TREASURE YOUR MIND DAY

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TREASURE YOUR MIND DAY A PREVIEW

• Light Refreshments
• Why Treasure Your Mind (TYM) Day?
• Something Simple for a Start Join the MYR
  Movement
• How is HPB supporting your TYM Day?

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What is mental wellbeing? It is a state of
wellbeing where you are able to live your life
with a purpose and to the fullest. By optimizing
your mental wellbeing, you are able to cope with
everyday demands, bounce back from adversities in
life, believe in yourself and realize your
ability to contribute and make a difference to
the community you thrive in.
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Why mental wellbeing at the workplace? Happy
employees are more productive, energized and
creative in problem solving. They take fewer
days of sick leave and are more optimistic about
their future.

A mentally healthy workplace means its employees
feel good about themselves, the work they do, and
the people they work with.
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TYM Day is a wonderful opportunity for workplaces
to show, in concrete action, that every
employees mental wellbeing matters! It starts
with wanting to do something about it, making
small changes in the way we do things, keeping
them going and allowing the big differences to
happen.
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TREASURE YOUR MIND DAY
Theme Mind Your Relationships (MYR) Anchor
Activity MYR Movement
Small Actions x Lots of People Big Differences
The MYR Movement is an activity which all
employees can participate. Everyone is
encouraged to carry out actions that will
contribute to a conducive environment where
relationships matter. The more people
participate, the greater is the difference.
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Small Actions x Lots of People Big Differences

• Send a feel good email to as many colleagues
  as you can
• Leave work on time to see the blue sky, and
  spend time with
• your family
• For every other hour you are at work, think
  and write down
• one thing you like about yourself
• For every good thing you write about yourself,
  write one
• about any of your colleagues
• Volunteer to do something which is not
  normally in your
• scope of work
• Find at least two other colleagues who share
  your hobby or
• interest
• Commit yourself to do these actions frequently
  over the next
• 6 months

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Organising the MYR Movement

• Preparation
• - Collecting the TYM Day Resource Pack
  (HPB)
• - Devise your mechanism (manpower needs,
  materials etc)
• - Design your implementation

• Implementation
• - Step 1 Creating Awareness
• - Step 2 Open the Day with a Bang!
• - Step 3 Track the Movement
• - Step 4 Spice it Up!
• - Step 5 Celebrate Success
• - Step 6 Keep up the Momentum

• Evaluation
• - Collect feedback
• - Act on feedback
• - Follow up

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Preparation

• Step 1 Deciding on a day and date
• 10 Oct World Mental Health Day
• Month of October is dedicated to mental health
  
• Most number of employees can participate

• Step 2 Collect the TYM Resource Pack
• Available for collection from Sep 08
• Sign up now (after this preview) indicate
  your interest
• Write to us to confirm a date and time for
  collection
• Download the guide from our website

• Step 3 Planning - programme, manpower,
  implementation
• when, who, what
• the opening, the anchor event, the tracking,
  the other activities etc.
• Getting buy-in, motivating participation,
  celebrating success

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Implementation

• Step 1 Creating Awareness
• Announce the MYR Movement ahead of TYM Day
  itself to generate some pre-event excitment

TREASURE YOUR MIND DAY 10 October 2008 Small
Actions x Lots of People BIG DIFFERENCES

• Step 2 Open TYM Day with a Bang!
• Plan an activity to kickstart the MYR Movement
  and TYM Day
• Distribute the MYR 360degree Token to your
  staff
• Encourage them to put this Token up in a
  prominent place at their work area

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Implementation

• Step 3 Track the MYR Movement
• You may use the roll up notice board in the
  TYM Resource Pack
• Set a target and aim high
• Objective of tracking is to emphasize the
  concept of the Movement
• Small Changes x Lots of People Big
  Differences

• Step 4 Spice it Up!
• Think of ways to encourage participation, get
  people excited about it, motivate
• more to do the Small Actions
• For example
• - Prizes given to the best 5 (most
  imaginative, most practical, most voted etc.)
• Small Actions suggested by the staff
• - Contest to find the Person who took the
  most Small Actions

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Implementation

• Step 5 Celebrate Success
• Make your staff proud of what they have
  achieved
• Highlight the feel good quotient because of
  the mass participation in the Movement
• 20 Small Actions x 100 staff members
  Big Differences in EACH
• persons mental wellbeing

• Step 6 Keep up the Momentum!
• Employee Mental Wellbeing awareness starts,
  not end, with the Movement
• Take advantage of the awareness and interest
  generated organise other Mental
• Wellbeing activities/programmes
• For example
• Schedule a 1-hr TYM Talk (Cultivating A
  Healthy Mind) and/or TYM Workshop
• Get feedback from staff on what they think
  about workplace mental wellbeing
• Launch any new workiplace (work life harmony)
  initiative aligned with the theme
• Include employee mental health as a pillar of
  your workplaces health promotion
• framework

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Evaluation

• Collect Feedback
• Participation Rate - How many participated
  in each activity
• Process Evaluation
• - how many were aware / unaware of the
  activities organised
• - how do they rate the activities
• - how many think the activities are
  meaningful
• - how many would participate in similar
  activities again
• - what type(s) of activities/programmes
  would they like to see organised at the
• workplace

• Act on Feedback
• Share your feedback with us
• Assess the needs, attend to the suggestions,
  plan ahead
• Organise activities to meet needs

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Whats in the TYM Resource Pack?

• A 70cm x 150cm roll up notice board with 20
• Small Action cards (attachable with velcro
  tape)
• Up to 150 pieces of MYR Tokens for employees
• A Free Treasure Your Mind Talk (1 Hour)
• A Free Treasure Your Mind Workshop (4 Hours)
• Samples of the Treasure Your Mind Series
• (Educational booklets accompanying TYM
• workshop topics)
• A Guide to organising TYM Day and the MYR
  Movement
• Condition Workplace must commit to organising
  a TYM Day in Oct 2008.
• Talks and Workshops subject to
  schedule availability

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MYR 360deg Token
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Treasure Your Mind Series
Positively Pink Black or White Changing
Hues Red Alert Rainbow Connection Green Bloom
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• To collect the TYM Resource Pack
• (Available from 26 Sep 08)
• Sign up NOW or Write to us
• Commit your workplace to a day/week
• and date to organise a TYM Day
• An email confirmation on the date and time of
• collection will be provided
• Share with us the outcome of your TYM Day and
  MYR Movement
• Let us know what worked and what did not, and
  how we can
• improve

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Thank you for joining us today
To enjoy mental wellbeing, start doing
Something today. the Treasure is not far. In
fact, its in in our very own backyards.