Employee Mental Fitness, Resilience &
Positive Psychology Workshops & Presentations
Struggling to find, select and implement the perfect mental health awareness, burnout prevention or resilience training at your workplace?
Discover our most popular keynote presentations and workshops, delivered by experts, through the inspiring and empowering language and science of Mental Fitness.
Workplace Mental Health Presentations
Mental Fitness Hub helps you put positive mental health and sustainable wellbeing on the agenda at your workplace.
Get in touch to organize a ‘one-off’ Mental Fitness presentation or workshop, or a schedule of events for the year ahead.
Our Most Popular Presentations & Workshops
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Micro-Recovery: Master the Habit of Wellbeing When Time is Short
The Challenge:
Chronic stress, burnout and overwhelm are today rife in today’s fast-paced work-force. At the same time, people report that they don’t have sufficient time or resources to maximize their self-care and to replenish their energy levels.
The Solution:
Feeling better doesn’t always require large chunks of time we may not have. The solution to how to stop feeling overwhelmed is a concept known as ‘micro-recovery’. Evidence shows that understanding and applying quick, easy and regular performance-enhancing rituals throughout the day can reduce stress and maximize feelings of self-efficacy.
What You’ll Be Able To Do
At the conclusion of this session, you’ll have discovered the best evidence-based tools for applying micro-recovery concepts into your life and work. You’ll feel more energetic, focused and productive throughout the day.
Connection & Belonging: Reinvesting in Authentic Connection After COVID-19
The Challenge:
Isolation, loneliness and feelings of disconnection from others are a growing source of mental health challenges for individuals as well as a source of employee burnout, disengagement and low productivity at work.
The Solution:
The solution to motivating employees to return to the office after COVID-19 is to build a sense of community, connection and belonging at workplaces. The key is to give people the knowledge and tools of how and why connection and belonging promote engagement, trust, team-building and high-performance. At the same time, we need to acknowledge the major structural changes that have occurred since COVID-19 began.
What You’ll Be Able To Do
At the conclusion of this session, you’ll exhibit a new appreciation for the science and long-term benefits of connection and belonging, and how you can foster both without overwhelming yourself. Work will feel more meaningful, as you use your strengths, help others, and contribute in new and exciting ways. Outside of work, you’ll have a clearer picture of who is on your team in life, and whose team you are on.
The Power of Habit: Protect Your Wellbeing with Daily Rituals
The Challenge
Making important lifestyle and behavioural changes can be hard work in a fast-paced and busy world. Most people who set goals to make changes revert back to old behaviours within weeks. The problem is that willpower and motivation are limited and unreliable methods for getting things done.
The Solution
The sustainable solution to making important changes and cementing a personal culture of high performance is through rituals, habits and systems. Instead of relying on ‘how you feel’ to drive change, applying the science of habit-formation helps you adopt and keep desired behaviours, and to slowly turn these habits into automatic rituals that you do instinctively.
What You’ll Be Able To Do
At the conclusion of this session, you’ll understand how to create healthy, sustainable and productive habits that make a major difference to your health, wellbeing and productivity. You’ll be able to set, monitor and track personal goals more effectively, and understand what you need to do to make important changes in your own life.
Digital Nutrition: Designing a More Sustainable Relationship With The Online World
The Challenge:
With more and more people spending time online, the effects of information overload on our focus, attention and productivity are only growing. Unfortunately, much of the common wisdom for how to navigate overwhelm and minimize distraction in the online world is simply bad or impractical advice.
The Solution:
The solution to information overload and digital distraction is to develop a more mindful, moderate and meaningful relationship with technology, not digital detoxes. Drawing on parallels with the way we consume food, Digital Nutrition provides a framework for thinking about how and why we engage with information online, and helps us put in place practical and realistic boundaries between the online and offline worlds.
What You’ll Be Able To Do
At the completion of this session, you’ll have a roadmap for applying Digital Nutrition in your own life. You’ll understand how excessive online consumption contributes to anxiety, overwhelm and low productivity, and be in a position to take a more considered and deliberate approach to how you spend your time online.
Mental Fitness Meetings: Smarter Strategies to Manage Energy and Beat Meeting Fatigue
The Challenge:
If you feel like meetings are a major roadblock to your productivity, you are not alone. Though necessary, many workers find meetings to be a source of stress, like an unwanted guest in the middle of an already busy day.
The Solution:
The solution to long, ineffective and back-to-back meetings is for leaders and participants to understand the science of attention, creativity, motivation and energy so that the right topics, perspectives and objectives are given priority during a meeting. With our Mental Fitness Meetings framework, we give anyone who needs to organize a meeting the skills to lead and participate more effectively.
What You’ll Be Able To Do
At the completion of this session, you’ll have the skills to run and more effectively attend team meetings at work or in your community. You’ll discover the skills to effective meeting preparation, understand techniques for keeping meetings on track, shorter, and more creative. Ultimately, you’ll feel like you have more time and less stress throughout your workday.
More Than Happiness: Crafting a Life That Matters at Work and at Home
The Challenge:
The pursuit of happiness, comfort and wellbeing is often assumed to be a right and a legitimate goal in people’s lives. However, the pursuit of happiness often leads to people becoming less happy, less well and less productive as they prioritize pleasurable experiences at the expense of meaning, purpose and growth in their lives
The Solution:
The solution for how to become happier at work is to focus on a fuller approach to happiness. This approach involves using the best positive psychology, wellbeing science and high-performance strategies to more effectively enjoy pleasure, find flow in using our strengths, and find meaning and purpose in connection, contribution and adverse circumstances.
What You’ll Be Able To Do
At the end of this session, you’ll have a greater appreciation for the elements that contribute to a satisfying, meaningful and healthy life, and be equipped with the self-awareness, mindset, and tools to apply them. You will likely find greater purpose in your work and personal life, feel less overwhelmed, and respond more effectively to setbacks.
Leading with Mental Fitness: Strengths Based Performance Reviews & Feedback
The Challenge:
The number one reason employees leave employment is not pay or conditions. Instead, it is the quality of their relationship with the immediate line manager. At the same time, levels of employee engagement continue to disappoint. The way managers understand concerns, prioritize workflow, and communicate feedback with employees is often at the heart of this problem.
The Solution:
One evidence-based solution for how to motivate productive employees is to incorporate the science and tools of strengths-based leadership into ‘business as usual.’ This means running 1:1s, offering more regular performance reviews, involving employees in goal-setting and task management, and communicating in ways that bolster employee motivation.
What You’ll Be Able To Do:
At the conclusion of this session, you’ll understand and be able to apply three key strengths-based leadership tools so that you inspire motivation and purpose in your employees rather than resentment. You’ll have the skills to more effectively recognize employee strengths, recognize contributions, and foster a team dynamic that promotes sustainable performance, higher levels of discretionary effort, and lower levels of burnout.
The Juggle: Strategies for Integrating Work, Parenting & Wellbeing to Reduce Stress
The Challenge:
Despite the plethora of tips and tricks around what it’s like to have a family for the first time, most people remain unprepared for what life is like. This is especially the case when workers return to work and struggle to balance the delicate juggle between fulfilling essential work responsibilities and contributing effectively at home. This challenge often leads to stress, poor wellbeing habits, and conflict both at home and at work.
The Solution:
The solution to feeling overwhelmed by juggling parenting and work responsibilities is to successfully manage personal and external expectations while at the same time prioritizing wellbeing and healthy habits. Prioritizing wellbeing, clearly communicating with line managers, and effectively sequencing life goals can help to minimize frustration and overwhelm.
What You’ll Be Able To Do:
At the completion of this session, you’ll understand the pitfalls, challenges and options available to you as you manage your time, wellbeing, and workload during a difficult time of life. You’ll develop the knowledge, confidence and skills to communicate more clearly with your manager and spouse. You will also be able to apply techniques and habits to make time for wellbeing despite a busy schedule, learn strategies to deal with poor sleep more effectively, and learn tools to avoid becoming overwhelmed during periods of change or intense stress.
Food & Mood: What Science Tells Us About Improving Our Focus, Energy & Performance
The Challenge:
Sub-optimal nutritional is a vital contributor to low energy levels, poor focus, and chronic health conditions. New research is also demonstrating how our modern food habits and food environment also contribute to poor levels of mental health. However, encouraging people to make appropriate lifestyle changes in a confusing and marketing-driven world is difficult.
The Solution:
The solution to better nutrition and increased energy is to understand and apply key principles of sustainable performance rather than simply following the advice of fad diets. In particular, it is vital to understand that what and how we eat can have immediate impacts on how we feel and perform, beyond the impact on our weight level or appearance. Emerging evidence suggests that particular practices can impact mental health either quickly and preventatively.
What You’ll Be Able To Do:
At the conclusion of this session, you’ll understand the science of what works for mental health and nutrition, and how to shop, cook and eat in ways that support sustainable performance. You’ll discover principles for making food decisions, discover the importance of habits and defaults, and be feel equipped to interpret nutrition media with a more critical eye.
Resilience: Bouncing Back & Leaping Forward Through Change & Uncertainty
The Challenge:
Work and life offer us complex, unexpected and stressful challenges to deal with. Being able to cope adequately, remain productive, and find solutions is an essential component of wellbeing. The problem is that recommendations to ‘improve resilience’ are often met with resistance by people who believe that needing to ‘train their wellbeing’ implies they have a problem or are inadequate. As a result, it is common for people to overlook training the protective factors that science shows can help us deal effectively with the modern world and workplace.
The Solution:
The solution for how to avoid being overwhelmed by chronic stress and unexpected change is to develop resilience. While most of us are naturally somewhat resilient, resilience is a skill that can be learnt. Effective resilience building is about inspiring people that no matter how resilient you already might be, there are ways and reasons to become more resilient. Through the lens of Mental Fitness, we show you how building resilience can become an enjoyable and meaningful everyday habit.
What You’ll Be Able To Do:
By adopting a learning mindset toward resilience, you’ll discover how rather than being something you either have or don’t have, resilience is something that can be built, trained and replenished over time. You’ll feel less overwhelmed by high workloads and rapid change, apply skills to identify, prevent and manage chronic stress, and ultimately be able to take on more responsibility, contribute more, and feel better equipped to deal with problems.
Reframing & Perspective: Master the Art of Turning Everything to Your Advantage
The Challenge:
Adversity, negative events and life situations can impact an individual’s ability to remain healthy, focused, and productive, especially when already at risk of poor mental health or undergoing significant change. It is common for individuals to develop the habit of interpreting unexpected or negative events in catastophic terms. The result is that stress multiplies, solution-finding is delayed or inhibited, and wellbeing and performance outcomes suffer.
The Solution:
The solution to feeling anxious, overwhelmed and unable to cope involves learning and applying the valuable skill of cognitive reframing. The skill involves taking a subjectively negative situation, and reinterpreting it in more helpful and solution-oriented ways. Rather than merely ‘looking on the bright side’, reframing is a key life skill that allows a person to be fully accepting of a negative situation, but also helps them pivot toward productive and purposeful thinking and behaviour.
What You’ll Be Able To Do:
On completion of this course, you’ll possess a series of handful mental models to interpret, frame, and find solutions for existing and future life challenges and changes. You’ll have the skills to turn negative events into opportunities for learning, growth and meaning, while at the same time learning to understand and value the impact of change on your values. Ultimately, you’ll reduce stress and feel more equipped to handle change and setbacks.
Mastering Time: Reassessing Time Management in the Context of Wellbeing
The Challenge:
One of the most common complaints in modern life is ‘not having enough time’ to be able to do everything that needs to be done, and as a result feeling overwhelmed, burntout, and inadeqate. This situation leads to people to overlook the valuable protective factors for good health, wellbeing and performance such as movement, nutrition, sleep and connection that are ironically the very things that help us re-energize during intese periods of stress.
The Solution:
The solution for how to have more time is to re-orient our expectations and planning strategies to focus on energy recovery, sustainable performance, and offering strategies and tools for dealing with time management conflicts. More than simply figuring out ways to ‘do more’ in a finite amount of time, effective time management involves prioritizing activities that offer us leverage and energy.
What You’ll Be Able To Do:
At the conclusion of this session, you’ll have a conceptual base, and the choice of over 30 practical and immediately applicable activities and habits you can adopt to take more control over your perception of time. You will discover new ways to prioritize, plan and sequence your time, overcome pervasive myths that keep us locked in a feeling of ‘time scarcity’, and counter-intuitively feel like you have more time by focusing on your highest-value activities.