Date: Tuesday 6 December 2022
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm (AEDT)
Location: Online
Course Overview
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
Every year 1 in 5 Australians will experience a common mental illness. That means that every day, millions of Australians go to work while experiencing a mental health problem.
The impact of this is enormous, affecting workplace productivity, performance, and employee well-being. Mental stress has one of the highest costs at approx. $292, 770 / case1. Given that the average Australian worker will spend close to 1/3rd of their lives at work, the workplace is an ideal place for early intervention for mental wellbeing.
Under WHS legislation, the principal duty of employers is to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of their workers or groups of workers. More workplaces are realising the importance of managing mental health at work and recognising the benefits of creating mentally healthy workplaces. A mentally healthy workplace is one that understands that work can play a large role in an individual’s mental health and that mental health problems can have a huge impact on an individual.
Mentally healthy workplaces promote education and adopt policies and practices that create a culture of care where employees are encouraged to talk openly about mental health.
“While good leaders care about business impact, great leaders focus more on psychological impact”
- Narayanan Palan
This workshop provides general health & wellbeing awareness and promote principles of psychological safety.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the prevalence of mental ill-health and its impact
- Recognise signs & symptoms and changes in behaviour of mental ill-health for yourself & others, e.g., typical psychosocial risk factors
- Understand how to have effective conversations around stress, health, wellbeing and provide initial help
- Identify where and how to get professional help and resources
- Identify what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective
- Understand how to provide mental health first aid in crisis situations
- Understand how to design healthier workspaces that promote wellbeing for teams and individuals
- Understand how to support team members with their return to work after a sickness absence.
Who should attend
The workshop is recommended for all levels of the organisation. Mental health has the potential to impact all of us, which provides a great opportunity to learn and improve.
Your Facilitator | Marina Reid Wilson
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Marina Reid Wilson is an experienced Registered Psychologist and Masters-qualified Coach with over 15 years' experience in executive coaching, workshop design and facilitation, and psychological assessment. She has special interest in leadership development and assisting her clients to build resilience, develop emotional agility and flourish in stressful environments.
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CPD Hours
3.5 hours | General Workplace Health & Safety
A Certificate will be issued upon completion of the workshop.
Registration Fees
IQA Member: $225
IoQ NZ Member: $225 AUD
Non Member: $290
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Registrations Close: Friday 2 December 2022
Disclaimer
All information is correct at the time of publication. The IQA reserves the right to alter or delete items as required, and takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions and changes.
Source:
1. Safe Work Australia, Breakdown of injury illness by type