Mental Health at Work - Focus on Self-Management
Strengthening Resources, Mastering Stress
The seminar is for anyone who is interested in mental health and wants to have a long-term and sustainable impact on their everyday working life. It is about mental stress and how it can be overcome and how existing resources can be strengthened.
The focus of this workshop is on the prevention of mental stress and illness, and scientifically based findings on “healthy self-management” are also conveyed. What is stress and how can it be dealt with preventively? What are mental illnesses anyway, how common are they in the company and what signs can I recognize? Become your personal first aider for mental stress in the workplace. For you and your colleagues.
This compact course has been designed on the basis of best practices from companies, science and the day-to-day work of a head physician at a psychiatric clinic and is enriched with exercises and “first aid tools” on what is best to do in everyday life and in acute cases. In addition, what has been learned and practiced will be discussed at a virtual reflection meeting approx. 6 weeks later.
Your Benefits at a glance
- Building preventive structures
- Recognizing and reacting to crises
- Prevention of mental stress on 2 levels
- Learning healthy self-management
- Develop effective stress management
- Support in implementing the content / reflection
- First aid tools for everyday work
- Recognize & understand clinical pictures
- Background knowledge on mental stress in the workplace
- Building preventive structures
- Recognizing and reacting to crises
- Prevention of mental stress
- Learning healthy self-management
- Develop effective stress management
- Support in implementing the content / reflection
- Mental First Aid Tools
- Recognize & understand clinical pictures
- Knowledge on mental stress in the workplace
Overview
Die TUM Campus Heilbronn gGmbH
Certificate of Participation
2 runs per year
German
390 €
10% discount for TUM Alumni & Alumnae
This compact course is aimed at anyone who is interested in mental health and wants to have a long-term and sustainable positive impact on their day-to-day work.
- Employees with and without management responsibility
- Employees in the HR department, members of the works council and representatives of severely disabled employees
Online
2 day + review meeting
Spring 2026 (online):
Wed, March 11, 2026, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Thu, March 12, 2026, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
+ Review meeting on Thu, April 30, 2026, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Fall 2026 (hybrid):
Thu, November 12, 2026 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
+ Review meeting on Thu, December 10, 2026, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
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Why this program?
In an increasingly complex and dynamic working world, mental health is becoming a decisive success factor. Our workshop “Mental health at work – strengthening resources, avoiding stress” focuses on self-management. It provides employees with valuable strategies for activating their inner resources, recognizing stress and managing it effectively.
Why is this important?
Increasing work pressure, constant availability and the pressure to perform both professionally and privately put a strain on many people. If you learn to manage yourself better, you can not only be more stress-resistant, but also work more productively, creatively and with greater fulfillment.
Learn how to strengthen your resilience, set clear priorities and stay healthy in the long term through mindfulness and self-reflection. Because mental strength cannot be taken for granted – but it can be trained.
Content of the program
Background knowledge on mental stress in the workplace
- Figures and statistics
- Frequent clinical pictures
- Acute mental crises
- Signs of mental illness
Stress and burnout
- Causes and consequences of stress
- Education & prevention of burnout
Prevention of mental stress on 2 levels
- Rights of employees
- Obligations of companies
- Prevention of mental stress
- Dealing with mental stress among colleagues
Support in implementing the content / reflection
- Debriefing of challenges
- Exchange and questions
About the lecturer
Dr. Simon Senner is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy and chief physician at the Clinic for Social Psychiatry at the Reichenau Center for Psychiatry. In addition to his training at the Technical University of Munich, he gained many years of clinical and scientific experience at the Rechts der Isar Hospital, where he headed a psychosis therapy ward, among other things. At the same time, he is a lecturer at the TUM School of Management and is involved in further training for managers, police, and companies on topics such as “mental health in the workplace,” resilience, and “healthy leadership.” In addition to his clinical expertise, he has extensive experience in telemedicine care concepts and is a member of medical advisory boards.
Statement
Healthy employees are the foundation for strong and sustainable companies
"Mental health in the workplace is no longer a 'nice-to-have,' but a key success factor for companies – and affects us all. I found the instructor's clinical perspective in the workshop particularly enriching, opening up new insights. I'm taking away valuable insights into how mental health – especially with regard to self-leadership – can be sustainably integrated into everyday work and actively shaped – because healthy employees are the foundation for strong and sustainable companies."
(CEO GenHuman GmbH)
Das Seminar gefällt mir sehr gut. Es ist interaktiv, spannend und bietet eine ausgewogene Mischung aus Theorie und Praxis.
„Der Meinungsaustausch zwischen den Dozentinnen und den Seminarteilnehmenden ist sehr lebendig. Es wird Wissen vermittelt, aber es gibt auch viele Möglichkeiten, sich aktiv einzubringen. Mein Key Takeaway ist, dass der Einsatz von Künstliche Intelligenz nicht ganz einfach ist, sondern dass dabei viele Aspekte berücksichtigt werden müssen, an die man vielleicht vorher gar nicht denkt.“
Teilnehmerin KI als Kollege
Die offene Sitzrunde fördert den Austausch und gestaltet das Miteinander sehr dynamisch.
„Ich habe hier gelernt, dass viele Fragen, die mich zum Thema Künstliche Intelligenz beschäftigen, allgegenwärtig sind. Daran zeigt sich, wie aktuell das Thema ist. Der Austausch untereinander bietet die Möglichkeit, gemeinsam Anwendungsbeispiele zu identifizieren und neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Ich würde den Workshop auf jeden Fall weiterempfehlen, weil der Austausch grandios ist und die Vernetzungsmöglichkeiten auf regionaler Ebene einen großen Mehrwert darstellen.“
Teilnehmer KI als Kollege
TUM Campus Heilbronn
At the Dieter Schwarz Foundation’s state-of-the-art educational campus, the TUM Campus Heilbronn combines cutting-edge research and excellent teaching with a clear focus on the interdisciplinary interface of management, computation, information, and technology. The aim is to responsibly shape the opportunities and challenges of the digital age.
Founded in 2018 with the support of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, TUM Campus Heilbronn combines the strengths of the Technical University of Munich with the economically strong Heilbronn-Franken region, which is characterized by small and medium-sized enterprises, global market leaders, and the future European AI hub (IPAI). As a sustainable driver of innovation, TUM Campus Heilbronn promotes international talent and trains future innovators, specialists, and executives.
The interdisciplinary, English-language bachelor’s and master’s programs at the TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology and the TUM School of Management combine academic excellence and technological expertise with entrepreneurial thinking and practice-oriented teaching. Leading professors conduct research and teach at our campus, which attracts a rapidly growing international student body. Through close cooperation with international universities and companies, we are creating an innovation ecosystem that accelerates progress, strengthens the region’s competitiveness, and empowers talent to actively shape the challenges of the digital age. Innovation meets small and medium-sized businesses.
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