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Veteran trainer focused on delivering transformative training in workplace mental health and other soft skills that are HR related. Facilitator and organiser of wellbeing retreats as an alternative to team building

Mental health first aid is the support you provide to someone who is experiencing a mental health crisis or is about to experience a mental health challenge. Like physical first aid mental health first aid is a first response that is offered until professional help arrives. It is provided when there is a lack of awareness on the part of the sufferer, or when there is a delay in getting professional help. More importantly research has shown that mental health first aid works. Being a mental health first aider does not make you a counsellor or a therpist and providing mental health first aid is not making a diagnosis. It’s a skill that you learn to support someone who’s in distress. One of the skills required to be a mental health first aider is the ability to listen with empathy, without judgment and without solving the problem. Organisations that equip their employees with the skills to be a mental health first aider are more likely to have a positive work culture and less likely to lose employees to poor mental health. #RecoverNow #employeewellbeing #workplacementalhealth #mentalhealthfirstaid

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Fostering empathy builds resilient workplaces. Great initiative to uplift all. Hery Dehaan

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