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Your guide to being kind to your mind. Through science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools, Headspace helps you create life-changing habits to support your mental health and find a healthier, happier you. Unwind with guided meditation sessions to relax after a long day, learn how to build healthy boundaries with our meditation and mindfulness teachers, practice mindfulness exercises for everyday scenarios like commuting or cooking, and create the ideal conditions for restful sleep with our guided sleep meditations and sleep music.
Sometimes, feeling burnout can be mistaken as other things such as depression, laziness, and lack of motivation. However, feeling burnout has unique symptoms that everybody needs to pay attention to. Watch these videos to know whether you are feeling burnout.
TEDx is an international community that organizes TED-style events anywhere and everywhere — celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage. TEDx events are produced independently of TED conferences, each event curates speakers on their own, but based on TED’s format and rules. This playlist includes a selection of TED Talks themed around the topic of burnout.
Therapy in a Nutshell | Coping Skills for Mental Health
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Emma McAdam’s mission is to make mental health resources easier to access. She takes therapy skills and psychological research and condenses them down into bite-sized nuggets of help. McAdam spreads the message that while mental illness is real, it’s common, it’s debilitating, it’s also treatable.
Demystifying Medicine McMaster | Demystifying Mental Health
Demystifying Medicine McMaster’s playlist of videos related to mental health are for educational purposes only. The playlist covers a wide variety of mental health related concerns and questions.
Action for Happiness | Top Tips for Happiness
Vanessa King from Action for Happiness shares evidence-based tips each month to help you boost your wellbeing and spread happiness to others too.
The Black Dog Institute is a world leader in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. With focuses on self-care and workplace mental health, these videos offer thoughtful suggestions.
Take a moment to clear your mind and find your inner calm.
This five part series from HSE Health and Wellbeing explores important mental health topics from self-care to building healthy connections.
Psych Hub | The Burnout Antidote – 10 Doses of Self-Compassion
We are on a mission to empower everyone to create a better approach to mental health for themselves and others.
Communication Coach Dan O’Connor delivers professional communication training tactics that you can immediately use at work and at home to gain confidence and respect. If you want to learn simple yet effective strategies to use with your boss, coworkers, partner, and more, check out Dan’s Youtube videos. Learn how to handle difficult people and situations, diversity, methods for being seen and respected, and finding the right words for every situation demanding exceptional communication skills–and much more. Dan O’Connor–MINDFUL Communication training delivered with humor!
At Skillopedia we recognise that Soft skills are extremely important and are becoming the hard skills of today’s competitive workforce. It’s just not enough to be highly trained in technical skills, without developing the softer, interpersonal and relationship-building skills that help people to communicate and collaborate effectively.
Mind Tools is here to help you learn the practical skills you need to excel in your career so that you can become exceptionally effective, be a great manager and leader, be more successful in your career — and even become happier at work!
Explearning Communication & Social Skills
Explearning is an online platform for developing communication and social skills. We also focus on the in-between: the everyday moments that make up the majority of our lives. We’re talking about the social skills and know-how you need to thrive in your relationships, communities, and in your own headspace. Whether it’s making small talk, storytelling, making friends, fostering positive self-talk, managing conflict or communicating across cultures, Explearning has you covered.
Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. Simon has devoted his life to help advance a vision of the world that does not yet exist; a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are and return home fulfilled at the end of the day. Every day is an opportunity to inspire someone.
Dr. Alok Kanojia, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, lifelong gamer, recovered gaming addict, and cofounder of Healthy Gamer. Healthy Gamer leverages Dr. K’s expertise in psychiatry to help the internet generation live fulfilling and healthy lives.
Kati Morton is a licensed therapist, author, and public speaker renowned for her YouTube channel focused on mental health. Her channel covers a wide range of topics, including family dynamics, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and trauma. In her videos, Kati shares valuable insights and practical advice on navigating the complexities of mental health. She offers strategies for managing difficult emotions, coping with stress, and enhancing overall well-being. Her non-judgmental approach makes her content accessible to people from all backgrounds.
Dr. Tracey Marks is a psychiatrist with 20+ years of experience empowering individuals to take control of their mental health by understanding the mind-brain connection and how it is key to building resilience. Learn how lifestyle factors, mental practices, and emotional regulation influence your brain to cultivate resilience. I explain the neuroscience behind these practices, showing you how to optimize your brain for a fulfilling life.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Emma McAdam’s mission is to make mental health resources easier to access. She takes therapy skills and psychological research and condenses them down into bite-sized nuggets of help. McAdam spreads the message that while mental illness is real, it’s common, it’s debilitating, it’s also treatable.
NAMI started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 and has blossomed into the nation’s leading voice on mental health. Today, we are an alliance of more than 600 local Affiliates and 48 State Organizations who work in your community to raise awareness and provide support and education that was not previously available to those in need.
Kati Morton | Helping Someone Else?
It can be hard to know just how to help someone who is struggling with a mental illness! In this playlist, licensed therapist, author, and public speaker Kati Morton tackles ways to support others.
Dr. Susan David | Work Playlist
When our natural human responses to the trials and travails of work are recast as less than or weakness, it is to the detriment of all involved. Employees aren’t robots and will eventually burn out if treated this way. Our real world experience at work actually shows that those who model caring, authentic, and emotionally skilled behaviors are far more effective than those who don’t. We are all human. We all experience the same range of human emotions (and all benefit from being given the opportunity to effectively process them). Hurt, loneliness, rage, anxiety—they belong to our collective experience. Let’s reach out to each other from this place of commonality and understanding rather than creating more division in an already-polarized world.
The Have That talk series was developed to raise awareness about the importance of mental health in all areas of our lives. Everyone can take action to promote mental health where we live, work and play. Check out these videos and activity guides to learn how you can take action to reduce stigma, increase support, and encourage people to get help sooner.
Open Up Health | Open Up At The Workplace
Improve your own mental well-being in a way that fits your day-to-day challenges – however big or small. OpenUp is on a mission to make mental well-being accessible to everyone.
World Health Organization | WHO Commission on Social Connection Series
Anyone, anywhere, can be lonely or socially isolated. Across all ages and regions, loneliness and social isolation have serious impacts on our physical and mental health, and the well-being of our communities and society. The WHO Commission on Social Connection (2024–2026) aims to see the issue recognised and resourced as a global public health priority. The Commission will propose a global agenda on social connection, working with high-level Commissioners to make the case for action, marshal support to scale up proven solutions and measure progress. Start your journey to learn more about the issue by watching the Social Connection Series: a living collection of short films that features the lived experiences of people around the world on social connection. Sit down with us to listen to their stories and explore why social connection is central to our health, well-being, and to being human.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides important protections for individuals with disabilities, including those with mental health conditions, in the workplace. Under the ADA, employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with qualifying mental health conditions, as long as it doesn’t cause undue hardship to the business. These accommodations might include flexible schedules, remote work options, modified job duties, or access to mental health resources. Additionally, the ADA prohibits discrimination based on mental health conditions in hiring, firing, promotions, and other employment practices. This ensures that employees with mental health conditions are treated fairly and have equal opportunities to succeed. By understanding and adhering to the ADA, workplaces can support employees’ mental well-being, foster inclusivity, and create environments where everyone can contribute to their full potential.
At the time of this publication, these websites provide reliable, free information to help individuals understand their rights and protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the workplace:
Comprehensive resources about ADA rights, including workplace protections and reasonable accommodations. Includes regional ADA center contacts for personalized assistance.
U.S. Department of Justice – ADA Information
Official ADA guidance, legal documents, and FAQs. Covers employment, public accommodations, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Information on disability discrimination laws, workplace accommodations, and how to file a complaint.
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
Free expert guidance on workplace accommodations and disability-related employment issues. Includes tools and resources tailored to specific mental health conditions.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Resources and guides on mental health conditions and ADA-related workplace protections.
Employee rights information, including ADA protections for mental and physical disabilities.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)
Resources and advocacy information related to disability rights, including workplace issues.
American Psychological Association (APA) – Mental Health and the ADA
Guides on how the ADA applies to mental health in the workplace.
U.S. Department of Labor – Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
Information on disability employment policies, including workplace accommodations and rights.
Resources about mental health conditions and workplace rights under the ADA.
