Your second six months of DEI activity for 2026
To support your ongoing DEI activity in 2026, we’ve mapped the last six months of the Ultimate HR Calendar against our range of workshops. These sessions are designed to help you respond meaningfully to key days of note, while building sustainable capability across your organisation.
Contact us to book a series of workshops, or to talk about other ways we can help you drive successful outcomes in 2026 and beyond.
August Workshops
Safe to Speak: Cultivating Psychological Safety
This session introduces three practical approaches to building psychological safety and helps leaders develop a culture of high performance, growth and learning within their teams.
Aligns with Bullying No Way: National Week of Action (10–14 August) and World Kindness Day (13 November).
Communication Essentials
Covering such topics as active listening, how to give and receive feedback and reducing incivility (a precursor to bullying), this 1.5-hour session provides participants practical insights they can use to communicate well.
Aligns with Bullying No Way: National Week of Action (10–14 August)
September Workshops
It’s the Best Time in History to Be a Dad
Delivered by our partner, The Father Hood, this workshop explores how modern fatherhood is evolving, and how dads have the opportunity to define themselves more broadly than previous generations – for the benefit of all genders.
Aligns with Father’s Day (6 September).
Why Menopause is Everyone’s Business
An all-employee session designed to raise awareness and open up conversations about menopause at work, supporting inclusion, understanding and psychological safety.
Aligns with Women’s Health Week (7–11 September), World Menopause and Work Day (7 September) and World Menopause Day (18 October).
Setting Life‑Work Boundaries
This session deep dives the techniques of setting clear boundaries between work and home to create a clear delineation between entities within life to support health and wellbeing.
Aligns with Women’s Health Week (7–11 September).
Menopause Training for Managers and HR
Equips leaders and HR professionals with the tools and confidence to support employees through the menopausal transition.
Aligns with Women’s Health Week (7–11 September), World Menopause and Work Day (7 September) and World Menopause Day (18 October).
Check-In Culture: How to Ask Someone R U OK?
Explores how to build a ‘check-in’ culture where peers feel equipped to create safe spaces, regularly check in with one another, and ask R U OK in a meaningful way.
Aligns with R U OK? Day (10 September).
Safe to Speak: Cultivating Psychological Safety
In this interactive workshop, leaders build awareness of the small, often automatic behaviours that shape whether people feel safe to speak up, take risks and learn.
Aligns with R U OK? Day (10 September).
October Workshops
Wellbeing Foundations
This workshop helps creates a shared language around mental health, reduce stigma, and equips participants with simple, evidence‑informed strategies to support themselves and others at work.
Aligns with Mental Health Month (1–31 October) and World Mental Health Day (10 October).
Leading with Heart
Supports leaders to navigate the emotional demands of their role by building skills to have supportive conversations, set healthy boundaries, and care for others without compromising their own wellbeing.
Aligns with Mental Health Month (1–31 October) and World Mental Health Day (10 October).
The Art and Science of Taking Breaks
Acknowledging that people work effectively in different ways, this session provides practical strategies to build restorative breaks into everyday rhythms of work.
Aligns with Mental Health Month (1–31 October) and World Mental Health Day (10 October).
Leadership Tools for Preventing and Responding to Customer Aggression
Provides leaders with practical tools and strategies to support their teams to prevent, manage and respond to occupational violence and aggression in the workplace.
Aligns with Mental Health Month (1–31 October), World Mental Health Day (10 October) and World Kindness Day (13 November).
Leading Through Ages and Stages
Moves beyond generational stereotypes to offer inclusive, evidence-based strategies for leading age-diverse teams.
Aligns with International Day of Older Persons (1 October), Mental Health Month (1–31 October) and World Mental Health Day (10 October).
Retiring Well
Supports people to prepare for the psychological transition to retirement, focusing on wellbeing, identity and life beyond work.
Aligns with International Day of Older Persons (1 October)
Health Reset
Explores why wellbeing habits can slip over time and offers practical strategies to reset and sustain healthier ways of working.
Aligns with Mental Health Month (1–31 October) and World Mental Health Day (10 October).
Caring for the Carer: Supporting Self in the Carer Role
Focuses on caring roles across the employee life cycle, and how individuals can navigate the often-competing demands of caring for others while working.
Aligns with Carer’s Week (October).
Compassion Fatigue: How to Curb the Cost of Caring
Provides participants with insights informed by current research and tools focused on understanding compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, what it is, who is at risk and – critically – ways to prevent and manage it.
Aligns with Carer’s Week (October).
November Workshops
Emotional Intelligence: Interpreting Your Feelings to Understand Others
Provides practical tools to build awareness of emotions in ourselves and others, and develop a shared language for discussing them.
Aligns with World Kindness Day (13 November).
Family and Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Training
An introductory session to help leaders recognise the signs of family and domestic violence, understand its workplace impacts, and respond appropriately.
Aligns with International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November).
December Workshops
Fatigue Antidote: Preventing Burnout
Supports leaders to understand the cultural drivers of burnout in modern, blended workplaces and adopt practical approaches for sustained wellbeing.
Aligns with end-of-year trends.
Job Crafting: Working SMARTer, Not Harder
Offers teams a structured forum to redesign work in ways that support mental health while still meeting role deliverables.
Aligns with end-of-year trends.
Contact us to discuss your 2026 learning and development needs.
