Wellbeing Workshops

We have developed several wellbeing workshops suitable for health retreats, workplace wellbeing programs and training institutions. Our workshops are designed to present up-to-date clinical research about wellbeing and applied psychological strategies.

We offer a combination of presentation, discussion and practical exercises to ensure that participants actually acquire skills during the workshop. We are open to developing bespoke workshops tailored to the specific needs of your group, and are happy to look at the internal dynamics within your group as a means of enhancing your wellbeing.

Increasing self-awareness and acquiring practical skills to promote wellbeing are the two outcomes we aim for in our workshops. Participants will leave the workshop confident that they can apply the strategies we’ve discussed because they will have practiced them with us and had a chance to troubleshoot their use and application. They will develop a new perspective on themselves, their relationships and how to manage and be resilient in their busy lives.

Workshop Topics

The following wellbeing topics have been developed as two hour interactive workshops, and we’ve included an overview of each below.

We are also open to developing bespoke workshops for particular purposes and groups – please get in touch if you would like to discuss this.

Developing Healthier Relationships

Having fulfilling relationships protects you from other challenges in life. The most significant problems that most people face in their daily lives are social - how to maintain comfortable relationships with friends, family members, colleagues and neighbours. For optimal health and wellbeing, humans need positive social connections. Learning to maintain healthy and fulfilling relationships with others is a key to overall health. This workshop helps you to examine your own relationship and communication styles, and provides practical skills to help establish and maintain greater harmony in your relationships.

Maximising Potential

Having a sense of achievement improves your mood and overall wellbeing. Do you often feel like you could get more out of your workday? Do you struggle to set and achieve life goals? If either of these sounds like you, then this workshop is for you. It’s packed with ideas from clinical research on managing procrastination, setting self-motivating goals that you’re passionate about, and skills to help you manage stress, setbacks and prevent burnout.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a powerful skill that can enhance your overall wellbeing. This workshop provides a thorough introduction into Mindfulness meditation, including a taste of the neuroscience that excites mental health professionals. We cover how regular practice works and why. The workshop also includes a number of practical exercises and discussions to enhance understanding and provide the foundations of a regular practice.

Positive Psychology

Maintaining a positive outlook can be difficult, but it has a profound effect on your physical and mental wellbeing. The difficulty arises because our nervous systems are focused on threats to our survival, and that focus has kept us alive for generations. In our modern, social lives, we usually have less to worry about in terms of our survival, but our brains still do what they are specialised to do- focus on threats and problems, and figure out how to address them. It takes deliberate effort to retrain your brain to develop a positive focus, but it is possible. You can learn to develop a more positive mindset that enhances your wellbeing by teaching you to draw out what is positive from your experience. This workshop teaches practical skills and habits to transform your negativity bias into a positive one, so that you can enhance your wellbeing.

Self Compassion

Being a good friend to yourself and approaching yourself with love and nurturing is at the foundation of resilience. While we may be very skilled at offering compassion to others, many of us do not treat ourselves with compassion. When we make a mistake or encounter a struggle, we often use internal language for ourselves that we would never direct at others, for instance: “what an idiot!”. There is a common misperception in our culture that offering compassion to ourselves might be weak or self-indulgent, and spoil us, making us less resilient to challenges. In fact, research shows the opposite; the most healthy, resilient people are those who respond to their own challenges with compassion. This workshop discusses the research on self compassion, and teaches practical skills to develop and practice self compassion in your everyday life.

Stress Management

You can’t avoid stress completely, but learning to do “stressed” better can improve your health enormously. Research has shown that how we think about stress affects how our body tolerates it, and that there is an optimal level of stress that maximises our performance. This workshop covers the practicalities, from building self–awareness, creating a stress profile and developing strategies to manage the physiological and psychological effects of stress.

Cultivating Wisdom

Wisdom is something many of us aspire to, but how do you actually become wise? This workshop looks at some key elements of wisdom, and how you can develop them. These include enhancing your self awareness and emotional sensitivity, developing compassion for yourself and others, and cultivating balanced thinking habits that enable you to keep things in perspective. This workshop is often a good option as an advanced workshop, to further develop skills you have learned in our other workshops.

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Disclaimer

Wellbeing Wisdom facilitators are not treating clinicians. Wellbeing Wisdom does not collect health information or offer treatment, we solely provide information and training. People with mental health concerns should see their GP or mental health provider.