Breathe
Breathe focuses on cultivating a balanced and mentally healthy approach to leadership. Through tailored strategies and expert guidance, it equips leaders with the tools to nurture their own well-being, empowering them to foster productivity and mental health within their teams, creating a thriving and supportive workplace environment.
What is Breathe: Building Mentally Healthy Leaders?
Breathe is a seven-session program designed for organizational leaders to address Mental Health within their organizations, communities, and their own lives. Mental health is a key issue in our community across all people, so Breathe looks to utilize experts within influential programs across our city that address solutions to this key issue.
Program Objectives
The program is designed to equip leaders with the necessary tools to look at mental health differently in life, communities, and at work, and then to address challenges that prevent everyone from thriving.
Participants will:
- Be exposed to key mental health indicators in our region on a business and community level
- Discuss, challenge, and collaborate with each other to address business practices and policies pertaining to mental health
- Explore outlets that improve quality of life and mental health for all at their organizations
- Be provided resources and perspectives to better understand policy and systemic challenges for mental health in communities
- Experience cohort based challenges to tangibly address mental health at their organizations through collaborative measures and practices
Target Participants
Executives in Cincinnati region Organizations
Curriculum
The Seven Program sessions will include:
- Session 1: An Opening Retreat – Topics focused on the general state of mental health, mental fitness and relationship building
- Session 2: Mental Health Epidemic – Dive into mental health systems, history of mental health, and a company’s role in mental health
- Session 3: Building a Mental Health Culture (Pt. 1) – Discuss company policies, benefits packages, and resources for training and more
- Session 4: Building a Mental Health Culture (Pt. 1) – Discuss the power of play and the importance of physical and nutritional health
- Session 5: Actions to become a community that leads in Mental Health
- Session 6: Breakfast Touch base – Review challenges, how people are responding to changes, successful implementations, and what various teams in the workplace are trying — Conduct Post-Survey
- Session 7: Data Reconvene – Review the data of Mental Health statistics, debrief post-survey results, and discuss next steps
Class 1 Program Timeframe
- October 31, 2024 — Kick-Off | 2:30 – 5 p.m.
- November 8, 2024 — Session 1: Full-Day Retreat | 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
- December 5, 2024 — Session 2: Mental health Epidemic | 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- January 17, 2025 — Session 3: Building a Mental Health Culture (Company Policies, Packages, and Resources) | 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- February 21, 2025 — Session 4: Building a Mental Health Culture (Power of Play) | 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- March 28, 2025 — Session 5: Actions to Become a Community that Leads in Mental Health | 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- April 25, 2025 — Session 6: Breakfast Touch Base | 8 – 11 a.m.
- June 6, 2025 — Graduation/Final Session | 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Applications
Applications for Class 2 will open March 4, 2025.
Registration Fee
$50 (non-refundable). Registrants will be asked to pay via credit card at the end of the online registration process.
Questions? Contact Megan Liebenow at mliebenow@cincinnatichamber.com
Questions? Contact Andrea Mersmann at amersmann@cincinnatichamber.com
Pricing
$3,000 for Chamber Members
$3,500 for Non Chamber Members
*Partial scholarships may be available for those with financial need, and can be requested within the registration. Payment plan options are also available.
What past participants had to say...
There were several speakers throughout the sessions that really gave us pointers and different ideas on how to be a leader.
Adam Behm
I really enjoy this program because everybody’s so authentic. We talk about our issues and personalities, and how we make improvements. I definitely learned a lot, and also [was] able to network with other upcoming leaders in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Lei Zhao
Being one of the younger professionals in Cincy LEAD, it was really neat to learn from people who have been in different industries for 20 to 30 years and get to learn their struggles through the years.
Saijal Andreadis
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