How Modern Health is Destigmatizing Mental Health and Well-Being at Work

How Modern Health is Destigmatizing Mental Health and Well-Being at Work

With mental health awareness day happening this month, I wanted to find a podcast that could help us have a discussion about mental health in the workplace. I ended up selecting this great episode on the Culture Happens podcast from HubSpot (a series that we’ve featured on ally podcast club previously).

In this episode we hear from Alyson Watson, the CEO of Modern Health, about how their digital platform is enabling people to proactively find support wherever they are in their mental health journey.

Though the podcast was good, I would definitely say it was the discussion that was the star this week when we met here in my team - with people really opening up and sharing. I hope that you are able to do some of the same with your crew.

Suggested discussion questions (if you need something to start the conversation):

• Have you ever struggled with a mental health issue? What helped you get through?

• Does your workplace offer mental health resources?

• Have you ever felt a stigma around mental health? Either now or growing up?

• As a manager have you ever had to try and help an employee with a mental health concern? How did you handle it? What resources did you turn to for help?