Workplace Mental Health
Made Easy.
At Head Strong, we deliver practical, engaging, evidence-based coaching, training and consultancy services to help organisations manage psychosocial hazards and risks and build a mentally healthy workplace.
Our approach is all about partnering with you to build organisational capability: the systems, processes, skills and abilities that an organisation needs, not just to prevent psychological harm, but to create an environment where your workforce is healthy, productive and engaged.
Want to get straight into it? We love that about you.
So what does your business need to make workplace mental health easy?
Psychosocial Risk Management
Need a hand with psychosocial risk management? Maybe you want to do a psychosocial risk assessment to really understand what’s impacting on the mental health of your staff. Or perhaps you need some training to build capability in identifying and responding to psychosocial hazards and risks. Or you just know that this is a ‘thing’ now and you aren’t sure what it means or what to do. Wherever you’re at, we’ve got your (psychosocial) back.
Workplace Training
We create workplace training where the participants don’t feel like they are being punished. Our sessions are full of interesting and evidence-based content from neuroscience, psychology and employment law. They are interactive and get people talking and connecting. And we have fun. So if you are looking for awesome resilience, team building, leadership or Mental Health First Aid training, you’re in the right place.
1:1 Workplace Coaching
Make it all about you with our 1:1 workplace coaching. Coaching gives you the time and space to really dive deep into an area that’s important for you and your functioning in the workplace. Maybe you want to increase your resilience, hone your emotional intelligence skills or take your people leadership to the next level. Coaching asks the questions and helps you to find the answers that are right for you.
“A great workplace not only protects your mental health – it actually improves it.”
– Sam Sellwood, Workplace Psychologist
As a manager or HR professional you already know that workplace mental health matters. You’ve seen the stats, watched the webinars and read the reports. Or maybe it’s just that you’ve witnessed first-hand the damage a mentally unhealthy workplace can cause – to individuals, teams, morale, productivity. Not to mention the bottom line.
And that was before Codes of Practice for managing the risk of psychosocial hazards in the workplace started to be introduced. Now there is even more reason to make sure you are adequately protecting the mental health of your workers. Now, it’s a work health and safety compliance issue (well, technically it was before but the Codes of Practice have really upped the ante on that one…).
So you want to do something. But what? It can be hard to know where to start or where to go next to manage psychosocial hazards and risks and build a mentally healthy workplace.
At Head Strong, we make it our business (in fact, it is literally our business) to deliver practical, engaging, evidence-based coaching, training and consultancy services to help you manage psychosocial hazards and risks and build a mentally healthy workplace. A workplace where the staff have the knowledge and skills to take care of themselves, take care of each other and take care of teams. And we have some fun along the way. In other words, we make workplace mental health easy.
So, if workplace mental health has been doing your head in (and the irony of that’s not lost on you), it’s time to get Head Strong.
Meet the Team
Together, Molly and Sam bring a combined experience of nearly 40 years in mental health and wellbeing.
Samantha Sellwood
Director and Registered Psychologist
Molly Petersen
Facilitator and Registered Nurse
Head Strong Workplaces is a boutique consultancy that specialises in assisting organisations to create mentally healthy workplaces. Our programs combine psychology, neuroscience and employment law to bring you practical and evidence-based strategies that help you:
- Identify and manage risks to psychological health and safety in the workplace;
- Increase the interpersonal effectiveness of leaders;
- Create engaged and positive teams;
- Reduce stigma and encourage a culture of peer support; and
- Increase resilience.
We utilise our extensive experience as mental health practitioners and the latest research to create experiences and programs that are relevant, interactive and engaging, and help you to implement a workplace mental health strategy that actually makes a difference.
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What Our Clients Are Saying
“Our organisation is going through major rapid change and in this environment managers need to manage well, but also become leaders who are able to share a vision and then lead with clarity and courage. Sam Sellwood has been training our leadership team over the last 12 months on resilience, caring for yourself, and is now facilitating the ‘Mind Leaders’ program over the next six months. Sam is a great communicator, connects quickly and easily with individuals as well as the team. Her presenting style is professional and is laced with humour and managers leave each session with great practical tips to take back to their workplace. I highly recommend Sam Sellwood for your business training needs.”
“After a discussion over the phone with Sam Sellwod about her workshop, The Neuroscience of Engagement for Teams, I knew that it was a perfect match for what my team needed. Her calming, yet vibrant and fun demeanour, as well her in-depth knowledge and understanding of mental health, is what truly made her training such a huge success. My team absolutely loved the workshop, and felt that they now have a much better understanding of themselves as individuals, as well as how to better interact with others in the team. I cannot thank Sam enough for her sensational work she did with my team, and I would highly recommend to all businesses that are looking to motivate, educate, and better engage their teams.”
“Sam spent a considerable amount of time liaising prior to the training to ensure that she was preparing and delivering a course that was relevant to our team. She was extremely responsive and very prompt with all communication. The team members really participated in the session because she is a very engaging trainer. She managed the time and the breaks well given the intense nature of the subject matter. She used examples and referenced situations to illustrate her points. The variety of media and modes of delivery (slides, videos, whole group, small group and pairs, role play and individual reflection) ensured that attention and interest was maintained. It was a valuable professional development session for our team and the practical skills were immediately applicable.”
Is workplace mental health doing your head in?
Time to get