The new playbook for psychosocial risk.
Coming to Australia mid-late 2026.
Meet your psychosocial obligations. Build stronger, more supportive cultures.
Every Australian state now has enforceable psychosocial hazard laws. The Working Mind gives your workplace a structured, evidence-based training program to meet your compliance obligations while building a highly resilient team.
Developed by the Mental Health Commission in Canada and backed by a published meta-analysis across 8 independent workplace evaluations (n=155), The Working Mind is proven to reduce stigma and build real, measurable gains in resilience across your workforce.
Program Benefits.
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Boost Employee Performance
Give every employee, not just leaders, the tools to recognise stress early and stay resilient, in just one day.
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Equip Leaders with Confidence
Managers learn to manage psychosocial risk in their teams and respond to early warning signs with confidence.
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Transform Workplace Culture
Normalise conversations about mental health and reduce stigma at every level of the organisation.
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Meet Your Psychosocial Obligations
A structured, evidence-based response to Australia’s psychosocial hazard laws & codes of conduct.
COMPLEMENT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING.
Delivered alongside MHFA training, to demonstrate an organisation-wide commitment to mental health.
Mental Health First Aid and The Working Mind are complementary courses, often delivered together in workplaces.
The Working Mind builds culture: it raises awareness, reduces stigma and strengthens resilience across your workplace. MHFA, however, builds the capacity to act, coaching practical skills to recognise when someone’s struggling and respond in a crisis.
Enroll your staff in both programs, and build a workplace that holds confident conversations about mental health without judgement, and colleagues who know how to help when someone's struggling.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Program elements.
Delivered by accredited Mental Health First Aid Australia facilitators.
The Working Mind Delivery Format
A 1-day in-person, accredited facilitator-led training course, covering 4 different modules: mental health stigma, stress and resilience, the mental health continuum tool, and supporting your team (managers only).
Duration: 8 hours for managers, 5 hours for employees.
Training Outcomes
Understand mental health: employees will learn to recognise signs of good, declining and poor mental health in themselves and others.
Foster psychologically safe environments: embed mental health conversations into daily operations.
Address stigma at every level: challenge attitudes and promote respectful, informed approaches.
Build resilience: learn and practise coping strategies during times of stress.
Skilled leaders. Stronger teams. Supportive cultures.
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID INTERNATIONAL
Give every person on your team, not just the leaders, the confidence to notice, speak up, and look out for each other, long before a crisis arises.