Wellbeing Workshops

Positive Psychology

“Positive psychology explores what enables individuals and societies to flourish.

It examines how people can cultivate happiness, strength, and resilience, and ultimately live a fulfilling, meaningful life.

Rather than trying to alleviate suffering, positive psychology strives to enhance well-being. Positive psychology is a relatively new discipline, but it has grown widely since its emergence.”

You will learn how to apply Positive Psychology to both your professional and personal development. These include:

  • How to apply APPRECIATIVE Inquiry concepts – looking for the “what IS working well?”
  • How to develop Stress Resilience
  • How to build Resilience
  • How to be Happy
  • How to improve Relationships
  • How to identify and use Personal Strengths
  • Applying the power of Positive Emotions, Happiness and Wellbeing
  • Strategies from the theory of Hope and Goal Setting
  • The importance of a Growth Mindset
  • Developing Winning Behaviours and Attitudes
  • Living “Above the Line”

Are you getting enough of your “Happiness Chemicals”?

Course overview

You will learn leading-edge techniques to develop strengths and virtues such as wisdom, self-control, courage and fairness. You will also learn about ‘beyond’ mindfulness, Seligman’s PERMA concept and compassion and how to be more self-compassionate.

In the early days of Yorkshire soprano Lesley Garrett’s stellar career, she found it difficult to ‘break into’ the world of music.

She moved to London, hoping to find her first career break – but quickly found that the streets weren’t paved in gold after all. Despite, setback after setback, Lesley wrote to her Mum back in Yorkshire every week listing all of the potential opportunities that each week was bringing…only to write again the following weekend to update her Mum that none of the opportunities had been successful. One weekend, Lesley received a envelope from her Mum…when she opened it, she found a handful of dirt together with a brief note saying…

“…it sounds as though you’re in need of some Yorkshire Grit…so I’ve sent you some!…

So, if you feel YOU need some ‘Yorkshire Grit’ to help you get through your business or personal life right now… why not click below and book yourself onto a Zoom Coaching call with in one of our facilitators – from £35.00 + VAT per module.



NEW from Martin Seligman’s “Flourish” – The PERMA Model of Well-Being

Tools, Habits and Behaviours PROVEN to promote Personal, Team and Corporate Resilience and Well-Being.

Earlier in 2020, it was found that poor mental wellbeing is costing UK businesses £45 billion each year and with the increase of concerns about the pandemic, that figure has, almost certainly, risen significantly throughout the year.

In addition to this, research shows that 11 million UK adults took time off due to poor mental wellbeing in 2020 (this figure is as at October 2020), yet only 38% of them felt comfortable being honest about it to their employer, while others cite physical health issues or simply take annual leave to avoid the conversation all together. Most employers said that mental wellbeing is a key priority for them, but many employees don’t feel that it is.

“It’s OK – NOT to be OK”

…or so the currently trending saying states. So there needs to be an acceptance and acknowledgement, without any attached stigma, that we can ALL probably benefit from some Wellbeing and Positivity being spoken into our lives and workplaces right now.

Q: So HOW do we encourage our employees, who we feel need to increase their wellbeing and stress resilience, to attend a “stress” workshop without it being seen as a stigma or a weakness?

A: Enrol the entire team or organisation onto the workshop so that it becomes an “Inclusive Experience” for all of your employees. From the statistics shown above, it suggests that more than 50% of our workforce would benefit from a Wellbeing and Positivity Workshop. (and the longer the pandemic continues, the higher this figure will become)

So by enrolling your entire team on the workshop you are:

  • being a responsible employer in providing for the wellbeing and mental health of your Staff
  • reducing the risk of increased “days off work” due to poor mental health – thereby protecting the efficiency and sustaining your profitable business
  • providing hope and positivity in a covid-world to your employees and their families
  • enabling your staff to spend quality “work time” to learn life-changing, and in some instances, life-saving concepts and principles
  • creating a ‘safe environment’ where your employees can be Honest, Open and Transparent with each other as to how they REALLY feel, which creates incredible team-bonding and self help in the support group
  • creating a culture which your staff will look back on as “that time during Covid when our Organisation offered outstanding support and we all looked after each other”.

It is during times like these when we form platforms on which to build:

  • Personal Resolve and Character
  • Personal Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Mental Safety for the attendees and their families
  • An enhanced awareness of the signs of “pandemic-fatigue” or depression – and a knowledge of how to build resilience against them
  • Memories of the great support the Organisation offered by providing a ‘mandatory’ Wellbeing Workshop – resulting in great employee satisfaction and company loyalty
  • Highly committed Super Teams with a formidable self-support ethos
  • Your new Company Culture and the infrastructure for the “new normal”

When we work under pressure for a prolonged period of time, whether it be caused by COVID-19 or sheer volume of workload with ever critical deadlines – there is a danger that our personal wellbeing and stress resilience will become overwhelmed and this can sometimes lead to even more serious mental illness. 

Don’t allow Covid to Steal your Happiness!

Neuroscience tells us that during times of stress and depression, our brain finds it difficult to create the “Happiness Chemicals” that our body needs to help us to survive the storm. This workshop will reveal the techniques of how we can discipline our thinking through Postivity so as to ensure that that our brain continues to produce the necessary levels of dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphin which are the prerequisite weapons with which we fight stress, depression and increase wellbeing.

“It’s OK NOT to be OK”…as long as you have a plan to restore your Wellbeing and Mental Health…and this workshop is YOUR plan to do that….

This practical workshop has been designed to address the elements of the PERMA model as we build towards a healthy work / life balance. We will look at how stress can be managed positively (to produce achievement, meaning and relational quality) as well as how to avoid unnecessary dis-stress. There will be space for participants to intelligently assess and reflect on their current well-being. And there will be exercises and habits shared that can facilitate deliberate self-leadership towards “Performance under Pressure”.

When we work under pressure for a prolonged period of time, whether it be caused by COVID-19 or sheer volume of workload with ever critical deadlines – there is a danger that our personal wellbeing and stress resilience will become overwhelmed and this can sometimes lead to even more serious mental illness. 

This practical workshop has been designed to address the elements of the PERMA model as we build towards a healthy work / life balance. We will look at how stress can be managed positively (to produce achievement, meaning and relational quality) as well as how to avoid unnecessary dis-stress. There will be space for participants to intelligently assess and reflect on their current well-being. And there will be exercises and habits shared that can facilitate deliberate self-leadership towards “Performance under Pressure”.

To book your Team or Department onto this revolutionary workshop contact us now.

 

You can now add to your CPD Hours by booking a ZOOM virtual Workshop

Where are you on this slide? – Are you in the FEAR Zone, the LEARNING Zone or the GROWTH Zone? – Who do you want to be during and post-pandemic? Do you know that you CAN still choose your behaviour and attitude – despite the anxieties and fears of COVID-19? Increase your own well-being and emotional health by applying the principles of Positive Psychology into your life.

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Stress Management, Building Resilience + Work Life Balance: Personal Wellbeing

Performance under Pressure: Building Resilience

 “Stress is likely to become the most dangerous emerging risk to business in the early part of the 21st century”… so says the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers.

 Performance under Pressure – Full Day Programme

Tom Peters, the author known for his management books In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence, says it straight out in his preface to Thriving on Chaos:

 “The winners of tomorrow will deal proactively with chaos, will look at the chaos per se as the source of market advantage, not as a problem to be got around. Chaos and uncertainty are (will be) market opportunities; capitalizing on fleeting market anomalies will be the successful business’s greatest accomplishment.”

Being able to constantly achieve peak Performance under Pressure requires us not only to survive – but to actually thrive in an environment of pressing deadlines and target achievements etc.

The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Building our Resilience

E.I. Stress

Emotionally Intelligent: Stress Resilience and Emotional Control

 Covey’s 7th habit challenges us all to take care of ourselves and to become aware of those issues which can reduce our personal effectiveness

Identifying the dis-stress creators and the ‘early warning’ signs of stress and distress is critical to our understanding as to the dangers lurking in our homes and our workplaces. Lifestyle awareness and stress management are the keys to healthy well-being and motivated individuals.

This 7th habit will identify the causes of stress and how we manage them.

The module will include a personal Bio-Rhythm Test using state of the art Pulse sensors and software which will demonstrate what things create stress in individuals and the delegates will learn some stress management techniques – the immediate effect of which will be demonstrated by the pulse sensors and bio-rhythm software screen displays.

How do Effective People ensure that they stay effective and don’t become disillusioned with yet another stressful deadline?

The answer can be found in Covey’s 7th habit – that of Personal Development and well-being…

Can I REALLY control my own bio-rhythms to help diffuse DISTRESS??!

 Identifying the stress creators and the ‘early warning’ signs of stress and distress is critical to our understanding as to the dangers lurking in our homes and our workplaces. Lifestyle awareness and stress management are the keys to healthy well-being and motivated individuals.

What do my emotions have to do with it?

Our brains are incredibly power muscles – but let’s not be too dismissive of the role that the heart has to play with Dis-Stress Management.

Whilst our brain can store the memories of us playing with a cute little puppy, it can also conjure up memories of the last time we stroked a dog and it bit our leg! So even the sight of a cute puppy could send a “stand by to repel borders” instruction from the Brain to the Heart as memories are recalled. The brain immediately starts to produce chemicals to help resist the savage beast and, simultaneously, requests that the heart start pumping these chemicals around the body as soon as possible – this is when we start to feel palpitations.

As these ANS hormones are being produced and pumped around the body at break-neck speeds, our emotions become a lot less controlled. It is during this “fight or flight” stage that Stress and Dis-Stress awaken and start to thrive in the panicky climate that the heart and brain have created between themselves.

Our brain has 3 levels of  hierarchy. Level 1 is where our “fight and flight” feelings live. Level 2 is where all of our Emotions live: anger, love, hate, jealousy etc and Level 3 is where Dis-Stress cannot live, nor will it EVER visit this level.

Despite the fact that our brains are immensely powerful – they can be a little lazy!

It is for this reason why we need to educate our brains to engage the 3rd level of hierarchy where ALL Dis-Stress and Emotionals can be fully managed successfully.

Learning how to manage our Bio-Rhythms and educating our Brain and Heart to work together is the perfect antidote to dis-stressful life balances.

Em Wave

CLICK HERE to see how Inner Balance from Heartmath equips you for “Performance under Pressure”

Delegates will be invited to participate in the HeartMath Bio-Rhythm assessment which measures their pulse via an ear-sensor and will determine the resilience of their emotions against stress.

 Delegates will also learn how to increase their resilience through 3 simple techniques and the improvement will be demonstrated via a second HeartMath assessment.

WORKSHOP OUTCOMES:

 

The Performance Under Pressure – Delegates will:

  •  Identify and apply the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and increase their Effectiveness
  • Identify how to sustain Peak Performance Under Pressure
  • Identify the positive outcomes of efficient time management and prioritisation techniques
  • Self-Analyse the candidates Peak Performance Zone, Stress and Distress thresholds via personal biomedical demonstration utilising HeartMath bio-rhythm assessments.
  • Learn how to apply Emotional Intelligence in order to neutralise their dis-stressors
  • Identify how we can achieve the “abundance mentality” in the Workplace
  • Demonstrate how to achieve peak mental performance from a stressful state
  • Learn how to recognise stressors
  • Learn professional communication tools : Transactional Analysis, NLP, Appreciative Inquiry which reduce dis-stress
  • Enable a candidate to create a Personal Action Plan to improve Lifestyle Inventory
  • Clarify Life Purpose and most important values so that a solid foundation can be built on which to base choices
  • Be guided through a re-focus exercise prioritising time and energy onto things about which there is passion and about which the candidate would complete with ease and joy
  • Investigate the key causes of stress and to do personal assessments of behavioural and communication styles which will increase their self-awareness of how their ‘style’ might be causing stress to others.
  • Create a personal environment and “state” where constant Self Renewal sustains constant Peak Performance and High Effectiveness

Cost: £895 + VAT per Group of 15 People  – 

This programme offers more control of your life. In particular you will control how your work affects your overall happiness and the happiness of those who matter most to you, including your colleagues and staff and family.

During the programme you explore how you choose to manage your life and work, and the results you get from this choice. The Workshop explores the causes of and management of stress. Focusing on what really matters to you, you learn how to make decisions and create time for actions that contribute to your long term goals. You will address your own specific work-life issues practically, as you learn these skills.

As a leader you also coach others during the programme to achieve all these benefits. Each delegate will receive a personal bio-feedback on their heart / brain coherence using EmWave / Heartmath Software.

Click Here to download the Performance Under Pressure Overview