Mental Health Education & Workshops
Welcome to EmpowerMentalHealth.ca, an accessible approach to attaining the fundamentals of mental health and wellbeing.
Community and professional workshops are designed to bring the foundations of mental health to larger groups. These workshops can be tailored to the needs of your participants and organization.
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Staff teams & workplaces (recovering from burnout, stress)
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Helping professionals (addressing compassion fatigue, developing professional boundaries, increasing skills for stress management)
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Community Organizations looking to provide accessible support to their participants
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Schools & youth programs to teach fundamental emotional regulation and coping skills to youth and staff
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Parent groups looking for tools to cope with stress, help adjusting to parenthood, and healthy communication at home
A special note to Employers of Helping Professionals
Social workers, intervention workers, front line workers, emergency responders, etc. are at high risk of trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma - and often struggle to get the support and resources they need to manage these stressors. Being proactive in providing mental health support and resources can help reduce stigma around mental health, and provide the tools they need to lessen the impact of the unavoidable stressors in their work.
Varainja Stock, PhD
Support for Helping Professionals:
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Effective Tools for Coping with Stress
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Emotion Regulation Skills
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Healthy Boundaries
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Incorporating mindfulness practices
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Understanding Addictions
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Healthy Communication
Mental Health Education
The following is a sample of available mental health workshops. If you are interested in learning how a mental health workshop could benefit your organization, please fill out the contact form below.
Cultivating Calm
This workshop focuses on explaining the fundamentals of stress. Participants learn to recognize the early signs of stress & identify major and minor stressors, learn coping mechanisms for dealing with stress, and build an individualized plan to reduce stress.
Better Boundaries
Boundary violations are a major source of unnecessary stress and relationship tension. But many people don't feel like they can communicate their boundaries or even know what their boundaries are. This Intensive focuses on understanding boundaries, identifying where people are struggling to respect their own boundaries, and learning how to communicate and maintain boundaries. This group is fundamental for building self-knowledge and create and maintain boundaries in personal and professional settings.
Coping Skills 101 / Surviving the Dumpster Fire
The current state of the world is often referred to as a "dumpster fire", referring to a world that feels chaotic, messy, and overwhelming. But humans tend to thrive on predictability and structure, and a sense of purpose and direction. This Intensive focuses on ways to cultivate a sense of stability while staying engaged in meaningful action. While also introducing fundamental skills for dealing with stress in the moment. The focus is on effective and easy to remember techniques and actions for reducing feelings of overwhelm, stress, and anxiety.
Emotion Regulation and Stress Reduction
This workshop focuses on understanding and regulating emotions to experience less stress and engage in healthier actions and relationships. Participants gain a greater understanding of the role of emotions, methods for reducing emotional distress, practices for sitting with difficult emotions, and tools for communicating emotions.
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