Emotional Well-Being

Informational Program Orientations are regularly presented to managers and employees at monthly L1 Leadership Training, ERG events, onboarding events, and organization meetings.

Topical Presentations are available for Lab-wide events, ERGs, Departments and Organizations on subjects such as Burnout, Boundaries, Holiday Coping and Transitions.

Grief Groups and team announcements may be scheduled, in-person or virtually, when a team experiences a loss within their work group or organization. EAP clinicians provide manager consultation and educate employees related to common reactions to grief and recommendations for self-care.

Critical Incident Response is provided to a work group or the broader organization should a traumatic event occur in the workplace. EAP clinicians are experienced in providing psychological first aid, diffusing announcements, leadership consultation, in-person or virtual groups, education related to common trauma reactions and self-care, 1:1 sessions with employees, and relevant referrals.

Subject Matter Expertise is sought by teams, boards and committees throughout the lab and Nuclear Security Enterprise in support of employee emotional well-being, mental health, and organizational culture.

Consultation is obtainable related to employee behavior and performance concerns. EAP clinicians also support managers in role-playing difficult conversations and referring distressed employees to EAP services.

Formal referrals may be made to the EAP to support an employee with workplace behavior and performance problems. At the written consent of the employee, the EAP reports compliance with EAP attendance.

Resources

EAP Fact Sheet

Let’s Talk Flyer

• Thrive Health Action Plan – Surviving is about just getting by, but thriving means working toward your full potential. This health action plan will help you develop the skills to thrive, including fostering a stronger sense of meaning in your life, learning to let go of stressful emotions, creating positive emotional moments throughout each day, and nurturing your relationships with people.
• Take 10 Initiative – Move, recharge, and enjoy. Get up and stretch, take a walk, or try a short yoga flow. Movement will improve your circulation and posture and decrease repetitive strain on your body. Recharge by getting out into nature, meditating, or mindfully hydrating and snacking. These activities will reduce fatigue and improve your attention and problem-solving abilities. Enjoy the present moment by connecting with a friend, petting your dog, or watering your plants. Taking a moment of enjoyment will increase your positivity and reduce stress.
• ReThink Care Mindfulness App – Comprehensive and versatile digital training platform designed to help professionals manage their own stress by balancing high performance with restorative practices. Understanding first-hand the high toll that decades of stress takes on health and mental wellbeing, creator Joe Burton asserts that mindfulness meditation brought him back from the brink by teaching him how to manage his own stress, build resilience, and thrive.
• Mindful Mondays, Mindfulness Meditation, WhilPower Wednesdays, Virtual Mindfulness Practice – Join these 15-minute guided meditations using the ReThink Care app in Virgin Pulse. The sessions showcase the wide variety of meditation topics and styles available in your Virgin Pulse account. ReThink Care sessions are designed to help you improve mental focus, self-awareness, decrease stress, and recharge for the rest of the day. Find class times and Teams links in HR Events Calendar.
• HR Video Library – View past presentations on a variety of wellness topics, including Thriving sessions, stress management and resilience, and relaxation/visualization. Scroll to the Thriving and Stress Management section of the page.
• Single Session Health-on-the-Go – Invite a health educator to one of your existing meetings or schedule a special session to bring employees together for a health activity or presentation of your choice.
• Mindfulness Essentials (MIND100) – Learn powerful mindfulness tools and practices in this online Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program. The class covers current neuroscience and teaches how to leverage your own neurobiology in order to take a more active role in turning off your stress response to remain relaxed alertness.  The seven-hour class is presented in modules, with time for learning balanced with time for mindfulness practice as well as thoughtful breaks. Enroll through TEDS.
• Advanced Mindfulness Essentials (MIND200) – Dive deeper into your mindfulness practice. Participants will learn and practice both meditative and non-meditative techniques shown to reduce stress, improve focus and attention, curb unhealthy habits, relieve anxiety, improve decision making and achieve balance and well-being. The eight-week course will be held two hours per week.  Enroll through TEDS.
• Mayo Clinic Q&A: Managing Stress and Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic* – Refill the tank, maintain routine, and connecting with others.
• Managing Pressure and Stress to Optimize Your Performance* – Responses to stress, management strategies, attitude, success mentality, perceptions, overcoming overconfidence. Dealing with stressed colleagues.
• Expert Insights on Managing Stress* – Testimonials and recommendations from industry leaders.
• Take a Deep Breath and Manage Your Stress* – Understand burnout, examine a model for responding to stress, and defining burnout.
• Staying Balanced in a Shifting World* – Expectations, communication, and balance in response to stress.
• Virtual and in-person yoga, tai chi, stretching classes – Yoga, tai chi, and stretching are all exercises to help calm and focus the mind while strengthening the body.

*To access Skillsoft courses, you must register for Precipio.

• Wellthy Mental Health Support – Supporting yourself or a loved one with mental health needs. For those struggling with depression, anxiety, alcoholism and other mental health issues, we offer ongoing help with finding the right provider or in-patient/out-patient program, vetting mental health providers, scheduling appointments, and finding local resources and support groups, navigating in-network and out-of-network options, exploring alternative therapy options, supporting employees with diverse and intersectional needs such as finding LGBTQ+ friendly providers or finding community and workplace support groups.
• Thrive Health Action Plan – Surviving is about just getting by, but thriving means working toward your full potential. This health action plan will help you develop the skills to thrive, including fostering a stronger sense of meaning in your life, learning to let go of stressful emotions, creating positive emotional moments throughout each day, and nurturing your relationships with people.
• HR Video Library – View past presentations on a variety of wellness topics, including Thriving sessions, stress management and resilience, and relaxation/visualization. Scroll to the Thriving and Stress Management section of the page.
• Single Session Health-on-the-Go – Invite a health educator to one of your existing meetings or schedule a special session to bring employees together for a health activity or presentation of your choice.
• Focus & Inclusion in Disruptive Times – What happens to the brain when something completely unexpected and threatening like COVID-19 happens? How about when we feel socially threatened or excluded? Discover what helps managers and their teams offset threat and be more inclusive, collaborative, productive and efficient through disruptions and uncertain events.
• Positive Intelligence Pilot Program – specifically geared towards improving the mental health environment of the participants of the program. This program identifies whether people are operating from the SAGE or Saboteur side of the brain and what it takes for individuals to master awareness of their current thinking and how to drive oneself back to thinking in a calm, cool and logical manner. This was foundational for the FOCUS presentation.
• Morra Aarons-Mele on Managing Your Emotional Well-being During the Workday* –  Discussion on anxiety and examples. Breathing and body awareness, exercise.

*To access Skillsoft courses, you must register for Precipio.

• Take 10 Initiative – Move, recharge, and enjoy. Get up and stretch, take a walk, or try a short yoga flow. Movement will improve your circulation and posture and decrease repetitive strain on your body. Recharge by getting out into nature, meditating, or mindfully hydrating and snacking. These activities will reduce fatigue and improve your attention and problem-solving abilities. Enjoy the present moment by connecting with a friend, petting your dog, or watering your plants. Taking a moment of enjoyment will increase your positivity and reduce stress.
• ReThink Care Mindfulness App – Comprehensive and versatile digital training platform designed to help professionals manage their own stress by balancing high performance with restorative practices. Understanding first-hand the high toll that decades of stress takes on health and mental wellbeing, creator Joe Burton asserts that mindfulness meditation brought him back from the brink by teaching him how to manage his own stress, build resilience, and thrive.
• HR Video Library – View past presentations on a variety of wellness topics, including Thriving sessions, stress management and resilience, and relaxation/visualization. Scroll to the Thriving and Stress Management section of the page.
• Single Session Health-on-the-Go – Invite a health educator to one of your existing meetings or schedule a special session to bring employees together for a health activity or presentation of your choice.

• Mindfulness Essentials (MIND100) – Learn powerful mindfulness tools and practices in this online Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program. The class covers current neuroscience and teaches how to leverage your own neurobiology in order to take a more active role in turning off your stress response to remain relaxed alertness.  The seven-hour class is presented in modules, with time for learning balanced with time for mindfulness practice as well as thoughtful breaks. Enroll through TEDS.
• Advanced Mindfulness Essentials (MIND200) – Dive deeper into your mindfulness practice. Participants will learn and practice both meditative and non-meditative techniques shown to reduce stress, improve focus and attention, curb unhealthy habits, relieve anxiety, improve decision making and achieve balance and well-being. The eight-week course will be held two hours per week.  Enroll through TEDS.
• Take 10 Initiative – Move, recharge, and enjoy. Get up and stretch, take a walk, or try a short yoga flow. Movement will improve your circulation and posture and decrease repetitive strain on your body. Recharge by getting out into nature, meditating, or mindfully hydrating and snacking. These activities will reduce fatigue and improve your attention and problem-solving abilities. Enjoy the present moment by connecting with a friend, petting your dog, or watering your plants. Taking a moment of enjoyment will increase your positivity and reduce stress.
• ReThink Care Mindfulness App – Comprehensive and versatile digital training platform designed to help professionals manage their own stress by balancing high performance with restorative practices. Understanding first-hand the high toll that decades of stress takes on health and mental wellbeing, creator Joe Burton asserts that mindfulness meditation brought him back from the brink by teaching him how to manage his own stress, build resilience, and thrive.
• Mindful Mondays, Mindfulness Meditation, WhilPower Wednesdays, Virtual Mindfulness Practice – Join these 15-minute guided meditations using the ReThink Care app in Virgin Pulse. The sessions showcase the wide variety of meditation topics and styles available in your Virgin Pulse account. ReThink Care sessions are designed to help you improve mental focus, self-awareness, decrease stress, and recharge for the rest of the day. Find class times and Teams links in HR Events Calendar.
• HR Video Library – View past presentations on a variety of wellness topics, including Thriving sessions, stress management and resilience, and relaxation/visualization. Scroll to the Thriving and Stress Management section of the page.
• Single Session Health-on-the-Go – Invite a health educator to one of your existing meetings or schedule a special session to bring employees together for a health activity or presentation of your choice.
• Virtual and in-person yoga, tai chi, stretching classes – Yoga, tai chi, and stretching are all exercises to help calm and focus the mind while strengthening the body.

• Creating a Psychologically Safe Workplace – Are you wondering why sometimes we speak up and sometimes we don’t – why we collaborate well, or not – why we learn new information rapidly or slowly? It could be due to the level of psychological safety we perceive to exist in our working environment. Learn the Four Stages of Psych Safety that need to be present for high performance in organizations and take an assessment to see where you as an individual stand and how you and your team score the environment for psych safety around them.
• Focus & Inclusion in Disruptive Times – What happens to the brain when something completely unexpected and threatening like COVID-19 happens? How about when we feel socially threatened or excluded? Discover what helps managers and their teams offset threat and be more inclusive, collaborative, productive and efficient through disruptions and uncertain events.
• SCARF Model of Inclusion – Based on neuroscience research, the SCARF model implies that there are five social domains that activate the same threat and reward responses in our brain that we rely on for physical survival. This “primitive” reaction helps to explain the sometimes strong emotional reactions that we can have to social situations, and why it’s often hard to control them. Come and learn about the five domains of: Status – Certainty – Autonomy – Relatedness – and Fairness and how we either perceive them as threats or rewards.
• Psychological Safety: Building a Culture of Inclusion and Innovation* – Explains/defines psychological safety in the workplace. Builds knowledge into a skillset targeting psychological safety, job aid, test.

*To access Skillsoft courses, you must register for Precipio.

• Taking Stock in Your Work/Life Balance* – Defines and provides examples of imbalance and how to overcome external issues, as well as examples of indicators.
• Expert Insights on Work/Life Balance* – Testimonials and recommendations from industry leaders.
• Optimizing Your Workplace Well-being* – Job aid and self-assessment included, application strategy, balances home and work life. Structured more as a traditional course.

*To access Skillsoft courses, you must register for Precipio.

• BCBSNM Employee Assistance Program benefit: This program is administered by Magellan. It provides up to eight counseling sessions per issue at no fee in all states except California, where it offers up to three sessions per issue. Eligibility includes insured employees, covered dependents and all household members. Services include individual, couple and family counseling; as well as legal and financial consultation.
• BCBSNM Behavioral Health benefit: Outpatient behavioral health services by masters and doctorate level clinicians, psychotherapeutic medication evaluation, substance abuse treatment, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric programs.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico (BCBSNM)
Magellan (preauthorization required)
800-424-0320
www.magellanassist.com

BCBSNM Mental Health
888-898-0070
www.bcbs.com

• Mental Health/Wellness Care
• Self-care apps for your everyday life
  • Calm
  • Headspace Care (formerly called Ginger)
  • myStrength

Contact:
800-464-4000
https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/

• UHC Employee Assistance Program benefit: Covered employees and dependents have up to eight EAP sessions available at no cost through the external UHC EAP program administered by Optum. Services include individual, couple and family counseling; and a suite of work/life services.
• UHC insurance benefit: Outpatient behavioral health services by masters and doctorate level clinicians, psychotherapeutic medication evaluation, substance abuse treatment, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric programs.

UnitedHealthcare
Optum EAP (preauthorization required)
800-622-7276
www.liveandworkwell.com

UnitedHealthcare Mental Health Benefits
877-835-9855
www.myuhc.com