Stress Awareness Month
Every April since 1992 has marked Stress Awareness Month. To support employee stress management and minimisation, we have a dedicated programme specifically for April 2023.
Stress hinders performance and function
In 2021/22 17 million* work days were taken off due to stress, anxiety or depression. With stress affecting us physically, mentally and behaviourally, it can become debilitating for some. Equally, short-term stress left to manifest, can quash productivity and performance too.
Help people minimise stress not live with stress
Our April Stress Awareness Series for workplaces is designed to support the reduction of stress not just cope with it. We have webinars and workshops for both managers and wellbeing leaders, as well as employees:
Minimising Stress in the Workplace
For managers and leaders
Your Unique Relationship with Stress & Anxiety
For employees
Fostering a Positive Culture
For managers and leaders
Stress Reduction Techniques
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For employees
Minimising Stress in the Workplace
Workshop for managers and wellbeing leaders
This 2 hour in-person workshop takes place at our wellness space in The O2 on Tues 4th and Tues 18th April 10.30am. The session is designed to be interactive and informative and cover:
- Stress in the workplace
- The stress spectrum
- Understanding common causes
- Signs and symptoms of stress in your team
- Removing the stigma
- Stress triggers - your own and your team's
- Dialogue and openers
- Using the right communication
- Managing in an emotionally safe culture
- Emotionally safe framework
- Wider environment
- Leading with openness and authenticity
- Supporting stressed teams and people
- Sign-posting and guidance
- Performance and expectation setting
- Supporting remote teams
Your Unique Relationship with Stress & Anxiety
Webinar for Employees Mon 3rd April, 11am
This 60 minute webinar shines a light on how each of us experiences stress or anxiety. Participants will learn about:
- Understanding stress triggers and responses
- Mapping our personal stress triggers and causes
- The physical, emotional, and behavioural signs of stress
- Identifying our individual stress responses and stress states
- A pro-active not reactive approach to minimising stress
- Awareness of the stress state
- How not to let stress manifest
- Preparedness and altering our responses
- Support and relationships
- Stress in the workplace - seeking support
- Speaking with loved ones when things are too much
- When external support is needed
Fostering a Positive Culture
Webinar for managers and wellbeing leaders, Tues 11th April, 11am
In this 60 minute webinar leaders will be gain fresh ideas and insights into fostering a positive culture in both teams and across the wider workplace.
Participants will:
- Gain new ideas for a positive workplace culture
- Discuss science-based insights
- Uncover a 4 step strategy for a positive culture
- Tools to boost positive emotions at work
- Form a better understanding of the role of happiness and positivity in engagement and productivity
Stress Reduction Techniques
Workshop for Employees Tues 25th April, 11am
This 90 minute workshop takes place at our wellness space in The O2. The workshop is a rare practical insight into stress reduction techniques that we all have at our disposable, but few of us know how to use. The workshops will provide practical uses of:
- Mindfulness for stress minimisation
- learning what we can and can't control
- mindfulness in the moment to reduce stress state
- mindfulness techniques on the go
- Breathwork
- How breathwork soothes the triggered self
- Types of breathwork exercises
- Practice
- Emotional Freedom Technique
- The origins and principles of tapping
- Applying tapping to everyday moments
- The points of the body for and practical usage of this popular technique
- Forming rituals to minimise stress even when everything's ok
- journaling, meditation, movement
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