The Rehumanizing Approach to Workplace Mental Health
2022 has been a challenging year for many of us personally, professionally, and collectively on a global scale. We are so appreciative of your continued support and courage to lean forward and support your people.
We anticipate 2023 as a year of "rehumanizing." Stéphane Grenier, our Founder and CEO, discusses this significance in our most recent blog post, which includes a special video message and closes with this year-end reflection.
Consider an organization where:
1. Leaders engage in the mental health conversation, drive change, and support their people.
2. They model simple, caring behaviours and walk the talk of being authentic and vulnerable.
3. Their executive team (and, therefore, the whole organization) thinks about mental health as an opportunity rather than a problem that clinicians can only address.
4. Their employees are encouraged to recognize signs of distress in themselves and others and to take action to reach out to support one another.
5. They crowdsource natural human benevolence, implementing a workplace peer support program that leverages the lived experience of individuals rigorously trained to provide support to their peers.
6. Besides genuine empathy, a peer supporter can promote treatment through personal empowerment and become a role model for recovery. That connection holds great value even if peers don't share the same mental health experiences.
7. People can start to feel better simply by knowing they are not alone and that others also understand what they are going through.
I refer to this as the "3rd bucket" - the "rehumanizing" approach to workplace mental health. Read more about the “3 buckets” as they relate to workplace mental health here.
We’re here to help.
MHI provides a full suite of mental health services for workplaces and health care. They consist of a comprehensive turnkey service for the development of peer support programs, as well as virtual and in-person peer support skills training that is customized for the community, first responders, and workplaces.
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