Sticky Learning Lunches #21: Having a Mental Health Conversation Bothers Me

Use this 4-part model of M.I.N.D to have an effective mental health conversation. This is especially important when working from home.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon. Welcome to Sticky Learning Lunches with me, Nathan Simmons. Yes, I'm really excited about it. Okay. Admittedly, I've been excited previously. Every day is my favorite day. We're gonna be covering some really deep stuff, some stuff that is really personal to me, something that's really important to me. Um, and it's stuff that we, I think a lot of us here in some way, shape or form, have experiences in on, on either end of the equation. So we're just waiting for the last few people to join in. I just wanna make sure I've got full view, seeing some regulars here, which is nice.

Nathan Simmonds:

Colin, Andy. Darren, good to see you. Good. Thank you very much for being here again. Got Matt in Vicki again, good to see you. And new faces, which I'm super excited about as well. It's great to be sharing some of this content with some new people, sharing ideas, just giving it 30 seconds while we're waiting for everyone to get into the room. First things first, as always, he says with this, just reminding me to be here for sticky learning. Shut that down.

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Nathan Simmonds:

First things, first, phones. Let's get your phones out. Let's make sure they're all on flight mode. Mine is, let's zero out the distractions. We're gonna be covering some serious content today, and I wanna make sure that you are giving yourself a hundred percent attention. Not just what I'm saying or what I'm sharing, or the questions that I'm asking, that you are giving yourself 100% of your attention right now as we go through this content. Okay? Next thing is making sure we've got drinks available. Nice cup of tea.

Nathan Simmonds:

Make sure, again, like I say, it's reducing the distraction. So you've got a drink available. Phone is off, Facebook's closed down, LinkedIn done. You haven't got WhatsApp, pinging, buzzing, beeps, nothing. Making sure. So you've got your papers ready. If you've got a notepad available, fresh piece of paper, let's make sure it's the fresh page that again, you can just, uh, devote to the content of today.

Nathan Simmonds:

And at the top of that page, you're gonna write keepers. Now, keepers are the things you wanna keep hold of. They're the things that you want to remember. The things that you want to go back to that are going to evoke a new train of thought. So after listening to today's content, when you go back and read those notes, it's gonna be the things that keeps the thinking and the learning going. That's what sticky learning is all about, making it stick. So good. I think we're all here. I think we're all here right now. Let's make sure we can see everyone there. Good. So let's get into the content today. Welcome to today's lunchtime learning.

Nathan Simmonds:

My name is Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM, making Business Matter, the Holistic Learning. And we are the leadership and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. These lunchtime learnings, these micro elements of content about helping you be the best version of you in the work that you do right now, where you are, whether you are working from home or in the office, and also preparing you for the return to work as well. So let's get into this. What are we covering for this week? We are covering mind. We are gonna be talking about mental health. We are gonna be

Nathan Simmonds:

Helping you create the right questions and the right focuses to develop the conversations that you need to be having with your teams. Show of yeses and nos. Who here has experience of mental health? Um, I'm not sure challenges is the right word, but you know, from, from a personal point of view, who here has some,