Employee Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Workplace

Some of the reported issues are:

💚 Long-time businesses closing down or needing to administer major layoffs.

💚 Staggering numbers of employees taking stress leave, often leading to long-term disability.

💚 Doctors, nurses, first responders, and all care staff have been overwhelmed by the number of people they need to serve and are in burn-out.

💚 People with serious health care challenges cannot get the immediate attention they need.

💚 Teachers cannot cope with the extra workload and demands, which impact the students themselves – who have needed to become accustomed to online programs.

💚 The Travel and Hospitality Industries, Restaurants etc. have lost billions of dollars.

💚 People identified with mental health challenges are slipping through the cracks. The rise in suicides is staggering, especially in young people.

💚 Rising prices across the planet are adding even more stress to an already perilous situation.

💚 The war in The Ukraine and Russia is causing unspeakable harm in every walk of life and we can’t even predict the outcome when it is over.

💚 Climate change threatens our very existence.

Because of all these factors listed above, and many others, the corporate and socio-economic culture has completely changed.  The way things were will never be the same.  There is no ‘new normal’ as there is still so much uncertainty.

As employees return to the workplace after working from home for over 2 years, organizations are needing to learn how to reintroduce their staff and integrate them into the workplace in a win-win situation.

Junie Swadron and her associates offer programs custom designed to create employee well-being, resilience, sustainability and retention.

With over 30 years in the mental health field, Junie Swadron has acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to transform hopelessness to hope, apathy to passion and fear to living a life with meaning, passion and purpose.

The programs provide applicable exercises and tools for employees to use at work and at home on an ongoing basis in order to promote well-being, balance, inner peace, and confidence. These tools will, in turn, allow attendees to trust themselves to bounce back when challenges arise.

We know that it stands to reason that a happier, calmer, stress-free work environment – where employees feel enthusiastic and empowered in their jobs, and are being paid comparable wages with growth opportunities, increases productivity and enhances cooperation. This, in turn, translates to increased revenue for the company.

If your organization is struggling with any of the above mentioned concerns and is looking for positive and sustainable solutions, I invite you to book a time to meet in person, phone or on Zoom to discuss the opportunities available to your particular work environment.

Junie and her partner David Halliwell, in a mission to help change the face of mental illness, created this song with video production by On the Rock Media for  hope, upliftment and emphasizing that we are all in this together.
We would appreciate it if you would share it far and wide.  

Junie Swadron is a psychotherapist, author, playwright, international speaker, workshop facilitator, and professional writing coach who has spent the last thirty years coaching thousands of clients in her psychotherapy practice as well as students in her therapeutic writing programs.

Junie has worked with CMHA (Canadian Mental Health Association) delivering talks and seminars about mental health in the workplace.  She has also coached youth care workers to use preventative and sustainable tools employing radical self care principles applicable to the workplace for a large variety of concerns and conditions.

She worked as a mental health worker in Downtown East side, Vancouver at Hampton House where 50 men with a dual diagnosis resided.

She is a certified WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) Facilitator and spent 5 active years with the former Schizophrenia Society, now called Mental Health and Recovery Partners. She is still on call with them to facilitate WRAP to their population.

Junie co-wrote and produced a play called, Madness, Masks, and Miracles to dispel myths and stigmas about Mental Illness which won wide acclaim.

The following is what the former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Dr. Michael Meyers, had to say after viewing the production:

“This play is a winner. June Swadron and her writing team and actors engage the audience immediately and throughout with what it’s like to have a mental illness in contemporary society. We feel the anguish and confusion, we witness the denial in co-workers and family, we experience the shame of the sufferer and the multiple losses and we learn painfully about the limitations of our treatments. Yet this production is not cynical or depressing. It is moving, inspiring and intensely evocative. A gift. A call-to-arms. A must-see for every Canadian citizen.”

Junie is currently actively involved in a training program with an attorney for mental health in the workplace for lawyers.

Junie’s current project which she hoped to ‘cut the ribbon’ for in 2020, which was delayed because of Covid 19, is called ACHA – The Academy for Creative and Healing Arts (for people with mental health challenges).

It is a Centre for creativity and learning that demonstrates how creative expression transforms mental illness into mental health.  Its location is the McTavish Academy of Art in Victoria, BC

Junie also is actively involved in helping seniors write their memoirs as well as entrepreneurs and coaches write books about their businesses through her Author Mentorship Program. She also certifies therapists and coaches to teach her Re-Write to Re-Ignite Your Life program.

Junie resides in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada with her partner, David Michael Halliwell, an artist and musician. They are currently co-creating a musical called TODAY. It opens with David’s music video of the same name. He created it to celebrate the better world that is emerging from troubled times.