Mental Health and Wellbeing Awareness
It seems that everywhere you turn these days there is a celebrity, sport star or politician who wants to open about their mental health.
It’s fantastic that high profile people are talking about it, but would you know if someone close to you was struggling with their mental health?
Do you know what to look for? Would you know what to do and how to help?
All this talk about mental health, but what is it? Is it true that you are either born with with or you’re not? Is it really a chemical imbalance in the brain?
You want to do the right thing, but you’re not a counsellor. What if you say something to make it worse? What if you ask if they’re ok and they say ‘No’?
What do you do? Surely this sort of thing is best left to the professionals? So many questions…
Mental Health and Wellbeing Awareness (90mins)
Outcomes
Understand what mental health is and how to recognise the early signs of poor mental health in yourself and others, including stress, anxiety, and depression
How to have a conversation about mental health and poor wellbeing with someone you’re concerned about
How to look after your own wellbeing and build personal resilience
Course unit breakdown
Ten questions in a game show format designed to test your knowledge of mental health and wellbeing. It's not a test, more of an indicator of how much you may already know.
A session exploring some of the myths around mental health. In this interactive module we find out what people really think, and challenge some misconceptions in a ‘true or false’ activity, like: ‘You need special training to talk to someone’ and ‘If dad had depression, I will get it too”
People may not know what to say, for fear of causing offence or being hung out to dry by the ‘PC’ brigade. In this short interactive module, we clear up some of the jargon. What is “Mental Health”, “Wellbeing” and “Resilience” anyway?
For some, mental ill health is very black and white; ‘you are either sick, or you are not sick’. In this engaging module we explore why it’s not as simple as that by introducing the Continuum, another way of thinking about mental health.
What affects our mental health? Why do some people develop mental illness and other don’t? In this interactive module we explore issues such as Stress, Genetics (nature vs nurture) and chemical imbalance among others.
This module is divided into the most common workplace conditions. You will gain a better understanding of Stress, Anxiety and Depression. We look at how to spot the signs someone might be struggling, and what treatment could help.
What do I say or do? What if I ask about them and then don’t know how to handle what they tell me? What if I make it worse? In this module we are going to look at what you can do to support someone. We are going to look specifically at suicidal crisis and non-emergency situations.
What should we be doing to build our own personal resilience and protective factors against poor mental health? By the end of this module learners will have their own tailored action plan for enhancing their own wellbeing, based on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’
In this short module we invite learners to share their current thoughts, having completed the course. We then compare those thoughts with those gathered at the beginning to see how far we have come. A reflective module.
A final knowledge check to measure and consolidate learning. This quiz can be set to have a pass mark, requiring the learner to retake the test if a required mark is not achieved.
Speak to one of the team
A Wellbeing Partnership
Hear from our clients
We were looking for a partner, who had a positive approach to Mental Health & Wellbeing. Someone who could convey the message in an engaging way while still being laser sharp about the seriousness of taking care of your own wellbeing. It was important to select a program, which could embrace our Colgate Culture and at the same time tap straight into various local cultures and allow each individual to feel invited and listen to.
The program has been a great success with incredible high participation on both the virtual instructor-led sessions and the eLearning modules. What we particularly love is the bite-sized, fun and interactive way the eLearning is constructed with a great variety to keep the learner hooked.
The equal and unpretentious dialogue Oakwood masters creates psychological safety and opens up for dialogue, vulnerability - and the opportunity to proactively take responsibility
Susanne Vang
Talent Acquisition & Learning Manager - Northern Europe, Colgate-Palmolive Company
We worked with Oakwood to implement mental health and wellbeing training across our workforce- this consisted of classroom based training for managers and a shorter online course. The online course was specifically designed to be lighter touch than the management course and focused on individual wellbeing. The online platform worked well in terms of delivering this as it allowed staff to undertake the training at their own pace at a time that suited them. The ability to start the course and then return to it later was also beneficial to staff in support roles as it allowed them to manage their time effectively and still carry out the day job. Feedback from staff has been very positive and they have commented that they were surprised how much they learned and took away from the online course
Lucy Finn
Assistant Director People – Scotland and North of England, Barnardo’s
Interactive and to the point. It was very compassionate and gave hope. Very insightful and educational and has helped me to have more empathy
Orlaith Downey
Business Analyst - Colgate-Palmolive Company
The key to any content is in its delivery. Nothing short of world class Terry at our Operations Leadership training. Many, many of our colleagues have been discussing this today. That’s testament to your articulation of such a difficult topic. The content is so thought provoking and I’m already trying to embrace some new approaches for my personal ‘wellbeing’ but importantly my team members.
Lee Chambers
Distribution Director, Unipart Group
Very well, mixture of formats kept it fresh. The mix of interactive, video and stories made it easy to stay engaged.
Ciaran Butler
Business Analyst - Colgate-Palmolive Company
Very good, concise, informative, understandable and meaningful All of it, good mixture of learning styles. Related to theory and easy models to follow. Highly recommended.
Lynda Atter
Cancer Awareness Nurse – Cancer Research UK
Very engaging. Learning some tips & tools to support others. Do it!
