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Mentally Healthy Workplace Awards

November 19, 2019 By Leave a Comment

Mental health is everyone’s business. That’s why each year CMHA Kelowna sheds a light on the importance of mental health in the workplace and celebrates three local businesses that are demonstrating leadership in creating a work environment where everyone can thrive. Join us, along with Central Okanagan business professionals, for the Mentally Healthy Workplace Awards breakfast. Take the next step to foster mental health in your workplace and attend this breakfast for real tools and strategies that can be implemented all while being inspired to action.  Already work in mentally healthy workplace? Nominations are now open, enter yours today. The awards categories are for small business (1-20 employees), medium business (21-50 employees) and large business (51 or more employees). Find out who was honoured at our 2018 event. 

The 2019 awards will be November 19th from 7:00am-8:45am at the Coast Capri Hotel. We are happy to announce our keynote speaker for this year is Dr. Joti Samra. As a highly-regarded expert in psychological health and safety, Dr. Samra has been involved in a number of national initiatives that have contributed to policy change in Canada. Read more about Dr. Joti Samra.


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Sponsoring this event provides you with an opportunity to reach a large audience of business owners, managers and supervisors, entrepreneurs, and other community leaders. To find out more about our sponsorship opportunities please contact our Fund Development team, Shari Slattery or Margo Buckley.

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Is your workplace mentally healthy? Find out more about the nomination process, then nominate your workplace today!

 

Thank you to our 2019 sponsors

Presenting Sponsor:

Awards Sponsor:

Workplace Champion:

Program Sponsor:
Urban Systems

Community Supporter:
Crowe MacKay

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Congratulations to our past winners of  the Mentally Healthy Workplace Award

2018 2017
  • William & Associations Counselling Services – Small Business
  • TWP Fitness – Medium Business
  • Interior Savings Credit Union – Large Business
  • Pihl Law Corporation – Small Business
  • RCMP, Southeast District – Large Business
2016 2015
  • MNP LLP
  • Three Point Capital (formerly Paradigm Mortgage)

 

  • University of British Columbia Okanagan
  • Gentle Dental

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Eco-anxiety: despair is rising

October 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment

Rising temperatures. Melting ice caps. Drowning polar bears. We don’t need to be told that there’s a climate emergency, and that it’s taking its toll on the planet. But the climate emergency is also a mental health emergency. The stats are powerful: psychological trauma from a natural disaster is forty times greater than trauma from physical injury. The human stories are troubling: in the Canadian North, Inuit hunters are reporting increased mental health problems, as ice conditions change and threaten the hunt for food. Climate scientists themselves are suffering from ecological grief and depression. And there are children who can’t sleep because they’re worried about the future.

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Discovery College: Finding Your Balance – October 16, 23 and 30th

October 16, 2019 By Leave a Comment

Are you supporting a loved one with a mental health or substance use challenge? We are piloting this course for a second time before we launch Discovery College in January. We know you may be busy, so we designed a streamlined course that discusses key topics for families, friends and parents who are supporting someone with a mental health or substance use challenge. Topics include maintaining your own wellness, moving from fixing to supporting and strengthening our relationships through boundaries, awareness and reflection.

Finding Your Balance is a 3-session course that will run from 6-8pm on Wednesday October 16, 23 and 30 at Foundry Kelowna. Participants must be available for all 3 sessions.


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For more detailed information, here is the course syllabus:

Finding Your Balance Outline:

We acknowledge that the CMHA Kelowna, its staff and participants, are guests on the unceded traditional territory of the Syilx peoples.

CMHA Discovery College Core Principles:
Inclusion and Diversity | Accessibility | Empowerment | Connection

Location: Foundry Kelowna

100 – 1815 Kirschner Road

Course Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Course Dates: October 16th, 23rd and 30th 2019 Phone Number 236-420-2804
Co-Facilitator: Melody Brewer Co-Facilitator: Shelley Cameron

Target Audience: Parents, friends or families supporting a loved one with a mental health and/or substance use challenge.

Course Format: The course duration is 6 hours (2 hour sessions x 3 modules) this course content was co-produced with caregivers and professionals and will be implemented with a person centred/family systems approach.

Course Overview, Objective and Competencies:

Overview: This course discusses topics brought up by the caregiving population such as maintaining your own wellness, moving from fixing to supporting, and strengthening our relationships through boundaries, awareness and reflection.

Objectives:

  • Participants will begin to recognize that their journey of self-discovery and wellness is separate from their loved one’s.
  • Increase awareness about wellness strategies including self-care, communication, and how to set boundaries.
  • Understanding the impacts of moving from fixing to supporting our loved one during their wellness journey.

Competencies:

  • Emotional regulation
  • Empathy
  • Connection
  • Communication
  • Mindfulness
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Learning

Learning Outcomes:

Topic Overview Objectives Competencies
Module 1:

Your Own Wellness

 

October 16th, 2019

In week one of this course, participants will look at family systems, reflect on their own wellness along with various coping strategies that can be used to maintain personal wellness even if their loved one is not doing well.
  • Gain self-awareness in regards to your personal wellness journey and self-care.
  • Learn to recognize distorted thinking patterns and ways to respond in a healthy manor.
  • Discover how to cope with grief, loss and disappointment that may be experienced in the caregiver role.
  • Mindfulness
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Emotional Regulation
Module 2:

Moving from Fixing to Supporting

 

October 23rd, 2019

In week two of this course we will discuss how to best support our loved ones in a productive way and learn how to use communication skills to strengthen the relationship.
  • Explore ways to empower your loved one through supporting versus fixing.
  • Learning ways to use communication skills to be direct, clear, validating and empathetic.
  • Empathy
  • Communication
  • Emotional Regulation
Module 3:

Strengthening our Relationships

 

October 30th, 2019

The third and final week of the course will focus on creating boundaries, acknowledging strengths, finding hope and self-reflection.
  • Increase knowledge on the importance of boundaries as well as learn how to set and implement them in your life.
  • Identify personal strengths as well as strengths in your loved one.
  • Exploring ways to manage expectations moving forward.
  • Communication
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Learning

Parking:

Foundry Kelowna is located at 100 – 1815 Kirschner Road, there is a parking lot with plenty of spaces, if they are all filled there is additional street parking available on Kirschner Road.  https://goo.gl/maps/GEUW8ysC69aLuFs16.

What to bring and what to expect:

Materials required for the course will be supplied by CMHA Discovery College

Discovery College courses are structured as a group course so there will be other participants taking the course with you as well as two facilitators.  This course is a blended model which will include presentation, group discussion (drawing on the knowledge in the room) and activities of self-discovery.

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    February 13, 2020 @ 8:30 am - February 14, 2020 @ 4:30 pm
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