

What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
This webinar will provide you with a strategy for making it easier to participate in the
difficult conversations and respond to the difficult questions that often arise in healthcare
settings. Exlporing the VERS method (VERS: validate, explore respond and share)

Demystifying and destigmatizing suicide
Join us for this informative, one-hour webinar where we will demystify and destigmatize talking about suicide

Vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience
In this interactive one-hour webinar, we will explore the linked concepts of vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience.

Silence mental health stigma with compassion
Stigma around mental health can result in people feeling isolated and resistant to seeking support. Reducing stigma allows for a caring and non-judgmental response to our mental health, individually and collectively.

BounceBack for Caregiver Wellness: CBT skills for checking in on your mental health
This webinar is to assist human resource professionals, employers, supervisors, managers, co-workers

Mental Health and Resilience: Resources for Workers
The importance of mental health is becoming more and more clear in recent times and there are strategies that workers can take to improve their individual resilience. Learn about the signs and symptoms if someone is struggling, strategies for maintaining positive mental health, and the tools and resources available for workers to take care of themselves and to promote psychological health and safety in the workplace.

Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Learn practical strategies on how to support neurodiverse employees and colleagues to be successful on their job. This webinar is to assist human resource professionals, employers, supervisors, managers, co-workers, job coaches and counsellors.

Psychological health and safety in the workplace: Resources for Leaders
Psychologically healthy and safe workplaces play an integral role in maintaining the psychological health of workers. There are strategies that employers can utilize to improve organizational resilience. Learn about the mental health tools and resources that are available for leaders to help support workers and themselves, as well as the actions employers can take to promote psychological safety in the workplace.

Creating a Space to be Heard: How Care to Speak Can Help
Learn about the current wellness of today’s force in the healthcare sector from the perspective of Care to Speak. Our speakers will guide us on identifying burn-out and vicarious traumatization red flags and recommendations to support better and understand our teams.

De-escalation strategies for healthcare
Overworked and stressed already, healthcare workers often find themselves on the receiving end of the upset that patients and families are experiencing. In this interactive, reflective webinar, participants will learn practical strategies to help them de-escalate situations in which patients and family members are in distress.

Stress Management
During this 1-hour webinar, participants will learn more about acute and chronic stress and explore effective stress management strategies, especially for caregivers.

Confident Parents Thriving Kids Behaviour – Are We The Right Fit For You?
Confident Parents Thriving Kids Behaviour is a phone-based coaching program available to parents living in British Columbia since 2015 to help them manage challenging mild to moderate behaviours.

Principles of Psychological First Aid
This webinar provides an overview of the principles of psychological first aid, including what collective care means and how you can help others responsibly.

Healthy Sleep
This webinar will help participants: Understand why healthy sleep matters and how it impacts overall health and performance. Examine barriers to sleep (work, life demands, age and other factors). Explore circadian rhythms (how they can address shift work and other factors) to optimize sleep

Sick and Tired: A conversation about stress and fatigue
In a world ruled by pandemics, staff shortages, and public demands, it’s not unusual to feel like you’re barely hanging on, especially given the nature of caregiving. This unending loop between stress and fatigue is not easy to jump off. This session will address the relationship between stress and fatigue and what you can do to help maintain your health, your relationships, and your sanity!

Understanding Stress Injury and Enhancing Resiliency
Don’t miss the opportunity to learn specific resources such as daily self-care plans, just-in-time techniques and strategies for maintaining healthy coping strategies.

Emotional Intelligence at Work
Learn specific resources such as daily self-care plans, just-in-time techniques and strategies for maintaining healthy coping strategies with our experienced specialists.
Mental Health and Wellness
Creating a Space to be Heard: How Care to Speak Can Help
Learn about the current wellness of today’s force in the healthcare sector from the perspective of Care to Speak. Our speakers will guide us on identifying burn-out and vicarious traumatization red flags and recommendations to support better and understand our teams.
De-escalation Strategies for Healthcare
Overworked and stressed already, healthcare workers often find themselves on the receiving end of the upset that patients and families are experiencing. In this interactive, reflective webinar, participants will learn practical strategies to help them de-escalate situations in which patients and family members are in distress. Opportunities to discuss and troubleshoot scenarios will be included, allowing participants to apply the skills discussed in this training to real-life situations.
Stress Management
During this 1-hour webinar, which originally aired on April 24, 2023, participants will learn more about acute and chronic stress and explore effective stress management strategies, especially for caregivers. Stress management is an important aspect of overall mental health, burnout prevention and resilience for professionals who make a difference with their caring.
Principles of Psychological First Aid
This webinar provides an overview of the principles of psychological first aid, including what collective care means and how you can help others responsibly.
Healthy Sleep
This webinar will help participants: Understand why healthy sleep matters and how it impacts overall health and performance. Examine barriers to sleep (work, life demands, age and other factors). Explore circadian rhythms (how they can address shift work and other factors) to optimize sleep
How Leaders Can Support Mental Well-being and Performance Through Disruption
Provided by Wellness Works Canada, this webinar teaches how to integrate psychological support and mental health into existing workplace mechanisms.
Ask for Suppot
A free webinar presented by Margaret Tebbutt of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Boundaries in Balance
A free webinar presented by Lucette Wesley of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Cooking for Well-Being
Magaret Tebbutt of the Canadian Mental Health Association presents this concise webinar on the mental health benefits of cooking.
Self-Compassion Practice
Practice self-compassion and cultivate a greater sense of well-being. Research has demonstrated that higher levels of self-compassion are associated with increased happiness and connectedness, as well as decreased anxiety, depression, rumination and fear of failure. Featuring Alejandra Zibes, Registered Clinical Counsellor and Trauma and Sensitive Yoga Practitioner and Vicky Kenny, Yoga Instructor specializing in Trauma Sensitive, Nidra and Restorative Yoga.
Emotional Intelligence at Work
Learn the five attributes of Emotional Intelligence to help you deal with difficult interactions with peers, staff and clients.
Creating and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
This presentation outlines important interpersonal and professional boundaries for front-line staff, maintaining healthy boundaries and the interaction between boundaries, self-care, and resilience.
Sick and tired: A conversation about stress and fatigue
In a world ruled by pandemics, staff shortages, and public demands, it’s not unusual to feel like you’re barely hanging on, especially given the nature of caregiving. This unending loop between stress and fatigue is not easy to jump off. This session will address the relationship between stress and fatigue and what you can do to help maintain your health, relationships, and sanity!
Pandemic Response
Enhancing Psychological Health, Wellness and Resilience in the Era of COVID-19
In this webinar, Dr. Joti Samra, registered psychologist, discusses skills and strategies to help individuals improve their psychological health, resiliency and wellness, whether in the context of at home or in the workplace.
Supporting the Mental Health of Staff During COVID-19: Strategies being used in Long-Term Care
Learn how long-term care organizations are supporting their staff’s mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supporting the Mental Health of Staff During COVID-19: Strategies being used in Home Care
Learn how home care organizations are supporting their staff’s mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pain BC: Coping With Pain and Anxiety During COVID-19
The current COVID-19 health crisis can serve as an additional source of anxiety for people who live with chronic pain. When anxiety is left unmanaged, it can interfere with an individual’s health, well-being and ability to function in daily life.
In this webinar recording, psychologist Dr. Angie Ji discusses the relationship between anxiety and pain and shares several coping strategies people in pain can utilize to manage anxiety, and in turn pain, during this time of uncertainty. This webinar is open to both people with lived experience of pain and health care providers interested in learning more about coping strategies to share with clients.
Pain BC aims to enhance the well-being of all people living with pain through empowerment, care, education and innovation