The consulting firm specializing in psychosocial well-being, Affor Health, and the impact entrepreneurship and social innovation network, Impact Hub Málaga, promote the Healthy Route 2022, which will start in Madrid.
The objective is to encourage emotional well-being of employees among SMEs and entrepreneursat a time when the pandemic has highlighted the need to manage psychosocial risks to promote mental health at work.
This pioneering initiative in mental health awareness in Spain and Latin America will feature eight free online events that will take place between the months of February and April, linked to different spaces of the Impact Hub global entrepreneurship network, in which experts from different companies and organizations will share their experience to promote the emotional well-being of people at work.
Anabel Fernández, CEO of Affor Health, considers that “psychosocial management is increasingly widespread in large companies, but not so among SMEs and entrepreneurs. That is why we have launched, together with Impact Hub Málaga, a network of which we are promoters, this ‘Healthy Route 2022’, because we believe that it is necessary to care for and raise awareness about the mental health and well-being of employees, whether they work in a large company , in an SME or are entrepreneurs”.
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The ‘Healthy Route 2022’ will start next February 15 in Madrid with an opening conference on ‘What are the psychosocial risks?’, which will be given by Antonio González, CEO of Impact Hub Madrid. It will continue in Spain online at Saragossa (February 22) to analyze ‘How do psychosocial risks at work affect us?’ with the participation of Juan Carlos Fernández, from central services of Quirónprevención. The rest of the stops on this route will be:
- Barcelona (March 1): “Emotional management in professional life”. Speaker: Joan Piñol, Mental Health and Psychological-Emotional Well-being Services of Fundación Salud y Persona.
- San Sebastian (March 8): “Digital tools to take care of psychological health at work: Psicomet + PAE”. Speaker: Juan Carlos Santamaría, Director of Communication at Inithealth (Init Group) and co-founder of Health 2.0 Basque.
- Mexico City (March 15): “Emotional management in interpersonal relationships”. Speaker, Yunué Cárdenas, founder Psírculo Creativo and technical coordinator HUB Affor Health México.
- Bogota (March 22): “The importance of self-care for mental health. When to ask for professional help? Speaker: Gloria Morgan, strategic management in Occupational Risk Prevention.
- Buenos Aires (March 29): “Responsibility, sustainability and social impact of the company” Speaker: Gonzalo de la Sierra, general manager at MEOPP ART Mutua and director of the “Herman Schroeder” Chair of Entrepreneurs at UFLO University.
- Malaga (April 5): “Mental health: everyone’s responsibility”, Mª Carmen Rodríguez, director of the psychosocial intervention area of Affor Health.
Those attending this Healthy Route, in addition to learning about emotional management to work in a healthy way, will obtain a check-up of their emotional health, through the ‘Psicomet, by Affor’ tool, and will have at their disposal for six months the Help for the Employee (PAE), the free psychological counseling service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which promotes the improvement of the emotional well-being of workers and helps them resolve any psychological and emotional discomfort they are experiencing, both in the personal and work spheres, providing them with tools to improve their quality of life.
Impact Hub Málaga has four lines of projects linked to the Sustainable Development Goals and one of them is SDG 3 Health and Well-being, in which the ‘Healthy Route 2022’ is framed.
