Workplace and School Wellbeing Recommended Resources

Explore My List of Recommended School and Workplace Wellbeing Resources from a range of Leading Organisations and Institutions

Workplace and School Wellbeing

• Black Dog Institute – Wellbeing resources
• Headspace – Tips to keep good mental health
• BeYou
• Heads Up – Healthy workplaces for Leaders
• Reach Out
• Reach Out Schools
• BRITE – A free online teacher resilience program from Murdoch University
• Character Lab – Teaching resources from Angela Duckworth on GRIT, strengths and more
• Mindfulness in Schools
• Habits of Mind – Building growth mindset classrooms
• Beyond Blue Personalised Wellbeing Action plan for staff
• My article: Why staff wellbeing should top every schools priority list
• My article: 8 dimensions of wellbeing
• My article: Teacher wellbeing should be the focus as we return to on-site learning 
• My article: 10 Silver linings to come from the pandemic
• My article: Positive psychology 
• My article: The PERMAH model for workplace wellbeing
• My article: 23 Practical Ways to Beat Burnout
• My article: A recipe for change 
• 6 steps to improved school culture interactive tool
• BOOK: First Aid for Teacher Burnout – Jenny Grant Rankin
• BOOK: Mindfulness for Teachers – Patricia Jennings
• BOOK: Contextual Wellbeing – Helen Street
• BOOK: Your Strengths Blueprint – Michelle McQuaid and Erin Lawn
• BOOK: Your Wellbeing Blueprint – Michelle McQuaid and Erin Lawn
• BOOK: Positive Education – Jacolyn Norrish
• BOOK: The Elephant in the Staffroom – Chris Eyre
• BOOK: The Teachers Ultimate Stress Mastery Guide – Jack Singer
• BOOK: Mindful Learning – Dr Craig Hassed and Richard Chambers
• BOOK: The Happiness Trap Pocketbook – Russ Harris and Bev Aisbett

Mental Health

• PDF: Heads Up – Creating a Mentally Healthy Workplace – A guide for Managers
• PDF: Beyond Blue – Encouraging Leaders to Take Action in the Workplace
• PDF: Adrienne Hornby – Wellbeing and PERMAH in the Workplace
• PDF: BeYou – Planning for Wellbeing: mine, yours, ours
• PDF: Black Dog Institute – Ten Things You Can do to Make Your Workplace Mentally Healthy
• PDF: Black Dog Institute – Workplace Wellbeing
• PDF: Black Dog Institute: Creating Mentally Healthy Workplaces – A review of the research
• PDF: SA Government – A workplace health and wellbeing toolkit
• BOOK: Mental Health (A Person-centred Approach) – Nicholas Procter
• BOOK: How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body – David R. Hamilton
• BOOK: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Basics and Beyond – Judith S. Beck and Aaron T. Beck
• BOOK: Mosby’s Pocketbook of Mental Health – Patricia Barkway, Debra Nizette
• BOOK: Personal Recovery and Mental Illness: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals – Mike Slade
• BOOK: The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health – Emeran Mayer
• BOOK: A Practical Guide to Mental Health & Learning Disorders for Every Educator: How to Recognize, Understand, and BOOK: Help Challenged (and Challenging) Students Succeed – Myles L. Cooley Ph.D.
• BOOK: The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook – Elaine N. Aron Ph.D.
• BOOK: Changing Minds: The go-to Guide to Mental Health for You, Family and Friends – Dr. Mark Cross and Dr. Catherine Hanrahan
• BOOK: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action – Susan Jeffers
• BOOK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed – Lori Gottlieb, Brittany Pressley and Audible Studios
• BOOK: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
• BOOK: Good Days Start With Gratitude: A 52 Week Guide To Cultivate An Attitude Of Gratitude: Gratitude Journal – Pretty Simple Press
• BOOK: Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviour – Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg
• BOOK: Get Out Of Your Mind and Into Your Life – Paul Boehmer, Spencer Smith, Steven C. Hayes and Tantor Audio
• BOOK: When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection – Gabor Maté
• BOOK: The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm – Eric Maisel

Mental Health Online Training

• Be You Online Professional Learning
• Heads Up National Workplace Program Resources
• Black Dog Institute Workplace Programs and Services
• First Aid for Mental Health
• Youth Mental Health First Aid

Student Wellbeing

• Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP) (High School)
• Aussie Optimism Programme‐ Positive Thinking Skills (Primary and Lower Secondary School)
• MoodGYM (16 years +)
• Penn Resiliency Program (10-14 Years)
• Resilient Families Program (Secondary Schools)
• Bounce Back (K-6)
• Friendly Schools Plus (Primary)
• Teen Mental Health First Aid (15-18 Years)
• NSW full list and report of evidence-based mental health and wellbeing programs for schools

Classroom Management

• Positive Behaviours for Learning (PBL)

School Leadership

• Transformational Leadership: How to Motivate and Inspire Teams
• Positive Leadership: 30 Must-Have Traits and Skills
• Google Book: The Essentials of School Leadership
• Spiral of Inquiry Paper – Timperly
• Paper: Seven Strong Claims about Successful School Leaders
• Article: 5 Effective Leadership Styles in Education
• Article: Leadership Styles in Education
• Assertiveness in Leadership: 19 Techniques for Workplace Managers
• Motivating Employees
• Building a resilient Workplace
• What is Positive Organisational Psychology?
• Job Crafting
• Understanding Leadership Strengths in the Workplace
• Positive Leadership: 30 Must-Have Traits and Skills
• 83 Leadership Activities, Building Games, and Exercises
• My article: A functional approach to leadership (leadership styles)
• My article: The key skills you should be building to be an emotionally intelligent leader
• Mental Health First Aid courses (for adults and those working with youths)
• AITSL: Develop Yourself as a Leader
• Emotional intelligence for leaders questionnaire
• 13 Emotional Intelligence Activities & Exercises
• Emotional Intelligence Frameworks, Charts, Diagrams & Graphs
• My resource: Leadership self-assessment tool 
• BOOK: Dinham, S, Scott, C (1998), “A three domain model of teacher and school Executive
• career satisfaction”. Journal of Educational Administration,
• BOOK: Reiger, R, Stang, J (2000) Management and Motivation: An analysis of productivity
• in education and the workplace
• BOOK: Winsborough, D & Marshall, B 2000, ‘The art of managing professionals’

Positive Psychology

• Positive Psychology Website
• Positive Psychology in the Workplace: Thank God it’s Monday
• The Positivity Institute
• BOOK: Positive Psychology In a Nutshell: The Science of Happiness – Boniwell
• BOOK: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Csikszentmihalyi
• BOOK: Authentic happiness: Using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment – Selligman
• BOOK: Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Human Strengths – Carr
• BOOK: Positive Psychology: Theory, Research and Applications – Heffron
• BOOK: Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology – Sydner

Emotional Intelligence

• 13 Emotional Intelligence Activities & Exercises
• How To Improve Emotional Intelligence Through Training
• Teaching Emotional Intelligence to Teens and Students
• How Mindfulness Grows Emotional Intelligence (+3 Ways to Cultivate Both)
• Emotional Intelligence Frameworks, Charts, Diagrams & Graphs

Assessments

• VIA Strengths assessment
• DISC personality Test
• 16 Personalities Test
• Do you lead with emotional intelligence? assessment
• Mindtools Emotional Intelligence questionnaire
• 17 emotional intelligence tests

Relationships and Conflict Resolution

• The Importance of Positive Relationships in the Workplace
• The Psychology of Teamwork: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teams
• PDF: Conflict Resolution Skills – Managing & Resolving Conflict in a Positive Way
• PDF: Conflict Resolution
• PDF: Conflict Resolution Skills
• My resource: Team Building Ideas 
• AITSL Coaching and Mentoring Toolkit
• Growth Coaching (for training coaching team)
• Article: The Futility of PLC 
• VIC EDU PLC Guide
• Professional Learning Community Maturity Matrix (great to highlight and review where school is at)
• PLC Online learning modules
• PLC Assessment tool for staff 
• Inquiry Cycles
• AITSL: Learning Walks
• AITSL: Peer Feedback

Stress Management

• Using positive psychology to manage workplace stress
• What Is Burnout? 16 Signs and Symptoms of Excessive Stress
• 5 Ways to Increase Work Recovery and Decrease Workplace Stress

Health

• My resource: My Complete Approach to Healthy Eating
• My article: Eating to Reduce Stress

Job Satisfaction

• What Is Job Satisfaction and Why Is It Important?
• Job Satisfaction Theory: 6 Factors That Influence Performance
• How to Increase Job Satisfaction: 6 Tips for a Fulfilling Career
• Job Satisfaction and Why is it important

Communication

• 12 Team-Building Exercises for Improving Work Communication
• What is positive gossip?
• 15 Communication Exercises and Games for the Workplace

• Communicating assertively
• Assertive communication
• Communication in Leadership
• Effective Communication as School Leaders

Feedback

• 15 Ways to Give Negative Feedback, Positively

Engagement

• Flow at Work: The Science of Engagement and Optimal Performance
• 11 Steps to Creating A Shared Vision for Your Team
• Online VIA Strengths Assessment
• My resource: Team Strength Display
• My resource: Teacher Identity Questionnaire 
• My resource: Teacher Self-Evaluation
• ACT List of reviewed SEL programs for schools 
• List of Student Wellbeing Programs
• Trauma Informed Practice
• My resource: Vision Tree

Action Planning

• My article: Why your workplace needs a wellbeing action plan 
• Action Plan blank template
• Action planning resources
• Action planning Ideas