Supporting Employee Mental Health: Tips on How to Have Supportive Conversations
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Knowing how to support someone in struggle can feel overwhelming and complex. How we choose to respond can have a tremendous impact on whether the conversation continues. This recorded session incorporates selected exercises and summarized lessons derived from the workplace workshop ‘Supporting Through Struggle: How to have Supportive Conversations’. We take a deeper dive into how to foster connection and create safety in workplace relationships. We focus on fostering key skills and practices to help you feel equipped to create safety and support in conversation with colleagues, employees, and peers. In addition, we practice strengthening key interpersonal skills that help to support someone emotionally, socially and practically.
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Key take-aways:
- A deeper dive into how to foster connection and create safety in workplace relationships
- Foster key skills and practices to help you feel equipped to create safety and support in conversation
- Practice strengthening key interpersonal skills that help to support someone emotionally, socially and practically
About Hayley Peek
Hayley Peek is a Mental Health Consultant. She is driven by her own personal experiences with mental illness, stigma and recovery. She’s worked with a variety of National organizations, including the Canadian Mental Health Association, training managers how to have supportive conversations and support employee mental health.
In addition Hayley is the co-creator of the ‘Supporting Through Struggle™’ workshop which is an interactive workshop focused on taking a deeper dive into how to have conversations and support someone in struggle. Hayley is currently trained in Peer Support, ASIST suicide intervention, non-violent crisis intervention, trauma-informed care and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. She currently specializes in speaking engagements, facilitation and consulting services as well as individual and group peer support. Hayley continues to share her own story about living with mental illness and how to best support this in the workplace. She remains focused on her own self care and how she can use it to reach others who may also be suffering in silence and say to them You’re Not Alone.