The Working Mind
Healthcare Professional
Healthcare workers carry the weight of other people's hardest moments, every single shift - often without the time, resources, or space to process what they hold. You’re trained to care for others with immense skill and precision, yet you’re rarely given that same care in return.
Speaking up about it isn’t easy in any workplace. Across Canada, 57% of workers believe disclosing a mental health issue could affect their career.
The Working Mind: Healthcare is an evidence-based, five-hour program from the Mental Health Commission of Canada, developed to speak directly to the realities of working in healthcare. It carries 5 Canadian Nurses Association professional development credits.
It draws on industry-specific statistics, scenarios and personal stories, so the examples sound like your workplace, not someone else’s. It’s meant for everyone who keeps care moving, from frontline nurses and doctors to healthcare support staff. It gives you a rare, protected space to step away from the floor and focus on your own psychological safety and resilience, alongside the colleagues you work with every day. Together, you build a shared language for saying how you’re really doing, so no one has to guess.
Source: Mental Health Research Canada, Mental Health in the Workplace (2025).
You spend your shifts caring for others. This is time set aside for you.
Select public dates are listed here. Most healthcare organizations book a private session, scheduled around their team’s shifts.
The Working Mind: Healthcare works best when a whole team learns together, building shared language across clinical and non-clinical staff and making it easier to speak up. Atelier can arrange sessions for your team, virtually or in person.
Eligible for continuing education credits through the Canadian Nurses Association.
$250 + GST per person. 5 hours. Virtual, Canada-wide
71%
of Canadian nurses are experiencing clinical symptoms of burnout
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, 2024
1 in 3
Canadian nurses has reported having suicidal thoughts.
23%
screened positive for PTSD.
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions / University of Regina, 2020
72%
of Canadian nurses intend to leave the profession
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, 2024
The Curriculum
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In a sector where mental health stigma runs surprisingly deep, even among those who treat it, this five-hour session provides a safe, judgment-free room where the conversation happens openly. It's a rare chance to take off the armour, validate what you've been carrying, and learn how to look out for yourself and each other.
This training is delivered by Token, who spent years working directly on the ground in psychiatric inpatient care across British Columbia's Lower Mainland health system, including at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Token intimately understands what it means to show up for people in acute crisis, and she knows exactly what it costs the professionals who do it day in and day out. She doesn't just teach the curriculum. She speaks your language, understands the clinical weight you carry, and brings real-world frontline experience into the room to ensure a deeply relevant, supportive, and practical learning experience.
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We look directly at the unique culture of stoicism in healthcare, where the expectation to "just push through" often keeps people silent. This module breaks down core concepts of mental health and substance use, examining how stigma acts as a barrier to help-seeking behavior among medical staff.
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Shifts the focus from crisis management to early intervention. Participants learn to use an objective, non-clinical tool to gauge well-being along a spectrum from healthy to reacting or injured, allowing you to accurately track changes in your own mental health and look out for your colleagues.
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Addresses the heavy, systemic stressors specific to healthcare: understaffing, moral distress, and the emotional toll of patient care. This is an interactive session dedicated to learning and practicing the Big 4 Coping Strategies to actively protect your personal resilience.
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Focuses on peer-to-peer communication and safe boundary-setting. Using the RAMP framework, you’ll practice how to offer meaningful support to a colleague showing signs of distress and learn how to confidently navigate connections to professional resources when needed.
Please note
For prevention purposes, this course includes content on suicide awareness. Verbal trigger warnings are provided prior to discussing this material to ensure a safe, supportive learning environment for everyone.
The Big 4 Coping Strategies
Quick, actionable, cognitive-behavioral tools to manage acute stress, regulate your nervous system on shift, and combat compassion fatigue.
The RAMP Framework
A practical framework, Reflection, Awareness, Movement, Practice, for checking in on and sustaining your own mental health, even while you're the one supporting someone else through theirs.
A Shared, Non-Clinical Language
A practical framework to objectively map your own well-being, helping you and your colleagues call out distress early—without it feeling risky, loaded, or unprofessional.
Professional Development Credits
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This course carries Canadian Nurses Association professional development credits: 5 credits for the Employee course, 7 credits for the Manager course.
If you live in British Columbia: The Working Mind Healthcare supports your ongoing professional development as a BC nurse. Under BCCNM's self-directed continuing competence framework, nurses identify their own learning needs and select relevant activities - mental health literacy training in your specific clinical environment qualifies as exactly that kind of meaningful professional learning.
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These credits apply to Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses, and Nurse Practitioners maintaining their professional registration.
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Healthcare professionals regulated by other bodies, physicians, social workers, allied health professionals, should check with their own regulatory college or professional association to confirm whether this course qualifies for their continuing education requirements.