Training and consultations

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: Faculty and staff, particularly those in front-facing or first-responder roles.
Time: 1.5 Hours
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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 can learn about concepts like resilience and coping while testing out coping practices that have been shown to support mental health and wellbeing.

Audience: Faculty and staff
Time: 1 – 1.5 hour
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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: Faculty and staff.
Time: 1 Hour
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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: Faculty and staff
Time: 15 Minutes
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This presentation provides an overview of all UBC HR’s health and wellbeing services and resources that are available to UBC faculty, staff and post-doctoral fellows (award recipients and employees). 

Audience: Faculty, staff and post-doctoral fellows (award-recipients and employees)
Time: 15 Minutes
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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: Faculty and staff
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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: Faculty and staff
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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:  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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Do you know what is covered under your benefits plan? Book this session to learn:

• Which benefits you are eligible for
• The cost and coverage of your benefits
• How to make claims using your benefits 
• What the Employee and Family Assistance Plan offers and how to access these resources
• Who to contact if you have questions

Audience: Faculty and staff
Time: 1 hour
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Join UBC Benefits Administrator, Janet McHugh, in this 1-hour session on understanding your travel benefits.

Audience: Staff and Faculty
Time: 1 hour
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In January 2023, UBC launched an important required training for managers and supervisors called Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace for Managers and Supervisors. This training is currently available in the Workplace Learning ecosystem (WPL).  

Developed for people leaders, this required mental health training will help leaders manage and support their teams during challenging times and ensure they are aware of their responsibilities to teams and direct reports. At UBC, we are committed to the mental health and wellbeing of our community which is why we offer a range of programs, training and resources to support teams – this training is yet another aspect of UBC's strategic efforts to embed wellbeing into our workplaces.  

Mental health literacy is an ongoing effort, and this training is one step in a long journey that managers and supervisors can take to build a psychologically healthy and safe workplace. Managers and supervisors can revisit and complete this course at any time, including access to additional resources and toolkits. 

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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

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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

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