Mental Health Matters for Managers
Flexible, modular training to build confident, compassionate and capable managers.
Our Mental Health Matters for Managers training equips mangers & leaders with the understanding, confidence and practical tools to support mental health at work - for themselves and their teams.
Delivered as 75-minute modules (virtual or in person), it can be tailored to your team’s needs and time availability.
Choose your level of depth:
Foundation: A single introductory session on mental health at work.
Basics: Foundation + One focus module of your choice
Standard: Complete all four modules for a comprehensive learning journey.
The Modules
2. Prevention: Managing Stress and Burnout
Focus: Recognising and reducing workplace stressors to protect wellbeing and performance.
1. Understanding and Managing Stress
The science of stress and how it affects success and wellbeing.
Identifying workplace stressors and practical ways to reduce them.
Tools to manage pressure and prevent escalation.
2. Preventing Burnout and Supporting Distress
Recognising signs of burnout and deeper distress.
Understanding root causes and protective workplace factors.
Creating conditions for recovery and resilience.
3. Creating a Culture that Supports Wellbeing
Building trust.
Communicating with presence.
Embedding systems that show mental health is a genuine priority.
Outcomes:
Confidence to take proactive steps that prevent stress and build resilient, high-performing teams.
1. Foundation: Building Understanding and Confidence Around Mental Health
Focus: The essentials of mental health awareness and psychologically safe leadership.
1. Why Mental Health Matters at Work
The financial, legal and moral case for supporting mental health.
Understanding the mental health continuum and why it affects everyone.
Tackling myths, stigma, and misunderstanding.
2. The Manager’s Role in Wellbeing
The impact of management on team wellbeing and performance.
What people need to feel safe, valued, and able to perform well.
Role modelling self-care: the five pillars of well-being (NEEDS) framework.
3. Creating Psychological Safety
Understanding stigma and its roots.
How to make it safe for people to talk openly about mental health.
The workplace conditions that help everyone feel supported.
Outcomes:
Greater awareness, confidence and clarity on the manager’s role in creating a supportive workplace.
4. Integration: Leading for Sustainable Wellbeing and Performance
Focus: Embedding wellbeing into leadership and culture for lasting impact.
1. Communicating with Care and Confidence
How to build rapport and have supportive conversations.
Using the ALLIES model to listen and respond effectively.
Creating outcomes that support both people and performance.
2. Managing Absence and Long-Term Health Issues
How to manage long-term illness with compassion and clarity.
Navigating reasonable adjustments and legal responsibilities.
Keeping communication open and teams connected.
3. Embedding Sustainable Wellbeing in Your Team
The role of governance, accountability, and role modelling.
Balancing performance and wellbeing for lasting success.
Sustaining your own wellbeing as a leader.
Outcomes:
Practical tools to build a culture where wellbeing and success reinforce each other.
3. Intervention: Responding to Mental Health Challenges
Focus: Knowing when and how to respond to mental health concerns safely and supportively.
1. Spotting and Responding to Red Flags
Recognising indicators of low mood, withdrawal, or risk.
Addressing stigma and supporting early intervention.
Responding appropriately to red flags.
2. Understanding Anxiety
How and why anxiety occurs and what we can do about i
Understanding the science and tools to navigate anxiety better.
Creating a safe environment and further support.
3. Recognising Addictive Behaviours
Understanding work-related and behavioural addictions.
Why we turn to ‘false friends’ and what helps recovery.
Knowing when professional help is needed and how to act.
Outcomes:
Skills to respond appropriately within role boundaries, with confidence and care.
What people say
“This was a massive investment for us so it was important to get this right. Feedback was outstanding and Dr B who rolled out this training is now a friendly and familiar face within the agency.”
“It was incredibly valuable to understand more about how peers feel in the work place and how they approach situations related to their mental health and that of the people they manage”
“I enjoyed doing this course, it gave lots of things to think about, not just within the work context but also myself. I like the language and re-enforces of networks, honesty and need to have safe working environments. ”
“This training is interesting, insightful and really personally very helpful. Dr Mariposa’s style is very engaging. I think it will be extremely helpful for our managers.”
Ready to explore what’s right for your managers?
We’d love to help you design the right mix of modules for your team.