Welcome to new network members
and charter signatories
The Mindful Employer Network is free to join for all local employers and their staff across Leeds and West Yorkshire. This month we are extending a warm welcome to new network members from:
Engage Partners
Leeds Beckett University
Forward Leeds
Employability Solutions Kirklees
Community Integrated Living
Laker Vent Engineering Limited
Walker Foster Solicitors
The Retreat
Money and Pensions Service
Colas UK
Bluebird Care Wakefield and Kirklees
We are also celebrating two new Mindful Employers who have recently signed the Mindful Employer Charter for employers who are positive about mental health:
The Data Shed
Bluebird Care Wakefield and Kirklees
Please click on the link below for information on how to how your organisation can also become a Mindful Employer.
Do get in touch if you have any further questions about the Mindful Employer Network or Mindful Employer Charter.
We know that money worries can have a huge effect on our mental health and wellbeing.
There are lots of ways that employers can help support staff who may be experiencing financial stress, or even recognise ways that they may be contributing.
We spoke to Adam McCormick from Colas UK about how his efforts to ensure continuity of work for his subcontractors and their operatives mean that they experience greater financial security than is often experienced within his industry.
Redundancy Support: Invitation to join our working group
We are working with local partners to create information and resources for employers who may be considering difficult decisions about redundancies at this time.
Have you experienced redundancy yourself as an employer or an employee?
We'd love to hear from anyone with interest or experience in this area. We will be running a focus group to capture your insights and ideas.
View the recording from our Men's Health Week event
On 16th June we held a virtual event to celebrate Men's Health Week: Mental Health and Men - tackling stigma in the workplace. Thank you to everyone who joined us and participated in the session. We heard presentations from three fantastic speakers:
Workplace conversations: sharing experiences of our own mental health (and all other lived experience) Tuesday 20th July 10–11.30am
Join us for a practical online workshop to explore how we share our personal experiences in a workplace setting.
We know that sharing personal stories related to our own mental health can be immensely powerful and effective in challenging mental health stigma and creating open workplace cultures. However talking about our own experiences can be difficult and many people worry about the risks of blurring boundaries or revealing too much.
This interactive workshop will be led by Doctor Kerry Hinsby, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Brendan J Dunlop, Clinical Psychologist in training at the University of Manchester.
Kerry and Brendan will introduce the brand new ‘Sharing Lived Experiences Framework’ (SLEF): a framework for practitioners when considering making disclosure decisions. The SLEF raises important considerations that are relevant to anyone considering sharing their own mental health or other personal experiences in a workplace setting. We will explore these considerations and how the framework might inform our own conversations within our own workplace contexts.
This session is free for all employers and staff from across Leeds and West Yorkshire. You do not need to have lived experiences of Mental Health difficulties/challenges to attend. The workshop focuses on a full range of lived experiences.
Sadly the street entertainment and parade for Leeds Pride have been cancelled again this year. However there will be a wide range of smaller satellite events happening throughout the city on Sunday 1st August and it is still a great opportunity to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ rights and celebrate the contribution that LGBTQ+ people make to our communities and workplaces. Let us know how you will be celebrating in your workplaces!
LGBTQ+ and mental health
People who are LGBTQ+ still experience discrimination and face greater risk of poor mental health. Employers can play a key role in raising awareness and creating workplaces that are genuinely open, accepting, positive and proactive in their approach to diversity and inclusion.
See links to more information about LGBTQ+ mental health below:
that money worries can have a huge effect on our mental health and wellbeing.
