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We offer several sessions that will help to inspire, motivate, educate, and empower participants with evidence-based practical tips that we can implement in our work to support healthy, high-performing work cultures. A few examples of our keynotes with inspiring speakers include:

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• Building a Better Future of Work

• Creating a Thriving Work Culture Through Disruption

• Simple but Powerful Work Practices that Inspire 

• Improving Your Performance Through Health

• Injecting Positivity to Build Successful Work Relations

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Connect with us to meet the unique needs of your event.

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Next session: Oct 20, 2023

MHFA is the help provided to a person developing a mental health problem, experiencing a mental health crisis, or a worsening of their mental health. More than 400,000 Canadians have been trained since 2007. The course will train you to recognize, respond and guide peers, family members and colleagues to the appropriate support. In the workplace, it will help you to engage clients and stakeholders with confidence, improve mental health among colleagues, and develop a common language and understanding. Pick from the 8-hour online course or a 12-hour in-person course. Note: this is a Mental Health Commission of Canada course, offered by trained facilitators through Wellness Works Canada. The next open session is Oct 20, 2023 from 8 am MST to 3:30 pm MST. The fee is $195 per person.

To book a group session, contact us.

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Having a network of organizational well-being champions or ambassadors is an incredibly valuable asset. These ambassadors may share a passion and drive to make a change at the department or business unit. They can help your organization's well-being strategic plan come to life. However, we all know different departments have different needs. And your network may have varying levels of skills. If you would like to empower and educate your ambassadors to speak the same language and be armed with the skills and competencies to do their role, then have them go through this training! It consists of four, two-hour sessions.  By the end of the training, each ambassador will have completed an action plan to carry out in their department!

• Foundational Knowledge

• Assessment Inspiration and Planning

• Practical Ways to Build a Culture of Health and Performance

• YOUR Health and Performance

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Join us in an interactive session to learn how to manage stress, curb burnout, thrive through uncertainty, and bounce forward. Participants will leave with a completed workbook of relevant tools and structured sustainable goals.

• Define and debunk myths around stress and learn skills to shift to a positive mindset

• Define and identify skills for agility at the team and individual level

• Identify tools and skills to build your resilience and bounce forward

• Have practical tips to manage change and stressors like workload, constant change, lack of meaningful social connection, sleep, exercise, and work-life integration 

• Leave with a completed action plan filled with tools and actions that will enable you to thrive through stress, change, and uncertainty

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In a hustle culture, we often get caught up in working harder, not smarter. We have limited resources, limited time, and more and more on our plates. In this interactive session, join us to learn tips and tricks to work smarter to reach your potential. 

Learning outcomes include: 

• Learn about the connection between psychological health, well-being, productivity, and innovation at an individual, organizational and community level 

• Have tips and tools to improve productivity to work smarter not harder 

• Have a personal plan to be healthy and productive at work and beyond and to promote that within their teams 

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The quality of our interactions and relationships with others impact our well-being and our performance. In a hybrid world, it is more important than ever that we foster meaningful psychologically safe relationships so that we can thrive.  This interactive session is jam-packed with actionable, practical tips on how to foster better social connections that will lead to enhanced health, well-being, and higher performance in all areas of life.

• Learn about social connection, isolation, loneliness, well-being and performance

• Learn practical tips to adjust mindset and foster connection to enhance overall well-being and performance

• Have an actionable plan for your company and participants

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These customizable sessions are perfect for leadership, the JWHS team or the worksite health committee to learn simple ways to integrate the psychological health and safety standard and overall health and performance into your existing mechanisms and learn to build new safe practices. Typical learning outcomes for this session include:

• Learn about the connection between psychological safety, well-being, productivity, and innovation

• Understand how to create a culture of safety, health, and performance in alignment with the Psychological Health and Safety Standard using existing occupational health and safety systems

• Take away practical tips to boost your individual and team well-being​

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In an age of electronic communications and virtual work, many find the nuances of communication to be difficult to decipher. High rates of mental health concerns and online bullying and harassment have reduced patience, tolerance, civility, and respect which can be very damaging to the overall well-being of all parties involved. Join us in an interactive workshop to learn key skills around resilience and how to have those tough conversations with resolve and grace. Participants will receive a copy of their workbook and loads of other tools and resources for future use. A recording of the webinar will also be available for six months.

Topics covered include:

• Debunk myths around stress and resilience

• Learn tricks and tips for difficult online and in-person encounters

• Have actionable steps to manage online bullying and harassment

• Learn a methodology around having mental health conversations

• Learn and commit to actions to build personal resilience

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If you are a champion for workplace health, go through our innovative, simple-to-use assessment and validation process to get your Workplace Health and Performance Certification. This certification recognizes existing competencies and supports ongoing growth and development to help you build healthy, high-performing work cultures. There are three levels that build on each other.

1. Ambassador: This certification is perfect for anyone aspiring to influence the workplace culture.

2. Practitioner: This level is for those who have, or are aspiring towards, a full-time career in workplace well-being and performance. 

3. Expert: This level is for those who have considerable experience and expertise.

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This is a one-day (or two half-day) workshop for leaders to learn how to strategically build a healthy, high-performing work culture. It is perfect for leaders, organizational well-being ambassadors and/or department representatives. Learn to take a holistic integrated approach to build a workplace that thrives.

• Learn the connection between well-being, performance and firm outcomes

• Learn how to build a culture of physical and psychological safety, health, and performance (in alignment with the Canadian Psychological Health and Safety Standard)

• Have practical tips to boost health and productivity for yourself and/or your team as you develop a new and better normal

• Have an actionable plan for your team, organization and participants

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We have experienced major disruptions to the way we work and live over the last few years. As we move into the future of work, it is more important than ever that we intentionally foster a culture that can recover from those disruptions and have the agility and work environment that can help us thrive. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss how to foster psychological health and safety to create a thriving work culture.  Participants will:

• Learn about the mental health continuum and how major disruptions like a return to office impact us.

• Define psychologically healthy and safe workplaces 

• Identify strategies for creating a culture of psychological health and safety among teams 

• Learn practical ways to build a culture of physical and psychological safety, health, innovation, and performance in alignment with the psychological health and safety standards

• Complete a workbook with practical steps to support psychological safety within your team as formal and informal leaders

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Schedule a one-day interactive and practical training program for formal and informal leaders to learn how to strategically build a healthy, high-performing work culture. This session will lead you through a systems perspective on how to embed psychological health, safety and well-being into your health and safety management system or other existing mechanisms. Come prepared to build an actionable plan for your portfolio, immediate team and yourself to build a workplace that thrives. In this session participants will:

• Learn the connection between well-being, psychological health and safety and overall performance

• Learn how to build a culture of physical and psychological safety, well-being, and performance (in alignment with the Psychological Health and Safety Standards)

• Create an actionable plan to support the health, safety and well-being of your portfolio, your immediate team and yourself

• Get access to loads of resources and tools

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Given that rates of mental health problems are at an all-time high, and access to support is limited and/or complicated for some, having the skills to have mental health conversations, identify mental health needs and help those in need is an imperative skill. In this interactive session participants will:

• Learn trends in mental health and mental well-being

• Learn to identify risks, signs, and symptoms

• Learn strategies to reduce the stigma of overwhelm and burnout in the workplace

• Learn strategies to reduce stigma in the workplace

• Become aware of supports available including self-help strategies

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In this interactive webinar, gain insight into change and its impact on overall mental well-being. Learn strategies to manage mixed feelings and develop workplace health and well-being practices for resilience.

Attendees will:

• Examine the process of change and transition and its impact on your mental health

• Explore common feelings and emotions associated with returning to the workplace

• Identify strategies for fostering a psychologically healthy and safe re-entry 

• Learn principles for positive mental health and what to do in dealing with uncertainty

• Take away a workbook filled with practical actions to build resilience skills in the short and long run​

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During the pandemic, rates of anxiety of quadrupled and rates of depression have doubled. For most of us, our mental well-being has suffered and this has impacted our ability to be effective at work. In this interactive workshop learn key skills that will enable you to be well so that you can do well. Participants will:

• Learn about the connection between psychological safety, well-being, productivity, and innovation

• Have tips and tools to improve productivity to work smarter not harder

• Have strategies to improve mental, physical, and psychological health and safety

• Have a personal or team plan to be healthy and productive at work and beyond

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In this interactive workshop for leaders, learn how to integrate psychological support and mental health into existing workplace mechanisms. Next, learn practical tips and simple strategies that you can start right away to support employee mental health and performance to create a culture that will allow your organization to thrive through disruption. Learning outcomes include:

• Gain an understanding of how to support organizational agility

• Have a model connecting culture, psychological safety and employee and individual performance that you can use in your workplace strategy or for your team

• Have a completed work plan filled with strategies to develop a culture that can thrive through disruption​​

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In this interactive workshop for leaders, learn how to support your team in psychologically safe way to support their mental wellbeing and performance as they return work while managing trepidation, anxiety and/or a mix of other emotions. You will learn practical tips and simple strategies that you can use right away to support employee mental health and performance to create a culture that will allow your team to thrive through this significant transition. Participants will:

• Learn a model to support a culture that is psychologically safe and thrives through major transitions

• Learn practical tips to support employee mental well-being and preparedness for return to work

• Learn practical techniques to have mental well-being conversations to manage high emotions

• Have skills to support your own mental well-being and performance through this major change

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Join Deborah Connors for this 10-module self-directed, online course on Leading A Better Place To Work.  In this course you will have the opportunity to read, discuss, question, share and inspire one another as you develop and implement new practices aimed at positively shifting your workplace culture.

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This is a very hands-on course, with thought-provoking topics focused on the latest concepts in workplace health. We would love to welcome you to this forum where you will read one chapter of the book each week and then come together to learn and discuss. It is kind of like a book club – fun, friendly, and very practical!

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