One-hour Health Promotion Wellness Workshops
Stress and Mental Health One-hour Workshops
Creating a Better Work Life Balance
- What is a good work / life balance?
- Identifying what is unbalanced for you
- How to re-balance your life
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Making effective use of work time / personal time
De-stressing your Mind and Body
- How does stress affect your mind and body?
- What causes negative stress?
- Combating the negative effects of stress
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Effective relaxation techniques to calm both mind and body
Relaxation and Wellbeing Techniques
- Introduction to stress
- Breath control for improved health and relaxation.
- Stretching techniques to alleviate aches and pains
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Powerful relaxation techniques to use when under pressure
Workplace Health
- Dealing effectively with stress at work
- Avoiding burnout
- Creating healthy habits
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Effective de-stress and relaxation methods for the office
Building Resilience Introduction
Resilience building allows you to increase your mental and emotional stamina so that you can bounce back when challenges arise. This workshop enables you to review your current coping strategies and mindset to help you identify what might be standing in the way of enhanced resilience, vitality and
growth.Participants will gain an understanding of:
- How stress impacts resilience?
- Learn what it takes to become more resilient.
- What might be affecting your resilience levels?
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How to create your own resilience building roadmap
Mental Wellbeing Maintenance
Today’s busy 24/7 world, it can make it hard to find time for the rest and relaxation we need for both our physical and mental wellbeing. We are human beings not human doings, so in this workshop we will take time out to review how our busy lifestyles can impact our heath and look at ways to bring back your va va voom and zest for life. Learning how in slowing down we can connect again to what is important for our sense or worth and wellbeing and looking at ways changes can be easily introduced into your current lifestyle to aid this process.Participants will gain an understanding of:
- The impact of stress and burnout on your physical and mental health?
- Learn how to re-boot your system by creating your own mental wellbeing toolbox
- The benefits of good support systems and asking for help when it is needed
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How you can recharge your batteries and improve your mental and physical vitality.
Mindfulness for Health and Wellbeing
Mindfulness is a simple form of meditation that focuses awareness on the present moment, whilst calmly acknowledging and accepting feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations as they arise. It enables us to observe ourselves and learn how we respond to the world around us and use these insights to create change. Participants will gain an understanding of:
- The benefits of Mindfulness
- How you can use and adapt the techniques to fit into daily routines
- The experience of Mindfulness as we explore and practice the technique.
- Overcoming self-criticism with self-compassion
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Positive self-talk
Nutrition One hour Workshops
Maximizing Nutrition on a Budget.
It is often argued that it’s hard to eat well on a budget – but this is not the case. This practical workshop builds on basic meal planning principles and will help you create a strategy for creating delicious – and nutritious – meals that are budget friendly and that the whole family can enjoy:
- The 5 golden rules of eating well for less.
- Learn how to plan healthy, balanced meals at affordable prices.
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Get ideas for inexpensive, nutritious meals and snacks
Boosting Your Immune System During Winter
When the temperature drops, the chance of you coming down with a cold or the flu increases significantly. The winter months are also quite often a time when nutrition and the focus on looking after yourself take a back seat. This workshop will walk you through the 10 things you really need to keep your immune system strong this winter:
- Tips to stay fit and healthy throughout the coming winter
- Foods that are detrimental /assist the gut and immune system
- Is vitamin C really good for your immune system?
- What vitamins can boost /improve your immune system?
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How a healthy gut environment is your secret weapon to staying fighting fit.
Nutrition and Keeping a Healthy Heart
Although you might know that eating certain foods can increase your heart disease risk, it often hard to change your eating habits. Once you know which foods to eat more of and which foods to limit, you will be on your way towards a heart-healthy diet. Thankfully, most heart disease is preventable. Whether you have years of unhealthy eating under your belt or you simply want to fine- tune your diet, this workshop explores how, by making simple changes to your diet and lifestyle, you can look after your heart and reduce your risk of developing heart conditions:
- What diet is best to protect against heart disease?
- What foods are bad for your heart?
- What are the nutritional and lifestyle factors that increase your risk of cardiovascular disease?
- The effects that smoking has on increasing the risk of coronary heart disease.
- Understand the importance of knowing your healthy heart numbers
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How stress impacts on heart health - and steps to take to minimise your risk
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Boosting Brain Power and the Impact on Your Mood
The link between physical health and what you eat is well understood, but did you know that what you eat has a huge impact on your mood and how you feel? Food can directly affect everything in your body from your mood and energy levels to cognition and memory. Certain foods have been shown to have cognitive benefit, and particular nutrients can have a positive impact on brain performance and on mood. This workshop looks at what you can do to keep
your mind sharp and stay in top intellectual form at the office. We will look at the importance of diet, exercise and meditation on brain health and mood.
- What are good brain foods?
- The importance of health fats on brain performance.
- Balancing your blood sugar levels to support energy and mood.
- Specific foods that boost your mood and improve brain health.
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Tips for making changes to your diet whilst at work, and suggestions for snacks
Nutrition and Balancing Your Diet
- What is a balanced diet?
- What foods are essential to our diet?
- What foods are bad for us?
- Do we need supplements?
- What changes should we make to our diet?
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Game plan for small dietary changes
Boosting your Energy Levels Through Nutrition
- Where does your energy come from?
- What foods provide the greatest source of energy?
- Which foods are poor sources of energy?
- What combination of foods provides an optimum energy diet?
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Energy foods hints and tips
Nutrition for Managing Stress
- How nutrition can support our stressful lifestyles
- What foods help us fight the effects of stress?
- What foods contribute to our stress levels
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How can we make small changes to our diets to beat stress?
8 Tips for Eating Well
- The importance of fruit and vegetables to your diet
- Why water is so important
- How much fat, sugars and salt are required?
- How much red meat and fish?
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Why a nutritious breakfast is so important?
Eating Out The Healthy Way
- What to look for when you eat out
- What foods should we be eating in different restaurants?
- What foods to avoid?
- How to choose a healthier meal?
- How to eat 2 or 3 courses the healthy way?
- How to eat 2 courses and not put on weight?
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Making small changes
Reading your Food Labels
- Why read your food labels
- What does the nutrition information mean?
- What should we be looking for on a food label?
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When not to buy a food product and what to avoid?
Positive Thinking and Self Esteem One-hour workshops
The Power of Positive Thinking
- How does positive thought affect your mind and body?
- What is your mental bank balance?
- How to change negatives into positives
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Tips for remaining positive as much as possible
Boosting Self-Esteem
- Why do you feel the way your do?
- How can you change how you see yourself?
- Taking control of your own emotions
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Tips for feeling positive about yourself
Staying Positive During Periods of Stress
- The effects of negative thinking on your performance
- The power of positive thinking
- How to stay positive during stressful times
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Tip for staying positive
Sleep One hour workshops
Sleeping Soundly
- Why is sleep so important to us?
- Identifying what may be disturbing your sleep.
- Tips and remedies for a peaceful nights sleep.
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Meditation and relaxation techniques to help you relax and sleep soundly.
Sleep and Stress
- Recognising stress
- How can stress affect sleep?
- Quality of sleep
- Cognitive therapy to change your approach to sleep
- Changing your lifestyle to cater for better sleep patterns
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Proven solutions to improve sleep
Meditation and Visualisation
- What are the benefits of meditation and visualisation?
- How can you harness this power?
- Easy ways to incorporate the techniques into your daily routine
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Guided meditation for health and healing.
Exercise and Fitness One-hour workshops
Exercise and Fitness One-hour workshops
- The benefits of exercise.
- How much exercise and how often?
- Finding time for exercise.
- Different exercise options available to us?
- Exercise that can be done during the work day
- How to stay motivated and on track?
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Setting a game plan
Developing a Personal Fitness Program
- Creating strong, clear and realistic fitness goals
- Determining your true fitness level
- Knowing all the benefits of exercise
- Examining the barriers to fitness
- Creating motivation that is sustainable
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Doing exercise correctly gets real results sooner
The Importance of Exercise to Combat Stress
- How regular exercise helps to combat stress
- Hormones and exercise
- How exercise boosts the immune system?
- Using up any negative energy through exercise
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How exercise helps to prevent anxiety
Back Care and Posture One-hour Workshops
Manual Handling
The manual handling workshop is designed to provide general information that benefits any workers carrying out manual handling tasks. It can also be tailored to suit the specific needs of your company. The workshop covers the following information and advice:
- Introduction to manual handling
- Health risks
- Posture and correct handling techniques
- Understanding risks
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Work routines and environment
Preventing Back Pain and RSI
The 60-minute preventing Back Pain and RSI (repetitive strain injury) workshop focuses on the most significant and costly work-related illnesses. This workshop is designed to build worker awareness and understanding of common risks and causes of back pain and RSI in the working environment. In addition attendees receive details of effective pain prevention and management techniques.
- Back pain and causes
- RSI and causes
- The spine and other important structures
- Posture (muscles, flexibility and correction basics)
- Preventing pain
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Managing pain
Importance of Posture Workshop
The 60-minute posture workshop specifically focuses on the importance of good posture in preventing the onset of pain at work. This workshop is provided as an alternative to Back Pain and RSI for clients where poor working postures among employees are of particular concern.
- The importance of good posture
- Correct standing posture
- Correct seated posture
- Improving and strengthening posture
- Protecting your posture (work routines, stress)
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Postural stretches and exercises
Health and Safety at Your Workstation
- Seated posture and chair set-up
- Equipment features and set-up
- Pain prevention stretches and exercises