Workplace First Aid Blog
This is me: Lyssa Barber UBS
Lyssa Barber, Head of Internal Communications at UBS, shares her very personal journey through the lows of mental ill health to recovery and the founding of the Mental Health Network at UBS.
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A health and safety approach to mental health in the workplace
A blog from Xenia Koumi, who leads the Business Healthy programme within the City of London Corporation’s Public Health team. Xenia takes a look at Mental Health from a Health and Safety perspective.
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The ‘need’ for everyone to be kept in the loop
The mental toll of trying to keep everyone in the loop is creating a burden, that for many of us, is making work increasingly stressful. Should we be thinking of reconfiguring our workplaces to make them less intense? This writer believes it’s time to let everyone fall out of the loop.
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Mental health in the workplace The role of emotional resilience
Guest blog from GP and bestselling author, Dr Harry Barry who looks at the many mental health challenges that we all face and explores the role of emotional resilience. There are many challenges facing our mental health. Life itself is a challenge, a roller coaster ride. All of us will encounter roadblocks through the different phases of life whether through Illness, loss, bereavement, financial setbacks, family crises or interpersonal conflicts.
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Q&A with Coutts: It's a bank, but not like any other bank
Mike Heyworth talks about the wellbeing programme that he and his fellow Executive Director, Miles Kean, have established at the bank, and the fascinating journey they took to get there.
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Engaging with workplaces during mental health awareness week and beyond
This edition of the blog is written by Vicki Cockman, Workplace Lead for Mental Health First Aid England. She describes her organisation’s headline activities for Mental Health Awareness Week; the #EmpowerHalfHour and the ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ Workplace Manifesto.
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