This is the first opportunity to attend this brand new workshop launched in Mental Health Awareness Week.
Becky Wright is a member of Taunton Chamber of Commerce and a local Mental Health Trainer and SME owner. She will provide you with a SME Toolkit for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
This three-hour interactive workshop will give you the opportunity to understand:
• What is mental health?
• What is stress?
• Tips and techniques to stay well at work
• Factors that affect mental health stigma and the impact
• Types of mental health conditions spotting the signs
• Useful statistics and resources to access, Mental Health First Aid overview
• Practical steps to provide assistance to others and toolkit of support for you and your employees
Somerset’s economy is predominantly made up of small businesses: 76% of the County’s businesses have fewer than 5 employees and a further 13% have 5-9 employees. SMEs are the backbone of our economy, it’s a sector bursting with talent, entrepreneurship and potential. It is also one of the worst performing in terms of employee health outcomes, with one-third of SME employees experiencing a mental health problem during their working life (CIPD, 2016).
So how can we develop a toolkit specifically for the SME? New Leaf has been working on this for sometime alongside the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing. At a time when there is a national focus on productivity the inescapable conclusion is that it is massively in the interest of employers to prioritise and invest far more in improving mental health. Many SMEs say that they struggle to access mental health provision due to the costs involved or they do not know what to buy to best support their employees. This workshop will provide a good introduction to Mental Health and equip you with a toolkit that you can start using in your business.
Putting well being at the heart of workplace design for GIG workers and SMES will allow us to grow a new world of work where we can look after our well being and engage in this new economy and feel well in our being.
Becky Wright is a Somerset based Mental Health Trainer and Creative Director of New Leaf Life Design, a company she established in 1992, which has developed an excellent reputation as a compassionate and supportive provider of coaching, counselling and training services for companies. She is committed to helping individuals and businesses grow and flourish.
An advocate of corporate social responsibility, Becky actively engages the community and supports a greener environment through innovative projects and activities. She is a, “ Next Stage Organisation,” operating characterised by self-organisation and self-management. She has a legacy to make Somerset the most mentally healthy place to work pioneering a Somerset Mental Health in Construction Conference in May 2019. Becky is a qualified Mental Health First Aid Instructor MHFA England and a partner with Mindful Employer.
She is a published researcher, she holds an MSc in Counselling Research and a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling, and has been featured in Cosmopolitan and psychology magazines. She has won the Pavilion Publishing Innovation in Training Award, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship Award and achieved Finalist in Taunton Deane Business Awards, Outstanding achievement finalist at the Somerset Business Awards 2019 and winner of Innovation in Business for Sedgemoor 2019.
Tuesday May 19, 2020
9:15 AM - 12:30 PM BST
Tuesday 19th May 2020
Company Spaces 2 Bridge Street Taunton Taunton TA1 1UB
£30 to Taunton Chamber members
£40 all other tickets
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-health-at-work-sme-toolkit-workshop-with-new-leaf-taunton-chamber-tickets-90948199513
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