We’re committed to pushing the needle on mental health inclusion. We focus not only on raising awareness of what mental illness is, but on teaching you how to create an environment where team members can disrupt their biases, feel safe to share, hold more inclusive conversations and more.
Our training raises awareness about the stigma around mental health challenges, teaches leaders how to interrupt biases and fosters discussions about how to build resilience and prioritize personal wellbeing. Our cutting-edge programming can be targeted to leaders and team members at all levels:
We aim to equip leaders with the language and tools needed to hold inclusive and supportive mental health conversations with team members
We teach evidence-based stress reduction strategies and the tools needed for when to reach out for help
At bci, we offer advisory services and expert guidance to organizations on how to embed mental health inclusion concepts within your processes and practices, in order to foster an open dialogue around mental health and wellness and to help you build the necessary infrastructure that reflects best practices in this space.
One of the biases around mental health, particularly in North American cultures, is that we presume that we can label others — that it’s okay for us to choose the label we then apply to others. We foreground our perceptions and judgments over people’s personal preferences on how they want to be referred to and how they want to identify.
One of the best ways that we can foreground the person and not their illness, as well as recognize who the expert is and who has the most knowledge around their own mental health, is the very neutral language around experience.
So for example, rather than saying, “Neena has depression,” instead we might say, “Neena is a person with lived experience of depression.” The word “experience” can be really powerful.
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During these stressful and uncertain times, it’s more important than ever to be inclusive and to consciously practice anti-racism. bci has created a free tip sheet with key strategies and tools that you can use to interrupt COVID-19-related racial bias.
