Create Your
StigmaZero Workplace
Online Mental Health Training
Our innovative online training program provides you
with the knowledge, tools and skills needed to
improve workplace mental health.
Three Learning Tracks to Meet Your Specific Needs
Employee Track
- Mental health core knowledge
- Understanding stigma
- Personal growth and development
- Building emotional intelligence and empathy
- Appropriate action and response for the workplace
- Workplace scenario training
Manager Track
- All content contained in the Employee Track PLUS:
- Proactive strategies to improve workplace mental health
- Appropriate response to declining mental health among team members
- Appropriate action and response as managers
- Manager Guidelines & Tools
HR & Leader Track
- All content contained in the Manager Track PLUS:
- Company-wide strategies to improve workplace mental health
- Ensuring a successful transformation to a stigma-free workplace
- Sustainable development of policies and procedures
- HR Guidelines & Tools
Program Details
StigmaZero’s online training program was designed according to the best practices in e-learning. All learning materials, downloadable tools and resources, takeaways, individual and group exercises, and more, will be provided during the program.
Our program is available in English and French and can easily be translated into other languages if required. All versions of our online training program are available in condensed or extended versions to best meet the needs of our clients and the availability of their teams.
Program Curriculum
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Employee Track
Understanding Stigma
Welcome & Introduction
What is Stigma?
Why We All Suffer From Stigma
The Real Impact of Stigma
Summary
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Building Mental Health Literacy, Emotional Intelligence and Empathy
What is Mental Health?
What is Mental Illness?
Using EI and Empathy in Speaking About Mental Illness
What’s Pop Culture Got to Do With It?
How We Can Improve and Make a Difference
Summary
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Responding to Mental Illness and Stigma
Workplaces Today
Responding Effectively to Stigma & Mental Illness in the Workplace
Conversation Starters
Summary
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Workplace Scenario Training
Scenarios: How Would You Respond?
Congratulations on Completing the Employee Track!
Summary
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Manager Track – All of the Above PLUS
A Manager’s Role in Building a Psychologically Healthy Workplace
The Cost of Doing Nothing
The Cost to the Psychological Health and Safety of Employees
Preparing to Respond as a Manager
Manager Scenarios: How Would You Respond?
A Process for Strategizing Improvements
Congratulations on Completing the Manager Track!
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HR & Leadership Track – All of the Above PLUS
Strategies for Senior Leaders and HR Personnel
Leadership-led Change
The Role of HR in Designing and Implementing Change
Mental Health Policies and Protocols
Iterating and Enforcing Policy
Congratulations on Completing the HR & Senior Leadership Track!
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Bonus Materials (Included in all Three Program Tracks)
The Impact of Stigma (additional interviews and content)
We Feel and Experience Mental Illness Differently (additional lesson)
How to Speak About Mental Illness (additional videos and content)
Build a Better
Workplace Today!
Your Team Members Need Help
with Their Mental Health
With the Right Training,
You Can Be Part of the Solution
Every member of an organization has a critical role to play in this process. Especially given the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all need to work together to improve workplace mental health, mental illness and stigma. This workshop will provide you with the key knowledge, guidelines and tools to overcome this challenge.
The Benefits of a Mentally
Healthy Workplace
When you and your team members are empowered to take care of their mental health, you will realize many benefits, including: increased productivity, reduced presenteeism, improved culture and the ability to attract and retain top talent. Click here to learn more about the ROI of ending stigma.
After this program,
YOU will:
Develop proactive strategies to improve workplace mental health.
Appropriately respond to declining mental health among team members.
Develop your mental health core knowledge.
Build your empathy and emotional intelligence.
Respond effectively to stigma in the workplace.
Know how to respond when a team member struggles with their mental health.
Strategically promote a psychologically safe workplace.
Utilize internal communications guidelines and email templates.
Develop effective and sustainable policies and procedures.
And your COMPANY will:
Reduce presenteeism.
Increase Productivity.
Improve workplace culture.
Attract and retain top talent.
Work towards a stigma-free workplace.
Develop the Knowledge and Skills Every Manager Needs
to Properly Respond to Workplace Mental Illness.
Meet Your Instructor
Jason Finucan is a mental health advocate, stigma fighter, published author, professional speaker and founder of StigmaZero. His engrossing book, Jason: 1, Stigma: 0, My battle with mental illness at home and in the workplace, is part memoir, part how-to and the culmination of a lifetime of unique personal experiences with illness and is available at www.stigmazero.com/book. He is also featured in the Bipolar Disorder episode in season 2 of the CBC Gem show You Can’t Ask That, available at www.gem.cbc.ca.
As someone who has experienced both a major physical illness (heart defect leading to open heart surgery in 1988) and a major mental illness (bipolar disorder leading to hospitalization in 2005), Jason shares his personal experiences with impactful storytelling techniques. He does so in this virtual workshop, as well as StigmaZero’s online training program, his book and keynotes.
In order to make this difficult topic accessible and consumable, Jason blends his stories with rigorous research in order to provide both knowledge and perspective. His goal is for everyone to understand this important topic so they are empowered to make a real change and ultimately join his vision for a future without stigma.
This is a mental health movement – and Jason wants you to be a part of it!
We Certify Your Professional Development
Upon completion of this program, Create Your StigmaZero Workplace, you will receive a certificate of completion.
By taking this program, you will have taken the critical first step towards a deeper understanding of mental health, mental illness and stigma. You will have developed the knowledge and skills needed to better respond to these challenges, both at home and in the workplace.
StigmaZero encourages you to continue your learning and skill development beyond one program.
We Certify Your StigmaZero Workplace
Upon achieving 80% completion of our online program across your organization, we provide a company badge which we encourage you to add to your website and LinkedIn page. This badge allows your organization to publicly and proudly showcase how you have prioritized workplace mental health and that your culture takes a zero stance on stigma.
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