Workplace Mental Health Workshops & Training
Welcome to Joyful Living, we offer corporate mental health programmes designed to support employee mental health, from MHFA Training courses, run by qualified Mental Health First Aid (MFHA) England instructors, to Mental Health Awareness workshops, Our mental health workshops can be run online or in person.
Mental Health First Aid Training
Mental Health Awareness Workshops
Would you like more information on our offer of corporate mental health services?
Why you should consider corporate mental health services.
Mental ill-health affects employees and companies, accounting for 39% of most common causes of short-term absence and 56% for most common causes of long-term absence.
The economic cost of poor mental health is £35 billion per year.
By keeping your team mentally healthy you’re keeping your business healthy.
Why Mental Health Matters to Businesses?
For decades when people talked about the health of the workforce the only thing that was mentioned was physical health. At the same time Mental health was largely ignored, leading to the current situation where poor mental health has a devastating impact on people’s lives, the economy and society.
In fact, Mental ill health features heavily among the causes of employee absence and affects businesses in terms of human and financial costs.
Mental Health Training & Workshops
To help you out, we offer a full range of corporate mental health services, including MHFA training to help you monitor employees mental health and mental health awareness workshops to give your team the knowledge to look after their own mental health.
Keeping your team’s mental health positive is a never ending task, but with the right support, such as our corporate mental health services, it can be made a lot easier.
What can be done about it?
Recommendations for how to help boost the mental health of your employees are varied, but everybody can agree that there are three core things every business should do:
- Develop mental health awareness among employees
- Routinely monitor employee mental health and wellbeing
- Mental health ‘first aid’ training for employees
Useful Statistics on the impact of poor mental health at work:
- Annual cost to employers of between £33 billion and £42 billion
- Between £1,205 and £1,560 per year per employee. (Stevenson-Farmer – Thrive at work Report 2017)
- Mental ill health accounts for 39% of most common causes of short-term absence and 56% for most common causes of long-term absence (CIPD Health and Wellbeing at Work – Survey May 2018)
- 5 million days lost in 2016 for mental health issues (including stress, depression, anxiety and serious conditions), 11.54% of total sickness absences (Office for National Statistics – Days lost due to sickness absence, by reason, England: 2017)