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For each topic, users are provided with most or all of the following:
- Facilitator slides and guide
- Participant handout
- Webpage outlining key background information about the topic
All topics are available through Assessments, tools and workshops. Below they have been organized into four categories, by audience interest.
Personal growth and development is for a general audience. These workshops are relevant to all employees including leaders, union reps and association members, and can also be promoted as a public event.
Team building is for those who work or interact together on a regular basis. Audiences can include those in various roles, including leaders, admin, sales, volunteers, students, team members, etc.
Leader development is for those who manage, support or lead others in any capacity.
Organizational strategies are intended for decision and policy makers. They are workshops to support continual improvement of organization-wide initiatives related to psychological health and safety.
Assessments can be added before workshops to help your participants come ready to apply the knowledge you are teaching.
For each workshop described, there is a link to more information where you will find all of the free materials you can download.
Personal growth and development
These workshops are for a general audience. They are relevant to all employees including leaders, union reps and association members, and can also be promoted as a public event.
Building resilience
Facilitate reflection and discussion about how participants can build their resilience and move forward when challenges happen. This can minimize conflict, improve morale, and reduce health issues during difficult times. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Resilience.
Emotional intelligence
Participants will reflect on how their emotions function and how to recognize and respond to the emotions of others so they can better manage stress and relationships. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Emotional intelligence for leaders.
Implicit bias
This respectful, self-reflection workshop invites participants to consider unconscious attitudes and stereotypes that may affect their actions, decisions and understanding towards or against particular people or groups. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Implicit bias.
Learning to recharge
Inspire your participants to get serious about breaks that support wellness, especially during busy or demanding days. The activities included can help energize, calm the mind and relax the body. Engaging your participants in each activity allows them to identify the ones that best support them on any given day. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Healthy break activities.
Name, claim, and reframe
Foster skills in identifying and managing responses to everyday stresses. Particularly if stress is leading to ongoing doubt, anger or fear, the “name, claim, reframe” process can help participants let go of what’s holding them back. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Name, claim and reframe.
Team building
These workshops are for those who work together or interact on a regular basis. Participants can include those in various roles, including leaders, admin, sales, volunteers, students, team members, etc.
Leveraging team wisdom
Help team members connect with each other effectively, work together to address obstacles and learn from each other using this set of resources and workshop materials. Learn more about facilitating this topic and find many unique team building activities at Building stronger teams.
Psychologically safe interactions
Minimize misunderstandings and unintended bullying or harm by getting team members to think about how their behaviours and reactions impact others. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Psychologically safe interactions.
On the agenda psychosocial factor series
Each of the “On the agenda” workshops listed below includes two sets of workshop materials. The first set is Creating awareness, which helps you facilitate a team discussion about each psychosocial factor, leading to an action plan for the team that is low cost. You can also take feedback from the team to inform decision and policy makers who would use the second set, called Creating change. Each psychosocial factor has its own set of materials so you can choose whatever is most relevant, or choose based on the results of a Guarding Minds at Work employee survey.
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Balance: Facilitate a discussion with team members about work-life balance in their unique circumstances. You will ask them to consider challenges and solutions, as well as one action item to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting balance on the agenda.
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Civility and respect: Facilitate a discussion with team members about civility and respect, including identifying strategies for addressing or improving it. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting civility and respect on the agenda.
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Clear leadership and expectations: Facilitate a discussion with team members about how leaders can improve communication, clarity and support for success at work. You can facilitate this without the leader and then anonymously provide feedback to them for their personal development. This particular workshop could also be facilitated for leaders only, to help them think about this topic. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting clear leadership and expectations on the agenda.
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Engagement: Facilitate a discussion with team members about what could deepen or enhance their engagement at work. Ask participants to reflect on what motivates them to do their job well, and what policies or processes can help them to feel connected to their work, co-workers, and organization. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn about facilitating this topic at Putting engagement on the agenda.
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Growth and development: Facilitate a discussion with team members about what encourages and supports their growth and development at work. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting growth and development on the agenda.
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Involvement and influence: Facilitate a discussion with team members about how they want to be involved and have influence on decisions that impact their jobs. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting involvement and influence on the agenda.
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Organizational culture: Facilitate a discussion with team members to consider how organizational culture can be improved, and how they can personally support that through their own actions. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting organizational culture on the agenda.
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Protection of physical safety: Facilitate a discussion with team members about what allows them to feel their physical safety is protected at work. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting protection of physical safety on the agenda.
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Psychological competencies and demands: Facilitate a discussion with team members about how their job demands might impact their psychological health and safety, or their overall health. You will ask them to consider challenges and solutions as well as one action item to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting psychological competencies and demands on the agenda.
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Psychological protection: Facilitate a discussion with team members about ensuring that they’re free from bullying, harassment, stigma and discrimination at work. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting psychological protection on the agenda.
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Psychological and social support: Facilitate a discussion with team members about the psychological and social supports available or desired to help all members, including those with disabilities. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting psychological and social support on the agenda.
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Recognition and reward: Facilitate a discussion with team members to reflect on the type of recognition and reward that motivate their commitment and performance. You’ll focus participants on non-monetary recognition and rewards from the organization, the leader and each other. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting recognition and reward on the agenda.
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Workload management: Facilitate a discussion with team members to identify what can help them feel supported to complete their assigned tasks and responsibilities successfully. You’ll focus participants on what’s within their influence and control and provide feedback to the leader on ideas that require their authority. The workshop will result in one action item for the team to commit to as a group. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Putting workload management on the agenda.
Leader development
These workshops are for those who manage, support or lead others in any capacity.
Building trust for leaders
This workshop can help those in management roles to gain loyalty and influence with their teams, and to understand the competencies that build trustworthiness. It can also help people build confidence to trust themselves as leaders and make difficult decisions. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Building trust for leaders.
Motivating the powers that be
Help participants present their ideas in a way that makes it easier for decision-makers to say “yes” to psychological health and safety at work. Learning to identify and align the approach to an organization’s goals and perceived issues helps reduce resistance while supporting the existing focus and strategy. Interested participants may include human resources, leaders, consultants, occupational health, health and safety, wellness professionals. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Motivating the powers that be.
Resolving conflict
This workshop helps leaders at all levels learn skills for conflict resolution. Participants learn how to engage in a conflict resolution process that preserves the dignity of both parties, avoids forced and insincere apologies, and holds parties accountable to a professional working relationship. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Conflict response for leaders.
Supportive task improvement
This workshop reviews an approach that allows leaders to support an employee to improve performance related to a specific task when they may be struggling to meet expectations. The approach can be applied regardless of whether the employee has a mental health issue because it is focused on supporting success rather than being punitive. Learn how to facilitate this topic at Supportive task improvement.
Organizational strategies
Creating change series: Putting psychological health and safety on the agenda
This is part 2 to the On the agenda series described in the Team building section. Building on the feedback that came from the employees in the Creating awareness series, Creating change provides decision and policy makers with a process to critically analyze evidence-based approaches that can help them address or improve psychological health and safety in their workplace. The result is potential policy or programming changes that the organization can adopt. Learn more about facilitating this topic at Creating change workshops.
Assessments
There are a variety of assessments that can be administered to your workshop participants in advance of any workshop. This helps provide another layer of information and engagement, making the workshop more relevant to your audience. It also can provide a way to develop specific action plans for change at the personal, team or leadership level. Learn more about what is available at Assessments.