Ei x Dr. Kathy Pike: From Index to Action in Workplace Mental Health
05/30/24 • 46 min
Dr. Kathy Pike
Dr. Kathy Pike is the founder and past director of the WHO Center for Global Mental Health and professor of psychology at Columbia University. She is also the CEO of One Mind. Dr. Pike has international experience in global mental health discussion. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters on eating disorders, culture, psychopathology, global mental health, and mental health in the workplace. A long-time advocate for increasing access to mental health services, Dr. Pike has provided consultation on mental health policy to Japanese parliamentary representatives and to the United States Mental Health Policy Organizations.
She’s also committed to supporting workplaces in their efforts to address mental health in the workplace. As such, she consults with global corporations with the aim of integrating best practices to reduce the burden of mental illness and enhance mental health and wellbeing in today’s rapidly changing workplace.
Insights from this episode:
- Challenges in addressing the complexity of issues that need to change regarding mental health in the workplace
- Changing cultures and transformation through structural and systemic changes
- Mental Health at Work Index for Leaders and Organizations
- 3 Ps Framework: Protection, Promotion, Provision
- Strategies at One Mind at Work
- AI as an aid for Mental Health Professionals
Quotes from the show:
- “Taking care of our mental health is, it’s a verb. It’s not a noun. It's dynamic and it’s changing. And so this idea of emotional inclusion that you’ve put forward, I think is one that’s really powerful because it means it’s an invitation.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
- “We have this false dichotomy that what’s good for business is not good for mental health and what’s good for mental health is not good for business. And that’s just flat out wrong. Data is overwhelmingly clear that when we take care of our people, when you take care of people’s mental health and wellbeing, it’s good for the people, it’s good for their teams, it’s good for their families, it’s good for the community, it’s good for the workplace.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
- “Mental health and wellbeing and focusing on these issues in the workplace, you have to continuously demonstrate that it matters. You have to prove and continue to promote buy-in within the organizations. So you need to be able to demonstrate that what you’re doing is having an impact on what you’re aiming to impact.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
- “Emotional intelligence is all about knowing how to navigate our emotions and the emotions of the people we interact with. Whilst emotional inclusion on the other hand, puts emotional intelligence into action.” - Mollie Rogers Jean De Dieu
- “Inclusion is a verb and being inclusive of each other’s emotional realm, as you and I are so aligned with, is something that we need to do.” - Mollie Rogers Jean De Dieu
- “Nothing will replace who we are as human beings but how AI can bring in additional insights and broaden our perspectives based on the humanity that resides within all of us is going to be fascinating.” - Mollie Rogers Jean De Dieu
- “Emotional intelligence versus emotional inclusion, it’s one thing for leaders to know, it’s another for leaders to do. And leaders are really building capacity around mental health and wellbeing at the most progressive organizations.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
Stay connected:
Dr. Kathy Pike
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleenmpike/
Mental Health at Work Index
https://mentalhealthindex.org/
Emotional inclusion
https://www.emotionalinclusion.com/
Dr. Kathy Pike
Dr. Kathy Pike is the founder and past director of the WHO Center for Global Mental Health and professor of psychology at Columbia University. She is also the CEO of One Mind. Dr. Pike has international experience in global mental health discussion. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters on eating disorders, culture, psychopathology, global mental health, and mental health in the workplace. A long-time advocate for increasing access to mental health services, Dr. Pike has provided consultation on mental health policy to Japanese parliamentary representatives and to the United States Mental Health Policy Organizations.
She’s also committed to supporting workplaces in their efforts to address mental health in the workplace. As such, she consults with global corporations with the aim of integrating best practices to reduce the burden of mental illness and enhance mental health and wellbeing in today’s rapidly changing workplace.
Insights from this episode:
- Challenges in addressing the complexity of issues that need to change regarding mental health in the workplace
- Changing cultures and transformation through structural and systemic changes
- Mental Health at Work Index for Leaders and Organizations
- 3 Ps Framework: Protection, Promotion, Provision
- Strategies at One Mind at Work
- AI as an aid for Mental Health Professionals
Quotes from the show:
- “Taking care of our mental health is, it’s a verb. It’s not a noun. It's dynamic and it’s changing. And so this idea of emotional inclusion that you’ve put forward, I think is one that’s really powerful because it means it’s an invitation.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
- “We have this false dichotomy that what’s good for business is not good for mental health and what’s good for mental health is not good for business. And that’s just flat out wrong. Data is overwhelmingly clear that when we take care of our people, when you take care of people’s mental health and wellbeing, it’s good for the people, it’s good for their teams, it’s good for their families, it’s good for the community, it’s good for the workplace.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
- “Mental health and wellbeing and focusing on these issues in the workplace, you have to continuously demonstrate that it matters. You have to prove and continue to promote buy-in within the organizations. So you need to be able to demonstrate that what you’re doing is having an impact on what you’re aiming to impact.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
- “Emotional intelligence is all about knowing how to navigate our emotions and the emotions of the people we interact with. Whilst emotional inclusion on the other hand, puts emotional intelligence into action.” - Mollie Rogers Jean De Dieu
- “Inclusion is a verb and being inclusive of each other’s emotional realm, as you and I are so aligned with, is something that we need to do.” - Mollie Rogers Jean De Dieu
- “Nothing will replace who we are as human beings but how AI can bring in additional insights and broaden our perspectives based on the humanity that resides within all of us is going to be fascinating.” - Mollie Rogers Jean De Dieu
- “Emotional intelligence versus emotional inclusion, it’s one thing for leaders to know, it’s another for leaders to do. And leaders are really building capacity around mental health and wellbeing at the most progressive organizations.” - Dr. Kathy Pike
Stay connected:
Dr. Kathy Pike
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleenmpike/
Mental Health at Work Index
https://mentalhealthindex.org/
Emotional inclusion
https://www.emotionalinclusion.com/
Previous Episode
Stigma: An Excerpt from the NEW BOOK
In this episode, Mollie Jean De Dieu, the founder of Emotional Inclusion, offers us a glimpse into her latest book, "Emotional Inclusion: A Humanizing Revolution at Work". She recounts real-life workplace stories that illustrate the challenges people face and how fostering emotional inclusion can lead to improvements in the workplace for everyone.
Insights from this episode:
- Stigma in the workplace
- Effects of workplace experience on performance
- Fears and struggles from expectations
- Anxiety in work influencing personal life
- Pressure from societal norms
- Importance of seeking help
- Power of authenticity and vulnerability
Quotes from the show:
- “Emotional inclusion invites others to look into our humanness. Being emotionally inclusive means being emotionally and mutually accepting of one another.”
- “The mind-body connection is undeniable when it comes to discussing mental health or emotional wellness holistically.”
- “There is an urgency to look at stigma as a gateway to creating emotionally inclusive workplace cultures.”
- “Emotional inclusion invites us to change the core of our discriminating attitude and false assumptions when labeling each other's humanity.”
- “There is no question that emotionally inclusive companies communicate tools and strategies to address and spot anxiety, depression, stress, and mental illness overall.”
- “The stigma of mental illness is one of the top reasons that people do not receive care.”
- “Emotional inclusion puts emotional intelligence into action in a medicalized, confidential, and purpose driven way.”
- “Whichever way we choose to tackle emotional inclusion, the pull is just greater than us at this stage.”
- “Emotional inclusion calls for the dialogue to be deepened, and the stigma to be weakened.”
Stay connected:
Emotional inclusion
https://www.emotionalinclusion.com/
https://www.instagram.com/emotional_inclusion/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/emotional-inclusion/
Get your copy of the book:
https://amzn.to/402BNgj
"Emotional Inclusion: A Humanizing Revolution at Work" is published by Penguin Random House
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