Overview

The necessary measures imposed to ensure everyone’s safety during a pandemic create particular challenges for the well-being and mental health of everyone. Many factors are responsible for the mental health of a person. Of course, genetics and past experiences influence this, but the interactions between the individual and its environment is the predominant factor. The current sanitary situation with its fears and constraints or the new telework reality and the necessity to adapt our professional and personal lives, make these interactions even more complex. We all have a role to play to maintain not only our own mental health but also that of others. At work, this responsibility is shared between the employer, the managers, the colleagues and of course each and every one of us. During this conference, we will explore the cognitive, affective, behavioral and relational aspects to which we should pay more attention in order to overcome the challenges to our well-being and mental health that this pandemic has created for us all.

Targeted Audience:

Federal public servants at all levels.

Presented by:

Rose-Marie Charest is a psychologist and a communicator. Her extensive practice of psychology has helped her understand human problems in depth and she can now communicate them in an accessible and pleasant way. Since 1998, she was the president of the Ordre des psychologues du Québec. She left this position in 2015 to devote herself to her career as a communicator. Rose-Marie Charest is a renown speaker for her capacity to talk about various subjects in an educational manner with sometime even a touch of humour. For her, each conference is a meeting opportunity, a relationship being built with her audience on a subject that touches them directly. She likes to be known as the psychologist who speaks to the people.