Approximately 1 in 4 adults suffer from at least one mental health illness in any given year in the UK [1]. In England, 1 in 6 people report experiencing symptoms of a common mental health difficulty such as anxiety or depression in any given week [2].
In 2021/2022, work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for over half of all working days lost due to work-related ill health [3]. The effects of stress, anxiety and depression can have a significant impact on an employee’s quality of life and costs to the workplace. It is estimated that the total annual cost of mental ill health to UK employers is £26bn – that’s approximately £1035 per year per employee in the UK workforce [4].
We offer online wellbeing workshops facilitated by highly experienced Chartered Clinical Psychologists which aim to provide your staff with the knowledge to increase awareness of their own mental health and tools to manage their mental health and wellbeing. Our workshops are informed by psychological and neuroscience scientific research. We are able to offer workshops online to businesses within the United Kingdom.
Our Stress Management workshop looks at what is happening in our body and our brain when the stress response is activated. We then teach you a key set of skills which draw upon psychological theories including cognitive, behavioural and neuroscience research to help you to find the strategies which will work best for you and your life in managing stress.
Structure of the workshop:
(90 minutes online using Zoom)
- The biology and psychology of the human stress response
- Common situations and events which may trigger stress
- A toolkit of stress management techniques
Attendees are sent electronic handouts to support them in recognising their own stress triggers and creating an action plan to implement the stress management techniques into their lives.
This workshop can also be delivered in-person subject to requirements.
To discuss your requirements and to book please e-mail us at
organisations@glospsychology.co.uk
Scientific research shows the broad range of possible benefits to the regular practicing of mindfulness. It can provide a positive impact on helping you to regulate your mood, improve your concentration, thinking abilities and help to protect individuals from experiencing repeated episodes of depression.
Our Introduction to Mindfulness Skills workshop aims to introduce to basic ideas of mindfulness and to teach you how to start benefitting from mindfulness practice in your life.
Structure of the workshop:
(90 minutes online using Zoom)
- An introduction to mindfulness skills
—what is mindfulness and how can it benefit you? - Mindfulness techniques
- How to practice mindfulness skills alongside busy everyday lives
This workshop can also be delivered in-person subject to requirements.
To discuss your requirements and to book please e-mail us at
organisations@glospsychology.co.uk
Our Awareness of Common Mental Health Difficulties workshop looks at a range of common mental health issues including their prevalence, signs and symptoms, causes and how they can affect people. The aim of the course is to help participants recognise the impact that mental health issues can have on individuals. The course will help participants to consider how they can protect their own mental health and wellbeing and that of others.
Structure of the workshop:
(90 minutes online using Zoom)
- Signs and symptoms of common mental health difficulties
- Ways to support your own and others’ mental health and wellbeing
- Awareness of the local range of services available for those experiencing mental health difficulties.
This workshop can also be delivered in-person subject to requirements.
To discuss your requirements and to book please e-mail us at organisations@glospsychology.co.uk
Our Sleep Well, Live Well workshop aims to share some information about the latest research about why we need to sleep, some common psychological barriers to good sleep (e.g. stress, habits) and some practical advice and tips about implementing better sleep regimes.
Structure of the workshop:
(90 minutes online using Zoom)
- The importance of sleep: The physiological and psychological benefits of sleep, such as improving memory consolidation, immune system functioning, emotion regulation, and overall health.
- Sleep hygiene: The importance of establishing a regular sleep routine and ways to increase the likelihood of a good night’s sleep.
- Sleep and mental health: The relationship between sleep and mental health, including the impact of sleep on anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders.
- Sleep and physical health: The link between sleep and physical health, such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions.
- Strategies for improving sleep: Provide practical tips and strategies for improving sleep. This workshop can also be delivered in-person subject to requirements.
To discuss your requirements and to book please e-mail us at organisations@glospsychology.co.uk
Our Developing Self-Compassion workshop aims to highlight what we mean by self-compassion, how our inner bully and negative self-talk may impact on us in our lives by triggering our threat fight/flight system, how self-compassion is known to be a skill we can all learn and become competent in, how the skill of intentional self-compassion can help us to adequately support ourselves to maintain and replenish our emotional and physical resources.
Structure of the workshop:
(90 minutes online using Zoom)
- An introduction to Self-Compassion—what is it?
- The inner bully—what is it?
- How can developing self-compassion help us?
- An introduction to intentional self-compassion exercises
This workshop can also be delivered in-person subject to requirements.
To discuss your requirements and to book please e-mail us at organisations@glospsychology.co.uk
Our workshops can be delivered online or in-person. For more information and to enquire about making a booking for your organisation, please contact us at organisations@glospsychology.co.uk where we would be happy to discuss your requirements.
We are able to offer preferential rates for firms whose needs require regular workshops to support organisations in looking after the mental wellbeing of their workforce.
We donate a proportion of our fee from Staff Wellbeing Workshops to mental health charities.
[1] McManus, S., Meltzer, H., Brugha, T. S., Bebbington, P. E., & Jenkins, R. (2009). Adult psychiatric morbidity in England, 2007: results of a household survey. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.
[2] McManus S, Bebbington P, Jenkins R, Brugha T. (eds.) (2016). Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult psychiatric morbidity survey 2014. Leeds: NHS digital.
[3] Health & Safety Executive (2022). Health and safety at work Summary statistics for Great Britain 2022.
[4] Policy Paper 8: Mental Health at Work: Developing the Business Case. London: The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.