A16 | Please note that this speaker is no longer able to be with us
Tracks
Track A | Lagoon Room 1 | Filmed
| Friday, July 8, 2022 |
| 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
| Lagoon Room 1 |
Presenter
Mrs Emily Johnson
Co-founder
Get Mentally Fit
Could mental fitness checks be the new Norm?
10:45 AM - 11:05 AMPromotional description
Do you get your teeth, eyes or health checked every year?
When you go, are you sometimes unaware of any decay, illness or need for treatment? Regardless, you go anyway, right?
How about your mental fitness check-up?
How many of us annually monitor our mental fitness to ensure we are better able to dispassionately manage life stressors, pressures, and challenges?
In response to the pandemic, in 2021 the Australian government made mental health and suicide prevention a national priority, allocating $5.7 billion to the sector.
Australians will inevitably experience significant challenges, throughout their lives, which will impact their mental health. Would preventing people from being so heavily impacted by external stressors, by encouraging annual workplace mental fitness check-ups, reduce the reliance on such reactive, expensive, interventional approaches to supporting them?
With more and more employees identifying their reliance on their workplace for mental health support, mental fitness check-ups could reliably ensure a mutually beneficial outcome for all stakeholders. For workplaces it could contribute to them upholding their psychological health and safety responsibilities.
Ultimately, for this to be a reality, messaging this initiative to the greater community will be key to creating a mentally fit, flourishing nation
When you go, are you sometimes unaware of any decay, illness or need for treatment? Regardless, you go anyway, right?
How about your mental fitness check-up?
How many of us annually monitor our mental fitness to ensure we are better able to dispassionately manage life stressors, pressures, and challenges?
In response to the pandemic, in 2021 the Australian government made mental health and suicide prevention a national priority, allocating $5.7 billion to the sector.
Australians will inevitably experience significant challenges, throughout their lives, which will impact their mental health. Would preventing people from being so heavily impacted by external stressors, by encouraging annual workplace mental fitness check-ups, reduce the reliance on such reactive, expensive, interventional approaches to supporting them?
With more and more employees identifying their reliance on their workplace for mental health support, mental fitness check-ups could reliably ensure a mutually beneficial outcome for all stakeholders. For workplaces it could contribute to them upholding their psychological health and safety responsibilities.
Ultimately, for this to be a reality, messaging this initiative to the greater community will be key to creating a mentally fit, flourishing nation
Learning outcomes
At the conclusion of this event, attendees will be able to:
• Remember the statistics relating to the 2021 Australian government COVID funding contribution to mental health and suicide prevention.
• Understand workplaces responses to the pandemic in retrospect, which informs future responses.
• Analyse and be able to remember the 4 constructs and 8 factors of Mental Toughness.
• Learn about interplays between mental toughness factors and the consequences for performance / behaviour.
• Analyse and evaluate the feasibility, value, benefits, and obstacles of mental fitness check-ins in the workplace.
• Start to analyse and create ideas around the messaging that would be required to promote mental fitness check-ins in the workplace, on a national scale.
• Interact with peers and colleagues to evaluate their opinions and conclusions, having participated in the presentation.
• Remember the statistics relating to the 2021 Australian government COVID funding contribution to mental health and suicide prevention.
• Understand workplaces responses to the pandemic in retrospect, which informs future responses.
• Analyse and be able to remember the 4 constructs and 8 factors of Mental Toughness.
• Learn about interplays between mental toughness factors and the consequences for performance / behaviour.
• Analyse and evaluate the feasibility, value, benefits, and obstacles of mental fitness check-ins in the workplace.
• Start to analyse and create ideas around the messaging that would be required to promote mental fitness check-ins in the workplace, on a national scale.
• Interact with peers and colleagues to evaluate their opinions and conclusions, having participated in the presentation.
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Emily is the Principal Psychologist and Co-Founder at Get Mentally Fit. She is currently most passionate about proactively guiding workplaces and their people through the beneficial process of developing practical, preventive skills, that enable sustained mental wellbeing.
Emily has previously assisted whole organisations, many ASX50 listed companies, to practically manage the mental wellbeing and performance of their leadership teams and staff.
Emily effectively integrates Positive Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mental Toughness and Resilience, Habit Forming, and Mindfulness within her evidence-based practice.
She has consistently been a sought-after program facilitator and an expert panellist on topics including mental health in the workplace, mental fitness, resilience, work-life balance, and a diverse range of related wellbeing topics.
Her current focus is on the effective application of the Mental Toughness framework in workplaces, leadership training and individual performance coaching, as a diagnostic measurement tool and intervention identifier.
