MENTAL HEALTH AT WORK: “IT’S OK NOT TO BE OK”

As coaches, we need to approach mental health as both positive wellbeing and positive mental functioning, appreciating that people with mental illness can still experience wellbeing while those without mental illness can still have poor wellbeing, said leadership trainer, executive coach, and professor Giselle Timmerman. “Best practice, and this irks me a lot, tends to point to a continuum of mental health from mental illness to positive mental health and wellbeing”, said Timmerman, in her keynote on The cutting edge of positive psychology applied at work. She said the widely used...

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