Create a Mentally Healthy, Resilient Workplace

The WISE Resilience program is like a protective shield for the brain. This eight week neuroplasticity program is designed to enhance mental resilience and psychological safety in your workplace.  Mental resilience is one of the most powerful protective factors against stress, psychological distress and the development of mental health conditions.

Mental resilience is not something you are born with, it is a skill you build. Our eight week WISE Resilience program is the blueprint for building that skill. If you are looking for a unique program that strengthens leadership, and drastically improves mental wellbeing and team culture in your workplace you have come to the right place.

The program provides a deep understanding of brain functions related to mental health, offering transformative insights and strategies for managing anxiety, depression, stress, empathic distress and trauma. This program is particularly impactful for participants by completing their understanding of mental health and fostering better relationships in personal and professional spheres.

The WISE Choice

This neuroscience-based brain changing program is designed to calm the mind and generate psychological and adaptive resilience. Described as “one of the first mental health prevention programs in the workplace that really works”,  employees learn evidence-based tools and practices for self-care, sleep, emotional regulation, as well as overcoming stress, anxiety, panic, trauma, empathic distress and depression. We are committed to helping employees improve their lives and minds.

Through participation in this innovative program, participants have the opportunity to learn strategies and tools that re-wire neural pathways and change the structure of the brain. These tools include:

  • Rewiring the negativity bias. Building more positive emotion in the brain through gratitude practices and positive awareness practices.
  • Training the mind, understanding the workings of the brain, using positive psychology tools to change the brain structurally and build positive emotion.
  • Changing the brain from the bottom up (i.e. working through the body (somatic) and senses to change the brain and enhance the size of the insula. This ‘felt-sense’ part of the brain is crucial for introception, insight, coping ability, empathy, compassion and preventing depression re-lapse).
  • Learning how to self-regulate.
  • Developing personal resilience, problem-solving skills and coping with the stresses of everyday life.
  • Dealing with challenges and difficulties with more grace and composure.
  • Being fully present and happy, with a stable mind.
  • Regulate and modulate our emotional empathy towards other people’s distress.
  • Preventing and lessening the impact of burnout, vicarious trauma and empathic distress fatigue.

Backed by Science

Engage Health’s mental resilience programs are not just “feel-good” tick the box training. They are based on decades of rigorous scientific research into the brain’s capacity for change. We leverage the powerful, proven principles of neuroscience, as well as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness- Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to deliver measurable results.

An eight-week mindfulness-based resilience program can help alleviate a wide-range of psychosocial risk factors such as poor leadership and support, bullying, aggression and violence and exposure to vicarious trauma.   The training has been proven to alleviate a vast range of physical and psychological difficulties too, including: stress, anxiety, burnout, trauma, insomnia, depression, empathic distress, high blood pressure, and more. Our own pilot studies support the efficacy of this research.

Structural Brain Change is the Key to Lasting Resilience

Compelling research has shown that mental fitness training of this kind literally lead to structural changes in key areas of the brain associated with mental and emotional regulation:

  • Pre-frontal Cortex, Amygdala, Insula, and Cingulate Cortex: These top four regions, critical to mental health, are structurally and functionally improved.
  • Hippocampus: We see significant positive changes in this area responsible for learning, memory, and emotional regulation.
  • Self-Awareness and Compassion: Neural regions associated with introspection and self-compassion are strengthened.

Our Unique Workplace Solution

We are delighted to offer this truly unique  program, specifically tailored for the workplace. The content has been carefully designed to provide all the holistic mental wellbeing and psychological resilience benefits of the original MBSR/MBCT model, while remaining completely inclusive and free from religious or spiritual bias.

Benefits of Training for Participants

Participants who undertake our programs benefit from:

  • Improved self- awareness, self-management and self-regulation.
  • Improved cognitive function- including greater focus, concentration, memory, learning ability and creativity.
  • Less habitual reactivity and heightened emotional intelligence.
  • Lower stress.
  • Heightened psychological resilience, ability to recover quickly from stress and life’s difficulties.
  • Increased ability to manage emotions and adapt to change.
  • Presence in every aspect of their life.
  • Reduced compassion fatigue and accumulative trauma.
  • Enhanced ability to regulate one’s emotional response to other people’s distress (reduced empathic distress fatigue).
  • Presentation of vicarious (secondary) trauma.
  • Enhanced sense of well-being and life satisfaction.
  • Improved leadership skills and communication.
  • Improved relationships (at home and at work).
  • Ability to listen more attentively and be present.
  • Reduced symptoms of poor mental health and mental illness.
  • Enhanced immune system and healing capacity for the body.

Benefits of Training for the Employer

Our training provides businesses with tangible and intangible return on investment including:

  • Improved employee engagement and communication amongst teams.
  • Increased productivity.
  • Reduced mental health injuries, stress leave or psychological claims.
  • Reduced absenteeism, unplanned leave and associated financial costs.
  • Reduced symptoms of poor mental and physical health.
  • Better capacity to adapt to change.
  • Happier, healthier, calmer employees.
  • More mindful leaders and an effective top-down approach to mental health prevention.

Our Tailored Programs

Our signature WISE Resilience program is provided to organisations with online facilitator-led workshops. In addition to the one hour workshop per week, the WISE Online ‘mental gym’ program unlocks content and neuroscience-based practices one week at a time. These practices are designed to change the brain structurally and cultivate long-term positive health behaviours and habits.

Our eight week program can be tailored as a mindful leadership training to incorporate mental health awareness and mental health response training. It is available to executives, managers, team leaders and senior employees at all levels.

Click here to read about our WISE Resilience program for schools, universities and tafes. https://educationaus.net.au/engage-health/