We want psychologically safe workplaces to be the norm

Empowering individuals and teams to thrive, innovate and work cohesively with impact.

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  • We are passionate about supporting individuals to grow their understanding, knowledge and practice of wellbeing prevention and management techniques to help better deal with life and work stresses and challenges.

    We believe that companies have a huge role to play in supporting and role modelling best practice in the workplace, developing workplace cultures where employees' potential and performance can thrive.

  • We believe in enjoyable, safe and productive workplaces for everyone, where good mental health and wellbeing are central to a positive work culture.

    We want psychologically safe workplaces and cultures to be the norm, where informed and supportive colleagues and employers can have open and empowered conversations and take action to manage their mental wellbeing without fear of misunderstanding, stigmatisation or judgment.

  • We support the drives businesses are making to build more empathetic, open, and enabled workforces.

    We want workplaces to encourage individuals and teams to thrive, innovate and work cohesively so that they can deliver with impact towards their organisation’s goals without fear of failure.

Our values

compassion

Compassion

  • We take a humanistic psychology and psychosocial and educational approach where the whole person, their uniqueness, and their life experience is respected and taken into consideration. We support taking skillful action to make changes for the better.

  • Stress, vulnerability and suffering are part of common challenges for us all. 

  • We encourage active listening, empathy and understanding in all of our interactions and support taking skillful action to make changes for the better.

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Collaboration

  • Building connection, inclusivity, and working with others to share knowledge and expertise is at the heart of what we do. 

  • We develop wellbeing programmes through a close community of like-minded professionals where effective collaboration is central to our success. 

  • It is important to be heard and valued. 

  • We only ever get the best out of our training programmes by working closely and adapting with clients’ and participant's’ needs and learning styles. 

Integrity

Integrity

  • Ethical behaviour, duty of care, and best practice are fundamental to our services.

  • Engaging in conversation about personal and emotional experience of mental wellbeing stresses and challenges should always be handled with care, attention and expertise.

  • All of our training content and delivery follow the latest in evidence-based behavioral science, research and guidelines.

  • All of our trainers have the latest accreditation or certification necessary for each given course.

  • We guide and support training participants so that they feel safe and comfortable to share confidentially, whilst always recognising professional boundaries and duty of care.

trust

Trust

  • We believe trust is the core foundation of relationships and a positive workplace culture. 

  • Our wellbeing and training programmes only have impact when there is mutual respect and trust. 

  • We cultivate honesty, openness and transparency in all of our interactions, and guide wellbeing conversations with warmth and understanding. 

  • We support workplace cultures and leadership to enhance their levels of trust by being more open, providing safety through the hierarchy, and embracing the benefits of vulnerable leadership, shared experience and storytelling.

Our expertise

"My varied career experience in leadership and management in both the corporate and voluntary sector has enabled me to gain a deep understanding of workplace wellbeing challenges at all levels. 

It can be particularly difficult for managers to know how to approach conversations around the subject of mental health and stress in the workplace. But it's so important to start somewhere, and with specialist guidance, this can be a life-changing experience for colleagues.

I am passionate about enabling people to voice their lived experience to achieve happier and more fulfilling work lives.

I work with clients and training participants so that they become more informed and empowered about what the best approaches are for them."

Founding principles

  • Minds That Work was created in 2017 by founding director, Victoria Brookbank, with the desire to help businesses do a better job of looking after their employees' wellbeing. 

  • Drawing on her experience as a former CEO of a mental health charity, as well as post graduate study in counselling and psychotherapy, she set about creating a training consultancy that could provide support and answers to the questions and challenges she had faced earlier in her career whilst managing teams in pressurised work environments in the finance sector in the City of London.

  • Victoria strongly believes that by making good mental health and wellbeing a central focus of workplace culture, and by educating colleagues on how to support one another with the stresses and challenges work and life can bring, you can only enhance the productivity and success of an organisation.

Network of specialists

  • We team up with specialist and accredited professionals to ensure we can build a comprehensive and tailored solution. 

Nationally recognised accreditation and validation

  • The majority of our training courses are accredited and validated by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Chartered Management Institute, or Mental Health First Aid England. 

Evidence-based best practice

  • All of Minds That Work training follows the latest best practice and specialist guidance in evidence-based behavioural science and person-centred approaches to managing wellbeing, with a particular emphasis on the benefits of Mindfulness, self-compassion, humanistic psychology, and psychosocial and educational approaches.

What our clients and participants say about us