Training
Training plays a significant part in mitigating and identifying psychological risk. It also provides expert learning of how to manage and provide timely care and solutions for employees before professional help is secured.
Our courses are professionally presented and cover various topics.
We offer an extensive suite of training courses for the General Workforce, Supervisors & Leaders and Corporate Settings. All Gryphon Psychology training courses are delivered by qualified mental health professionals.
Training and Consultancy Services are:
- Evidence based
- Informed by our 20 years + experience working within the industry
- Compliment the Gryphon Psychology EAP service and contribute to the wholistic support for employees.
- Reducing risk and contributing to a psychologically healthy workforce
Training and Consultancy is available for:
Fatigue – Programs ranging from a brief Intro to Fatigue package, through to comprehensive training for employees and leaders, and refresher training courses.
Our comprehensive Fatigue Training Course has been delivered to over 50 000 employees from safety sensitive industries and in multiple countries around the world.
Alcohol and Other Drugs – Programs ranging from Intro to Alcohol and Other Drugs through to comprehensive Alcohol and other drugs training.
Mental Health Awareness
The Mental Health Awareness Training Program is designed to provide a baseline overview of mental health, what is is, why it’s important to look after one’s mental health and when and how to reach out for support.
Mental Health at Work – Level 1 (Employee)
Targeted at employees, the Mental Health at Work training program offers a comprehensive look into mental health, what it is, why it’s important to look after one’s mental health and when and how to reach out for support. This training program includes a workbook inclusive of a self- assessment tool.
Mental Health at Work – Level 2 (Supervisor/Leader/Specialists)
Targeted at Supervisors, Leaders, Health and Safety Specialists and Human Resources staff, this training program seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of mental health within the work context. Importantly, it focuses not only on identifying and supporting those at risk but in managing these risks within a safety sensitive industry context.
STOP (Suicide Training on Prevention)
A training course that can assist attendees in identifying and managing suicide risk in the workplace. This training course seeks to increase participant understanding of suicidal behaviour and equip them with the basic tools needed to potentially help someone in the workplace who may be at risk of suicide.
Critical Incident Training – A training program to prepare coordinators and responders to manage the psychological impacts of critical incidents.
Emergency Services Officer Training – A specific training and assessment program for first responders.
Acute Mental Health Guidelines – We can assist your organisation to develop policies in dealing with acute mental health crisis situations as well as training for first responders.
Wellbeing Sessions – Wellbeing sessions are brief, targeted sessions designed to enhance knowledge and understanding of a specific wellbeing area. These can include sessions focused on understanding specific mental health disorders (Understanding Anxiety, Understanding Depression, Supporting someone with mental illness), improving relationships (healthy relationships, managing FIFO relationships), building personal skills (assertiveness, public speaking, time management, communication skills), managing personal mental health (building resilience, improving self-esteem, managing stress, avoiding the slippery slope to burnout, improving sleep) or navigating workplace problems (coping with workplace change, achieving work/life balance). The options and list of sessions is endless.
6 Key Factors to Resilience – Workshop Series – This wellbeing series occurs over 6 sessions and covers in detail the 6 key factors of resilience, gives participants an opportunity to assess themselves with how they are tracking with their level of resilience and creates an opportunity to set personal goals.
Gryphon Psychology has successfully assisted many organisations to set up and maintain successful peer programs. A peer support program seeks to establish a volunteer group of employees who get trained in the appropriate skills to assist colleagues who are impacted by stress. Peer Support programs help by; creating an additional avenue of support for employees, creating a linkage between workforce and professional services, helping to reach employees who typically wouldn’t ask for assistance, and facilitating conversation around mental health and reduce the stigma associated with help seeking. Gryphon’s approach to peer support uses best practice principles in ensuring that the peer support group are appropriately screened, adequately trained and remain supported across the entirety of undertaking their role. Gryphon assists from initial set up to training to ongoing monitoring and support.
Peer Support Training
Peer Support Training is a comprehensive, skills based, experiential learning program. It’s designed to ensure that participants are appropriately trained and ready to undertake the voluntary role of “peer supporter” within their workplace.
Peer Support – Leaders Training
The leader training is designed to specifically support leaders in understanding the context and intent of the peer support program established at their site.
Peer Support Refresher
Our Peer Support Refresher training ensures that existing peer supporters continue to stay up to date with the appropriate knowledge and skills required to maintain their role of peer supporter. This training is recommended every 12-24mths for peer supporters.
Healthy Workplace Culture
Understanding what constitutes and contributes to a healthy workplace culture, knowing what respectful behaviours looks like and learning effective communication and personal stress management strategies are covered in this training program. This training has helped teams and workplaces with renewed knowledge and skills in building a healthier workplace culture.
Dealing with Difficult Behaviours
The Dealing with Difficult Behaviours training course can help your employees to manage situations where difficult behaviors are exhibited. Understanding what influences behavioral reactions and being equipped with newly learnt diffusion techniques can assist those who are managing these situations to feel more confident.
DISC
DISC is the most widely used behavioural model in the world. It is a resource for individuals and organisations desiring to improve performance, increase productivity and to positively motivate other people. Gryphon Psychology have DISC accredited consultants who can assist your team to achieve increased insight into self and each other’s approaches, needs and motivations.
Psychological Risk Assessment Suite
- Most organisations need support to manage and control psychosocial risks.
- Most organinsations need formal, achievable, and comprehensive advice to achieve the required standard of strategy and policy around Mental Health at Work.
Our Psychological Risk Assessment Suite, available as a complete Psychological Health Audit or as needed solo undertakings offers organisations valuable data brought forward by various assessment and reviews that can be conducted to provide detailed recommendations of best practice strategy, policy development and implementation for managing and mitigating psychosocial risk.
Through the right combination of activities an organisation can expertly strengthen their position on managing and preventing psychosocial risks in line with their duty of care.
| Psychological Risk Assessment Suite | ||
| Activity / Assessment Name | Activity / Assessment Description | Psychological Health Audit. Implementation of the full Suite of Activities. |
| Culture and Community Psychological Safety Report | Assessment of the level of safety within project/sites organisational workforce. Analysis of data of organisational culture – considering environmental and social factors. Analysis of historic and current organisational held Employee Satisfaction Surveys. (Administered through onsite focus groups). | |
| Mental Health Policies, Procedures and Strategy Review | A Document Policy Review including assessment of effectiveness of existing policies and procedures pertaining to psychological related policy. (Non-employee Engaging). This process includes a review of policies, procedures and strategies and provides feedback against meeting related National and State Standards. | |
| EAP Pulse Check | Assessing current available EAP services help by the organisation. Analysis of the utilisation and performance of the in-place EAP. An EAP Pulse Check reviews: – EAP model – Ease of use – Responsiveness of CIR. (Can include mock CIR This activity is customisable. | |
| Job Design Survey | Assessing targeted teams who may be experiencing high turnover, poor job satisfaction and/or underperformance. Assessment of job design factors that influence job motivation. Measuring of job motivation potential and providing recommendations of job design improvement. | |
| Mental Health at Work Survey | Seeks employee input into their perception of:*The factors that they believe influence mental health and wellbeing at work (identification of potential psychosocial hazards)*Their current state of mental health (current level of personal psychological risk)*The organisation’s efforts in managing psychological risk (current risk management) | |
| Roster Analysis | Assessing safety and risk associated with rosters of those employees whose roles are deemed Safety Sensitive. Providing feedback in relation to fatigue / risk. | |