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Workplace Mental Wellbeing
At FindYourWay Coaching, we create a training constellation for your company that fosters long-term organizational wellbeing and supports prevention of mental distress @work through skilling and reskilling of both management and employees. Today’s professional world demands more cognitive performance than ever before, and 1 of 4 employees is highly stressed or suffers from psychological difficulties. There is a lot that your company can do through training and coaching - through strategic, evidence-based, and practical training and coaching, we help reduce this burden, implement healthier workplace practices, and enhance communication and social skills across your organization.
We believe in the equality of mental and physical health — and that mental wellbeing education is inseparable from diversity and inclusion best practices. And we do all this through a research-based methodology and a practical mindset for our group trainings and individual coachings.
Our main and very distinctive focus is to combine mental wellbeing coaching with effective communication training, a proven formula for building healthier, more resilient organizations.
See some of our signature workshops below, along with official certifications. We teach in English, Italian, Spanish, French and German.
Awareness, Mental Wellbeing Group Coaching, Lunch & Learn Sessions
87% of employees from ResponsAbility AG reported improvement in their communication skills after undergoing just two coaching sessions.
Mental Health Awareness Sessions for the whole company (90 min):
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What is mental health? Is it different than wellbeing? Data on the global current situation
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Raising awareness around mental health at work
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Normalizing conversations around emotional well-being
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How the first signs of mental struggle in others might look like at work and how to react: supporting and helpful questions
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The important and underestimated parallel of physical and mental health: how to practice self-care to manage stress.
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How to contribute to a more resilient organization
Mental Wellbeing Group Coaching (60 min):
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Stress management and self-care: two important aspects of burnout prevention.
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Compassionate time management for better productivity and alignment of priorities with our energy.
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Learning to say no and placing boundaries: how to start being self-assertive.
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Handle difficult conversations to manage workplace conflicts.
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Excellence over perfectionism: manage inner negative self-talk, imposter syndrome and cultivate healthy self-esteem.
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Navigate change and transitions: mindset tools to face uncertainty
Lunch & Learn Sessions (60 min) - Topics:
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Assertive Communication
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Digital Wellbeing
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Quick Guide to Difficult Conversations
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The Feedback Dilemma
Effective Communication: Assertiveness Course
60% of participants observed improvements in their assertiveness, and 80% expressed a wish for the training to become mandatory.
1.5 day & online follow up sessions:
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Master assertive communication – Understand why assertiveness is a critical professional skill, and how delivering strategic “no’s” can create space for meaningful “yes’s,” opening the door to new opportunities.
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Manage conflict – Build skills to address sensitive issues constructively, resolve conflicts with professionalism, and influence the organization’s communication culture to promote healthy disagreements — including in emails and meeting behavio
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Navigate difficult conversations and give effective feedback – Develop the ability to address sensitive issues constructively with your team, influence the organization’s communication culture, and promote healthy disagreements — including in emails and meeting behavior.
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Set boundaries and articulate needs – Discover how clearly communicating your needs fosters trust and strengthens psychological safety in the workplace.
The Digital Wellbeing Course
This course has been piloted in tech companies and universities and resulted in increased awareness of how to use digital tools mindfully.
Mental Health First Aid Trainings & Certificates
The first employees from Boston Consulting Group in Zurich who completed the mental health first aid training.
Training 1: Mental Health First Aid Swiss Certification
How to spot first signs of mental distress and provide First Aid as non-expert:
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Learn the basics of the most common mental illnesses and how to spot signs of distress at work and in your personal environment and act early, even as a non-expert;
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Learn a framework on how to ask a real and genuine "how are you feeling" to colleagues, friends and family members who might be struggling with their mental health.
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Learn what to do in case of emergencies related to mental health (panic attacks, i.e.)
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Become certified as mental health first aider and be an ambassador of prevention and early intervention in your workplace.
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The course includes 4 sessions in person or 7 online and each participant gets a comprehensive handbook with the best resources in mental health in different languages. This Certification has been taught around the world since the year 2000.
FindYourWay is an official partner of Mental Health First Aid Switzerland, and offers this course as a webinar or in person, for private corporations, schools, universities and also on public courses. Get the Course Content Here.
Training 2: Empowering Leaders to Hold Mental Health Conversations with Reports (4 Hours)
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Recognizing Signs of Employee Distress: Learn how to identify signs of mental distress in your team members.
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Taking Action to Communicate and Support: Develop an action plan to engage in meaningful conversations with your employees and provide the support they need.
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Preparing for Mental Health Conversations: Discover how to effectively prepare for discussions about mental health, even if you're not an expert.
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Guiding Employees to Professional Help: Learn how to guide your team members toward professional assistance without invading their privacy.
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Managing Team Communications During Burnout: Understand how to handle team communications when burnout affects your team.
This course can also be adapted to HR business partners who are not line managers.
Evolutionary Leadership: training or coaching for leaders
Here's a testimonial from former Wellbeing Project Lead and HR Manager at CERN, Marie-Luce Falipou:
"Alessandra's face to face coaching proved invaluable to me as Wellbeing Project Leader and HR professional. She is very much aware of latest trends and future challenges ahead. Her focus on communication and easy to apply practices when dealing with mental health at work are an asset to strategies I am presently working on. Her holistic and innovative approach for return to work & associated communication is very innovative, and I have certainly improved my active listening skills."
Leadership coaching helps managers improve their abilities to lead more effectively. Leadership coaching is designed for managers at all levels of an organization, including the executive level. FindYourWay Leadership coaching provides guidance to leaders in their effort to implement mental wellbeing best practices at the workplace, but it also inevitably supports them in their growth and communication skills as leaders. Many HR professionals, team leaders and senior directors contact us to:
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Be coached on how to deal with team dynamics following a mental illness in the team, and communicate it with confidentiality;
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Implement guidelines for prevention of mental distress at work and the most adequate trainings for the organization wellbeing
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Learn about return to work guidelines when employees come back from a burnout or prolonged mental distress;
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Handle mental health conversations with their reports or mentor their leaders on how to communicate at their best;
This can be done with specific individual "schooling" days for the individual, or through a 2 day training.