Being a Mindful Employee: An Orientation to Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
An online training program for employees. Its goal is to help employees understand the 13 psychosocial workplace factors from the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.
Tolerance to Uncertainty: A COVID-19 Workbook
A practical guide to accepting feelings, tolerating distress, and thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pandemic Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment Response (PACER) Training
An online, blended, skills building intervention to increase the resilience and well-being of participants while promoting their individual and collective empowerment and capacity building. It is based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and social justice–based group empowerment psychoeducation (GEP).
Psychosocial Factors: Workload Management
This short video emphasizes the ability to carry out the tasks assigned within a given timeframe. It gives an example of an employee who is having trouble managing her tasks and suggests solutions. It also summarizes certain advantages of properly managing a workload.
Setting Boundaries as a Health Care Worker
A short guide about the importance of setting boundaries in health professions.
Conflict Resolution Process and Bullying
This section of the Mental Health Toolkit provides information on how to deal with conflict and bullying in the workplace.
Dealing with conflict
This section of Good Practices is an educational resource that offers guidance to physicians dealing with conflict in teams.
Virtual Simulations to Confront Racism and Bias in Health Professions Education
This article describes the development of an interprofessional educational training session using racial and social justice simulation incorporating trigger films.
Do I Belong Here?
A workshop that aims to discuss the impact of Imposter Syndrome (IS) and develop strategies to confront it at the individual, peer, and institutional levels.
The Working Mind Virtual
A program designed to promote mental health and reduce the stigma around mental illness in the workplace.
Mental Health First Aid
This course covers the help provided to a person developing a mental health problem, experiencing the worsening of an existing mental health problem or in a mental health crisis.
Introduction to Vicarious Trauma for Frontline Workers: A webinar
This two-part miniseries help frontline workers in developing an awareness and connection between the impacts of one’s own experiences, how to recognize signs leading to vicarious trauma, and learning strategies to help address vicarious trauma.
Emotional CPR (eCPR)
This internationally recognized public health educational program teaches people to assist others through an emotional crisis. It is based on principles of an inclusive, collaborative community and incorporates a number of support approaches.
BounceBack
This free skill-building program is designed to help adults and youth 15+ manage low mood, mild to moderate depression and anxiety, stress or worry.
Words Matter: An Anti-bias Workshop
This interactive workshop aims to teach health workers a framework to identify and replace stigmatizing language in clinical practices.
Tools to start a conversation about mental health
Conversation guides that can be used to lead discussion about mental health or talk with someone you might be concerned about.
Talk Suicide Canada
Provides nationwide, 24-hour, bilingual support to anyone who is facing suicide.
Returning to a shared workspace
This toolkit aims to support the mental health of individuals as they plan safe transitions back into their employer’s shared workspaces, and to help employers as they develop policies and procedures for supporting staff returning to a shared workspace.