Preparing for Mental Health Awareness Month & Spring Events!
Posted February 22, 2024
If you are looking to book vendors whether YoJo or others, NOW is the time. For many of us, this is one of our biggest months of the year. While February can still be a month where budgets are finalizing, it’s important to get your ideas and programming ideas ready so you can confirm your bookings while they are available.
In so many of my discovery calls there is often so much frustration in knowing that employees really need for their mental health, how to find a program that matches those needs and how to get people to attend. Oftentimes programming just doesn’t resonate with enough people or all the people that requested it either don’t attend or use the app.
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Here are some of the tactics that can solve for these issues:
Make it more accessible. When there are workshops, make sure they can be recorded and make sure to share the recording soon after. Then share it again before the next workshop.
Make sure the topics of different workshops not only connect to each other but are in line with the messaging that the company is sharing in terms of their values and priorities. Are the priorities getting more people to be connected in office? If so, how are people communicating? Are you giving them support around that? This continuity and reiteration allows for the message to sink in.
If managers aren’t able to attend, keep them in the loop so that they are aware this is a message that the company supports. (i.e. - If the workshop is on Grief and Grief at Work. Let managers know how to direct employees to resources when they need them so that same message of emotional support is reiterated)
Programs work best when they aren’t in contrast with other messaging that employees hear. You don’t have to have the most innovative company culture to get there. There are workshops and education and mental health support for wherever your company is at.
Some program ideas:
Schedule a workshop series. that keeps on giving! Make sure the offerings are part of a theme that is tied to the needs employees have shared whether it’s burnout or boundaries or whatever is top of mind. And share that series ongoing. If possible have recordings that are in an easy place to access.
Putting together self care packages for employees. This can be a spend of no more than $25 per person filled with small gestures that make their lives easier or support in stress management. (This could include journals, stress balls, snacks, ect…)
Hosting classes on mindfulness or meditation. The important part is getting by in for this to be something people can block off on their calendar or even hosting it outside of work hours or offering a recording that they can enjoy on their own time. And offering is only as useful as it is accessible.
Running a mental health challenge where points are given for activities and actions that support mental health. Similar to a physical health or step challenge, a mental health challenge can celebrate acts of self care for the mind. This could be
Hosting a 15 minute break every day for a mindful activity
Create a resource library that is EASY to read and just focused on your mental health benefits