Breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace

Breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in
the workplace


 


Thursday 10th October marks World Mental Health Day
(WMHD) 2024 in Australia and the WHO states that World Mental
Health Day is an opportunity to ‘raise awareness of mental health
issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in the support of
mental health.’ And the official theme of WMHD is:


 


It is Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace


 


At Open Door we are obviously super happy to hear this theme;
given as an Alumni it is something we have all focussed on for
many years. In our Coaching Café we have heard from people with
lived experience, talked about a coaching approach and the
boundaries between coaching and other support services and
trained 100’s of people in mental health conversations.  We
have also supported Organisations who advocate and support people
in mental health, through our fitness and fundraising efforts
like the Push Up Challenge and The Black Dog Institute’s
One Step Forward.


 


We can all be proud of these efforts as an Alumni. And, we can
continue the work and the advocacy.


 


Therefore, we thought we’d use the Coaching Café for the next
couple of weeks to focus mental health conversations in the
workplace. In particular, raising awareness around the barriers
to mental health conversations.  And importantly, how to
overcome the barriers.  


 


Join Natalie and Andrew Figtree (former Group Captain for the Air
Force) for the Coaching Café and in particular, Figgy will bring
his experience as a Mental Health First Aid practitioner, Air
Force coach and veterans affairs advocate, to give us some ideas
about how to break down barriers to mental health
conversations.


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