Employee wellbeing workshops
Wellbeing workshops for international teams
For companies, international schools, universities, and NGOs with relocated and international employees.
You do not know what your international employees are actually struggling with, and they will not tell you. Their manager is often the reason they cannot speak freely. HR is the employer. The Employee Assistance Program is a phone number they do not trust. Traditional Employee Assistance Programs report engagement rates between 3 and 8 percent of eligible employees, with a median around 5 percent (industry utilization data).
Workshop format
What a workshop is, and what it is not
A wellbeing workshop is a small, facilitated session where international employees practise something and leave with a behavior they can use differently. It is capped at 20 people, not recorded, and built for participation, unlike a webinar that reaches more people and changes awareness.
Small by design
The cap of 20 people is deliberate. Twenty people means everyone speaks, asks, reacts, and practises. A large room may look efficient, but it usually turns a workshop back into a presentation.
No recording, on purpose
The session is not recorded, and that is the point.
People do not say what is really going on when they know it is being recorded.
A webinar reaches everyone and changes awareness. A workshop reaches fewer people and changes behaviour. Both are legitimate, but they solve different problems. For the lighter, broader, company-wide option, see our wellbeing webinars.
Budget risk
Why this matters to the budget
Workshops matter to the budget because unresolved relocation stress can turn into absence, resignation, replacement cost, and wasted relocation spend. For international employees, a focused small group session can surface practical barriers early, before the company pays twice for the same role and loses the investment already made.
50-200%
of an employee's annual salary is the cost of replacing them (SHRM).
For a relocated hire, that sits on top of a relocation package you have already paid for.
$4
returned for every $1 invested in treatment for depression and anxiety (WHO).
Themes
Workshop themes
Workshop themes should be chosen around the business outcome HR needs to change, not around a generic wellbeing calendar. The strongest themes help employers reduce burnout risk, protect the first 90 days abroad, improve cross-cultural communication, or equip managers to support international staff earlier.
Burnout prevention
This workshop helps the company spot, name, and reduce burnout in international staff before it becomes sick leave. Employees practise identifying the patterns that hide behind high performance, constant adaptation, and working in a second language.
Relocation adaptation
This workshop helps the company make the first 90 days abroad a success rather than a risk. Relocation failure is usually an adjustment problem, not a skills problem, so the session focuses on routines, belonging, family strain, and early warning signs.
Cross-cultural communication
This workshop helps the company reduce the friction and misunderstanding that quietly slows international teams down. Participants practise naming assumptions, clarifying expectations, and preventing small cultural gaps from turning into performance or trust problems.
Manager training
This session is for managers, not for the international employees themselves. It equips managers to recognize that an international team member is struggling before they resign, and to have the conversation without making it worse.
The manager training audience differs from the other three themes, so HR should treat it as a manager session rather than another employee session. Themes can be combined or adapted to the organization.
What you get
What the company gets
The company gets a live, facilitated workshop for up to 20 people, led by a licensed expat-aware psychologist and designed for real discussion. Afterward, HR receives a short anonymized summary of themes across the group, with no names, individual data, or attribution to any person.
- A facilitated live session, typically 90 to 120 minutes
- A group capped at 20 people
- Online, hybrid, or on-site delivery
- A licensed, expat-aware psychologist as facilitator
- No recording, by design
- A short anonymized summary of the themes that came up, with no names or individual data
Why this is not a generic wellbeing workshop
This is not a generic wellbeing workshop because the facilitator is not a wellbeing generalist. Expathy psychologists are licensed clinicians who are themselves expats, matched to clients by native language and cultural background.
For the wider B2B support menu, see our full company offer.
How it works
How it works
The process is simple: a company books a short call with a real person, agrees the theme, group, and date, then Expathy facilitates the session live. Afterward, HR receives a short anonymized summary of themes that came up across the group.
- Step 1
Book a 15-minute call with a real person.
- Step 2
Agree the theme, the group, and the date.
- Step 3
We facilitate the session live.
- Step 4
You receive a short anonymized summary of the themes that came up.
Trust and confidentiality
Confidentiality is absolute: all sessions are led by licensed psychologists, nothing an individual says is ever reported back to the employer, and the written summary covers themes across the group only. It contains no names, no individual data, and nothing attributable to any person.
- All sessions are led by licensed psychologists.
- Nothing an individual says is ever reported back to the employer.
- The summary covers themes across the group only, with no names and no individual data.
- Confidentiality is absolute.
Book a 15-minute company call
You will speak with a real person about the group, theme, date, and format, not complete a generic request form.