HeadWay – for shop floor & direct staff.
Highly engaging and practical workshops, designed to demystify and give staff confidence when it comes to mental health at work.
Covering:
Introduction to mental health – what it is and what it isn’t
Understand the need to look out for colleagues’ mental health on an equal basis to their physical health
Understanding the effect of stigma and unhelpful behaviours
Taking responsibility to be supportive when a colleague is struggling
Knowing how to take action
Delivered face to face or in virtual classrooms.
Using original filmed drama to bring the subject to life.
Practical real-life learning; developed in the Glasgow shipyards!
“I will be using what I learnt on a daily basis” – HeadWay Delegate
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Dr Linda Craig: On Self-harm
TW #triggerwarning This blog contains discussion of sensitive issues. Each year in early March, mental health organisations around the United Kingdom work to promote awareness of self-harm and reduce the stigma around it that can prevent individuals seeking support. Self-harm is a broad term which refers to a person deliberately causing harm or injury to […]
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Take 5 sugars in your coffee!
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Dr Linda Craig: On Eating Disorders
The first week of March is Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Perhaps apt timing as mental health services across the United Kingdom are reporting a higher rate and severity of Eating Disorder referrals than ever before. Eating Disorders provoke a great deal of anxiety. For sufferers. For loved ones. For services. If you are concerned that […]
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I’m listening
There’s nothing we like better than knowing that we’ve been heard and understood, especially when we’re struggling with the day to day, perhaps with stress or mental health issues. Active listening is what’s needed on Time to Talk Day (4th Feb) and every other day. Active listening is listening to hear, it’s about taking in the whole person. It’s hearing […]
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Give Monday a chance
What we think affects how we feel. We think sad, we feel sad. With this in mind, who’s bright idea was it to name the third Monday of the month Blue Monday? It’s not helpful. Especially this year. It’s particularly unhelpful, when you realise that there’s no scientific evidence behind it being the most depressing […]
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