The Mental Wealth Company
Mental Wealth Café
As part of Rail Forum’s Rail Safety Week, The Mental Wealth Company (TMWC) is proud to bring the Mental Wealth Café to Rail Live — promoting wellbeing at the heart of rail safety.
The Mental Wealth Café is TMWC’s way of supporting individuals and teams with their wider wellbeing and the co-creation of a community that is all about supporting one another in a safe space, to discuss challenges and stressors and ways in which we can all help one another show up authentically and safely.
During Rail Safety Week, we are focussing our attention on the principles of Psychological Safety (PS) and Non-Technical Skills (NTS).
Why? Well, Network Rail’s Health and Safety Vision states: “Everybody has a responsibility to behave safely and challenge unsafe behaviours and conditions when we see them”. This responsibility can only be carried out within a culture that enables and encourages this, i.e. a culture underpinned by Psychological Safety.
Non-Technical Skills are the social, cognitive and personal skills that can enhance the way you or your staff carry out technical skills, tasks and procedures. Good use of non-technical skills in the operational environment have been shown to be important in reducing operational risk and improving performance.
Throughout the café sessions each lunch time we will lead an open debate on the importance of both PS and NTS, helping those new to these topics understand why they are so important, and to learn from leaders and practitioners of PS/NTS in relation to how to nurture the right culture, develop and maintain the skills importantly, how to challenge negative habits that can evolve over time.
These sessions will be chaired by TMWC’s MD and Founder, Wendy McCristal, and Lucy Prior MBE, Strategic Growth Director.
Where and when?
Wednesday 18th June:
12:15 – 13:30, Safety Theatre, W50
- Meet Wendy McCristal and Lucy Prior MBE at our Mental Wealth Cafe: an open forum, but safe space where we will be discussing Psychological Safety: what it is, why it’s important, how it drives safety, productivity and innovation.
15:00, Safety Theatre W50
- Hear Wendy McCristal as she takes to the stage with Monica Barbosa , Lisa Regan , Leanda Jade Waring , and Christopher Sutherland. Chaired by Rail Forum CEO Elaine Clark OBE.
15:15, Policy and Leadership Theatre
- Join Lucy Prior MBE for the sustainability panel, where she will be chairing a panel debate with Mike Noakes , Angela Cruickshanks , Jo Lewington. and Craig Harvey. Sponsored by British Steel.
Thursday 19th June:
12:15 – 13:15, Rail Live café, P75
- Lucy Prior MBE will be facilitating our second Mental Wealth Cafe of the show, supported by Andrew Haines , CEO of Network Rail where we will be taking a deeper dive into Psychological Safety and why it is incumbent on every one of us to ensure we support the speak up culture.