Mental Health Awareness Training for Employees

Our training and development approach is grounded in personalisation and collaboration, ensuring that every programme uniquely aligns with your organisation’s specific goals and challenges. We begin by conducting mental health needs assessment to gain a deep understanding of your organisation’s current landscape, business objectives, and areas for growth. This insight allows us to design training programmes that are relevant to your organisation and sets the stage for long-term success.

Throughout the process, our experienced programme designers and trainers work alongside you and your team, building a collaborative environment where your input shapes the direction and learning outcomes of the training. By maintaining close engagement, we ensure that each step aligns with your strategic priorities, delivering a high level of engagement and measurable, impactful results. Our holistic approach aims to build capability across your team while strengthening leadership, connection, and resilience at every level.

Our mental health training for employees covers a range of topics at varying levels of competency and can be customised to suit your employees and organisational structure. Some of our more general programmes include:

• Mental Health Awareness: Introduces key mental health challenges in New Zealand and the mental health continuum, covering common signs, symptoms, risks, and protective factors. It also includes stress management, Mason Durie’s Te Whare Tapa Whā model, the EARS intervention framework, and the role of language and stigma.
• Mental Health at Work: Explores key wellbeing domains in an organisational context, with practical discussions on workplace language, reducing stigma, and holding difficult conversations. Participants will gain strategies to foster a culture that prioritises mental health, encourages peer support, and enhances psychological safety.
• Courageous Conversations: Introduces the principles of brave conversations and their importance in addressing sensitive topics. The session covers elements of difficult conversations, explores barriers to effective communication, and provides context for how they can impact outcomes. The session also covers power dynamics and using influence positively for greater impact.
• Mental Agility and Resilience: Builds competencies in self-awareness, stress management, emotional regulation, and connection. It teaches protective factors for resilience and strategies to navigate major changes and disruptions. The emphasis is on practical cognitive and behavioural skills that can be applied both at work and home to stay composed and productive under pressure.
• Reframe Your Brain: Introduces cognitive reframing strategies, with guided practical techniques for mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance. This mental health training for employees explores the relationship between maladaptive patterns of thinking and our emotional responses and how this dynamic impacts stress, anxiety and interpersonal conflict.
• Mental Health for Leaders: Provides a foundation for leaders wanting to enhance their understanding of both psychological and psychosocial safety. The session introduces the mental health leadership model and prepares leaders to not only recognise the early signs of psychological strain but also implement proactive measures to support team members experiencing difficulty.
• Minimising Stress and Burnout: Addresses the critical impacts of stress and burnout on workplace wellbeing and performance. Identify early warning signs, understand the effects of stress on performance and team dynamics, and implement care strategies to mitigate burnout risk. The session also highlights how unchecked stress can affect both individual and organisational health.
• Leading with Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Exploring the power of emotional intelligence (EQ) in enhancing leadership effectiveness. The session covers the core components of EQ—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and communication skills. Through interactive exercises and reflection tools, leaders will learn to inspire, influence, and lead with EQ.