Corporate Training · Mental Health & Wellbeing
Wellbeing Essentials is an in-house workshop that uses a mindfulness framework to teach your staff practical, evidence-based techniques for looking after their psychological and social wellbeing and reducing the impact of stress at work. We come to you, or meet you online.
Your staff will leave with simple, evidence-based habits that help them manage stress and look after their own wellbeing, at work and at home.
The business case
Safe Work Australia, Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2025 (October 2025); PwC for Beyond Blue and the National Mental Health Commission.
Staff who have no way of managing stress usually show it first as tiredness and short tempers, and later as sick days and, in the end, resignations. When it becomes a claim, a serious psychological injury keeps a person away from work for a median of 35.7 weeks. Most people are never taught how to manage stress, although the skills are simple and they can start using them the next day.
Under the Model WHS Regulations you must identify psychosocial hazards, which include high job demands, and control the risks so far as is reasonably practicable. That duty sits with the organisation and is met mainly through the way work is designed. A wellbeing workshop builds your staff's own capacity to cope alongside those controls rather than in place of them, and it is a documented step you can point to.
What participants learn
Each one is a specific, practical thing your staff can use the day after the workshop.
Define what wellbeing means to them, and the key factors that influence their mental and emotional health
Recognise the signs of stress, and use practical techniques to manage it
Strengthen their internal locus of control, so they respond more constructively to challenges and setbacks
Apply evidence-based wellbeing strategies, including mindfulness, healthy behaviours and positive thinking habits
Compare formats & start the conversation
Pick the format that looks closest, tell us your numbers, and whether you are thinking onsite or online. We'll call you to talk it through and shape a quote around what your team actually needs. Tap a card to choose it. Not sure? Pick the standard option and we'll sort it out together on the call.
Every format is run in-house for your own team, at your offices or online, so we come to you. Groups of 10 to 20 work best. Large-group seminar and webinar formats and short lunch and learn sessions are also available when you need to reach more of your team at once. Every format is quoted per workshop. Tell us the scope and we’ll put a written quote together.
Outcomes
How it works
Tell us team size, format and rough timing.
2 minutesA short conversation about your team, then a quote built around what you actually need.
Personalised discussionWe shape the examples around your team and the pressures they actually face, whether that's a restructure or a busy season.
1–2 weeks outAt your offices or online, by an experienced facilitator.
90 minutesWho delivers it
Associated EAP workshops are delivered by degree-qualified counsellors or registered psychologists, or adult education specialists where appropriate. Many of our facilitators also work clinically alongside their training, so the examples in the room come from real practice rather than a manual.
Associated EAP has provided employee assistance and workplace training for over 20 years. Workshops are delivered at your own offices, or online.
Nobody needs any experience of meditation to take part. Mindfulness is taught in this workshop as a practical skill for a working day, with a short guided exercise that people can repeat at their desk.
What participants say
“I am very grateful this course was offered. Thanks so much…I will apply the principles in my daily life.”
“Something everyone should attend!”
“Interesting, beneficial and well presented.”
“A positive initiative for staff wellbeing.”
“Wonderful, positive course.”
“Relevant to all aspects of life, not just work.”
“I am going to raise this training at the next management meeting to promote practicing mindfulness as a culture.”
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Common questions
Every format is quoted per workshop rather than per person, so the cost does not climb with every extra head in the room. What shapes it is the format you choose, your group size, your location, and whether you want the standard 90-minute workshop, a half or full day, or the Mindfulness at Work series.
Every organisation's needs are different, which is why we don't do one-size-fits-all quotes. Tell us the scope of what you're after and we'll put together a written quote so you know exactly what you're getting before you book.
Ninety minutes as standard, delivered in person at your premises or online over Zoom. Sessions can be tailored to suit your organisation's needs, and half-day and full-day programs, short lunch and learn sessions and large-group seminar or webinar formats are all available.
It's both. The workshop uses a mindfulness framework and includes a guided mindfulness exercise, and it also covers stress, locus of control, healthy behaviours, the effect of technology on wellbeing, and work/life balance. If you want a more thorough look at mindfulness itself, our Mindfulness at Work series covers six topics over two half-day sessions. See the Mindfulness at Work series.
No. The mindfulness exercise is short and guided, and it is introduced from the beginning, so people who have never meditated take part on the same footing as those who have. Nobody is asked to share anything they would rather keep to themselves.
Yes, and many large tech companies have run regular mindfulness workshops for years. One of the best-known cases is Google, which has run an internal mindfulness course called Search Inside Yourself since 2007. It was created by ex-Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan and combines mindfulness techniques, leadership skills and emotional intelligence. Google has reported improvements in staff empathy, self-rumination, self-perceived stress and self-criticism, and the program's satisfaction rating sits at 4.7 out of 5.
Sources: Jansen, E. (2015). Five Big Companies Who Swear By Mindfulness; Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (2021). Our Story; Knowledge at Wharton (2012). Google's Chade-Meng Tan Wants You to Search Inside Yourself for Inner (and World) Peace.
Groups can be anywhere from 10 to 20 participants. A group that size lets everyone take part in the exercises and the discussion.
Four to six weeks is comfortable, and it gives us time to tailor the material to your team. If you need something sooner, call us and we'll tell you what we can do.
Often booked together
For teams under sustained pressure who want the habits that help people withstand stress and recover from setbacks.
See the workshop →For teams who want to communicate effectively and build better working relationships.
See the workshop →For staff and managers who want to spot a colleague in difficulty and know what to say.
See the workshop →Tell us your team size, preferred format and rough timing. We'll call you to talk it through, then build a quote around what your team actually needs.
