Enhancing MHFA with Continued Learning: The Value of Bonus Study Courses
Introduction The new syllabus Mental Health First Aider (MHFA) courses have proven to be valuable in increasing mental health awareness and crisis intervention skills. Our experience delivering MHFA courses has taught us...
The Firefighters Podcast
Tim Rushmere joined https://www.firefighterspodcast.com/ host Pete Wakefield to talk about his journey from serving as an officer in the British Army, where he experienced first-hand the lack of understanding and...
Managing Workplace Stress
How Genesis Can Help Build Awareness and Improve Mental Health in Police and Fire & Rescue Services Stress in the workplace is a major challenge in the UK, with work-related stress, anxiety, and depression costing...
Seeking support from sources that may not seem obvious
Episode 27 of the Cheshire Police Federation podcast explores seeking support from sources that may not seem obvious. Can police officers learn about managing their mental health from colleagues who do similar...
Mental & Physical Wellbeing: The Parallels
Mental & Physical Wellbeing You can't run on a broken ankle. You can't train with a cold. If you don't eat, you won't have the energy to exercise. We know it's hard to stick with a training plan without someone to...
When does a mental illness become a disability?
In this article we unpack the key highlights from a recent workshop with our Associate Disability and Workplace Assessment Specialist, Ramin Salehi. Ramin, who has conducted over 10,000 workplace assessments discussed...
Our 6 step mental fitness toolkit
We all have different things that help us stay mentally fit. Everyone is different, and each of us will have different things that help keep our mental fitness in check. It’s worth noting that we do some of these...
Relational intelligence eats policy for breakfast
We've all experienced, to a greater or lesser extent, the largely negative but sometimes positive impacts of what can seem like a permacrisis in our lives and work. For example, just as we feel like we're getting out of...
Is Resilience a function of Risk and Security?
Should Resilience be the business of Risk and Security Functions, not HR? I'm here to share some thinking on Resilience with you from the individual and human perspective, and as I go through, I’ll make some...
How Managers can evolve into Wellbeing Champions’
An Introduction I spent 13 years in the Army - a soldier, an officer, a leader and a manager; the culture was supportive of employee wellbeing and welfare, despite not specifically broaching the topic of mental...