The Working Mind is an evidence-based training program designed to address and promote mental health and reduce stigma in a workplace setting, established by the Mental Health Commission of Canada. It includes easily applied scenario-based lessons, videos of people with lived experience of mental illness, reference guides, and practical handouts.
This training is designed specifically for managers, supervisors, and team leads who are looking to further support their employees' mental health and wellbeing.
Participants will:
Participants will receive a course certificate upon completion.
Audience: Managers, supervisors, and team leads working at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan.
Dates:
Day 1: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 9 am - 12 pm PST
Day 2: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 9 am - 1 pm PST
Mindfulness is everywhere. But how do we separate the noise from the worthwhile signals – particularly in a highly competitive teaching and research institution like UBC? How can mindfulness improve performance in your workplace?
This workshop provides a research-based mindfulness approach to navigating volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments at work. Participants will learn about the default mode of the brain and how stress can bias our attention, before the focus shifts to mindfulness concepts and the science behind the practice.
Once armed with the foundations of mindfulness, we will put our understanding into action, and experience mindfulness practices and several short mental techniques that support the underlying facets of attentional control and emotion regulation. Participants will also be introduced to the performance equation and find out how to perform under pressure.
This will prepare participants to engage in more reflection and dialogue, as Dr. Choi shares new and adaptive ways to experience discomfort and their overall humanity.
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: 11 am–12 pm PST
About your facilitator:
Dr. Ellen Choi is an Assistant Professor in Human Resources Management and Organizational Behaviour in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
Dr. Choi is an organizational psychologist with training in the fields of Social Psychology and Organizational Behaviour. She received her PhD from the Ivey School of Business in 2017, and her MSc from the London School of Economics in 2012. Her research interests revolve around workplace wellbeing and mental health. In particular, she studies the effects of mindfulness training on stress, attention, emotion regulation, errors, authenticity, resilience, and performance under pressure.
Dr. Choi teaches in the area of organizational behaviour on topics such as leadership, training and development, motivation, and decision-making. Prior to graduate school, Ellen traded in commercial real estate for 8 years with CBRE. She is also a yoga instructor and executive meditation coach.
This is the employee version of The Working Mind Training. There is overlap in content with the Manager version (above) except a module on managing colleagues.
Dates:
Day 1: Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 9 am - 12 pm PST
Day 2: Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 9 am - 11 am PST
In this workshop, we will examine the experience of stress through the language of our nervous system.
This experiential session, hosted by Dr. Ellen Choi, will help you practice listening to thoughts, feelings, actions, and perhaps most importantly, sensations in your body to understand your own stress response. You will learn how to identify nervous system regulation and dysregulation by recognizing the different types of habitual behaviours you engage in when you're at peace versus stressed and depleted.
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Time: 10–11 am PST
Facilitator: Dr. Ellen Choi