Corporate Programs

Corporate Support

Chaplains Without Borders provides a confidential service to employees and customers throughout corporate Australia. Many organisations opt for a chaplaincy service because of compelling evidence that a chaplain in the workplace increases workforce happiness and productivity.

Current organisations working with Chaplains Without Borders include Crown Casino, Bendigo Bank, The Wilson Group, Southern Cross Station and Silcar Human Resources Management.

Help that we can provide to your workforce can include:

• Employee Assistance Programs – offering individual counseling to staff under stress in their professional or personal lives, helping care or your workforce.

• Crisis management – providing a debriefing support service to employees who have undergone a work related trauma including industrial accidents or violence in the workplace

• Seminars – covering topical religious issues such as inter-faith understanding and ethics

• Religious services (Christian, Islam and Judaism)

• Mediation

• Retreat coordination

• Fund raising events (concerts, etc.)

Tell us what you want to achieve.

Industrial Relations

Chaplains Without Borders has a good relationship with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), providing support to members stressed about their employment futures or in need of other support.

We also work with employer organisations, providing support in helping management understand the needs of their workers.

Services that we can provide for workers include:

• workplace accident counseling

• conflict management and mediation support

• opening of work sites

• remembrance services

• marriages

• the blessing of children

Remote Area Chaplaincy

In response to the needs of workers in remote areas, a new initiative has been developed to be rolled out across remote Australian resource based businesses.

A network of highly competent chaplains has been developed to work across remote workplaces on a revolving basis. This ensures each workplace gets a regular counsellor but, most importantly, that someone is always available in the area when needed.

“The concept was well received at the conference, where resource managers saw the need for remote area chaplaincy. P&O and Centrex Metals seemed particularly far sighted,” Father James said. “The Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Tom Koutsantonis, was also very supportive of the program due to the current high turn over in remote areas of mining workers and counsellors.”

Corporate Support

Current organisations working with Chaplains Without Borders include Crown Casino, Bendigo Bank, The Wilson Group, Southern Cross Station and Silcar Human Resources Management.

Help that we can provide to your workforce can include:

• Employee Assistance Programs – offering individual counseling to staff under stress in their professional or personal lives, helping care or your workforce.

• Crisis management – providing a debriefing support service to employees who have undergone a work related trauma including industrial accidents or violence in the workplace

• Seminars – covering topical religious issues such as inter-faith understanding and ethics

• Religious services (Christian, Islam and Judaism)

• Mediation

• Retreat coordination

• Fund raising events (concerts, etc.)

Tell us what you want to achieve.

Self-Defence and Mental Resilience

In providing a total care package, Chaplains Without Borders offers a self-defence program aimed at developing mental resilience in your team. CWOB Director, Father James Grant, has been training self defence programs for over twenty years and has a black belt in jiu jitsu. Father James has found that self-defence programs can be a great way of building confidence within organisations.

“Basically, we use self-defence as a building block for developing permanent resilience habits,” Father James explains. “The martial arts program we use is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu – the same one SWAT teams and the military use. But the big picture is all about developing personal resilience.”

Programs are specifically tailored for beginners and women to build confidence and resilience, and can be used for business or sports teams; with a program planned for the Melbourne Victory football club in 2012.

The program involves seven sessions of two hours each, including:

1. Resilience – the big picture Getting out of your comfort zone, and overcoming the fear of learning

2. Building habits Small steps lead to success

3. Taking risks This session focuses on attitude and fears. What are you actually losing when you take risks? Sometimes reality is not as bad as you think.

4. Changing the game “It’s now or never.” In developing resilience, when you’re down, rather than simply giving up, you need to ask what you can do differently to make a change.

5. Priorities Bringing back the big picture. Giving yourself too many options for change makes you non-resilient, as you spread yourself too thinly. This session is about getting your priorities right.

6. Building on defeat Taking the positives out of things not working. Rather than saying “I’m a loser”, what are the lessons?

7. Confidence Positive talk; being able to coach yourself into positive thinking is the best way to extricate yourself from a position.

Crown Casino's Chaplaincy Support Service

In recognition that from time to time some people need a form of spiritual support, Chaplains Without Borders now provides a Chaplaincy Support Service at Crown for the convenience of staff and customers.

The Chaplaincy seeks to engage in fresh and distinctive ways of increasing the health and wellbeing of all people, using new models for participation in spiritual life that work in conjunction with established Crown support service initiatives.

The service is free

Appointments can be made by calling 1800 456 228.

The Chaplaincy Support Service at Crown respects all religious beliefs and traditions in the spirit of tolerance. While its foundation is Christian, people of Jewish, Muslim and other faiths have strong links to the chaplaincy and participate in its activities.

The Chaplaincy Support Service helps people seeking guidance and peace in ways relevant to the diverse range of individuals’ problems and life situations.

The Chaplaincy Support Service offers:

• prayer

• meditation

• discussion of problems

• pastoral services

• other pastoral assistance

• referral to other support services.

Information can also be provided in relation to aspects of personal relationships. All inter-faith enquiries welcome.

The Chaplaincy Support Service at Crown has been established as part of Crown’s overall package of services which include the Crown Employee Assistance Program and the Responsible Gaming Support Centre.

The Chaplains Without Borders Casino Program will be rolled out to Casinos throughout Australia over the next twelve months. If you would like to start a Chaplaincy Support Service at your Casino, please contact Fr James.