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Mental Health Skills Training: a Certificate Program for HR Professionals - Morning Cohort
Certificate Program

Mental Health Skills Training: a Certificate Program for HR Professionals - Morning Cohort

The role of Human Resource Professionals within an organization continues to evolve and with it, a shifting perspective on the expectations placed on HR when it comes to workplace mental health. Not only that, but a muddiness in accountability and responsibility between HR and the Business might have increased tensions between yourself and the very partners you’re meant to be supporting.
Building relationships and connecting with others on interpersonal levels, while staying the within moral and legal frameworks, is how you will encourage people to thrive, leading to greater job satisfaction and increased value to the bottom line. But that can feel scary, awkward, and hard. Many of us have not yet been taught the skills to navigate mental health in the workplace, barely scratching the surface of reducing the stigma of mental health at work.
Delivered by certified Psychological Health & Safety Advisors, this certificate program will build your skills so you can feel confident engaging in mental health conversations in the workplace, giving you the language, knowledge and confidence to connect with your team, your Business and your Executive and offer support in ways that meet them where they’re at and is good for your organization.

Learning Objectives”
· Conversation starters, making it easier to initiate mental health conversations in the workplace
· Demonstrate skill in active, mindful listening practices
· Build understanding and connect the Canadian Standard for Psychological Health & Safety and its tools within individual workplaces
· Build awareness and familiarity with current legislation and consider the moral, ethical and legal considerations of decision making
· Build compassion as a skill and leverage this character strength as a tool for business-focused, people-centered decisions
· Build understanding of the impacts of rest and physical well-being on our work and explore strategies for managing high workload
· Practice embedding learned theory and skills with small group work and discussions

Lindsay Recknell:
As the president & CEO of Paradigm Corporate Wellness Inc, Lindsay Recknell continues to raise mental health maturity in organizations while making conversations about mental health in the workplace as normalized as any other conversation.

A certified Psychological Health & Safety Advisor, Lindsay works with Leaders & HR Professionals to give them the knowledge and confidence to know what to say about mental health at work, how to help while considering the moral, ethical and legal considerations and how to make mental health-related decisions in the best interest of the company, their individual teams and themselves.