MHaW Understand

An essential building block to improve understanding and awareness of workplace mental health is our MHaW Understand workshop. MHaW Understand equips your employees with the knowledge to manage mental health within their roles.

Why choose MHaW Understand?

We have been running our MHaW Understand workshops since 2016, customising content to reflect the specific needs and learning outcomes for the specific audiences in each organisation or market.

About the Understand Programme

MHaW Understand is a programme designed to raise awareness, improve literacy around the subject and help in understanding of self and others through exploring attitudes and myths and the preferred language to begin to reduce stigma and support conversations.

The programme will consider shared responsibilities in the workplace and the legal responsibility under the Equality Act, highlighting specific workplace driven factors around mental health and raise awareness around signposting within your organisation.

Content can be tailored to each organisation and discussed with you in advance of the programme being rolled out.

Who should attend this workshop?

Everyone in your workplace from the frontline workers to the C-Suite. Through everyone taking the same steps together, we are able to generate a movement within your organisation towards openness in mental health discussions.

By breaking down stigma and signposting to resources and support, this workshop helps to create a stigma-free and supportive work environment, reducing emotional distress symptoms and enhancing productivity.

What training outcomes can we expect?

As each workshop is different and tailored to an organisation’s needs and objectives, it is difficult to provide a finite list of outcomes, however attendees should come away with knowledge of some or all of the following:

MHAW RosetteAn understanding of mental health/mental illness to promote inclusivity

MHAW RosetteNoticing the changes in yourself and colleagues

MHAW RosetteAddressing stigma, readiness, myths and unconscious bias and language

MHAW RosetteA consideration of the impact of stress and burnout

MHAW RosetteA discussion on shared responsibility and the Equality Act 2010

MHAW RosetteA raised awareness of internal/external signposting

What does the training look like?

We work with our clients to tailor the content for them, and therefore duration and format may vary. However, we usually recommend that the workshop is;

MHAW RosetteUp to 2.5 hours in total duration

MHAW RosetteFacilitated either face to face or online

MHAW RosetteIn groups of between 16-20 attendees

MHAW RosetteWe also offer a 90 minute webinar option for up to 250 employees

 

To find out more about MHaW Understand, please get in touch

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Nancy LengthornHead of Diversity, Inclusion & Talent, Mediacom
Nancy Lengthorn
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Roy Brooke General Manager/Director
Roy Brooke
“I am very impressed with the quality of delivery, content and relevance of the training provided by Mental Health at Work – we have never seen such positive evaluation and feedback on a training course before. We have firm proof that changes have taken place immediately following attendance at the training and stigma is already diminishing, evidenced by employees feeling comfortable to come forward and talk about their own previously undisclosed experiences with mental health issues”
Melanie OlrikHuman Resources Partner, Malcolm Hollis
Melanie Olrik
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Sarah BartonOH Performance & Systems Manager
Sarah Barton
"Mental Health at Work has demonstrated the expertise to both develop and facilitate a mental health programme that meets the need of a diverse and challenging organisation. We are already experiencing the value of attendees putting these skills into practice in their workplaces and look forward to the results of the wider behaviour changes"
Gina WillsLeadership and Learning Manager
Gina Wills
"Mental Health at Work have built and delivered a customised programme for THB, which reflects both the culture and the operational needs of our business. As experts in workplace mental health they continue to support us on our journey to normalise conversations around mental health"
Rosalino WalshHead of Learning and Operations
Rosalino Walsh
"We have worked with Mental Health at Work over the past year to bring a programme of lasting change to attitudes and behaviours around mental health at MediaCom. Whilst training of Mental Health Allies and Line Managers has been at the core of the programme, we have been fully supported with expert advice and guidance in developing a broader strategic framework including policy and procedure, signposting, coaching and supervision. We trust Mental Health at Work as the experts in this field for relevant and impactful programmes built around our work environment and this has been reflected in the outstanding feedback from our staff and the increased confidence and openness around mental health"
Nancy LengthornHead of Diversity, Inclusion & Talent
Nancy Lengthorn
"Mental Health at Work are respected experts in the field of mental health training. We have been very impressed with their bespoke approach, professionalism and ability to tune into our specific needs. The fit, style & pace all suited to our environment. We look forward to working further with Mental Health at Work to develop a programme across the organisation"
Lorna GavinHead of Diversity, Inclusion & Corporate Responsibility
Lorna Gavin
"I just wanted to give some feedback on the MHaW Mental Health Allies® training and say that it was such an inspiring two days. I feel like I have learnt so much in such a short period of time and Debbie was just fantastic. Her passion and honesty was obvious from the get go and she really did push us to think differently to prepare us for the role"
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Luned WhelanExecutive Manager
Luned Whelan
We chose a partnership with Mental Health at Work, after looking at a range of providers in the market place, because of their pragmatic and agile approach. They took time to really get to know our business, language and pressure points around workplace mental health and created content that reflected our culture and way of working. This has resulted in an impactful, engaging and practical programme of workshops for our restaurant and Central Support managers that has been very widely well-received. The programme has evolved in content to continue to be impactful for attendees. We look forward to seeing the partnership continue into 2022.
Gemma MartinManagement Development Trainer
Gemma Martin
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