Sticky Learning Lunches #23: 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 everybody. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch. I'm not leaving the room, I'm just getting my phone. I've left it on the other side again. Good afternoon everyone. Hello. Hello. Welcome people just joining the room. Great to see you. Vicki. Lovely to see you again. Tracy Bravida, Matt, Laura, Carolina. Hello again. Jason, Gabrielle, Colin, Adam. It's great. I'm getting some regulars. Some old friends, some new friends. Hello, hello. Getting some hellos coming up. If you wanna say hi, please type, type, hi.

Nathan Simmonds:

I know you and then you are, you are with me. You are fully attentive because I can see when you're not on the little box over here, I can see when you're looking at other webpages, people, how are we on a scale of one to 10, how are we feeling? One terrible, 10 amazing. Where are we on this scale ourselves. Let's check in with ourselves. Mental health isn't just about the people you are working with. It is about yourselves. I talk about self-leadership as a, as a technique, as an understanding. If you cannot lead yourself, you cannot lead anybody else.

Importance of having a mental health conversation when working from home

 

Nathan Simmonds:

So it's super important that when we're working with mental health and mental wellbeing, that we're checking with ourselves to make sure we're okay. Let's think about focus. What is the best part of your week so far? Let's get this into the, the questions box as well. I, I share some of these. What is the best part of your week so far that is filling you with joy, appreciation, love, gratitude, whatever it is. And I wanna see some of them. 'cause in that it then balances off me as well. Had a pretty good morning clearing the decks. Nice knowing Friday's, two days away, Adam. Don't be like that. The sun. Nice

Nathan Simmonds:

Session's in place for mental health week. All filled. Nice. Nice self development. Seeing my own son develop so much from homeschooling. He is loving the one-to-one. Yeah, absolutely. The people homeschooling and people are saying, you know, they're seeing their, their children developing so much. It's amazing. Sticking to the running, ah, sessions in place for the mental health awareness. We call Phil, they, maybe we need to have a conversation. David, there's maybe there's some synergies here that we can share and bounce off with each other, right? We are all in the room.

Nathan Simmonds:

Amazing to see you all. Good afternoon people. So David, if you feel any need you would like to reach out, please do. Just lemme know. I'd love to have a conversation. See how I can help with that. Hello Andrea. Good to see you. I set you all up for success. Always David, thank you. Just come and follow me on LinkedIn. Drop me a connection or, or an email or whatever. I'm happy to share. I'll get the, my email address in the chat box briefly and we can continue that conversation. Let's make sure we've all got their phones out.

Nathan Simmonds:

Phones first. Everybody on flight mode, a hundred percent attention on you. This is all about you. This is a selfish 30 minutes, which is all about you. And I'm not gonna sing any songs. It's no, we're not gonna do that. A hundred percent attention on you. What we're gonna share today and continuing the dialogue around mental health, mental health awareness, and the tools and techniques that I use and I use with other people to support them. Making sure you've got a fresh page in your notepad available. At the top of that you're gonna write keepers. This is for you to get those things you wanna remember and the things you wanna bring back to your thinking when you read back through your notes.