Podcast Series Host: Kyler Nathan, IV, MBA, D-Enterprise Program Manager at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Podcast Host of the Banquet Hall Podcast  

Kickoff Episode | August 2023

Guests: UC San Diego Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP)

•  The Essential Role Of Mental Health For A Diverse, Inclusive Workplace (Forbes)
  
  • As employers strive to advance racial justice, they must focus on mental health in both their workplaces and their communities. This article offers several important actions they can take.
    
    
• The Four Bodies: A Holistic Toolkit for Coping With Racial Trauma
  • A holistic strategy to rest, rehabilitate and rebuild by recognizing that bodies are made up of four distinct parts: the mental body, the emotional body, the physical body and the spiritual body. This toolkit shows what a holistic approach to coping with racial trauma can look like.

•  Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety by Cara Page, Erica Woodland
  • A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineages.

• Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide
  • A Healing Justice Practice Space is an all-gender, allbodied, inclusive and accessible space for practicing and receiving healing that is built in partnership with social justice movement work and sites of political action.
    
    
• It’s a New Era for Mental Health at Work (Harvard Business Review)
  
  •  In a follow-up study of their 2019 Mental Health at Work Report, the authors offer a rare comparison of the state of mental health, stigma, and work culture in U.S. workplaces before and during the pandemic. They also present a summary of what they learned and their recommendations for what employers need to do to support their employees’ mental health.
    
    
•  Take a critical look at equity, diversity, and inclusion policies (American Psychological Association)
  • Evaluate your company policies and programs to ensure they support people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and people with disabilities.

• Becoming Truly Inclusive: Incorporating Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into Your Organization 
  • TEDx speaker and founder of Abbey Research, Dr. Kristen Donnelly discusses ways organizations can start to practice what they preach and take real action towards becoming truly inclusive. Dr. Donnelly introduces the term “radical inclusive authentic hospitality”, discusses why shame is an unproductive emotion, and provides places to start that can help enable real change.
    
    
• Black Women in the Workplace
  • In this episode of Therapy for Black Girls, Dr. Kecia M. Thomas, Dean, professor, and expert in the psychology of workplace diversity explores the complexities of color blindness in the workplace, overt and covert signs of workplace discrimination, and the critical research on diversity resistance in the workplace.
    
    
• Race Equity, Intersectionality and Mental Health at Work
  • Mental Health First Aid England explores the relationships between race, identity, and the impacts on mental health at work. Aimed at Senior Leaders, HR, and Wellbeing professionals, this webinar will explore the importance of challenging from the top in order to address inequities in the workplace and creating a mentally healthy culture.
    
    
• Emotional Inclusion and Mental Wellness 
  • Dr. Indigo, a success, mind and wellness practitioner, talks about workforce diversity, the stigma around mental health in the workforce, equality in corporations, why it’s important to have someone who will listen to you in the workplace and so much more.
    
    
• Transformational Leadership
  • Dr. Thema speaks with Executive Coach Patrice Ford Lyn about being a leader. They discuss the qualities of a good leader, ways to handle those who are resistant to change, and unique challenges and solutions for leaders with historically excluded identities, including those who are BIPOC, Queer, and/or women.
    
    
• Trauma Informed Teaching & Learning with Mays Imad
  • Dr. Mays Imad discusses holistic approaches to teaching and learning in this deeply informative and highly relevant conversation for all - especially those involved in formal and informal education, training or mentoring. 
    
    
• When Psychological Safety & Emotional Inclusion Come Together
  • Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School Amy Edmondson dives deep into what Psychological safety means, how it helps teams and organizations create a workplace environment where people can speak up, feel seen, be heard and understood. 
    
    
• Workplace Wellbeing: Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace Webinar
  • During this webinar, speakers discuss the importance of supporting employees' mental health in the workplace; how to recognise when an employee is struggling; implementing inclusive mental health campaigns at work and Allan Reid's personal mental health journey. Featuring guest speakers Leyla Okhai, CEO and founder of Diverse Minds, and EDI Consultant Allan Reid.

• Supporting the Hidden Worker: Supervising Diverse Employees 
  • This presentation and interactive workshop will explore some of the main workplace stressors affecting diverse-identified employees, with primary consideration of the pervasive obstacles associated with minority stress.  We will explore opportunities that leaders have to provide culturally responsive support for diverse-identified employees, including effective supervisory engagement that fosters psychological safety and models a learning culture of work.  Email Bryan McNutt for more information.
    
    
• BIPOC Support Group
  • This monthly group meeting will provide a supportive online conversational space created for any UC San Diego campus employee identifying as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). This space is held with the intention of connecting around our identities and exploring our shared common experiences. Email Cat Thompson and/or Jennifer Triana for more information. (Third Tuesday of the month from 12 - 1 p.m.)

• UC San Diego Employee Wellness
• Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
• Melanin and Mental Health
• Mental Health America
• Rest for Resistance by QTPOC Mental Health
• South Asian Sexual & Mental Health Alliance
• The Steve Fund
• Trevor Project
• We R Native