Portfolio piece · People & Culture · Sensitive-topic communication · Trust-first copy architecture
Copywriter: Karina Souza
Section 1 — Hero
Goal: Stop the scroll. Make the employee feel seen before they read anything else.

Strategic context

This is a People & Culture internal campaign — the kind HR teams run when they want employees to actually show up to a wellbeing initiative, not just see the invite and delete it. The core challenge is the same one that appears in any institutional communication targeting a resistant audience: how do you reach people who have learned to distrust organizations offering help? Copy had to earn trust before making any ask. The same architecture applies across employee engagement, change management, and internal communications at scale.

People & Culture · Wellbeing Initiative · Company-wide

Let's talk about
what we usually don't.

Mental health affects everyone at work. Most of us just never learned how to talk about it. This is a space to start — on your terms, not the company's.

Save your spot → What happens at the session?
Free Open to all employees
During work hours No need to use personal time
3 speakers Psychologist & peer voices
Section 2 — The problem
Goal: Name what the employee already feels but hasn't said out loud.

Performing fine is not the same as being fine.

At work, we're trained to keep going. Deliver. Handle it. Be professional. So we do — until we can't. And by then, asking for help feels harder than it should, especially inside the company where we're meant to be performing.

This isn't a therapy session organized by HR. It's a conversation — the kind most workplaces never make space for.

You're not the only one struggling. 1 in 5 employees reports significant mental health difficulties at work. Most never speak to anyone about it — not HR, not a manager, not a colleague.

Talking is not weakness. Research consistently shows that naming what you're going through — out loud, to another person — reduces its weight. That applies at work as much as anywhere else.

You don't need to be in crisis to come. This session is for anyone running on empty, curious about managing pressure better, or tired of pretending everything is fine.

Section 3 — What happens
Goal: Make the session feel concrete and low-stakes. Remove the fear of showing up.

A space to understand,
share, and not perform.

Three sessions. Real speakers. No corporate wellness scripts about resilience and self-care. Just honest conversations about what it's actually like to work right now — and what helps.

10:00 AM — Session 1
What's actually going on in your head
A psychologist breaks down workplace stress, anxiety, and burnout — in plain language, without clinical distance or HR-approved framing.
11:00 AM — Session 2
From colleagues who've been there
Peer voices share what they went through, what actually helped, and what they wish someone inside the company had told them earlier.
12:00 PM — Session 3
Open conversation
No panel, no stage, no HR taking notes. Just a room of people talking honestly. You can listen, or you can speak. Both are welcome.
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Meeting Room B, 3rd Floor — or join via the internal link
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Thursday, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
No registration required. Spots limited to keep the conversation small.
Save your spot →
Section 4 — Reassurance
Goal: Remove the last objections. Speak to the employee who is still on the fence.

You don't have to share
anything you're not ready for.

You can just listen.

There's no pressure to speak, share, or participate in any specific way. Showing up is already enough — and no one will follow up asking why you came.

HR is not in the room.

This session is not a reporting mechanism. What's said stays with the people present. No notes are taken, no summaries go to management.

You won't be the only one who's nervous.

Most people who come to sessions like this show up with the same hesitation. It tends to disappear in the first ten minutes.

Attending won't flag anything on your record.

Participation is entirely voluntary and confidential. Coming to a wellbeing session is not a performance concern — it's the opposite.

Section 5 — Final CTA
Goal: One clear action. No pressure, no urgency tricks. Just an honest invitation.

You don't have to
go through it alone.

The conversation is already happening. Come be part of it — on your own terms, at your own pace. The company made the space. What you do with it is up to you.

Save your spot →
Open to all employees · Thursday, 10:00 AM · Room B or internal link

Copy decisions — annotated

What was written, why it was written that way, and what it's designed to do.

Headline: "Let's talk about what we usually don't"

Uses the second person plural — "we" — to put the employee and the organization on the same side. Naming the avoidance without shaming it is how you reach someone who has already decided not to engage. The headline acknowledges the pattern before asking them to break it.

Subheadline: "on your terms, not the company's"

The biggest objection in corporate wellbeing communication is the sense that the company benefits from your openness more than you do. This line pre-empts that suspicion directly. It signals that the session is genuinely employee-facing — not an engagement metric in disguise.

Problem section: naming the workplace-specific resistance

"Performing fine is not the same as being fine" addresses the professional mask directly — the behavior that makes workplace mental health campaigns so difficult to run. The copy names the performance pressure before it can become a reason not to come.

CTA: "Save your spot" not "Register now"

"Register now" sounds like a form and an audit trail. "Save your spot" is softer, implies the reader has already decided, and removes bureaucratic friction. In an internal context where employees are suspicious of HR documentation, word choice matters at the CTA level.

Reassurance: "HR is not in the room"

This is the objection that stops employees from engaging with any wellbeing initiative. Naming it directly — and answering it in plain language — is more persuasive than a general confidentiality statement. Specificity earns trust where vague assurances don't.

Tone: human, not institutional

Every section was written to sound like a person, not a department. Short sentences. Active voice. No HR terminology. The goal was to make the employee feel like someone who understands what it's actually like to work there wrote this — not a comms team following a wellbeing framework.