyond challenging. And many more go to work while struggling.  Psychological Health and Safety is the health and safety approach to move and improve work conditions beyond mental health promotion, awareness and supports alone.  

Deepen your workforce's understanding of mental health in the workplace with our Psycholgocial Health & Safety Fundamentals. It will provide just the right blend of knowledge-building with a behaviour-focus and a chance to build skills that employees can use in their own teams at work.  We go beyond the surface of understanding, demonstrate its relevance to the workday and their lives and managing common, as we discuss mental health stigma,  the shared role in creating and building a psychologically healthy and safe and inclusive  workplace for all.

What you will learn:

-the essential elements that contribute to positive mental health and wellbeing at work.

-an overview of Psychological (psychosocial) health and safety and how it is related and different than 'mental health', 'psychological safety', 'emotional health' and general mental health initiatives. 

 must be embedded throughout the workplace, in systems, management approach, practices The opportunity:  Workplace PH&S-focused education and practices are positively linked to human and organizational excellence, productivity, safety, pro-social behaviour, and our mental health.  

Increasing the shared understanding of both the human and work factors  can contribute to your goals of reducing risk of increased work-related stress, burnout and the potential risk of gradual-onset psychological illness or injury.

With on average, 90,000 hours or 11,000 days at work, it is no wonder how much opportunity an organization has to be a positive influence on our mental health, motivation, productivity and overall wellbeing.  

The Standards and foundation of our approach and work with you:  ISO 45003 (2021) global standard for Workplace Psychological Health & Safety, the Canadian PH&S Standard and 13+ factors, as well as standards, codes of practice and policy from leading jurisdications around the world, the WHO and ILO of the United Nations.  We also use the latest organizational and human factor science and research, and that of adult development and learning. 

Expect increased flexibility, increased inclusion behaviours and more positive conversations of mental health at work. These are all factors essential in environments that require agility and change.  

Our services also can include individual and team coaching to support learning integration and developmental goals. 

Depending on your workplace's needs, we also offer: Mental Health First Aid and The Working Mind. 

Who: C-Suite, Senior Managers, People Leaders

How:  Instructor-Led

Module-Based

Live, Virtual, In-Person or Blended 

Why?

Organizations that integrate PH&S aligned attributes into their safety management systems, executive leadership team training, HR strategy and operations management have a strategic and organizational advantage. These actions are positively linked to organizational excellence, increased overall productivity, social connection, human performance, reduced workplace stress, safety culture and the ultimate purpose increased positive mental health and wellbeing at work.

Transformational leadership and learning culture are two proven critical success factors in your psychological health and safety program. 

This 13 FACTORS senior L&D program  is module-based, live and instructor led.  It is built to support your organization's efforts to create both a learning culture and a psychologically healthy and safety-focused culture.

Participants will build the knowledge, skills and practices to help them attune to your organizational context and unique work conditions, hone in on gaining confidence and comfort holding difficult conversations and manage performance in a PH&S-focused workplace.  They will leave ready to effectively navigate and balance their role in clear, effective communications, build connection and support productivity.

We understand how people learn and adapt to change. We understand the challenges, constraints and opportunities within diverse, growing and dynamic market conditions and work environments. And we understand organizational excellence, how to elevate and integrate learning culture and how to build momentum in a learning environment.  

An organization at any stage of integration of a psychological health and safety priority requires a specific set of core competencies, management practices, knowledge and skills.  

We have used the latest evidence-based research in inclusive, conscious leadership and psych health and safety management to create the foundation of our program.  We finalize it by building in your unique context and needs.  

We believe the best team learning happens when the facilitator is one part subject matter expert and one part group coach, guiding and leveraging the life experience participants bring to the classroom.

 The results:  growth in individual self-awareness, new considerations for team functioning and leading a learning culture, psychological flexibility, increased productivity and engagement, and skills and abilities to hold difficult conversations and support peers and team members to grow even in stressful circumstances.  Our goal is to support your team experience improved mental health and create the space for more joy at work for themselves and the teams they lead. 

Contact us to learn more.  There are lots of ways to work together.

Depending on your workplace's needs we also offer: Mental Health First Aid and The Working Mind.

Who: Senior Managers, Human Resource Managers, Safety Officers, Boards, People Leaders

How: Instructor-Led

Module-based

Live, Virtual or In-Person

Why: Understand the emerging changes that can support your organization to effectively prevent and manage workplace conflict and risk.

Topics Include:

• An introduction to psychological (psychosocial) safety in the workplace.
• The new legal minimums and obligations.; the law and 3-Rs: employer and employee rights, roles and responsibilities.
• Exploring and applying a trauma-informed leadership approach.
• Diversity, inclusion, equity, justice, belonging.
• Discrimination.
• Civility and respect.
• Psychological support.
• Bullying and harassment.
• Fairness, equity and equality.
• Managing risk associated with the top workplace stressors.
• And...we can add in additional topic-focused modules of evidence-based workplace outcomes that move you beyond legal minimums to employee-centred culture, collaboration and high performance.

Who: Intact or Project-Created Teams, Supervisors, Managers, Individual Contributors

How: Instructor-Led

Custom, Module-based

Live, Virtual or In-Person

Why: Some work teams struggle to move into high-trust and a high state of collaboration.  They might freeze and calcify at any stage of forming, norming, storming and performing. To achieve psychological (psychosocial) safety and high performance requires a specific set of evidence-based communications skills and management behaviour competencies and skills.  The curriculum is built with a trauma-informed, psychologically healthy, safe and human-centred workplace goal in mind.

Workshop topics include:

• An introduction to psychological health and safety.
• Trauma-informed conversations when navigating difficult or sensitive topics at work.
• Mental health at work 101.
• The neuroscience of trust and safety.
• Universal human needs for thriving at work.
• Factors that influence communication effectiveness.
• Metacognition skills.
• Emotional and social literacy.
• Stress literacy.
• Self-awareness, beliefs and regulation.
• How to disagree constructively.
• The nature of civil conversations, respect and cultural competency.
• Opportunity: practice communications skills in varied scenarios from realworld situations and/or built based on some of the unique challenges your team is managing.
• How to efffectively provide psychological support when a team member is struggling.
• Extra meta skills; mindfulness, conflict resolution, self-awareness, curiosity and effective listening.

Who: All Employees, Teams

How:  Instructor-Led

Module-Based

Live, Virtual, In-Person or Blended

Why?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced we are in a worldwide workplace stress epidemic.  Country by country mental health statistics and workplace productivity, disability costs and absenteeism data supports the claim.  

If your organization is not currently seeing some of these employee or financial challenges, the best time is now for prevention and internal strength building.  Our training helps motivate and sustain positive change.   We build new abilities to effectively manage the factors influencing workplace stress.

Benefit: increased positive individual and team behaviours, a safer workday and increased individual attention on how they can contribute to lower stress individually and as part of the team. 

Contact us to learn about all of our programs. There are lots of ways to work together. 

Who: Frontline Supervisors and Managers

Custom, Module-Based

Virtual or In-Person

Inclusive Communications: Skills to Build & Sustain Team Cohesion, Respect Boundaries & Psychological Safety in Work Relationships

Skills-based training to help frontline supervisors create, demonstrate and model psychological (psychosocial) safety, trust, inclusion and empathy in their communications, relationships and connections with their team.

Participants will leave better equipped to hold performance-focused conversations, coach positive habits that the whole team can adopt, and discover how to apply their personal strengths to their leadership role.

Who:  Executive Management, Supervisors, Employee Teams, Association Leadership Teams

60 or 90 Minute Blasts of Distilled Learning

Live, Virtual or In-Person

1. Inclusive Communications.
2. Equity Before Inclusion: Breaking Down Defenses and Bias.
3. Work Leader Development: You aren't Even Close to Done!
4. Team Flexibility: How to Prevent AND Lean Into Constructive Conflict.
5. Productivity Boosts to Short-circuit Old Management Habits.
6. The New Emotional and Social Intelligence in the Workplace.
7. The Neuroscience of Psychological Safety and Trust.
8. Nudging Theory Applied to Workplace Culture and Positive Change.
9. Custom programs grounded in the competencies and skills proven to support psychological health and safety culture, learning culture, inclusion and social connection and human and organizational performance.

 Virtual or In-Person  

Thought-Provoking Boosts to Support Positive Change 

Leadership and Communications:

1. The Four People Who Show Up Everyday at Every Workplace: And How to Motivate Them.
2. Unlock Organizational Energy and Motivation.
3. Leading Through Team Pandemic Fatigue.
4. Stress Literacy: Resetting Your Brain and Body. 
5. Difficult Conversations: Soft Skills for a Hard World.
6. Leading and Nudging Team Culture during Uncertainty.
7. Coaching Adaptability and Psychological Flexibility.
8. Science Says: The World's Top 5 Supervisor Skills.

Health, Wellness & Safety:

1. Mental Health at Work: Debunking Myths About Workplace Joy and Stress.
2. An Introduction to Workplace Psychological (Psychosocial) Health & Safety Culture.
3. The Power of Inclusion on the Job.
4. How Uncertainty and Crisis Influences Behaviour at Work.

 The Lighter Side of Learning:

1. Don't Believe Everything You Think.
2. People are the Worst: Why We Struggle To Understand Others.
3. Workplace Trust is "Rocket Science".
4. What You Need to Know about Horrible Bosses.