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Stay up to date on the latest news and developments in Mental Health in the Workplace. Review the Blogs listed below written by founder Donna Thistlethwaite.

Donna Thistlethwaite is a Brisbane-based speaker and trainer specialising in mental health and resilience. She is an accredited Mental Health First Aid instructor and Resilience at Work Facilitator with a passion for suicide prevention and for helping individuals, teams and organisations to THRIVE.

Don’t be a cupcake colleague

Today we’re just over half way through National Mental Health Month, an initiative focused on raising awareness of Australian mental health. I personally love and celebrate opportunities to draw attention to mental health but a recent event has me concerned that some may be paying little more than lip service to improving mental health in […]

How this company created a safer and more inclusive workplace

There could be little argument that the pandemic has impacted businesses but for one such business it has been a catalyst for a new way of connecting and supporting each other. MSD Australia & New Zealand (MSD) has introduced a network of Mindwell Champions which they believe has contributed to creating a safer and more […]

Asking for Help

One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is one that was passed down from my grandmother, to my mother, to me. (And I’m not talking about their excellent fudge recipe!) Allowing someone to help you is giving them a gift. Let me say that again. Allowing someone to help you is […]

Why we need to consider ‘team’ resilience

Have you ever contemplated team resilience … How do you create supportive teams that thrive and that foster, rather than compromise, the resilience of individual members? Much of the literature around resilience focuses on the individual and overlooks that we operate within a system. Unless there is alignment between group norms and practices and what […]

Why We Need a Systemic Approach to Resilience

When we think of resilience, we often think about a person’s individual capacity to bounce back in the face of adversity, or their ability to cope with whatever life throws at them. What if I was to tell you that there is so much more to resilience, and lots of things we can do to […]

Responding to the Unthinkable

You hang up the phone in total shock. You never saw it coming. An employee’s relative has just informed you that one of your team won’t be coming back to work … Yesterday they died by suicide. This a call you never want, or expect to receive, yet with eight Australians dying by suicide every […]

Creating a Healthier Workplace Through MHFA

When superannuation fund, QSuper, decided to introduce an internal network of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAiders) in early 2020, they had no idea how perfect their timing would turn out to be. Less than two months later Covid-19 threw the world, workplaces and workers into turmoil. Never has it been more valuable to have people in […]

Can any of us Afford not to have these Skills?

Often at my talks I will ask the audience to put up their hand if they, or someone they know, has experienced a mental illness? Almost every time, every hand in the room goes up. Take a moment to reflect on this question yourself … Chances are that the answer is yes, given that 45% […]

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