On-Line Wellbeing & Stress Resilience - PERMA

This course is an on-line distance learning workshop consisting of 5 x 1.5 hours video conference sessions:

1. Positive Emotions, wellbeing & happiness.
2. Engagement with life, love, work & play
3. Relationship matters
4. Meaning, value and life-story
5. Mission Accomplished, the fruitful life!

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.