Resilience & Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace

“Resilience – the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties: toughness”

The experience of stress is personal. No two people will experience the same situation in exactly the same way. An event at work which could be considered a major stressful event for some staff may be seen by others as exciting and challenging. Resilience has been shown to be a major factor that influences an individuals (and groups) response to “stress events”.

Human bodies have not evolved to manage the continuous stress that individuals can experience in modern times. When moderate amounts of stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol build up over time or hang around, this is detrimental to our well-being (affecting cardiac, immune and other major systems of the body as well as mental well being). Enough stress can lead to mental illness for many individuals.

It is well reported that significant changes in the workplace can have both positive and negative effects on staff. Employee responses to changes in the workplace depend on a number of factors including:

• resilience of the individual and / or the team
• coping strategies which may assist or hinder the change process
• support by management
• involvement of staff in the decision making process re change
• ownership of the change management

This two day workshop explores resilience and mental wellbeing using a number of creative means. There are specific themes that will be addressed during the workshop including:

• building positive, nurturing professional relationships
• developing emotional insight
• achieving life balance & spirituality
• maintaining positivity
• becoming more reflective

Read more on our Resilience & Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace page.

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