So what is wellbeing? It’s about habits and lifestyle choices that allow us to be our best selves. Wellbeing equals feeling good, positive, able to cope, energised and positive. It means sleeping well and a sense of achievement at work as well as a quality home life with family and friends. Businesses thrive when its people have wellbeing; it’s good for business and far from a luxury. This session will explore the key elements to creating wellbeing for you and your workplace, including getting in touch with your intuition to make individual choices right for you.

You’ve heard the saying: ‘We are what we eat’. Well it’s a saying for a reason. What difference would it mean to your business if your staff had clarity, energy, focus and were productive? Don’t underestimate the impact that eating the right foods at the right time can have on energy, mood, clarity and creativity. It really isn’t rocket science or about a life of restriction and deprivation. This session will show you how to get the edge through good nutrition for you and your workforce.

Struggle to make decisions? Frustrated with time wasted ruminating? Head spinning with all that there is to do but hours go by without achieving much at all? Or perhaps you recognise this in your staff? This is not good for business and it’s not good for mental health. Especially when we’re stressed or overwhelmed our thoughts can easily whip into a whirlwind, catching new, increasingly negative thoughts, as they go which zaps you of energy and leaves you stuck! And breathe…mindfulness could help. Can be practiced anytime, anywhere, mindfulness has been proven to calm busy minds, improve positivity, reduce stress and help get unstuck. This session provides a practical look at how to incorporate mindfulness into your day.

What’s your biggest people challenge? We can guess that absenteeism features highly, right? Whether declared or not, you suspect this is often linked to stress? Apart from the immediate impact, absenteeism can affect culture, morale and the potential of your business to succeed. But what can you do about it? Sadly, we don’t claim to have a magic wand but will offer you evidence-based approaches so that you and your people can recognise the signs, build resilience and adopt strategies to deal with issues long before the need to take sick leave. This way the focus is positive, proactive and engages employees.

Physical activity is the single most important thing you can do to enhance brain power. Fact. Exercise increases blood flow to the brain supplying more oxygen, glucose and nutrients which all adds up to a healthy brain. When we have a healthy brain our minds are clearer and sharper, and memory is improved. Our cognitive abilities improve which means we are better able to plan and maintain focus and drive. Our mood enhances because exercise causes our brain to release feel-good chemicals. Research shows that exercise can be as effective as drugs for treating depression and anxiety. So what’s stopping you? We’ll look at the business and wellbeing case for exercise and then help you to find time to get moving, no matter how busy you are!

Our final session in this series looks at how to put all the jigsaw pieces together to create an embedded, sustainable and appropriate wellbeing strategy in your organisation. We’ll show you examples of what has worked for other organisations and guide you through the key things to consider. One thing we know through experience and evidence – wellbeing is not a luxury. It is a critical part of strategic planning and as such should align with the organisations core values and ethos. We’ll give you some top tips to show you how…and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune and swallow endless resource.