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Birkbeck Business Week

Birkbeck Business Week. An alternative model for workplace wellbeing: emancipation through learning Elizabeth Cotton, Middlesex University. Mental health at work context. The bad news Precarious work and precarious workers Rise in demand and fall in supply of mental health services

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Birkbeck Business Week

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  1. Birkbeck Business Week An alternative model for workplace wellbeing: emancipation through learning Elizabeth Cotton, Middlesex University

  2. Mental health at work context • The bad news • Precarious work and precarious workers • Rise in demand and fall in supply of mental health services • Rise(?) of Workplace Wellbeing • Future research agenda

  3. Workplace Wellbeing • Corporate Social Responsibility/ HIV/AIDs trajectory • Credibility for employers • Credibility for employees • Stigma and tackling victimization • Employee engagement and participation linked to behaviour change

  4. Criticisms of wellbeing & positive psychology model • Simplification of positive psychology and cognitive behavioural methods • Keep calm and carry on • Ignores external realities • Denies conflict and adversarial employment relations • Individualizes collective issues • Stage set for superheroes • Has no principles

  5. Surviving Work Project • UK workplace tour: Can we develop a progressive approach to mental health at work? • Used concept of ‘resilience’ • Piloted online courses, Surviving Work Weekly @survivingwk • Surviving Work Library

  6. Emancipatory education • Active Learning or Participatory Methods originating in European Workers movements (Swedish and German) and emancipatory movements in Latin America (Freire) • Largest international system of adult education • Emancipatory aims • Empowerment through consciousness raising, problem identification and collective problem solving • Dialogic model using small group dynamics and collective tasks • Underpinned by principle of solidarity and practice of confidentiality

  7. Emancipatory model of resilience

  8. This is what we found • People like to talk • Helpful stuff for human beings • Realistic overlap • Real workplace capacity • Good use of the technology • Good use of unions

  9. Future of Workplace Wellbeing • From niche to mass provision • From training to social media • Shift in the experts

  10. www.survivingwork.org • @NHSE_Dean Never put off a difficult conversation. They just become harder, more stressful and more time consuming • @touretteshero would definitely be: Ask for help when you need it. • @AmandaKendal: Plug the earphones in and listen to the first act of 'Die Walküre' – well, that's how I've managed this morning. :-) and imagined myself in a helicopter. :-) • @bevwonderful If you can join a union, do so. You may find you are not the only one having a hard time. • @OptiflowNHF Let’s cut the serious stuff and get down to some heavy mucking about

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