Financial Education for Apprentices & Young Adults📅 Monday 15 September | ⏰ 12:00–2:00pm | 💻 OnlineApologies for the short notice, but if you or your apprentices are free, please do register for this valuable free workshop from our partner Fin...

A Message from the Editor,Sonia Last 📝Many of us are struggling to keep up with changes brought about by new technologies, organisational restructuring and ever-moving goalposts. If the organisations we work for need to be highly adaptable and...

Hi ,I hope this message finds you well! I'm delighted to invite you to join our next Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) programme - open to everyone, whether you're certifying for the first time or refreshing your skills.This comprehensive training will...

Invitation to join our upcoming online Suicide First Aid courseHello We’re opening up additional spaces on our online Suicide First Aid course, running online on 1st and 2nd October, 12:30 – 4:00 pm via Teams.This accredited programme (delivered acro...

Good morningJust a quick reminder that our FREE Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Online Network Session is happening tomorrow from 12:00-1:30pm!There’s still time to book your place.These sessions are a great opportunity to connect with o...

Are workplace wellbeing campaigns making a real difference, or just ticking boxes? In this thought-provoking episode, we uncover the gap between what organisations say and what employees actually experience. As stress, cynicism, and disengagement ris...

In today’s workplace, gender-neutral policies are often hailed as progressive. But here’s the problem: when you apply the same rules to everyone in unequal circumstances, you don’t create fairness - you deepen inequality....

Every day across the UK, millions of people quietly juggle the demands of work while providing unpaid care for a loved one. It might be a parent supporting a child with additional needs, a partner caring for someone with a lo...

Asking the Tough Questions This World Wellbeing Month 🌍 June is World Wellbeing Month - a time when many organisations proudly promote their wellbeing policies, benefits packages and mental health initiatives. But amidst the social me...

We know that careless working conditions can give rise to or exacerbate poor mental health, but a well-run, humanely managed working environment can do much to promote and protect our sense of wellbeing. We know that psychosocial...

This week, two of our team, Angela Rook and Sonia Last, sit down with our partner Claire Mackenzie from Venturing Out for a relaxed, 23-minute chat about the future of employee wellbeing. Wellbeing is no longer a ‘nice to have’ but a business-critic...

A tribunal ruling on a manager’s repeated sighs might sound trivial, until you look closer. In this episode, we unpack what a “sigh” really communicates in power-imbalanced settings, and why it matters for neurodivergent people at work. We explore ho...

What if underperformance isn't a failure of the person, but a signal that something in the system isn't working? In this episode, we step back from the blame game and explore a more compassionate, human-centred approach to performance, support and le...

As we mark Mental Health Awareness Week, it's the perfect time to reflect on one of the most powerful tools we have for supporting wellbeing – community. At MHScot, we’ve seen first-hand how meaningful connections an...

Mental Health Awareness Week shines a spotlight on community, but what about the other 51 weeks of the year? In this episode, we unpack why real mental health support requires more than awareness campaigns and ask what community really means in the m...