Having spent my entire adult life working in the public sector, and am now, following early retirement, spending my days hopping between private and public sector, consulting with business and agency leaders, managers and front line workers in a variety of workplace situations. Over the past while I have witnessed various forms of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) that have been adopted to help the men and women deal with various personal and professional issues.

It has begun to dawn on me that there appears to be a complete lack of any proactive or preventative aspects to such programs.

When considering the variety of issues that are regularly confront all of us in our day-to-day lives, and when considering how these issues frequently colour every aspect of our behaviours, attitudes and performance, it strikes me as peculiar that organizations will spend untold amounts of money attempting to