Event Calendar

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Increasing Mental Wellbeing to Ensure Safety

Start Date: 5/14/2025 8:30 AM CDT
End Date: 5/14/2025 10:00 AM CDT

Venue Name: MCAKC Knowledge Center

Location:
10955 Lowell Ave
10th Floor
Overland Park, KS  United States  66210

Organization Name: MCA of Kansas City

Contact:
Jacki Conn
Email: jconn@mcakc.org
Phone: (913) 948-9200

Increasing Mental Wellbeing to Ensure Safety

Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Breakfast: 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Location: MCAKC Knowledge Center

Join us for a vital presentation tailored specifically for professionals in the construction industry, focusing on mental wellbeing and its practical impact on the job site. This presentation is crucial for construction professionals aiming to foster a supportive, mindful, and safe workplace. 

Mindful resilience empowers individuals to maintain focus and helps groups reduce conflict, fostering more effective collaboration for improved safety. This session is designed to prioritize mental well-being as a key element of safety, exploring strategies to strengthen mindful resilience and minimize potential risks across different environments. Participants will gain valuable insights into proactive approaches and practical tools that promote a safer and healthier workplace.

This seminar is part of a comprehensive four-part series Building a Mental Health Toolbox designed specifically for construction industry professionals. This program focuses on enhancing mental wellbeing and its practical application in the workplace. Offered quarterly, each half-day seminar can be taken independently, providing valuable insights and actionable skills.

The series includes:
  1. Understanding Mental Health & Tools To Respond - Sept. 11, 2024
  2. How To Have Uncomfortable Conversations Around Mental Health - Dec.12. 2024
  3. Simple Ways To Support The Mental Health of Self & Others - March 12, 2025
  4. Increasing Mental Wellbeing to Ensure Safety - May 14, 2025
Instructor
Robin Todd received her B.A. in Psychology and certification in Elementary Education, from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. In 1990 she began her career as an educator, working with children and adults in a variety of settings. While attending graduate school, Robin found her passion for mindfulness. She spent two years working with the Mindfulness Research Lab on the campus of Avila University mastering a curriculum that embodies positive psychology and neuroscience. After receiving her M.S. in Psychology from Avila she completed her certification as a Live Mindful Instructor and launched her business, Mindful Momentum in 2014. Since then, Mindful Momentum has empowered and inspired thousands of individuals across a wide range of organizations and industries to become more effective, efficient, productive and healthy in both their personal and professional lives by utilizing simple, easy, mindful practices.

FREE to employees of Signatory Contractors, Associate Members, Members of UA Local 533, and UA Local 8