The Wellbeing Brief
Articles on workplace wellbeing.
Practical, evidence-based writing on workplace wellbeing, mental health, stress, sleep, burnout, men's health and performance, for the people who look after everyone else.
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Your EAP is not a risk assessment
Most organisations meet their psychosocial duty with a poster and a phone number.
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We need EAP 2.0 and fast!
Since September last year, more than 5,200 men in Ireland have used a free counselling scheme funded by the Department of Health. Over 18,000 sessions. Men. The group we are always told will not ask for help.
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After World Suicide Prevention Day, What?
On the tenth of September a graphic will go up, a webinar will take place. Yellow ribbon, probably. A helpline number. A line about it being okay not to be okay. It will get a respectable number of likes, some of them from people who are not okay at all. On the eleventh it will come down.
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The Forgotten Workplace Wellbeing Pillar
Sometime in the next three weeks, someone on your team will stand in a shop looking at a crested school jumper that costs as much as the weekly grocery shop. They will buy it anyway. Then on Monday they will come into work, someone will ask how the summer was, and they will say grand, yeah, busy.
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The Holiday you took but didn't actually take
You booked the time off. You went away. And somewhere between the airport and the second morning, you checked your inbox “just to stay on top of things.”
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What Men’s Health Week Gets Wrong
Men’s Health Week is a good thing. I want to be clear about that before I say what it gets wrong.
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