In this episode, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, I explore the idea of Building a Workplace Community For Mental Health.
I discuss why community is essential for wellbeing, how recent societal changes have affected our communities, and practical ways organisations can build supportive workplace communities.
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In today’s show on Building a Workplace Community for Mental Health
- The importance of community for mental health and wellbeing. [01:30]
- How to define community and its various dimensions. [04:15]
- How to create a positive workplace community for mental health. [07:20]
- Why we need to talk about suicide at work and how to do this. [12:05]
- Benefits of workplace community for mental health [13:03]
Quotes on Building a Workplace Community for Mental Health
- Being part of a safe, positive community is vital for our mental health and well-being. And we do thrive when we have strong connections.
- A workplace community fosters employees’ sense of belonging, trust, and unity.
- Work has a very important part to play in ensuring that we have that community and that sense of belonging at work.
- Mental well-being and health are everyone’s responsibility.
- Perceived hard topics are the ones we need to be addressing, as avoiding them won’t make them go away.
Resources for Building a Workplace Community for Mental Health
- Listen to Episode #245: What is Psychological Safety at Work?
- Mental Health Awareness Week
- How to Handle Stressful Thoughts
- Check out Episode #277 Your Workplace Shouldn’t be a Family
- My blog on Community for University Mental Health Day 2018
- Download the free 200-episode guide with clickable links HERE.
- Join my Mailing List and receive a white paper on mental health and inclusion here
- Check out my TEDx talk: The Connection between Culture, Race and Mental Health
- Leave me a message on my SpeakPipe
Work with me
Have a look at my online work-life balance course on Thinkific. You can access it here: http://bit.ly/DMMHPONC
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