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This page offers a range of resources and services which you may find useful as you deal with the challenges of life and work in the extraordinary times of COVID-19. If there's a resource or form of support that you are particularly looking for, or have a suggestion about one that you've found useful, please let us know.
Send an email to
margareto@sun.ac.za
Latest updates:
SU
Staff Health and Wellbeing plan
Mental Health
Guide to living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty
: A really comprehensive and practical resource full of helpful tools to understand the current emotional challenges, and to manage your own wellbeing amidst uncertainty. (Downloadable guide available in English and Afrikaans.)
The South African Depression and Anxiety Group
: Lots of mental health resources, plus links to 24-hour helplines.
Managing stress
: Practical advice and useful links to online therapy support.
The six stages of grief
: Why you're feeling so terrible right now, and how to be compassionate with it.
Coronavirus has upended our world
: NPR article on processing loss and uncertainty.
Why you should ignore all that Coronavirus-inspired productivity pressure.
How to salvage a disastrous day.
HomeWork
Support for Home Working
:
The University of Ulster's resource page with suggestions around structuring your day, setting up your workspace, managing children and other demands.
Top tips for Managers
:
How to support your team at a distance.
New resources to support home-working
:
Oxford University's comprehensive guide, including many online resources.
5 ways to work from home more effectively
:
Harvard Business Review article.
3 steps for leaders
:
Quick, simple strategies for managing your team at a distance.
How to run a great virtual meeting
:
Advice for meeting chairs and managers.
Virtual Meetings
:
Basic etiquette and guidelines for participants.
Moving beyond monologues
:
Creating brainstorming and creative problem-solving spaces in virtual meetings.
Help Lines
Lifeline Western Cape
Gender-based violence and abuse helpline
Higher Health 24 hour mental health toll-free helpline
:
Toll-free call 0800 36 36 36 or sms 43336
POWA
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Lockdown Counselling Number 076 694 5911
Mental Health Information Centre
, Tygerberg : Janine Roos
jroos@sun.ac.za
021 938 9229
Bereavement
Providing Good Grief Support
: Really simple advice
3 ways to help your team navigate grief in a crisis
How to support employees through grief and loss
: Advice for managers
How to offer support to a grieving colleague
The best and worst things to say to someone in grief
How to cope with your own grief
Helping someone who's grieving