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Tag: Coping, Resilience & Managing Life Challenges

  • Employee and Family Assistance Programs

    The existence of an EAP, and specifically its promotion by employers, has been shown to increase employee satisfaction, organizational culture, and can act as an incentive for new recruits.

  • Nature-based Interventions

    Nature is well known to have positive effects on our mental health and overall well-being but there is also evidence that it can specifically assist in the workplace by promoting positive mental health and helping to reduce stress.

  • Psychological Detachment

    In the current era where it is ever more difficult to “leave work at work”, there is demonstrated value in psychological detachment, or allowing staff to (mentally or physically) distance themselves from work during non-work times.

  • Self-Compassion Training

    The training and programs included a variety of different focuses ranging from psychoeducation and information about the brain, breathing, meditation, mindfulness, and imagery practice, and of course information and tactics that help promote self-compassion.

  • Cognitive-behaviour based Programs

    CB-based approach provides skills and tools that help to address the thoughts and thinking patterns (cognitive) and related behaviours (actions or reactions) in order to improve how one views their world experience and employs coping strategies.

  • Learning and Professional Development Opportunities

    Many organizations may already have resources allotted to staff training so considering how these trainings focus on staff well-being or how they can support staff well-being could be a helpful approach.

  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

    Digital or e-based programs that share mental health information, skill-building, and other resources at regular intervals with staff have been shown to improve mental health.

  • Mindfulness-based Programs

    The skills that mindfulness fosters have been shown to have a positive impact in the workplace such as through problem solving, creativity, curiosity and coping with uncertainty which may also have a positive impact on job satisfaction and productivity. 

  • Yoga Program

    Yoga is a unique activity as it incorporates many aspects that have been shown to promote mental health and well-being including physical activity, breathing, sustained focus, community, and spirituality.

  • moodgym

    moodgym is an online self-help program designed to help users prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety.