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HEALTH…empowering
MASTERS
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The old adage, Knowledge is Power, holds true when it comes to
empowering employees and their family members for increasing the
skills needed to embrace higher levels of mental health and self-care.
Health Masters’ research into advanced behavioral
health sciences is helping people learn how to better
care for their mental-emotional health. This means
your employees and their family members can:
PP Develop the skills needed to
overcome a mental illness.
PP Minimize the susceptibility to
becoming mentally ill.
PP Enhance their mental health to achieve
important mental health goals.
When people lack this knowledge and these
skills, they are vulnerable to the effects of an
unhealthy psychology.This can result in unhealthy lifestyle choices, poor relationship
skills, and poor workplace performance.
How Does Health Masters Work?
Health Masters is a virtual, facilitated, and interactive workshop carried out during lunch hours in
the workplace for seven weeks. Tailored to train
participants to improve their mental health, participants gain valuable mental health strategies and skills
in a non-judgmental, encouraging, and supportive
environment. Minimal work is required on the
employer’s part to host a Health Masters workshop.
Options to attend a Health
Masters Workshop
PP Health Masters In-house Groups
5-15 Individuals will meet in a designated
room within the workplace
PP Health Masters Virtual Groups
5-15 Individuals will meet using a
telephone conference line
PP A combination of the above two platforms
Health Masters Schedule:
January, April and September are times of change. Health
Masters local and interactive workshops begin every January 15th, April 15th, and September 15th. Each workshop
runs 1 hour during lunch, once a week, for seven weeks.
Details on How to Implement Health
Masters into Your Organization:
PP Recruit Health Masters host
PP Host undergoes training
PP Health Masters is promoted and
participants register online
PP A private room is secured
PP The first session of Health Masters is carried out
Who can participate?
Participants can be almost anyone. They can be individuals who want to improve their own mental–emotional health or that of their loved ones. Alternatively,
they can be individuals who understand the importance of learning valuable strategies to help deal with
mental wellness issues that are part of everyday life.
PP Weekly check-ins and activities between participants
are carried out via telephone or in-person
PP The remaining seven Health Masters
sessions and activities are carried out
PP Participants are sent tips via email by the facilitator
PP Participants have access to a Health Masters
counselor or their company’s EAP program,
which can be integrated into Health Masters
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Health Masters Topics:
YOUR PSYCHOLOGY:
Most of us have never spent
time creating awareness of our
psychological functions. Nor
have we spent the time learning
the skills needed to optimize our
mental health. This leaves many
of us at increased risk for developing mental health issues. New
discoveries about your brain’s
neuroplasticity, along with the
development of web-based
distance education, are bringing
new hope by teaching people
how to enhance their mental
health or overcome a mental illness. Your Psychology is a short
manual that will help readers to
learn skills developed out of the
advanced behavioral sciences
and apply them to their lives.
PLAY & LAUGHTER:
George Bernard Shaw said, “We
don’t stop playing because we
grow old, we grow old because
we stop playing”. This health
guide takes a serious look at
play and laughter and the importance of including these as
important part of our lives. The
benefits of incorporating play and
laughter into our lives are well
documented. Play and laughter
are important at all ages of life,
contributing to good emotional,
mental, and physical health and
wellbeing. Play at leisure and at
work have been show to improve
relationships, team work, creativity, productivity, focus, and stress
management. Laughter yields
benefits of increased immune
system function, decreased stress
hormone production, emotional
regulation and enhanced learning.
This guide provides you with insight into how much you play and
laugh, why you may not play and
laugh enough, and how to bring
play and laughter back into your
life in healthy ways. Are you ready
to become a FunMaker?
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HAPPINESS & JOY:
Becoming a student of how to
bring more joy and happiness
into your life is a conscious
choice. It is possible, regardless
of your life circumstances and
situation, to become such a student and learn the skills needed
to bring these things into your
life. The first step is to understand what the differences are
between happiness and joy:
Happiness is getting a promotion at work
Joy comes from being thankful
for your work
Happiness is a white wine
paired with the perfect dessert
Joy is being conscious you have
access to food and water at all
times
Happiness is irregular; it comes and goes
Joy can come and go, but it’s
always a choice
“United Nations’ second annual
International Day of Happiness
was established to promote the
idea that cheerfulness improves
mental and physical wellness.”
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INTERPERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS:
Events that occur in our childhood can impact our ability to
develop and maintain healthy
relationships. Furthermore,
developing relationships is so
integral to our human nature
that in the absence of real
ones, our mental health can
be negatively affected. This
guide shows how mental illness can result from relationship fractures. It will train
participants to recognize fractures in their early stages and
how to avoid deepening them,
as well as show how to repair
our fractures with significant
people, such as our family
and friends.
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FRIENDS:
Health Masters Topics:
From birth, most people begin
forming connections with their
mother, father, siblings, and,
eventually, friends. Our need for
healthy friendships is so strong
that behavioral experts are discovering a direct correlation between
our lack of true friends and our
susceptibility to mental illness.
This lack can impact our ability to
cope with life’s challenges as well.
The irony is that we live in a
knowledge-based society that
provides us the resources to develop the skills needed to perform
all sorts of complex tasks. But,
when it comes to those relationships which are essential to our
psychological health, we are often
left to muddle through them on
our own.
People need people. In this Health
Masters session, we train participants on how to become skilled
in the 17 attributes of being a
good friend and holding onto their
relationships. Participants may
also develop lasting relationships
as they practice their skills with
others in the group.
ANGER:
Anger: Is it constructive or
destructive?
In a survey, 1000 people were
asked what their experience
of becoming angry was. Over
86% of those who responded
described their experience
as being negative. For them,
anger resulted in negative
outcomes and emotional
pain. Although many people
experience this emotion as
being negative, our anger can
actually be very helpful. The
critical difference between
whether anger is experienced
as negative or helpful is
determined by whether we
express our angry emotions
constructively or destructively.
In this seven week workshop,
participants will learn how to
express their anger in constructive ways with others.
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