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Mental Health Awareness workshop TODAY

TU’s Employee Assistance Program, Guidance Resources, is offering an online workshop about mental health awareness at 11am today. They will also be presenting a workshop about resiliency next week. Details are as follows:

Mental Health Awareness: Tuesday, May 19^th from 11am-12pm.

Description:

At one time or another, everyone experiences symptoms of mental illness. Too frequently the response to such symptoms in the workplace is confusion, fear, judgment, avoidance and outright rejection. This leads to a worsening of symptoms and a deterioration of performance. This training is designed to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and to promote ways of supporting one another in the workplace. The session will address signs and symptoms of distress and effective ways of providing support for  co-workers. The training also will include exercises to develop these skills.

Objectives:

• Understand the universality of mental health issues in the workplace
• Recognize the most common symptoms of mental illness
• Identify the most common unhelpful reactions to symptoms, why they occur and how to avoid them
• Identify ways of expressing compassion and support to a distressed co-worker
• Recognize the warning signs of suicide
• Become familiar with “Ask, Agree and Arrange” intervention
• Identify support services and resources for all employees

Resiliency: Bouncing back after a setback: Tuesday, May 26^th from 11am-12pm.

Description:

Certain individuals appear to succeed against all odds. Despite severe hardships such as living through war, witnessing the death of a loved one, having a chronic illness, being a victim of abuse or dealing with unemployment, certain people not only adapt but actually thrive. These people possess a quality known as “resilience.” This workshop will examine the characteristics of resilience and discover ways to introduce greater resilience into our lives.

Objectives:

• Describe what resilience really is
• Describe the concept of resilience as it relates to children and adults
• Describe the characteristics of resilient people
• Describe how emotional control, self-awareness and strong relationships relate to resiliency
• Identify your own resilient capacities
• Identify you unique resilient strengths and areas for development
• Recognize which situations are most stressful
• Describe resilience building strategies
• Describe techniques to enhance resilience through changing your perception, taking decisive action and engaging in appropriate self care.

You must pre-register for these workshops, by visiting the following links:

Mental Health Awareness: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1229276396811422480

Resiliency: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6454905518581293071

Categorised in: General

This post was written by Morrow, Jennifer G.