FIFO Focus

A couple of our team members are also SES volunteers. It’s always a pleasure to help our volunteers look after themselves and each other.

This week one of our dedicated members, Sandra, delivered training to our team on creating psychologically healthy workplaces.

Sandra is an endorsed organisational psychologist and organisational development professional with over two decades of industry experience in both public and private sectors globally. She is the Managing Director of FIFO Focus.

The training night was engaging and well received by our members. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with our team, Sandra!

This is an emotion wheel. When it comes to feelings, we tend to use generic words to express our emotions: anger, sad, happy, surprised (middle of the wheel). If we delve deeper, we can get a clearer understanding about why we feel angry, sad, happy, surprise etc. With that clarity, we are better able to act and make ourselves, or someone you care about, feel better. Eg we’d do something different if we were feeling violated compared to feeling skeptical (both under the Angry banner). Let’s expand our emotion vocabulary for better mental health.

Sandra Lam, Managing Director and Principal Psychologist at FIFO Focus, spoke to the West Australian about the importance of connectedness, self care and looking out for each other for FIFO workers and their families over the Christmas period. Checkout the article “Fears for mental health of FIFO families this Christmas following unprecedented year of social isolation” in today’s paper.

Why this could be the toughest Christmas yet for FIFOs With the pain of separation from friends and family heightened after an unprecedented year of social isolation, experts say FIFO workers have never been under as much pressure.