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- Understanding and Preventing Burnout — Free modular online training by CDC/NIOSH focused on burnout prevention and improving workplace health, with continuing education credit.
- Mental Health and Resilience for Healthcare Workers (Coursera — Free Audit) – Teaches resilience, stress management, mental health fundamentals & burnout concepts.You can audit the course free of charge (no certificate).
- Behaviour, Burnout and Depression (Alison) Free beginner course covering behaviour, burnout signs, depression and stigma. Free to enrol, study & complete (certificate is optional with fee).
- Preventing Burnout in Health Workplaces (General Practice Training) Free online course targeting burnout awareness, prevention strategies & wellbeing in healthcare settings. Includes a free certificate on completion.
- The Reignite Project — Free Burnout Prevention E‑Course (Calmer) 10‑week well‑being course on burnout prevention and personal balance. Free emailed modules.
- Mental Health and Self-Care for Healthcare Professionals Self-Care and Personal Wellbeing. This Self-Care and Personal Wellbeing course is designed to help you develop a deeper understanding of self-care, its importance, and how to incorporate it into daily life. The course will cover various self-care practices, mindfulness techniques, and strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and burnout.
- Health Communication Training Series (HCTS) Strategies to Support Team Well-Being. The Health Communication Training Series (HCTS), developed by the UT Austin Center for Health Communication (CHC), is a contemporary continuing education opportunity for current and aspiring health care and health communication professionals. The video series program consists of engaging, online, and self-paced courses on various topics that revolve around health communication.
- Mental health and resilience for healthcare workers. This course will help institutions and individuals better manage the mental health challenges of being a healthcare worker. Healthcare providers, such as the University Health Network (UHN), are addressing the mental health needs of their staff through various initiatives that aim to help build resilience and provide respite from the demands of their work. This has been critical during the pandemic, but of course healthcare workers experience high levels of stress even without a pandemic. The primary purpose of this course was to capture and explain the lessons learned in the hope of informing healthcare institutions and healthcare workers about effective strategies and the reasons why they work.
- Nursing Resilience: a free online course for nurses.From the stressors of the nursing environment to the anxieties around maintaining a healthy work-life balance, each module provides language to help you recognize the effects of stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue on your wellness. You will also learn effective tools to prevent the negative cycles of stress on your physical, mental, and emotional wellness.
- Free course Caring for adults. Caring for adults is an introductory course for anyone in a caring role, either paid or unpaid. It builds on what you already know to give you a better understanding of your role as a carer. It also supports your own well-being by giving you some ideas and information about looking after yourself and dealing with stress.
- “Stress Management” – OPEN vhb: This free online course provides an introduction to stress management, focusing on identifying stressors and applying practical coping strategies in everyday and professional contexts. It includes theoretical foundations as well as self-reflection and practical exercises that support mental well-being.
- “Resilience – Staying Strong in Everyday Life and at Work” – OPEN vhb: This open online course focuses on building personal resilience and psychological strength in the face of stress and professional challenges. Learners are introduced to resilience models, self-assessment tools, and practical techniques applicable in workplace environments.
- Mental Health Part I: Stress and Strengthening Resilient Mental Health: This openly licensed worksheet explores the biological, psychological, and social dimensions of stress and their impact on mental health. It supports learning through structured questions and explanations and is suitable for guided training or self-learning contexts.
- Mental Health Part II: Stress – Educational Worksheet: This educational worksheet builds on basic concepts of stress and mental health and includes reflective questions and learning activities. It helps learners understand protective factors and strategies that support mental resilience under stress.
- Impact of Stress on the Body and Mind – gesund.bund.de (Germany): This public health page explains how stress affects both physical and mental health and why prolonged stress can lead to health problems such as tension, headaches, sleep difficulties, and emotional exhaustion. It provides guidance on recognizing stress triggers and suggests practical strategies like relaxation techniques that can help reduce stress and improve wellbeing.
- EU-OSHA – E-guide to managing stress and psychosocial risks: An interactive EU-OSHA guide to identifying, assessing, and managing psychosocial risks at work, designed as a practical starting point for organisations. It supports the WP4 organisational perspective and can be used for stress mapping and action planning.
- HSE (UK) – Management Standards for work-related stress: A structured HSE framework for systematic management of work-related stress through a risk-assessment approach (risk factors, actions, monitoring and review). It supports shifting from an “individual-only” approach to organisational prevention and improvement.
- List ItemCDC/NIOSH – Stress…At Work (DHHS Publication No. 99-101): NIOSH educational material summarising key causes and impacts of work stress and recommending prevention actions, emphasising that organisational change should be prioritised. Useful as a core reference for theoretical grounding and evidence-based interventions in WP4.
- Mindful Employer Programs Resources and structured mindfulness training designed to help employers support staff well-being, reduce burnout, and build resilience in the workplace.
- Stress Management for Healthcare Workers: How to Prevent Burnout — Breakdown of burnout signs and stress management techniques.
- Burnout Recovery for Healthcare Providers — A clinician‑focused session on recognizing and recovering from burnout.
- Overcoming Burnout: Stress Management for Nurses — Video with strategies for nurse wellbeing and self‑care approaches.
- Preventing Doctor Burnout: Top Strategies — Video on actionable methods to prevent burnout among physicians.
- Healthcare Burnout Solutions: 7 Strategies Every Medical Professional Should Know
- What Self‑Care Prevents Burnout for Healthcare Professionals? — Short video on essential self‑care practices.
- Who Saves Me? | Healthcare Worker Burnout — Awareness‑raising video highlighting real experiences of health workers.
- What Healthcare Leaders Must Know About Burnout — Leadership and organisational strategies to combat burnout. Healthcare Leadership & Burnout Prevention
- HeadsUpGuys – Stress & Depression Self‑Check Tools: Free online self‑tests and tailored guidance (useful for stress/burnout risk awareness).
- Ten Percent Happier for Workplaces: A mindfulness and resilience app designed for reducing stress and burnout with science-backed meditation and expert guidance. Offers workplace programs with courses tailored to professionals.
- Headspace for Work: Enterprise version of Headspace that combines mindfulness, sleep, and stress-relief content with organizational analytics and employee well-being programs.
- Calm for Work: Calm’s business platform delivers stress reduction and resilience tools (meditations, sleep stories, mindful movement) tailored for workplace mental health support.
- Modern Health: An all-in-one workforce mental health platform that combines self-guided resources, coaching, and clinical care — widely used by employers to build scalable support programs.
- Wysa: AI-driven mental health and resilience app combining empathetic chat support with evidence-based cognitive-behavioral tools; offers workplace solutions.
- Spring Health: Precision mental health platform that uses assessments to tailor care, connect employees to the right support, and measure program impact across teams.
- Lyra Health: Enterprise mental health solution that connects employees with personalized therapy, coaching, and mental wellness tools with organizational outcome tracking.
- WHO Technical Reports & Consultations on Health Worker Mental Health — Reports and consultation outputs on protecting workforce wellbeing and organisational interventions (PDFs available via WHO).
- WHO – Guidelines on mental health at work: WHO’s official, evidence-based guidelines for promoting mental health at work. It covers organisational interventions, training for managers and workers, individual interventions, and a return-to-work support framework.
- WHO – Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide: An illustrated guide with simple, practical stress-management techniques that can be practiced daily in just a few minutes. Suitable as a participant handout and as a follow-up tool (4–8 weeks) after pilot sessions.