Embracing the Essential Need for Diverse Mental Health
Caroline Ribeiro-Nelson
??Tapping my unique "Diverse Mental Health" approach supporting implement strategies that create mentally healthy cultures ?Optimise professional personal performance ?Build constructive work dynamics
Today's leaders face a pressing challenge in building authentically diverse, equitable, and mentally healthy cultures. It's clear that the path to meeting this challenge isn’t a quick or easy one, however, I believe it is possible.
To make headway, communities and businesses need to genuinely commit, invest, and most critically, confront uncomfortable truths – Namely addressing the stigma, prejudice, discrimination, abuse, trauma, exclusion and inequity issues which contribute to the poor mental health, mental illness, of women and people from diverse backgrounds.
The emphasis on intersectional diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice factors, interwoven with mental health & well-being, is unparalleled.
Leaders, individuals, groups, and businesses need to face uncomfortable truths, to unravel these complex challenges and to move towards building genuinely safe, inclusive, equitable and mentally healthy environments.
The reality is:
When people within society are continually confronted, from an early age, with negative and harmful experiences, the development of poor mental health, deficient well-being and mental ill health is to be expected.
I identify five significant barriers that hinder progress that are often swept under the carpet. Moreover, I present seven effective steps to overcome these barriers, thereby fostering a culture of positive mental health and inclusivity within organizational and societal ecosystems.
This transformation is imperative not just for creating more ethical, productive, and rewarding communities and workplaces but for catalysing a broader societal shift, especially for marginalized groups who bear the brunt of existing detrimental systems and actions.
The article serves those who are ready to embrace this transformation. Change begins with acknowledging the challenge; equip yourself with the knowledge to be a part of the solution.
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??Tapping my unique "Diverse Mental Health" approach supporting implement strategies that create mentally healthy cultures ?Optimise professional personal performance ?Build constructive work dynamics
1 年Johnson Olusegun A. Thank you for this incredibly insightful, thoughtful, and powerful reflection. ???? ?? You've articulated the profound impact of words and environments on an individual's self-worth. It's horrendous to think about the multitude of individuals who have been made to question their worth and potential because of the thoughtless, arrogant, or malicious words of others. Yet, it's empowering to be reminded that every single one of us can play a role in fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We must challenge the status quo, stand against prejudice in all its forms, and uplift one another. As you rightly put it, "YES WE CAN."??
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1 年A conducive environment can change things concerning one's cognitive sharpness. Many have been approached with unsavoury words and unsavoury judgements that can easily bruise their self beliefs. Words like you haven't got what it takes, you are not intelligent at all, you lack proper social skills, you are unteachable, you don't know how to engage properly when it comes to an intellectual conversation, you are not presentable, shut up I'm talking and so on. When people within society are constantly confronted with negative and harmful experiences, it can easily lead to having their self beliefs being bruised. We as people in society mustn't and shouldn't let such happen anymore. It takes a sadistic being to make another human being to question his own self worth. It takes a narrow minded being to pass unsavoury judgement on another human being. It takes a racist, a bully, a person who is suffering from insolent pride, a person who is full of himself, arrogant, a racial gatekeeper and someone who believes in classism to devalue, defame, discredit and disgrace another human being at any given opportunity. You and I and everyone on plant earth have a work to do to concerning diversity, equity and inclusion. YES WE CAN.??