Mind Wellbeing for the Workplace
Mind Wellbeing is a proactive training solution that transforms workplace mental health strategies from crisis management to collective resilience.
✘ The Misconception: "We provide an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with counseling sessions, so our duty of care is met."
The Reality: Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) and counseling services provide vital individual crisis support, but they only activate after an employee is already experiencing distress or psychological injury. In other words, they are reactive, and not proactive.
✘ The Misconception: "Our training courses cover first aid style crisis prevention, so we are preventing risks."
The Reality: While valuable for spotting and responding to psychological injury, these standard corporate mental health trainings typically step in after injury has been formed, so they are inherently reactive. When they do touch on prevention, it is often brief and limited to surface level lifestyle advice, rather than core skill building for prevention.
✘ The Misconception: "We run annual wellness days and bring in guest speakers."
The Reality: While excellent for temporary morale or isolated strategies, brief awareness events may not embed a deep rooted cultural shift within teams. The moment the speaker leaves, the old communication patterns, emotionally charged friction, and unhelpful team dynamics often rebound.
True psychosocial safety isn't just about responding to distress.
It’s about proactively preventing it.
First, a quick recap of the ISO 45003 and Australian WHS Codes of Practice:
Primary Control/Intervention
Proactive
Preventing mental health injury by changing the work environment/system. (e.g. adjusting workloads, clarifying roles, or improving dispute resolution systems).
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Let’s be realistic: no mental health training program can fix understaffing, change project deadlines or fund an under-resourced department.
However, Mind Wellbeing can actively support this sphere by upskilling managers to reduce their own stress baselines, enabling them to lead more effectively, design tasks with clarity, and communicate more effectively with their teams, rather than making reactive, stress-driven decisions.
Secondary Control/Intervention
Proactive
Equipping your team with the skills to manage and respond to unavoidable workplace stressors in order to mitigate psychosocial injury.
While not a replacement for primary interventions, but rather as a parallel measure, both international and Australian safety standards require employers to implement this type of measure.
Read on to learn why Fount offers the perfect solution to meet this need!
This is our
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ISO 45003 guidelines state that organisations should utilise secondary interventions to "decrease the impact of workplace stressors on workers' wellbeing" and "equip workers with the skills and resources to manage stress".
Under Australian work health and safety laws, employers have a duty to eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks by providing targeted training and instruction to help employees and supervisors:
Navigate difficult interactions and emotionally charged situations
Process and manage the risks of primary and vicarious trauma
Enhance team dynamics, communication skills, and conflict resolution
Improve baseline tolerance through support with coping with personal circumstances or past traumatic events
This is the core of the work that we do!
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Fount’s Mind Wellbeing program translates evidence based psychological frameworks into practical, day to day skills, to deliver these exact capabilities to your team:
Through structured modules on Emotion Regulation and cognitive restructuring, Mind Wellbeing teaches employees how to better navigate difficult interactions and emotionally charged situations.
Our targeted training provides staff with key capabilities to help with understanding and managing trauma, distress and burnout.
Dedicated chapters deliver communication and conflict resolution skills.
The curriculum is designed to improve baseline tolerance through foundational skills to enhance coping with current personal circumstances or past traumatic events.
Tertiary Control/Intervention
Responsive/Reactive
Providing treatment/rehabilitation to respond post injury, such as EAP and return to work programs.
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While Mind Wellbeing does not replace tertiary intervention measures, it can shift burden away from purely reactive care.
By providing teams with the tools to process personal circumstances and workplace strain independently, you can reduce the operational and financial burden on your EAP.
We don’t just give staff a checklist of hazards…
We give them actual clinical tools (like cognitive reframing, emotion regulation, and advanced communication skills) to build their:
emotional resilience
stress tolerance
communication effectiveness
…to prevent hazards or psychological injury.
At a Glance:
Disclaimer: The information on this page is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute formal legal or occupational health and safety advice. Organizations should consult their own risk and legal counsel to ensure full compliance with regional WHS legislation.
It gets better.
At Fount™, we’ve set out to remove as many barriers as possible so that more of the population can receive mental health education.
One key way we have achieved this is by engineering Mind Wellbeing to do away with traditional training bottlenecks, such as costly external facilitators, lengthy train the trainer courses, and ongoing accreditation fees.
Discover how easy it is to roll out the Mind Wellbeing program across your entire organisation.
Learn more about the curriculum or order copies for your workplace or school.
Our StoryDiscover the journey that brought us here: the challenge we set out to solve, and the mission driving our mental health education.
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