Our mission

We believe that work life needs to be changed and we want our work as well as our work communities to be a supportive factor for our mental wellbeing.

We invite you to share your experiences with mental health at work and participate in creating an international, collective story: we will develop a documentary podcast series based on the crowdsourced stories. 

The stories will also be shared on social media and our website to create wider discussion, as well as contribute to societal research, including qualitative research on experiences and mental health at work of young adults.

About us

The Mind@Work Project team brings together a combination of professionals with backgrounds in the fields of art and science. Majority of the team are young adults themselves.

We want to contribute to changing attitudes about mental health at work - the more people talk openly about this, especially at workplaces, the less stigma is associated with the topic.

The initiative is done in collaboration with Finnish and European mental health organisations, academia and with input from young patient representatives. The initiative relies also on the support of its dedicated and driven volunteers.

Collaboration

Partners in this initiative include the European mental health organisation GAMIAN-Europe, Finnish mental health organisations MIELI Mental Health Finland and Taiteen Sulattamo, Balans from Sweden as well as the University of Turku. Helsinki-based audio producer Artlab is responsible for production of the audiodocumentary podcasts. 

Funding

The initiative has received funding from the Niilo Helander Foundation, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Uusimaa Regional Fund and the Finnish Work Environment Fund. Mind@Work is a non-profit initiative.

Advisors

Anna-Maria Isola, University of Turku,
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Eveliina Lafghani, Taiteen Sulattamo

Hilkka Kärkkäinen, GAMIAN-Europe

Iida Mäkikallio, Academy of Philosophy

Jani Kajanoja, University of Turku

Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Aalto University

Teemu Ollikainen, Occupational health psychologist

Tiina Tuominen, MIELI Mental Health Finland