Mental Health at Work Conversational Literacy®
leadership Certification Program
Why Do Leaders Avoid Talking About Mental Health at Work?
Who Is This Course For?
✔️ Our proprietary B2B leadership development certificate program is designed for your organization’s internal leadership teams. This program is for any leader who has people reporting to them. From first-time leaders to middle managers, to your senior leadership team.
✔️ Leaders will learn critical education from our expert facilitator, engage in thought-provoking individual reflections and group discussions, and upskill to learn how to talk about mental health at work.
✔️ With language accessibility in mind, this live course is available both in person and virtually. In English, German, with French and Spanish soon to follow!
The #1 reason is usually this: they don’t know how and don’t want to get it wrong.
So, Melissa Doman LLC created a solution for this problem:
the Mental Health at Work Conversational Literacy® Certificate Program - for Leaders.
Why Do Leaders Need This Course?
✔️ This in-depth training solution goes beyond the typical “3-hour workshop check-box exercise” to provide leaders with the in-depth education and essential tools they actually need to add to their leadership conversational literacy toolkit.
✔️ Every business should either have or be looking for a leadership training program that teaches leaders how to talk about mental health at work. Whether you’re an HR professional looking to provide a training program for your leaders, or you’re a leader who knows that you and your peers need to learn these indispensable skills - we’ve got you covered.
Want to learn more about this workplace mental health leadership certificate program? Check out the course description below.
We Created a Solution to Teach Leaders How To Talk About Mental HealtH at Work (as Leaders, as Individuals, and as Peers).
What inspired the creation of this course? Thousands of leaders telling us they know that mental health at work is important, but need the education and training to learn how to talk about it. So that’s what we did. How?
WE built this course USING INSPIRATION FROM 15 years' worth OF Melissa Doman’s WORK - INCLUDING HER:
✔️ Training, fieldwork, and research
✔️ Workshops, keynotes, team-building sessions, fireside interviews, panels, and interviews
✔️ Strategic advising and consulting outcomes
✔️ LinkedIn Learning courses
✔️ The playbook on how to talk about mental health at work: Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health At Work: (Here’s Why and How to Do it Really Well)
THIS COURSE teachES leaders three critical skills for HOW TO talk about mental health at work:
How leaders can talk to their teams
How leaders can support their leadership peers
How leaders can talk about their own mental health
(So leaders can join the conversation too, and not just support others)
Want to know what you’ll learn & HOW in the course? Take a look below!
UPSKILLING LEADERS TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AT WORK
Knowing how to talk about mental health at work is a critical leadership skill. Learning how to talk about mental health at work is a language we all need to know how to speak. Leaders need to know how to speak this language even more because of their influence in the workplace. For their teams, colleagues, and themselves too.
So, welcome to the only workplace mental health leadership program that doesn’t avoid the tough topics that leaders need to know to get those conversations right!
In our interactive course, leaders within your organization will learn alongside each other and dive into 6 dynamic modules designed to help them learn how to:
1. Understand mental health, stress, and mental illness (in the context of work)
(and without jargon or bias)
2. Address potential ‘roadblocks’ that prevent conversations about mental health at work
(from inside and outside of work)
3. Talk about your mental health as a leader
(yes, it’s important, despite popular opinion!)
4. Support fellow leaders’ mental health at work
(because if anyone can understand the leadership struggle, it’s other leaders)
5. Talk to your team about mental health at work
(receiving and starting conversations, and creating an open culture of mental health)
6. Apply critical lessons from Societal Change and the World of Work
(with mental health in mind)
What Leaders Will LEARN IN This Course
Learning how to talk about mental health at work, and get it right, takes focused effort and time.
That’s why we created this course as a 4-5 full-day certificate program. Leaders who invest the time and energy to develop these crucial skills will earn this first-of-its-kind credential for Mental Health at Work Conversational Literacy®.
How will this course teach leaders to do that? Through 6 interactive learning modules that will help them with:
Mastering the Why
Mastering the How
Mastering Critical Perspectives
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Masting the Why
Building the Right Knowledge
Why Personal Meanings & Social Perceptions Matter
Changing Assumptions about Mental Health (and Mental Illness) at Work
Why Mental Health Language Matters
The Strengths and Challenges of Mental Health Struggles at Work
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Mastering the Why
Understanding 'Roadblock Influences'
Key topics:
What makes it harder to talk about mental health at work?
Outside of Work
At Work
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Mastering the How
Finding the Right Words - Part I - How to Talk About Your Mental Health As a Leader
Key topics:
The Difficulties of Leadership
Self-Permission and Accountability
Tailoring Your Message for Different Audiences
The Do’s & and Don’ts of The Conversation
Receiving the Conversation
What To Do If the Conversation Doesn’t Go Well
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Mastering the How
Finding the Right Words - Part II - How to Support Your Leadership Colleagues
Key topics:
Why It’s Critical to Support Your Fellow Leaders
Setting Expectations and Boundaries
How to Approach the Conversation with a Leadership Colleague
Starting the conversation
Receiving the conversation
Giving Support
Getting It Right
Getting It Wrong
Receiving the Conversation from a Leadership Colleague
Handling Suicidal Disclosures
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Mastering the How
Finding the Right Words - Part III - How to Support Your Team
Key topics:
Setting the Right Tone
How to Have the Conversation with:
Your Whole Team
Individual Team Members
Having the Conversation With a Team Member:
Receiving it
Starting it
What To Do if The Conversation Doesn’t Go Well
Talking About Mental Health in a Remote Setting
How To Handle Suicidal Disclosures
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Mastering Critical Perspectives
Key topics:
The Mental Health Impact From:
Rising Stress
The Pandemic
Social Tribalism
How to Talk About Mental Health At Work During Times of:
Crisis
High Stress
Understanding the Mental Health Experiences of:
Marginalized and Impacted Communities
Creating Space For Conversations After Community-Specific Events
Sharing As a Leader From an Impacted or Marginalized Community
Ready to transform how you talk about mental health at work as a leader?
Meet Your Guide and The Visionary Behind This Program
Course Facilitator
Meet Aurelia Hack, M.Sc
Lead Certification Program Facilitator & Instructional Design Associate
Melissa Doman LLC
Aurelia holds an M.Sc. in Psychology, B.Sc in Psychology, and is credited with helping to bring this course to life. As a published author with an extensive background in Occupational Psychology and years of experience empowering organizations to talk about mental health in the workplace, she’s committed to helping leaders develop the confidence and skills they need for talking about mental health at work.
FOUNDER
Meet Melissa Doman, M.A.
The powerhouse behind this course and founder of Melissa Doman LLC, Mel is an Organizational Psychologist, former Mental Health Therapist, and author of Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health At Work: Here’s Why (and How to Do it Really Well).
Melissa has one core goal: to equip companies, individuals, and leaders to have constructive conversations about mental health at work, team dynamics, and communication in the workplace. This course is an extension of this goal. Because Awareness Is Great – Action Is Better™️.
FAQs About the program
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Either! In-person sessions must be booked for 4-5 consecutive days. Virtual sessions can be split up into half-days and done over time.
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The course runs in 6-8 hour sessions per day, and will take 4-5 full days to complete. This is customizable and can either be done in consecutive full days, or, in half days virtually spread out over weeks or months.
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While the content will be most relatable if you are currently in a leadership role, this program is also for anyone who is preparing to take on a leadership role.
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Yes! You will be emailed a Certificate of Completion (pdf).
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Yes, the course will be available in English, German, French and will eventually be translated into Spanish and other languages to be announced in 2025.
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This course can only be purchased by businesses for their leaders.
