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Mental Health Summit Will Empower Employers to Better Support Their Workers
Nationally recognized experts will address the pandemic-driven rise in anxiety and depression
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NEW YORK, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a marked increase in anxiety and mental health disorders among American adults, and employers have a big role to play in better supporting their workers mental health needs.
Rethink First, a leader in cloud-based behavioral and mental health treatment solutions, is bringing experts from its employer and mental health divisions together to present Addressing Your Employees Professional, Personal & Parenting Needs: Bringing Visibility to the Invisible.
Practice Mindful Kindness
There are two components of mindful kindness:
1. Consideration and action regarding the social conditions, practices, and policies that prevent employees from finding the good in human nature.
2. Random acts of kindness conducted in mindful ways that are sensitive, inclusive, and equitable.
Both of these components focus on treating everyone with mutual care and respect:
·   Practice honesty with consideration. Brutal feedback is not kind. Be clear, direct, and compassionate.
·   Show you care with unconditional acceptance. While you might not like or accept certain behavior, separate the action from the person.
·   Step through fear to do what is right, right now. Be courageous, and practice justice and compassion for all.
The Need for Kind Leaders From:
Is your organization led by kind leaders?
This year has been like no other. Most leaders and managers are eager to put it behind them. Yet, we re not out of the woods. A culture of kindness will make it easier.
Researchers have found that kindness is associated with better and stronger physical and mental health; relationships, teams, and communities; life satisfaction, and even economics. According to researcher and psychologist Dacher Keltner, PhD, The science of human emotion, kindness and goodness are not to be taken lightly, they are actually good for our bodies and minds.