Shared Experiences

Feedback from Client employees about manager workshops 

“wow! I can’t say enough how much I love the fact this is being rolled out and further developed in our organization”

“Very positive. I think that mental health is a vital yet untouched topic, and I’m proud I work for a company that has the balls to introduce it”

“It was confronting abut well informed because of the fact it wasn’t sugar coated and gave a lot of tools to go forth with real life experiences”

“Excellent – there was a lot of outstanding content that I needed to understand” (several more like this)

“Non-confronting – nice to be heard on issues that certainly have been around for a long time.” (other similar responses about timeliness)

“Positive – informative – engaging. Thoroughly enjoyed and got a lout out of it in a practical real world sense” (several similar responses)

“Very positive – I feel more comfortable speaking with the people I work with about these issues” (a number of responses reflecting confidence in managing issues in workplace)

 

Feedback about awareness forums

“ Very educational & motivating”,   An excellent introduction for me to the issues of Mental Health”, “ Great discussion and opportunity to ask questions” “ loved it” “ informative and constructive” “ I would have loved this 8 years ago when our family was first affected by bipolar disorder’ “ Thank you for this excellent opportunity to make a difference’ ‘ By far this would have to be the best and most relevant presentations that I have ever attended. Well done.”

 

Feedback About "Creating a Mentally Healthy and Supportive Workplace book"

100,000 copies have been distributed to employees in Telstra, Coles, ANZ, Origin Energy and National Australia Bank.

“ Your book encouraged one of my staff members to come forward and explain they have a mental illness that will impact their performance. With this knowledge I am now able to offer shift changes, take periods of lower performance in to account and take an alternative approach when discussing performance and behaviours.”

‘ Thank you for providing this session”

‘ personal experiences always makes any sessions so much more real “About organisation’s mental health strategy “ Fantastic initiative’ ‘It is great that one organisation does care and others will hopefully follow”

About workshops ‘enjoyed every moment of it’
“ Extremely proud of my organisation for doing this, Congratulations for doing this” “ Great the company is being proactive” “ They are to be admired for presenting and dealing with a delicate subject” “ Sensational”

From a management perspective; “ This session has given me insight that I am handling some of these situations in the right way and what the next steps could be”
“ I will talk about putting heart back into business and the human touch when I deal with managers and when providing support to others in need.”

“ I have a friend who suffers from depression and my mother also suffers from mental illness, so this has given me a better idea of how to help them.”

About 's elearning tool; user friendly, easy to understand the information, great tool,

About 's posters/communication images: “Powerful” : Pack a punch”, “ impressive”, “ Love them”, “Confronting”,