Healthy Workforce Workshops
Our Training Workshops Improve Retention, Engagement & Productivity
Avail's Healthy Workforce workshops improve retention, engagement, and the productivity of your workforce. We equip employees and people leaders' with the knowledge and skills to recognize mental health and well-being issues early and take action to reach their full potential. We are passionate about our mission and ensure that each participant leaves our workshops committed to changing their work and personal lives for the better.
Leadership Workshops
Workshops For Your Organization Leaders
Leadership workshops equip leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify workplace mental health and well-being issues and support employee success when mental health is a factor (e.g. accommodation, return-to-work).
Manager Workshops
Workshops For Your People Managers
Equip your people manager with the skills, understanding and knowledge to effectively recognize and manage mental health related issues including accommodation, return to work, performance, conflict and more.
Employee Workshops
Courses That Build Resilient Employees
Employee workshops equip employees with essential knowledge about mental health and well-being and strategies to achieve balanced, healthy, and resilient living. Additionally, employees learn to identify signs of mental illness and how to support others to get help.
Workshop Format
Each workshop combines instructor-led educational sessions, experiential practice, small group discussion, printed support materials, and a personalized action plan.
Our standard workshop sessions are full-day duration and can be customized depending on your requirements. Any number of participants can partake, depending on the level of interactivity and personal attention desired.
Topics and Workshop Presenters
Topics are carefully selected based on trending workplace health and well-being trends and dialogue with our customers to ensure we have a thorough understanding of your challenges and goals. Each workshop is authored and delivered by our in-house subject matter experts using evidence-based research and best practice guidelines.
Workshops For Organization Leaders
Mental Health 101
This Training Experience Will Explore:
- The Mental Health Continuum model;
- Factors that positively or negatively impact mental health;
- Common mental health challenges and how to recognize their signs;
- Barriers that prevent seeking help (e.g. stigma);
- Practical strategies to improve mental health and well-being;
- Types of support available and how to choose the most helpful solution.
How To Be A Psychologically Safe Leader
The goal of this workshop is to increase knowledge, comfort and ability in recognizing and managing issues related to mental health in the workplace.
This Training Experience Will Explore:
- Your mental health and well-being culture;
- Positive mental health and well-being practices in your workplace;
- Ways to recognize and respond supportively to employees with a suspected mental health and/or well-being issues;
- How to create a positive and supportive work environment to facilitate successful return to work for employees with mental health and well-being issues; and
- Managing your own emotional reactions, building resilience.
Mental Health in Motion Inside the Workplace
A 45-minute lecture with visuals. At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to implement a culture of Stress Management and Self Care in the Workplace, prepare teams and supporting managers for an individual's return to work after mental illness and understanding employee accountability in the recovery. Participants will explore personality traits inside the working environment and their relationship to mental health.
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Understanding Mental Illness
A 45-minute lecture with visuals. At the end of this workshop, participants should understand the differences in signs and symptoms of mental illnesses in the workplace and correlations of co morbid factors, understand the impact of sleep hygiene, and learn community resources and supporting within your means.
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Supportive Leadership and Language Essentials for Mental Health in the Workplace
A 45-minute lecture with visuals. At the end of this workshop, participants should recognize behavior changes learn and how to engage and support colleagues with a potential mental health issue, understand the appropriate, de-stigmatizing language surrounding mental health, learn and apply the "Rule Out Rule" to performance management with mental health, and understand the Stages of Change Model as it relates to individuals with mental illness.
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The Business Case for a Psychologically Safe Workplace
A 45-minute lecture with visuals. At the end of this workshop, participants should understand the Mental Health Commission of Canada's National Standard for Psychological Health & Safety in the Workplace Best Practices, learn the 13 Psycho-Social Workplace Factors contributing to mental health in the workplace, gain tools to understanding the current state of PH&S in the workplace, and learn how to implement and measure mental health strategies in the workplace to improve the bottom line.
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Workshops For People Managers
Psychological Health and Safety: It Matters
In our workplaces there is often a strong value of providing physical safety, but what about our psychological safety? In this 75-minute presentation, we will define what is psychological health and safety and gain better understanding of how it fits within a workplace.
Organizational impacts will be outlined while exploring the CSA National Standards to lead us to a place of understanding the factors that promote and undermine psychological health and safety. This training is a great way to introduce further training topics, giving individuals a basis of knowledge before diving a bit deeper.
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Supportive Management and Mental Health
Effectively supporting an individual is a very important management skill. Often performance management only focuses on the negative or the problems, but this can be draining and cause conflict between staff. Supporting individuals by focusing on solutions has shown to contribute to an employee’s well-being. In this session we will explore different strategies to help you build your workplace plan to address when there has been a change in employee performance.
Management, supervisors, and leaders will gain a heightened appreciation and awareness for mental health issues in the workplace by taking a closer look at anxiety, depression, and substance use. The importance of early intervention will also be discussed and how the short-term discomfort with starting a conversation is much better than long term dysfunction.
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Tough Talks: Practical Applications to a Difficult Conversation
With the statistics on many individuals are affected by mental health problems (1 in 4), there is a good chance that we may have to engage in a tough conversation with an employee. The reason these conversations are considered tough is because often we don’t know what to say, how to say it, or feel equipped with the right tools to produce a successful outcome.
In this sought-after session we will look at specific steps to formulate a conversation with an individual who may be experiencing mental health concerns. You will gain an understanding of the preparation process, what to include in your conversation, and the importance of follow-up. You will leave the room with solution-focused techniques to help you feel successful and confident when engaging in a difficult conversation.
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Workshops For Your Employees
Mental Health 101
This workshop introduces participants to the skills and knowledge to help them better understand what good mental health and well-being is, common signs and symptoms of mental illness, ways to maintain or improve mental health and well-being, and the types of support that are available.
This Training Experience Will Explore:
- The Mental Health Continuum model;
- Factors that positively or negatively impact mental health;
- Common mental health issues, their causes, and their treatment;
- Practical strategies to improve mental health and well-being;
- Barriers that prevent seeking help (e.g. stigma);
- Types of support available and how to choose the option that is best for you.
Living with Vitality and Resilience
Whether your goal is to improve your sleep, get in the best shape of your life, manage your weight, or learn how to make good nutritional choices and healthy meals, this workshop provides strategies to achieve your healthiest and most resilient self.
This Training Experience Will Explore:
- Sleep.
- Activity/exercise.
- Managing moods (depression, anger).
- Managing worry (anxiety, stress).
- Weight management.
- Nutrition.
- Parenting and Family Issues.
- Healthy relationships.
Taking Control of Stress
Is there more to stress management than learning to relax? This course teaches key stress management skills, based on our best-in-class seven factor stress management model "COMFORT" including managing thinking, increasing positive experiences, getting active, realistic optimism, and stress "reframing."
This Training Experience Will Explore:
- What stress is.
- Signs and symptoms of unhealthy stress.
- Our best-in-class seven factor stress management strategy (COMFORT).
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