Keen to enhance mental resilience? Look no further. In commemoration of World Mental Health on 10 October, the Singapore Red Cross Academy's Centre for Psychosocial Support launched three new programmes: Mental Well-being @ Workplace, Resilience Skills for Everyday Life, and Mental Health Literacy. 

Mental Well-being @ Workplace

For corporate professionals handling employees, ensuring the mental well-being of employees is not just a priority - it is essential for sustaining a healthy and productive work environment. With the workforce spending significant time at the workplace, the challenges faced may negatively impact morale, leading to high absenteeism, high turnover, and lower productivity. 

The Mental Well-being @ Workplace is designed for corporate professionals managing teams. In this comprehensive four-hour course, corporate professionals will learn effective strategies to enhance employee engagement, strengthen organisational resilience and bolster productivity while fostering a supportive work environment where employees feel valued and motivated. 

This course is aligned with the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH)'s theme 'It is Time to Prioritise Mental Health in the Workplace', the theme was the result of a global vote with over 2,000 participants from 116 countries. The IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) also adopted the theme. Mental Well-being @ Workplace reflects the awareness of an urgent need to prioritise the well-being of workers, acknowledging the critical role workplaces have for living a fulfilling work experience and overall life enjoyment. It is also a call to action that resonates worldwide. 

Objectives

• Strengthen organisational resilience and well-being
• Enhance employee engagement and bolster productivity
• Create a more loyal, fulfilled, and dedicated workforce
• Cultivate a more positive and supportive work environment

Benefits of the Course 

• Understand the importance of mental well-being in the workplace
• Identify common workplace challenges and how they may affect an employee's mental health
• Learn practical strategies to promote mental wellness in the workplace
• Design and implement evidence-based well-being initiatives

Duration: 4 hours
Cost: $120
To register, click here.

Resilience Skills for Everyday Life

Juggling work, and personal and family commitments may be a fine balancing act. If not managed well, these may inevitably take their toll and contribute to heightened stress levels. Resilience Skills for Everyday Life equips learners with the capacity to recognise sources of stress and adversity, while acquiring useful self-care strategies and support systems to augment resilience.

Objectives

• Identify sources of stress
• Understand the impact of stress on one's physical, mental and emotional well-being
• Embrace self-care strategies 
• Rely on support systems

Benefits of the Course

• Develop mindfulness to identify an individual's key stresses
• Recognise the physical, mental and emotional effects of stress
• Adopt tactics that will promote self-care, ramping up one's mental and emotional well-being
• Leverage support networks to enhance one's physical, and mental and emotional well-being

Duration: 4 hours
Cost: $120
To register, click here.

Mental Health Literacy

Mental health and well-being are indispensable to coping with life's daily pressures, maximising their potential, learning and working well. These enable them to make positive contributions to the community. 

Yet, some people grapple with anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, Schizophrenia, eating disorders, disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders. By dispelling the stigma of individuals with such mental health issues, the Mental Health Literacy course equips participants with the knowledge and skills to recognise, understand and manage mental health issues in themselves and others while embracing empathy and active listening to help individuals with mental health issues. The course also paves the way for individuals to seek assistance through mental health services, support networks, self-help resources and tools. 

Objectives

• Dispel the stigma of individuals with mental health issues
• Recognise, understand and manage mental health issues in oneself and others
• Embrace empathy and active listening
• Provide support resources such as mental health services, support networks, self-help resources and tools. 

Benefits of the Course

• Destigmatise mental health issues
• Embrace mental health issues of oneself and others with understanding, compassion and empathy
• Help someone with mental health issues to heal, recover, regain their inner strength, and confidence, and embrace gratitude, positivity, and optimism in their lives through seeking assistance from mental health services, support networks, self-help resources and tools. 

Duration: 8 hours
Cost: $200
To register, click here.