Resilience & Wellbeing
Building resilience and wellbeing capability to help your staff bounce back
Work these days is a bit of a whirlwind. It’s faster, more demanding, and there’s just… more. More change. More pressure. More tabs open in your brain than your browser. And with all that “more,” it’s no wonder we’re being asked to dig deeper – mentally and emotionally.
That’s where Head Stong’s Resilience and Wellbeing Capability programs come in. Alongside workplace mental health training, we help you build and strengthen your inner toolkit of coping strategies, your emotional fuel tank, your ability to bounce (or crawl) back when things get wobbly.
Yes, workplaces have a responsibility to reduce stress and support mental health — and we’re all for that. But knowing you’ve got the skills to handle whatever work (or life) throws your way? That’s pretty cool too.
Our resilience workshops are packed with practical strategies to help you manage stress, spot the silver linings, and top up your tank. They’re interactive, relationship-building, and yes – fun. Because laughter is basically a superpower.
So, check out our Resilience and Wellbeing Capability options. Or if you’ve got something else in mind, like Mental Health First Aid in the workplace, just flick us a message. We love a good brainstorm.
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Workplace Resilience & Wellbeing Capability Workshops
Brain Safety:
The Neuroscience of Resilience
COURSE OVERVIEW
In this engaging workshop we explore what the latest neuroscience has to say about resilience, and focuses on how these key principles can be practically applied in the workplace and everyday life to build personal resilience. It is highly interactive, helps to build positive team relationships and assists participants to develop their own ‘personal resilience plan’. It is one of our most popular workshops!
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Course participants learn about:
- The principles of neuroscience relevant to resilience and ‘brain safety’
- Strategies to connect with social supports, calm the mind, generate positive emotion and build cognitive reserve.
- Developing a personal resilience plan.
DELIVERY
‘Brain Safety: the Neuroscience of Resilience’ workshop is delivered face-to-face in your workplace for up to 20 participants per group. It can be delivered as a half-day or full-day course, depending on your needs. If you would prefer virtual delivery, our ‘Strategies for Resilience (virtual course)’ includes some of the content from this workshop, modified to better suit virtual delivery.
Strategies for Resilience (virtual course)
COURSE OVERVIEW
Our Strategies for Resilience virtual course provides an overview of relevant neuroscience that helps participants to understand what happens when the brain is stressed. And what to do about it. Participants will try out strategies for calming the mind and generating positive emotion, and will develop their own personal resilience plan.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Course participants learn about:
- The principles of neuroscience relevant to resilience and ‘brain safety’
- Strategies to connect with social supports, calm the mind and generate positive emotion.
- Developing a personal resilience plan.
DELIVERY
The Strategies for Resilience virtual course is delivered via an instructor led 3-hour Zoom session for up to 25 participants. It also includes follow-up contact with participants via an app to introduce them to additional resilience strategies.
Self-Care:
Managing the Risk of Vicarious Trauma
COURSE OVERVIEW
Many professions are exposed to the difficult and traumatic experiences of other people, either verbally or through reading accounts of what has occurred. It can be easy to underestimate how, over time, this can impact on your sense of safety and wellbeing in the world. This workshop explores the concept of trauma exposure response, and provides some practical strategies for how you can look after yourself when doing this work.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants will learn about:
- Stress, burnout and the trauma exposure response.
- Early warning signs of mental ill-health.
- Strategies for looking after yourself and others in workplaces that involve exposure to trauma.
DELIVERY
This is a half-day workshop (4 hours) delivered face-to-face in your workplace for up to 20 participants.
Lunchbox Learning Sessions
COURSE OVERVIEW
Lunchbox learning sessions are one-hour sessions designed to provide a short, sharp, fun introduction to a specific topic of your choosing relevant to resilience, team communication or leadership.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
You can choose from one of these topics or talk to us about your own ideas:
- Stress, resilience and your brain
- Mentally healthy workplaces
- Conversations about mental health
- The power of positive psychology
- Cognitive Reserve: Tips for Building a Bushy Brain
- Food and Your Mood.
- Strategies for Social Connection
DELIVERY
One-hour sessions delivered face-to-face in your workplace with groups of up to 40 people.
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