Workplace Mental Health Institute e-Brochure - Helping You Create Mentally Healthy Workplaces. The Workplace Mental Health Institute provides a boutique educational resource for managers serious about creating immediate and sustainable changes for their organisation’s mental health.

1. Helping You Create Mentally Healthy Workplaces
Workplace Mental Health Institute, 2018

2. Become the type
of workplace
people rave about -
Mentally Healthy &
Productive

3. About Us
• The Workplace Mental Health Institute provides a boutique educational resource for
managers serious about creating immediate and sustainable changes for their
organisation’s mental health.
• The Workplace Mental Health Institute is a national organisation, which has been
researching mental health and providing effective education, consulting and mental health
services for organisations across Australia and overseas for more than 10 years.
• We have a team of highly skilled
Workplace Mental Health Specialists,
based in capital cities around Australia,
and all available to travel to regional
areas and internationally, as required.

4. About Us
• Our mission is to strengthen people and organisations from the inside out, by delivering
empowering and quality mental health education that is highly practical, real, engaging and
gets results.
• Our values of excellent quality, sophisticated simplicity, getting results, and creative
solutions underpin all that we do to achieve this aim.
• The Workplace Mental Health Institute has the experience, depth of research, and
comprehensive solution-based training to help your organisation achieve a mentally healthy
workplace with high-productivity, low absenteeism, reduced legislative risk, and loyal, happy
staff.

5. How Are We Different?
Recovery Approach
The WMHI adopts a recovery oriented approach to mental health, which means that our focus is on
recovery not illness. This may see like a subtle distinction, but it’s a vital one. It means we don’t teach
people how to look for problems that aren’t there, or how to make themselves unwell. We teach them
how to confidently and skillfully manage mental health in the workplace, while staying well themselves.
It also means that our courses incorporate diverse perspectives on mental health and wellness.
“We teach people how
to be well, not ill.
– PETER DIAZ, CEO

6. A Unique Blend Of Management Know-How &
Mental Health Expertise
Workplace Focus and Understanding
We take a unique approach to managing mental health at work, and understand the
complexities involved in supporting people where mental health issues are concerned, while
also ensuring that the business performs at optimal standard. We believe that these are not
mutually exclusive.

7. Fully Qualified Professionals
Our Qualified Workplace Mental Health Specialists
All our specialists are qualified clinicians (psychologists, accredited mental health social workers,
counsellors, coaches etc) with extensive experience in mental health, and are equally qualified and
experienced in business management and leadership, so they understand the unique challenges facing
organisations when it comes to mental health and wellbeing.
All our Specialists meet the following criteria:
1. Fully qualified and experienced mental health professionals (psychologists, mental health social
workers, etc)
2. Qualifications, skills and experience in leadership and senior management positions
3. Engaging and dynamic presenters and facilitators
4. Commitment to the values of Recovery Oriented Practice and the Workplace Mental Health
Institute
They all undergo a comprehensive induction and ongoing professional development program with the
Workplace Mental Health Institute.

8. We Feel Privileged To Bring These Calibre Of People To You
- Introducing Our Workplace Mental Health Specialists
Alison Skate Wayne Horwood
Brian Langsworth
Read the profiles at www.wmhi.com.au/about-us/
Trish Matter Leon Naufahu
Deborah Piper Yvette Alcott Tanya Edlington Georgia Bolton
Emi Golding

9. National and International Capacity
We’ll come to you - anywhere and everywhere you and your people are.
With experienced Workplace Mental Health Specialists located in major capital cities, we offer
services all around Australia including regional areas, offering the capacity to deliver a large
number of programs that are consistent in terms of content and quality.

10. Practical Skills, not just Awareness
Practical Skills
While knowledge of a subject can
lead to understanding, it’s skills that
leads to real outcomes.Our training
is highly-practical and interactive.
Your team members will be equipped
with proven strategies they can use
every day to achieve higher levels of
productivity, increased creativity, and
a greater capacity to solve problems,
more effective teamwork, and a
healthy, happy morale throughout the
organisation.

11. What Are Our Courses Like?
Our training is pragmatic, interactive, and participants are engaged through activities and
exercises, group discussions, videos, games and case scenarios.
We ensure participants not only have an awareness and knowledge of mental health
issues, but also learn practical skills in how to respond to mental health situations in your
organisation.
And, our courses are fun!
Mental health can be a
sensitive topic for some, so
we approach it in a light and
non-confrontational way.
Of course, we take mental
health seriously, but we also
know that people learn best
while having fun, so we
make sure that participants
actually enjoy the
experience, and take away
as much as possible from
the course.

12. What Results Are We Getting?
Reductions in Psychological Injury Claims

13. 33% Reductions in Absenteeism

14. Culture Change
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15. Reductions in Mental Disorder amongst workforce

16. Improvements in Wellbeing of Workforce

17. Award Winning Programs

18. Consistently Outstanding Participant Satisfaction
• Over 95% overall satisfaction
• Over 90% on all individual measures:
• Relevance of content
• Organisation and clarity of content and delivery
• Quality and level of content provide
• Interactive and engaging delivery
• Facilitator knowledge and skills
• Practical skills and confidence gained
• Willingness to recommend the course

19. What Our Clients Say

20. Just Some of Our Clients

21. What Our Clients Say
“It’s given us a
professional framework
to deal with mental
health appropriately and
effect effectively.”
MATTHEW MCNELLEY,
HR Manager, Fitness First
"An exceptional experience that
provides practical skills with a level of
rigour and appropriate theory"
NICOLLE STRAUSS,
Chief People & Culture Officer, THE ICONIC
"The best certification
available in the mental
health space.
There’s nothing like it.”
- EMMA COX,
Project Manager

22. What Our Clients Say
Outstanding training! Highly qualified which made for active listening.
Articulated exceptionally well. Thanks for a great presentation.
Rufus Anthony, MSS Security
Created a very comfortable environment. I felt more empowered
and I can use these skills in my personal life dealing with the people
suffering from a mental health issue.
Jenny Goulding, GIO Suncorp
It was great attending your course. There was so much valuable
information and you made it both fun and interactive. Sometimes it is
hard to gauge or to know what to say or ask him without ‘crossing
the line’, but I am so much more confident now in dealing with the
issue of someone suffering from a mental illness.
Tracy Styles, Department of Finance and Deregulation

23. What Our Clients Say
I just wanted to send a huge THANK YOU for the wonderful inspiration
you have energised in me again with participating in the leaders
masterclass! Wow! I have never felt so energised leaving a full day
session. There's so much more I understand now "just get it" from the
day! I have completed so many courses both professionally and
personally, but this one just literally blows my mind
Dahna Redding, ECHO Entertainment Group
These guys are the crème del a crème in relation to Mental Health
and have just completed training our entire staff from top to bottom in
recovery based practice, and really transformed how we support our
clients and, in this context, each others mental health wellbeing in the
workplace.
Sybilla Wilson, Open Minds
Exceptional! Great real life examples. The training provided tools
for the leaders, the facilitators were extremely experienced, it was
professional and had great content!
Ginette Aruliah, Jetstar