Mentally Healthy Workplace Archives

Bringing the Outside In – Using Nature in the Office to Boost Mood

by Tanya Heaney Voogt | Mar 18, 2025 | Mentally Healthy Workplace

There is no end of evidence that proves nature is good for our mental and physical wellbeing. What we have often felt has now been proven as fact, that sense of soul restoration, of mental clarity we get if we lose ourselves in a forest for a while for example. Or...

The Importance of Post-Incident Support for Minor OVA in the Workplace

by Tanya Heaney Voogt | Feb 12, 2025 | Culture, Leadership, Mentally Healthy Workplace

Written By: Alexandra Heaney As a Mental Health Nurse who spent many years working in a large metropolitan public mental health facility, I have seen my fair share of OVA. It’s interesting when I reflect on some of the things that occurred in my time there, and I...

Struggling to Activate Your Psychosocial Safety Initiatives? Understand the WHY

by Tanya Heaney Voogt | Jan 30, 2025 | Mentally Healthy Workplace

I caught up with a legal colleague recently and we spent some time discussing how psychosocial safety initiatives still lack traction in many Australian workplaces. We mused over the fact that workplaces are change saturated, resource lean and struggling to CREATE...

Are You Getting Enough Quiet Time in Your Work Week?

by Tanya Heaney Voogt | Jul 16, 2024 | Mentally Healthy Workplace, Workload Management

How do you balance quiet time and connection time when working? Do you structure your diary in a way that works for your needs or are you at the mercy of others and have little or no agency over how your day unravels (yes, unravels as opposed to unfolds). Agency is a...

The Advantages of Playing to Your Strengths

by Tanya Heaney Voogt | May 16, 2024 | Coaching, Culture, Leadership, Mentally Healthy Workplace

It is a cliché to ‘Know your strengths’. We see it emblazoned across LinkedIn platforms, job advertisements, newsletters and other media. Leaders use it. Sports coaches scream, ‘Play to your strengths’, and we all smile and nod as though we know what they are talking...

Wellbeing Washing; All Talk, No Action

by Tanya Heaney Voogt | Jan 17, 2024 | Mentally Healthy Workplace

I’m sure there’s a group of creatives in a room somewhere coming up with snappy phrases for modern workplace woes – quiet quitting, well-being washing etc etc… However we want to label it, this post below by Adam Morris speaks to the crux of the matter in...