7 Top Mental Health Courses to Boost Your Wellbeing in 2026
Discover the best mental health courses to enhance your wellbeing in 2026. Explore top programs, expert insights, and practical tips to support your personal and professional growth.
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10 Essential Elements of a Workplace Wellness Strategy – Get People Moving
When you take care of your employees mental health, businesses perform better. In short, a happy employee is a productive employee. Good environments with good habits set up the stage for individual and collective happiness. Which brings me to element number two – Get People Moving.
Pandemic of workplace conflict
In our workplaces, many of us still have questions about what it all exactly means for us today, what will change tomorrow and what impact will this have for us long term. The gravity of these unanswerable questions leads to the inevitable of our tolerance breaking and people behaving in…
Keeping our KIDS healthy and strong
Right now, parents are either working from home amongst all the other family members and chores that are waiting to be done, or in the worst case one or both parents lost their jobs and entrepreneurs are struggling to keep their business…
What to do if your employees are anxious about coronavirus
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is also impacting on employees mental health. But there are things you can do to protect your staff. From a workplace mental health perspective, during this time of fear and uncertainty, employees may be experiencing:
17 Things Your Workplace Can Do For Mental Health Month Activities
Three elements that contribute to a sense of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace are feeling valued, connected to others, and safe. Mental Health Month gives us an opportunity to reach out and let people know that they matter. That they matter to us. Design your mental health month activities with…
The Pivotal Generation: How Today’s Teens Will Change the World
Peter recently was asked for his thoughts on ‘the pivotal generation’ and given perhaps their most defining trait of always being ‘plugged in’ to the internet and social media, what mental health challenges they may face, if any, in the workplace. Following is an excerpt from that interview.
Does Your Boss Have Your Back?
Let’s start with a couple of hypothetical scenarios. You have just been given a large project at work. You are excited at the level of responsibility you have been given and the opportunity to show your manager and colleagues what you can really do. As you begin to dig into the work, you discover just how much you are taking on.
When Fear & Stress In The Workplace Raise Their Ugly Heads
Ever wondered how people screw themselves up? Simple, we do it because we are afraid. And it’s ok. Fear is a natural survival mechanism. It’s a good thing, designed to protect us. But what happens when fear runs rampant? When your body…
Why do so many workplaces fail at mental health?
There seems to be this idea floating about in the business world that in order to be profitable and productive, one needs to be hard and tough. Yet another contradictory idea seems to be that mental health is fluffy, soft, weak. Many people’s idea of…
Building a Mentally Healthy Workplace: 4th Pillar
What do mentally wealthy organizations differently to others? Good question, right? What Mentally wealthy organizations do is they see resilience and wellbeing as an integral part of their culture, in the extraordinary cases – it IS their culture. It’s not just an add on. Think back to
Is Mental Health Really Getting Worse or Are We Just Talking About it More?
Across the ages, people have always experienced mental health issues. Whether it was overwhelming anxiety, depression, or even ‘psychotic’ episodes, which in past times would more likely have been explained in a spiritual reference…
3 little known things that are making people’s mental health worse
The mental health in the workplace is in crisis. Yet most people, even clinicians, don’t understand the depth of the problem. Here, we briefly reveal some problems in current approaches.
Few people have problems acknowledging that, as a society, we are over medicated.
Not At the Top of Our Priority List
The client sounded worried on the phone. We’d just been getting to know each other for the past few weeks; discussing the very real, and worrying, mental health needs of their staff, and today’s call was about setting up some dates for training. To my surprise…
Learning to handle stress like a pro – techniques to avoid Professional Burnout
Last Tuesday we videoed a Mental Health Essentials Masterclass. One of the attendees asked, “How can we take care of ourselves when we seem to cop so many complaints within such a short time?”. She was concerned about being able to withstand the pressure.
3 Occasions Managers Should Not Be Trained in Mental Health
Even though there’s enough evidence now pointing to the fact that managers are key to an organization’s mental health, and that having good mental health in the workplace actually contributes to the bottom line, this doesn’t mean all managers should be trained in mental
3 simple things managers can do to improve the emotional health of their teams
In my last blog, I explained how people need to feel valued, loved and wanted. I also explained that it’s normal for people to create situations to fulfil these needs. If managers do not work in tandem with these needs people will usually manufacture drama…
Building a Mentally Healthy Workplace: 3rd Pillar
A lot of managers ask me ‘Peter, how can we tell if someone REALLY has got a mental illness?’ They want to know if they are being manipulated and taken advantage of. Have you ever walked away with the feeling that someone was taking advantage of you in this area? It’s possible. And today I will show you how…
Building a Mentally Healthy Workplace: 2nd Pillar
Workplace mental health is a growing concern for many managers. Many of the traditional approaches to addressing mental health at work, are simply not working, and in some cases, are even making things worse! In this video series, the 7 Pillars of a Mentally Healthy Workplace, we…
Building a Mentally Healthy Workplace: 1st Pillar
I’m guessing that you are probably a manager and that you don’t need much convincing that working in a mentally healthy place is imperative. And you would also agree that managing mental health issues at work can be tricky. I agree! That’s why today I want to share with you one of The 7 Pillars for a Mentally Healthy Workplace.