Mental Health & Employment Law Conference

Post Conference Workshop

Proactive Mental Health Programs for the Workplace

Workshop leaders

Dr Sadhbh Joyce, Senior Psychologist, External Fellow, Black Dog Institute /UNSW and Co-founder Mindarma
Jamie Watson, Co-founder, Mindarma

Workshop session facilitator

Leighton Hellem-Williams, Workplace Engagement Manager, Black Dog Institute
Dr Joe Tighe, Senior Psychologist and Master ASIST Suicide Prevention Trainer
Associate Professor Simon Rosenbaum, Exercise Physiologist and Researcher at The School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW

The Proactive Mental Health Programs for the Workplace Workshop will be taking place in Brisbane and Livestreamed. The interactive one-day workshop will highlight programs from Black Dog Institute, Mindarma, Movement and Mental Health in the Workplace and the ASIST Suicide Prevention Program. Attendees will be able to take the next steps to choose what proactive programs best suits the needs of your organisation's workforce and mental health strategy

Dates & Locations

Cancelled

For any event enquiries, please email eventsanz@thomsonreuters.com.

Agenda

9:00AM

Creating Mentally Healthy Workplaces: why proactive programs matter

This session will provide an overview of the framework to creating mentally healthy workplaces. The role of evidence-based proactive programs will be discussed as well as the importance of measurement and auditing when developing a workplace mental health strategy.

Dr Sadhbh Joyce

9:30AM

Program 1: Black Dog Institute
Mental Health for Managers Training - conversations that make a difference

This interactive session will highlight the benefits of the Black Dog Institute's Mental Health for Managers program. Learn simple strategies to enable meaningful conversations about mental health with your colleagues and team.

Leighton Hellem Williams

10:30AM

Break

11:00AM

Program 2: Mindarma
Customising holistic online resilience training for your workplace

This interactive session will highlight the Mindarma Program of customised and successfully implemented resilience training programs for different workplaces. The session will cover key factors in developing a successful implementation, including identifying high-risk groups, program customisation, promotional strategies, learner engagement, outcome measurements and case studies. This session will support you in running a "small trial" of the Mindarma program in your own workplace.

Dr Sadhbh Joyce & Jamie Watson, Founders, Mindarma

12:15PM

Break

1:15PM

Program 3: Movement and Mental Health in the Workplace

In this session, Scienta Associate Professor Simon Rosenbaum will share his expert insights and tips on creating effective exercise-based interventions for mental health. Discover what approaches work best and what key factors need to be front of mind when implementing programs across the workplace.

Associate Professor Simon Rosenbaum, Exercise Physiologist and Researcher at The School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW

2:15PM

Program 4: ASIST Suicide Prevention Program

This session will highlight what the ASIST Program involves as well as the core benefits your workplace can expect from implementing this prevention program within your workplace.

Dr Joe Tighe, Senior Psychologist and Master ASIST Suicide Prevention Trainer

3:15PM

Break

3:30PM

Next Steps:

This concluding session will take you through the "next steps" process of reflection and choosing what proactive programs best suits the needs of your organisation's workforce and mental health strategy.

  • Which programs work best for your group?
  • How can proactive programs work together?
  • What data will it help to collect?

Dr Sadhbh Joyce

4:00PM

End of workshop