An engaging online learning course
We've come a long way in tackling the stigma around mental illness, yet we can still feel apprehensive or awkward talking about mental health.
In our role as wellbeing champions, we want to feel well-equipped to have conversations about mental health and understand how best to offer ongoing support to colleagues who might be struggling. We will also explore the topic of boundaries and your own wellbeing within the context of supporting others.
The session will aim to help you feel more confident in having difficult conversations, understand how we can offer ongoing support to others, and how to look after our own mental health in the process.
Having conversations about mental health
Explore a conversational framework for having difficult conversations, hone your listening skills and learn about how to support someone on an ongoing basis
Managing your own wellbeing whilst supporting others
Learn some tips for dealing with difficult emotions, understand why you should make yourself a priority and review some tools to improve your mental health
Implementing boundaries when supporting others
Understand why boundaries are important, recognise which kinds of situations might cross a boundary and how to enforce a boundary when appropriate
Example Curriculum
- Welcome to the course (1:28)
- Identifying your listening style (2:40)
- The do's and don'ts of having conversations about mental health
- A conversational framework for having effective conversations about mental health (3:34)
- Helpful conversation prompts
- Ongoing support for someone who is struggling (2:15)
- Reviewing section one; a quiz
Course instructor
Mel Crate
Mel Crate is the founding director of Luminate.
Mel founded Luminate after almost a decade of working in high-pressure environments, where work/life balance and mental health were never treated as a priority. She experienced and witnessed high stress levels, exhaustion and eventually burnout, which is when she came to the conclusion that looking after employees’ mental and physical health at work was the key to high performance and a thriving organisation.
After training as a mindfulness teacher and mental health coach Mel started to work with businesses and individuals to help improve health and wellbeing in the workplace. She is extremely passionate about the benefits and results of wellbeing programmes, on both the individual and the organisation.
She is trained in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). She is also a Mental Health First Aid Trainer and has completed the ASIST suicide prevention training.
