Marking Men’s Mental Health Month 2021 At Your Workplace

🧔🏾‍♂️ November marks Men’s Mental Health Month.

👨🏻As well as the ever-popular growing a moustache for ‘Movember’, there’s so much more you can do to raise awareness and help men (and whose who identify as male) find a path to better mental health.

We’ve shared a few suggestions for marking Men’s Mental Health Month at your workplace, as well as links to some inspiring articles you may wish to share with your colleagues and connections.

Host a Curry & Chaat

Take part in Mental Health UK’s Curry & Chaat fundraiser.You and your mates can all make the same recipe, or order take away and come together over Zoom and create a safe space for men to talk. You could virtually cook along with our health food chef Ceri to make a chicken or veggie curry, after which she can leave you to it to chat amongst yourselves. 🥘 More info on our Virtual Cooking (Curry) Class.

Men Walk Talk: Peer Support in the Great Outdoors

Join a ‘Men Walk Talk’ for a walk and chat with fellow men around your local area. A fantastic grass-roots initiative set up in 2020 to help offer peer mental health support, walks mostly take place in the South of England, but there’s online Zoom meet-ups for those who can’t make a walk. Find out more: https://menwalktalk.co.uk/events

Host a Men’s Mental Health Matters talk at your work

In this 60 minute session, lead by a male mental health campaigner we aim to tackle the taboo of men suffering in silence and make it our mission to get more men talking about mental health.Here’s what some of our clients have said about this session:

“Hearing another man open up about his own mental health issues was so relatable.”– Virtual attendee, The Cabinet Office

“It’s really nice to see men’s mental health being normalised more, and to see an environment that openly encourages sharing like this”.- Webinar Attendee, Jagex

Find out more; Men’s Mental Health Matters

Join in the Men’s Health Forum’s ‘Can do Challenge’,

Join the ‘can do challenge’ dedicating each day of the week to a way of wellbeing. You may also wish to download their ‘Man MOT Manual’. Find our more; Mens Health Forum

Host a Men’s Wellbeing: Nutrition Workshop

In this 60 min Seminar-style workshop, will tackle the four main threats to men’s health, unpicking the causes, highlighting the symptoms and equipping you with top nutritional know-how, preventative and lifestyle tips, so that you can build resilience and optimise your health.
More info on our Nutrition Workshops.

“An excellent, insightful & very well delivered talk, on the back of which, I am determined to change my dietary habits – a rare thing to be able to say after attending a talk at work!”– Nutrition workshop attendee, Lazard & Co