A major mental health charity will focus on stress as part of an awareness campaign offering free workshops to help people cope in the workplace. 

May 14 - 20 marks Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, and Mind in Harrow will launch the Head for Work project focusing on helping people to create mentally healthy working environments.

Stress is the theme of the awareness campaign and how people cope when under pressure.

The charity said experiencing long-term stress can lead to mental health problems making the problem worse.

Mind in Harrow’s Head for Work scheme will deliver open workshops for workplaces entitled “How to Cope with Stress and Improve Your Wellbeing”, where people can feel valued and supported. 

Mind in Harrow’s chief executive, Mark Gillham, said: “In 2016/17 there were 12.5 million working days lost due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety. 

“Our Head for Work project delivers specialist, tailored mental health awareness training, which is employer focused. 

“The feedback from employers is that our training can help staff to better self-manage their stress levels.”

The Head for Work interactive workshop will explore the nature of stress and its causes and effects, and offer advice on how to deal with it. 

People will have an opportunity to identify their strengths, build on working strategies and creation an “action plan”.

To find out more visit https://how-to-cope-with-stress.eventbrite.co.uk or email Hanlie Burger on h.burger@mindinharrow.org.uk