Wellness resources
Information sheets
These information sheets are part of the AVA's Telephone Counselling Service and can be downloaded and used for yourself or for your workplace. There are also a number of helpful fact sheets with more information which can be downloaded from the Converge website. Please enter the user name: converge and password eap to access the additional resources.
Fact sheets
Successful work and personal relationships at work
Tips to healthy relationships and resolving conflict
Understanding what makes a positive relationship
Tips for couples to have a successful and rewarding relationship
Tips to learn the skill of assertive communication
How mutual respect when communicating can result in a win-win situation
Things to consider when trying to resolve conflict
Posters
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
No road is long with good company
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands
Fact sheets
Practical suggestions to help you reduce Christmas stress this year
Tips To help you get back your zest
Warning signs of stress or depression over the Christmas period
Dealing with others and yourself during the Christmas gathering
The holiday season can present stresses around time and money
Demystifies some of the expectations during the festive season
Posters
It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos
It’s not about having time, it’s about making time
General stress during the festive season
Stress in the family during the festive season
Fact sheets
Supporting people in communities affected by floods & natural disasters
Providing support to crisis affected people
It is critical that actions are taken early to reduce risks
Understand the signs of a mental health condition and how to help
How we can best help a friend or family member who is having difficulties
Posters
Sometimes we need support to stand strong
Depression is not a sign of weakness
Workmates notice when something is not quite right
Encouragement and hope are the two most powerful qualities
Mental health check in tip sheet and checklist
Features tips and advice on checking that you and your teammates are OK.
Seeking help for depression or anxiety can have many benefits.
Tips for overcoming depression
Understanding mental health challenges
Follow these positive steps to get back to a state of mental wellness
Take proactive and positive steps to maintain mental wellbeing
A guide for managing employees reporting thoughts of self-harm
Finding it difficult to find the time or strategies to be mindful in your life?
Exercises to live with more awareness
Making behavioural change towards a healthy lifestyle
Discovering how to manage priorities and get a balance that's right for you
How we determine our own happiness through our perspective and decisions
Covers the physical stress suffered from high temperatures
Signs of stress after a traumatic event and coping suggestions
Coping with the trauma of floods & natural disasters
Awareness of men’s health issues and tips for maintaining wellbeing
Making time to be a dad and men's mental health
Tips to get started making lifestyle changes.
Steps that can successfully assist in breaking bad habits for the long term.
How to abandon old habits and make lifestyle changes.
Navigating change (for managers)
Navigating change in the new year
How to start the new year off with a fresh focus and renewed energy
Tips for keeping resolutions rather than setting the same ones every year
Behavior change takes time and perseverance
Setting goals using the SMART approach
Powerful written goals in seven easy steps
7 Steps to making change and making them stay for good
Posters
Sometimes we need someone to simply be there
Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones
The mind and the body are not separate. What affects one, affects the other
Mental health is everyone’s business
One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
Being happy lies in the power of finding happiness in common things
Your own self-realisation is the greatest service you can render to the world
Don't let the world blow your candle out
1 in 5 men will experience anxiety in their lives
You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts
Breaking old habits and forming new ones
Successful people are simply those with successful habits
Happiness is a habit – cultivate it
The changes ahead and building resilience
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular
Your goals are road maps that guide you
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.
Be proud of every step you take towards reaching that goal
Motivation gets you moving. Determination keeps you going
Mentally Healthy Workplaces tools and resources
https://beta.mentallyhealthyworkplaces.gov.au/
Fact sheets
Advice and strategies for achieving work/life balance
Communication and collaboration tip sheet
Communication and collaboration flyer
Quick tips for work life balance
Tips for achieving a work life balance
Overcoming difficulties in a professional relationship
Some tips for getting to common ground at work
Creating healthy workplaces (comprehensive version)
Workplace wellbeing is a continuous commitment
Workplaces can play an active role in developing and maintaining wellbeing
Psychological injury and stress can occur in any workplace
Returning to work from parental leave
How organisational change can create uncertainty
Celebrating diversity in the workplace
Celebrating diversity in the workplace (comprehensive version)
Celebrating diversity in the workplace (short version)
Workplaces are becoming multicultural and cross-generational communities.
Tips to help you participate in respectful cross cultural communication
Effective communication with someone who seems different to you
Supporting employees and managing work performance
About Manager Assist coaching and advisory service for managers.
The requirements and challenges of being a parent
Posters
Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back
Being successful means having a balance of success stories
Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create
Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week and your work
Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes many positives
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself
Nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage positive behaviours
You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life
Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create
The balance has to be within you
Organisation is about efficiency and improving your quality of life
You can’t have everything and do everything at the same time
Knowing how to get along with people
When "I" is replaced by "We" even illness becomes wellness
Good people, bring out the good in other people
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours
We are a team because we trust, respect and care for each other
A psychologically healthy workplace fosters employee health and wellbeing
A psychologically healthy workplace enhances organisational performance
Anyone can start today and make a new ending
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together
A lot of different flowers make a bouquet
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture
Winning workplaces are built on successful teams (female group)
Winning workplaces are built on successful teams (male group)
Good communication helps personal relationships
Other resources to help you and those around you including checklists, apps and other items across a range of topics on mental health and wellbeing.
Articles and surveys
List of support services for download
A guide for managing employees reporting thoughts of self-harm - Converge
Occupational mobility and suicide media release - 2016
VetSet2Go - Building veterinary employability - 2016
General information and other resources
Beyond Blue - Anxiety checklist
Beyond Blue - Understanding anxiety & depression (PDF)
Beyond Blue - Mental health support for small business owners
Blue pages - Information on treatments for depression based on the latest scientific evidence.
BUPA Healthier Workplaces - Resource tools available for managing mind, body health - 2016
BUPA - Emotional health in the workplace
CALM -Computer assisted learning for the mind
Converge - Creating healthy workplaces poster
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) connect app - Information and support for issues that impact your work, health and life.
Heads up - The Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance
Makeheadway - Wellness poster by Dr Cathy Warburton
MoodGYM - Free online cognitive behaviour program, to help you identify and overcome problem emotions.
MyCompass - Self-help tool for individuals to better self manage mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.
SafeWork NSW - Mentally healthy workplace small business coaching
Self Compassion - guided meditations
Smiling Mind - Mindfulness meditation programs - 2016
Suicide Prevention Pathways - Suicide awareness services and programs
The Webinar Vet - Mindfulness recorded sessions - 2017
This way up - Online learning courses and tools to help with depression and anxiety.
Vetlife- The British Veterinary Association website on the health and welfare of veterinarians.
"Vets in Mind" mental wellbeing app
There are also a range of free meditation apps available for download.