Football player Andrés Iniesta has worn very important shirts and has now teamed up with another great team: ifeel’s psychological well-being platform for companies.
The former FC Barcelona and current player of the Japanese team Vissel Kobe wanted to join us to raise awareness of the importance of mental health care in the workplace. Together we have set a goal that will surely interest you: we want to spread the message that all companies should take care of their employees as their main asset and the best way to do this is to take care of their well-being by focusing on mental health, which has been badly affected by the current pandemic.
Andrés Iniesta and workplace well-being
Andrés Iniesta has always shown special interest in all issues relating to mental health. At a very young age, the player developed great resilience which has allowed him to manage his success and the changes it has generated in his life.
Despite this, the iconic midfielder suffered from depression in 2009, after winning the Champions League, La Liga, and La Copa del Rey with Barça. Andrés Iniesta has always spoken openly about it: “I experienced depression in 2009 after the hat-trick with Barça and the death of my friend Dani Jarque. I lived lacking enthusiasm and the excitement disappeared from my life. That’s the moment you have to ask for professional help. Your family, friends, and co-workers are the closest to you and the ones who can blow the whistle when you are feeling lost,” says Iniesta.
Thanks to the emotional support received during his career, Iniesta is well aware that everyone, without exception, may need help to take care of their emotional well-being at some point and this is closely related to well-being at work.
“Having psychological support in your company seems fundamental to me because it is one of the first places you can start feeling burned out; companies should encourage the care of their employees’ mental health.
Andrés Iniesta
Representing a company like ifeel has special importance for me because of my personal experience and because I firmly believe that these tools can be very useful for everyone”
We know that the pandemic has worsened peoples’ mental health around the world in many ways such as anxiety, stress, seeing things not going the way you want them to… These are very common problems for employees. We have to make the problem visible so that it is no longer a taboo subject and people can ask for help and find it in their own company,” says Iniesta.
The Iniesta Tactic to take care of our health
ifeel and Andrés Iniesta are committed to highlighting the need to provide companies with useful tools to protect the psychological well-being of employees. Within the workplace, it has become clear that managing the emotional and psychological health of employees through the improvement of personal well-being is key to retaining talent, improving productivity, and facing challenges in a healthy way.
Through this partnership, ifeel and Iniesta are launching a program called “The Iniesta Tactic”, which involves a series of actions to encourage positive practices in the field of emotional support and personal and professional development in companies.
The partnership between Andrés Iniesta and ifeel includes a series of actions through both online and offline communication actions that aim to raise awareness among companies about the importance of their employees’ mental well-being through the football player’s experience. The objective? To normalize, make visible, and stop treating psychological help to achieve mental well-being as a taboo subject, starting from the forefront of the battle, which is the workplace. The “Iniesta Tactic” also stresses the need to know how to manage success, control anxiety and stress that may arise in the work environment, and channel new challenges.
Emotional well-being for companies
At ifeel, we understand that it is not possible to take care of the company without taking care of the psychological well-being of its employees. To do so, we have an emotional well-being program for companies, designed by our team of occupational well-being psychologists with one main objective: to help companies place employee health at the center of their strategy to build their mission statement.
Thanks to this partnership, the people in charge of HR departments can receive personalized, data-driven advice on how to make good decisions in a company, get the most out of the teams they are in charge of, and take better care of the psychological well-being of the people in them.
Moreover, this program offers employees a holistic mental health care service structured at different levels according to their needs. This service includes, if required, online psychological therapy with a psychologist specialized in cases like theirs. Try our program today so you can see how it could help you.
We hope you have found this post about the partnership between Andrés Iniesta and ifeel interesting. If you want more information about our emotional well-being program for companies, simply request it and we will contact your team as soon as possible.
