The Well Informed

Welcome to our latest issue of the?Well Informed, where we share our latest news, workplace mental health and wellbeing research, and fresh inspiration to support you and your team to live and work well.

With Mental Health Month underway, we wanted to highlight some important stats before we jumped into this month's issue of the Well Informed.

• Around 8.6 million or 43.7% of Australians aged 16-85, have experienced a mental health disorder at some point in their lives. That’s almost one in every two people in your organisation.
• In the workplace?only 52 per cent of employees believe their workplace is mentally healthy.
• According to Black Dog Institute, mentally unhealthy workplaces cost Australia up to $39 billion each year due to lost participation?and productivity.

A strong focus on workplace mental health and wellbeing is not a nice-to-have. It's a need-to-have. Because without having supports in place for your people, your culture, your organisation and your workforce suffer.

Tips for Creating a Check in Culture

For this year's R U OK Day, our own Vanessa Miles shares her tips on creating a check-in culture. It's just one step you can take to building a culture of care,?all year-round.???

Are you Engaging Lived Experience this Mental Health Month?

Engaging lived experience for your mental health campaigns and initiatives is a really powerful way to authentically engage in the process, and capture the attention of your audience. However, it's absolutely crucial to get this right - both for your organisation, and for the lived experience individual/s themselves.

This Mental Health Month, we're pleased to be sharing these valuable lived experiences resources, free of charge. Originally created for our own team, with the expert guidance of Camille Davey (née Wilson) , these best practice resources will help you use lived experience thoughtfully and well.

View our Lived Experience Guides here.

Identifying and Tackling 'Invisible' Psychosocial Risks

As organisational psychologists, we can't emphasise enough how important managing psychosocial hazards well is for your organisation. We believe that prevention and early intervention will nearly always lead to better outcomes. And taking a human-centred approach to training is key to managing this well.

Rachel Palmer and Vanessa Miles recently spoke with OHS alert about psychosocial risks in the workplace. Read more here.

Our mental health workshops and webinars

Looking to run a session or series of 'lunch and learn' events?during Mental Health Month? We've got you covered. You can choose one or more of the workshops/webinars below to suit your organisation.

For teams

• Health Reset:?Resetting healthy habits for life and work.
• Team Dynamics:?Building psychological resources (i.e. HERO: Hope; Efficacy; Resilience; Optimism) to energise exhausted teams.
• Living and Working with Purpose: Finding our way and our why.
• Managing Full Plates:?How to overcome stress overload.
• The Fatigue Antidote:?Practical strategies for self when there’s no fuel left in the tank. *tailored for employees
• Preventing Burnout: Implementing strategies to protect wellbeing.
• Compassion Fatigue: How to prevent and manage compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
• Navigating Change: Practical strategies?to manage anxiety, worry and stress through times of uncertainty.?

For leaders

• Safe to Speak:?Creating a psychologically safe culture for healthy and high-performing teams.
• Leading Well Teams:?Navigating the changing world of work.
• Leading Psychological Safety: Identifying and managing psychological hazards in the workplace.??
• Boss Burnout:?Exploring burnout at the top with tailored tools to protect leader wellbeing.
• The Fatigue Antidote:?Practical strategies for self and others when there’s no fuel left?in the tank.?*tailored for leaders
• Navigating Change for Leaders: Understanding the common emotional responses to change, and practical strategies to help manage anxiety, worry and stress.?

Thinking Differently @ Work Series

People will need to manage a number of transitions as the nature of work continues to change. Our Thinking Differently @ Work Series delves into the tools and strategies needed to understand ourselves and others in order to enable us to think differently and creatively.?

• Emotional Intelligence: Practical tools and strategies to become aware of emotions in ourselves and others, and develop the language to discuss them.
• Paradox Mindsets: Thinking differently when things aren't black and white.?
• Neurodiverse Thinking: Harnessing the power of diversity of thought to enhance and drive creativity and innovation.?
• Building Confidence: Overcoming imposter syndrome.?
• Adaptable Minds: Building AQ in an ever-changing world.

This Month's Thought Starters

Each month we like to share some of the content that got us talking. This month features pieces from Human Resources Director Australia , LinkedIn and Harvard Business Review .

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