Training, on-demand workshops and consulting services

Feel like you're running on empty? Finding it hard to say no? Struggling to set effective boundaries? You might be at risk of burning out. In today's world, we are pulled in so many directions that it can leave us feeling exhausted and detached. This session will examine the very real impact of a variety of factors on our mental health, and explore the signs and indicators of burnout. Take away a set of supportive strategies for recognizing and preventing burnout before it takes hold.

Audience: Staff and faculty
Time: 30 minutes
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Offering expert information and immediate support resources to help with work, health and life challenges, the EFAP provides both short-term clinical counselling and work/life consultations to all eligible UBC employees and their dependents. This presentation provides an overview and detailed explanation of all services and access information.

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: 30 Minutes
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We don’t always take the time to care for and nurture ourselves and we sometimes require support in integrating relaxation and our personal needs into daily life. This self-guided course focuses on increasing mental health literacy through self-care for individuals. Participants will learn about the body’s stress response and how to identify these responses in themselves. They will have an opportunity to take a stress index, explore what self-care means to them and identify key UBC resources that can be engaged to support work life integration and positive mental health.

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: Self-paced
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We don’t always take the time to care for and nurture ourselves and we sometimes require support in integrating relaxation and our personal needs into daily life. This session focuses on increasing mental health literacy through self-care for individuals. Participants will learn about the body’s stress response and how to identify these responses in themselves. They will have an opportunity to take a stress index, explore what self-care means to them and identify key UBC resources that can be engaged to support work life integration and positive mental health.

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: 1 Hour
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What does resilience mean to you? How do you navigate change and challenge?

The idea of resilience is one of increasing importance, especially during times of difficulty. Resilience is foundational to engaging effectively with stress, as well as enhancing our capacity to cope with and recover from challenges. Most importantly, resilience is key in maintaining wellbeing. The good news is that resilience is not only something we already possess but something that can be strengthened over time. During this interactive workshop, participants will:

• Reflect on definitions of resilience and its importance
• Identify the three core components of resilience
• Learn about evidence-informed strategies and practices to strengthen resilience
• Learn about relevant resources and services that are available to support resilience and wellbeing

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: 1 Hour or 1.5 hours
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Now more than ever, wellbeing is playing a crucial role in both our work lives and personal lives.  In order to work well, we have to be well and understanding the importance of wellbeing within the context of  the workplace is a great place to start.  Participants will learn tools and skills to support wellbeing while working within changing environments (remote work, work from home, virtual work etc.), and will learn about a variety UBC resources or services that support individual and workplace wellbeing.

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: self-paced
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Health, namely mental health, has become a topic of significant interest and concern. UBC is taking a lead in advancing wellbeing and a collaborative effort is underway to make the University a better place to live, work and learn through a systems-wide approach to wellbeing across our campuses.

This session will explore the strategies, tools and resources available to support your individual wellbeing as an employee. Using the Okanagan Charter and the National Voluntary Psychological Health and Safety Standards as a framework for action, there will also be an opportunity to discuss and learn about how workplace wellbeing can be enhanced through our everyday interactions, practices and operations.

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: 1 Hour
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Mindfulness is quickly becoming a popular tool to improve both mental health and overall wellbeing.  But what is it exactly, and how can it be of use in the workplace?  In this session you and your team will learn about the basic elements involved in mindfulness practice and how current UBC research has uncovered a link between mindfulness practice and  stress, interpersonal relationships, conflict, emotional reactivity, energy, productivity and much more.

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: 1 hour
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We all have go-to habits that we turn to in times of high stress or challenge, but are these habits working for you or against you?  Our mental health can greatly be supported and maintained with the help of positive coping strategies, however it can be tough to identify the right ones, and to stick with them.  In this session, participants have the opportunity to learn about concepts like resilience and coping while testing out coping practices that have been shown to support mental health and wellbeing.

Audience: Staff and faculty.
Time: 1 – 1.5 hour
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Understanding mental health can be difficult. Learning how to support someone who might be in a mental health crisis can be even more challenging. The goal of this session is to increase mental health literacy while providing tools and skills to respond effectively in a caring and respectful way.

Participants will:

• Learn to better understand mental health and mental illness
• Understand structural and social stigma as barriers to seeking help
• Learn how to respond when concerned about a family member, friend or colleague

Audience: Staff and faculty, particularly those in front-facing or first-responder roles.
Time: 1.5 Hours
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QPR Training is an internationally recognized suicide prevention program designed to help you question, persuade, and refer. It acts as an emergency mental health intervention designed to save lives.

Participants will learn how to recognize suicide warning signs, approach someone who may be at risk, persuade the person to seek appropriate health services, and connect the person to resources that will help resolve crises. Suicide is preventable.

Audience: Staff, faculty and students.
Time: 2.5 Hours
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Established by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the Working Mind is an evidence-based training program designed to address and promote mental health and reduce stigma in a workplace setting. It includes scenario-based practical applications, custom videos of people with lived experience of mental illness, participant reference guides, and related handouts. The program is available in two versions: one for managers and one for employees.

Audience: UBC faculty and staff
Time:  4.5 hours (can be delivered over multiple days)

Participants will:

• Learn about the basic concepts, risk factors and causes of mental illness and mental disorders
• Gain the confidence, tools and resources to support colleagues who may be experiencing mental health problems or illness
• Learn about the Mental Health Continuum Model, how to observe changes in mental health, and how to take appropriate action
• Develop resilience and health-coping strategies
• Build their mental health literacy to help recognize, support colleagues with mental health challenges in the workplace

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Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is the support provided to a person who may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis.

Course participants will learn how to recognize signs that a person may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis and encourage that person to:

• Talk about declines in their mental well-being
• Discuss professional and other supports that could help with recovery to improved mental well-being
• Reach out to these supports
• Assist in a mental health or substance use crisis
• Use MHFA actions to maintain one’s own mental well-being

Audience: Staff and faculty, particularly those in front-facing or first-responder roles.
Time: 8 Hours (blended instruction, self-directed & webinar)

Feel like you're running on empty? Has your team's capacity reached its max? Concerned about the ability of your team to sustain this level of work and stay well?  Your team might be at risk of burning out. In today's world, we are pulled in so many directions that it can leave us feeling exhausted and detached. This session will examine the very real impact of a variety of factors on our mental health, and explore the signs and indicators of burnout that leaders should be aware of. Take away a set of supportive leadership strategies for recognizing and supporting burnout prevention within teams.

Audience: Managers, supervisors, team leaders
Time: 1 hour
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Established by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the Working Mind is an evidence-based training program designed to address and promote mental health and reduce stigma in a workplace setting. It includes scenario-based practical applications, custom videos of people with lived experience of mental illness, participant reference guides, and related handouts. The program is available in two versions: one for managers and one for employees.

Audience: UBC managers and supervisors
Time:  7 hours (can be delivered over multiple days)

Participants will:

• Learn about the basic concepts, risk factors and causes of mental illness and mental disorders
• Gain the confidence, tools and resources to manage and support employees who may be experiencing mental health problems or illness
• Learn about the Mental Health Continuum Model, how to observe changes in employees along the continuum, and how to take appropriate action
• Develop resilience and health-coping strategies
• Build their mental health literacy to help recognize, manage and support colleagues with mental health challenges in the workplace

Request this training.