Mindful Business Charter

This Practice Note will focus on the key considerations in creating and implementing a mental health and well-being strategy for your organisation.

This Practice Note will focus on the steps each of us can take to look after our own mental health and well-being. None are a guarantee of avoiding illness but they will help. Ultimately, everyone has to take some responsibility for their own well-being. In particular, leaders and managers ought to be showing the way.

This Practice Note discusses the benefits and challenges of hybrid working in the context of mental health and wellbeing. It also highlights key points for in-house lawyers to consider in ensuring that hybrid working is tailored to suit the needs of the individual, whilst still working for the business.

This Practice Note provides suggestions for a range of different resources and initiatives that will support and promote well-being in your organisation.

This Practice Note will explore what we mean by mental health and well-being, as well as the meaning of some of the terms commonly (mis)used around the subject including: stress, anxiety and depression. Positive well-being cannot be promoted without an understanding of the common issues that arise in the workplace. The aim of this Practice Note is to help you understand the impact that different mental illnesses have on people so that you can be aware of problems that might develop and are better placed to implement an effective well-being strategy.

This Practice Note covers prevalence of stress and risks to mental health in the legal profession, why we should take mental health and well-being seriously and what you can do to protect the well-being of employees. It also considers the impact of mental health stigma and tools for dealing with stigma.