Mental Health SOS™: Critical Conversations
Session Description
In this session we will define signs and symptoms related to workplace mental health issues and outlines strategies to help create psychological safety and help keep people safe.
- Signs and Symptoms: Recognize if a co-worker or employee is struggling; How is the workplace affected?
- Options and Opportunities: How to best approach someone experiencing difficulties; Ways to reduce and prevent harm
- Support and Safety: Providing resources that empower the effected parties; Due diligence in creating a safe and inclusive workplace
- Includes a simple framework and practice to have the check-in conversation
Speaker Biography
Ruthann Weeks is a Cultural Change Strategist and Principal Consultant at Harmony In The
Workplace. She is a change agent whose efforts have helped to bring the importance of an
abuse-free work environment to the forefront of public awareness. She is an author and gifted
speaker who delivers a powerful message about today’s workplace challenges.
Working as a Certified Resource Specialist in the human service sector, Ruthann went on to
graduate as a Human Resource Manager. She is a Certified Psychological Safety Advisor and
specializes in leadership development, people and culture, diversity and inclusion, workplace
bullying, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and mental health in the workplace.
