Let's Talk About...Imposter Syndrome
When you feel stressed, all be it a real threat or the thought of facing a threat, your body experiences a collection of changes known as your stress response. Chronic activation of your survival mechanism can impair your health both physically and mentally causing adverse long-term damage such as anxiety, depression, and addiction.
Many people are unable to find a way to put the brakes on stress, however, it’s important to find a collection of strategies that can help reverse the body’s stress response and bring it back to its natural state. Research suggests that countering this stress response with relaxation can prevent long-term health damage.
Let's Talk About...Supporting a Child's Mental Health
In an era where the demands on children's mental health are greater than ever, empowering parents with the essential tools becomes an imperative.
From understanding common challenges to implementing effective coping mechanisms, this webinar is your roadmap to creating a nurturing environment where your child can thrive emotionally and mentally.
Let's Talk About...Negativity Bias
Participants from this webinar gained a profound understanding of the intricate workings of negativity bias and its impact on daily life.
They learned invaluable strategies to recognize and overcome negative thought patterns, empowering them to cultivate a more positive mindset and resilient outlook.
Preventing Burnout
With this session, take a proactive approach to your personal well-being for 2023. No longer ignore the warning signs and learn the symptoms and signals to watch out for. Burnout can have an adverse effect on your health and is a vital warning sign to be aware of.
Studies show the risk of burnout is significantly reduced when self-care becomes part of your daily routine. If you're working long hours, studying for exams, or taking care of young children, preventing burnout will have a significant impact on avoiding issues such as heart disease, stress, anxiety and depression.
Creating Healthy Workplace Boundaries
Healthy Boundaries are more than feeling assertive in voicing your opinion or needs, boundaries are a necessary part of your well-being, helping you to be in an environment you feel confident and comfortable in.
Learn to turn off, feel comfortable with saying no, and build mutual respect with your colleagues to understand each other's boundaries allowing you to concentrate on what matters outside of the workplace.
Healthy Mental Habits
In this session, explore new habits and begin incorporating them into your routine. As a starting point frame these changes as self-kindness, not self-punishment, and begin to maintain a gentle and kind attitude toward yourself.
This course will benefit those wanting to make a positive impact on their well-being, who are willing to try easy habits and who want to feel better in their everyday life by doing so.
Coping at Christmas
Christmas can be stressful and can heighten loneliness, financial and relationship problems for you or others around you. 43% of people admit to feeling lonely or depressed each Christmas and 2 out of 5 people admit to being worried or concerned for loved ones during this period.
Making positive change, maintaining your wellbeing or providing support to others can be difficult however learning practical coping mechanisms can help in all scenarios. In this session led by our wellness expert learn the ways to manoeuvre through the holiday season minding your mental health and wellbeing.
Maintain Your Wellness This Christmas
The holidays can bring a lot of demands such as financial, social and family. This is especially true for vulnerable people, or people already feeling under pressure. Maintaining your Wellness is never more crucial than at this time of year.
At these times, it's very important to plan ahead to avoid feeling overwhelmed. You can't choose when Christmas comes, but you can choose to help yourself get through it and be prepared so you can relax and enjoy the holiday.
The New Year's Resolution Revolution
This New Years Resolution Revolution webinar guides participants through a unique process of reflection, helping them analyze their values and strengths to craft specific and achievable goals for the upcoming year.
Dive deep into the essence of what truly matters to you and leverage your strengths to unlock a roadmap for success. Our expert-led session goes beyond traditional goal-setting, providing actionable insights that empower you to make meaningful changes in your life.
Understanding Your Stress Response
When you feel stressed, all be it a real threat or the thought of facing a threat, your body experiences a collection of changes known as your stress response. Chronic activation of your survival mechanism can impair your health both physically and mentally causing adverse long-term damage such as anxiety, depression, and addiction.
Many people are unable to find a way to put the brakes on stress, however, it’s important to find a collection of strategies that can help reverse the body’s stress response and bring it back to its natural state. Research suggests that countering this stress response with relaxation can prevent long-term health damage.
Self-Criticism and Recognising Your Strengths
Your private inner dialogue can either be a powerful stepping stone or a major obstacle on your way to reaching goals. Having negative predictions like, "I am going to mess this up", "I can't do this" will rob you of your mental strength and ability to succeed.
If you have a harsh inner critic you are not alone and you do not have to be a victim of your own verbal abuse. In this course learn a range of exercises to change the way you think and talk to yourself. Silence the toxic self-criticism for good and fuel your efforts to reach your goals.
Talking About Mental Health
Openly discussing mental health in society helps break down the stigma surrounding mental illness while also reminding us that help is available and we're not struggling alone. Talking about mental health can encourage those having thoughts of suicide or dealing with severe mental illness to reach out to others for help.
Talking about mental health can feel really daunting even for those who want to show their support and help. The most important thing you can do is to get the conversation going, and if you’re not sure what to say this course will give you all the tips and techniques you need to have a healthy conversation.
Single-Tasking for Success
Most of us know it’s better to focus on one thing at a time but still end up doing multiple things at once. When we try to multitask, we end up ruining our productivity, becoming more stressed, and ultimately less happy. We get more done when we slow down.
Single-tasking is the strategy to keep focused on a single task to be performed at a time. In this course, we will cover the most common culprits that will cause you to multitask, how to harness the power of single-tasking and the benefits to your well-being this will promote.
Leading a Healthy Lifestyle
In this course, Lynda will demonstrate what a healthy lifestyle looks like and why it is so vital for your mental health and well-being. Lynda will also discuss the benefits you can expect from leading a healthier lifestyle and offer some easy tips to get you started!
Being healthy should be a part of your overall lifestyle. Living a healthy lifestyle can prevent chronic diseases and long-term illnesses. Feeling good about yourself and taking care of your health is important for your self-esteem and self-image.
Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Nutrition is not all about weight loss, in this course, Lynda will demonstrate the importance of nutrition and having healthy eating habits, alongside the impact this can have on your overall well-being.
Lynda will discuss nutrition as an important part of the workplace, for both employers and employees and explain how the HSE Food Pyramid can be used to develop good eating habits. Discover ways to help you to develop impactful self-care nutritional and eating habits.
Exercise for Everyone
In this course, Lynda will explore the importance of exercise and the benefits it can bring you, no matter what age group you are in. Lynda will outline the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle and finish off with some easy suggestions on how to start making exercise part of your daily wellbeing routine.
Regular exercise can improve muscle strength and boost endurance. Exercise delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissues and helps the cardiovascular system to work more efficiently.
The Importance of Prioritising Your Sleep
For optimum mental wellness, you need at least 7-9 hours of sleep. Sleep directly affects your mental and physical health and how well you feel during the day. Sleep impacts your productivity, emotional balance, brain and heart health, immune function, and even weight. No other activity delivers so many benefits with so little effort!
If you make plenty of time for sleep but still have trouble getting up in the morning or staying alert, you may not be getting enough quality sleep. If you’re looking to resolve a specific sleep problem, or want to feel more productive and emotionally balanced, experiment with this Prioritising Your Sleep course and see what works best for you.
Sleep Hygiene
In this course, learn with Lynda the importance of sleep and why we struggle to get a good night's sleep. This session, led by Lynda will also explore the consequences of sleep deprivation and give you some recommendations on how to develop better sleeping habits.
Good sleep hygiene increases your chances of restful sleep, which in turn improves your productivity, mental and physical well-being and overall quality of life.
Recognising and Avoiding Negative Thinking Traps
Negativity is hard to escape these days. Unfortunately, we’re more likely to focus our attention on the bad around us rather than the good. Thanks to our ancestors we're just hard-wired that way. These days, this can create a major barrier to our well-being.
One of the most important things to know is that you can control your own thoughts. Challenges are inevitable, it's a part of life, so although we can’t always control what is going to happen, we can control our how we respond to them.
Identifying and Achieving Goals
The act of identifying your own values, goals and objectives is reflective. Setting goals gives you an idea to work towards, and reviewing your progress reflectively can help you: optimise your time, energy and performance.
By identifying and setting goals, you give yourself the direction to improve your performance. Once you start achieving goals your self-confidence will increase which will give you the positive attitude to move forward with a more stable sense of well-being.
Dealing with Long Commuter Journeys
The Office for National Statistics found that each minute added to a commute affects anxiety, happiness and general well-being. Your morning commute sets the tone for the day ahead, as well as impacting on how your evening will be spent.
Thankfully, commuting doesn't need to be a chore. In this course, our expert well-being trainer will give you techniques and a new plan of action for your daily commute to ease the stress and burden it can pose on your day-to-day life.
Returning to Work After Grief
Struggling with grief at work can be challenging for both the individual and co-workers. While they may have undoubtedly found it difficult to avoid thoughts about their loved one, communicating can be critical at this time to help everyone to better understand what they're dealing with, and dispel any confusion about their performance.
It is as important for both the individual and co-workers to be aware of what support will be needed and how to practically provide that support. In this course, our expert trainer will give you the necessary preparations to consider before the return to work and what measures can be put in place for a comfortable and easy transition.
Parenting While Working Remotely
If the thought of working from home with your child seems frightening, you aren't alone. Kids demand around-the-clock attention—and parenting while juggling conference calls, never-ending emails, and tight deadlines is no joke. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has made this situation a reality for many parents nationwide.
Our experts have learned not only from experience but have carried out extensive research on the best ways to navigate life at the intersection of working at home and parenting. This course will provide you with helpful tips for staying productive while working from home, keeping motivated and how to juggle parenting in the mix.
Saying "No" Won't Get You Into Trouble
None of us wants to be the one who’s always saying no and letting people down. But sometimes, for our own mental health and well-being, we need to learn how to set healthy boundaries, manage our workloads, and discover how to say no without burning bridges and causing friction.
Saying yes to another project or task means you’re effectively saying no to the tasks you already need to complete. Saying no will provide you with the time and energy to focus on the work that will move your career forward. In this course, you will learn the parameters to help you when you’re put on the spot and need to say 'No'.
Why Wellbeing Should be an Important Part of Your Every Day
In this course, our wellness expert Lynda will discuss the importance of being able to recognise our levels of well-being. Discover the impact of your findings and build your understanding, that we should not just merely exist, but thrive in order to achieve our full potential.
Research has shown that a greater sense of well-being is related to increased physical benefits, such as lower cardiovascular disease, stroke and sleeping problems, and increased productivity and creativity in both employment and personal lives.
Why it is Important to Recognise Our Current Levels of Wellbeing
In this course, Lynda will explore how the benefits of positive thinking and having a positive attitude will increase your sense of well-being. Staying positive is not always easy, however, with Lynda, learn to take a brighter outlook, become more optimistic and encourage positive thoughts.
Obtaining an optimal level of wellness allows you to nurture personal responsibility for your own health. As you become conscious of your well-being you will be able to identify elements you are successful in and what elements you would like to improve.
The Benefits of Positive Thinking
In this course, Lynda will explore how the benefits of positive thinking and having a positive attitude will increase your sense of well-being. Staying positive is not always easy, however, with Lynda, learn to take a brighter outlook, become more optimistic and encourage positive thoughts.
Positive thinking or an optimistic attitude is the practice of focusing on the good in any situation. This outlook can have a significant impact on your physical and mental health.
The PERMA Model
In this course, Lynda will introduce Martin Seligman's PERMA model of well-being and discuss the importance of maintaining a positive attitude. Lynda will also demonstrate how the PERMA model supports the concept of being 'in-flow' and how you can use the model to help yourself to flourish and thrive.
The PERMA model represents five core elements of happiness and well-being. PERMA stands for Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and accomplishments.
Mindfulness for Beginners
In this course learn about mindfulness from a beginner's perspective. Discover the origins of mindfulness and what it means in today's world. Take a look at the benefits associated with mindfulness and some practical ways that we can use mindfulness in our daily lives.
If greater well-being isn't enough of an incentive, scientists have discovered that mindfulness techniques help improve physical health in a number of ways. Mindfulness can help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, improve sleep and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.
Understanding Our Thoughts
In this course, explore your thought patterns and techniques to change negative thinking to positive. Discover the power of positive thinking and how you can move forward with positive thoughts & positive actions.
The more you understand and recognise your thoughts, the more power you have to shift your moods and behaviours. Our thoughts happen first and then determine how we feel and react. If you can rearrange your thoughts you can change how you feel.
The Benefits of Controlling our Thoughts
In this course, gain a strong understanding of positive and negative thought processes. Learn about the THINKING technique and cognitive restructuring to help you to change your negative thinking habits to positive ones.
Controlling your thoughts gives you the power to free the mind of unwanted thoughts, focusing on positive emotions and lightening the load when worry or distress occurs.
Thinking Traps
In this course, Lynda will discuss various thinking traps, what they are and why they occur. Learn more about some of the key thinking traps you are most prone to, and discover ways to overcome and manage them.
Thinking traps are often deeply ingrained and can twist our thoughts to make us jump to conclusions and made bad decisions - preventing us from seeing the bigger picture.
Understanding Common Mental Health Issues
Mental health affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
Arming yourself with an understanding of mental health not only helps you to identify your own symptoms but others too so you can support a person who is struggling and be safe in the knowledge that you would be supported in return.
Staying Calm in Stressful Situations
Stress is a normal part of modern life, but if you're often faced with stressful situations and feel panicked or overwhelmed trying to deal with them, you may benefit from learning some coping strategies that can help you to stay calm. Stress is more likely to result in positive outcomes if you see it as a challenge you can strive to overcome.
You can’t control what life will throw at you next, but you can learn to cope with pressurised situations and deal with stress in a healthy way. This course will give you the toll to practise some of these strategies the next time you feel under pressure to help you to feel calm and able to deal with any situation.
Workload Management
Do you ever start the day with intentions to get x, y, and z but quickly find yourself distracted and less focused? From making lists to focusing on one task, taking breaks and having tips to prioritise changing workloads can help make a less stressed and happier in the workplace.
Creating a good workload management strategy helps you to feel that your workload is balanced. Efficiently distributing and managing tasks across your week maximises your performance and helps to melt away chaos, leaving you and your co-workers feeling satisfied at the end of each day rather than overwhelmed.
Exploring Your Emotions
In this course, let's explore your emotions. A somewhat dreaded aspect for some, however, the more you get to understand and rationalise your emotions the stronger you will feel to manage and control how you feel.
Emotional awareness helps us to know what we need and want (or don't want). It helps us to build better relationships and enables us to talk about feelings more clearly, avoid or resolve conflict and move past difficult feelings more easily.
The Power of Positive Emotions
In this course, join Lynda and discuss how powerful our positive emotions can be and how important it is to be emotionally aware. Look at Emotional Intelligence, one of the key aspects, and learn how it can help you to manage your emotions. Lynda will discuss Amygdala Hyjack and how you can control this through Mindfulness and other techniques.
Positive emotions build resilience and broaden our awareness. Studies show that people feel they do their best went hey have at least three times as many positive emotions as negative emotions.
What is Resilience and Why is it Important?
In this course, Lynda will discuss resilience, what it is, and how you can increase it. Lynda, our expert wellness trainer will also take you through the connection between resilience and positivity, and why it is so vital to your overall well-being.
Resilience is the key to overcoming hardship. Those lacking in resilience get easily overwhelmed and may turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms. Resilient people tap into strengths and support systems to overcome challenges and work through problems.
How Can You Improve Your Resilience?
In this course, Lynda will explore some of the actions you can take to improve your resilience. Lynda will introduce the 4 S's of Resilience, CIA, and Mindfulness as resilience-boosting techniques to improve your well-being.
When you have resilience, you harness the inner strength that helps you to rebound from setbacks or challenges such as job loss, illness, disaster or a loved one's death. Improving your resilience is a proactive approach to your overall well-being giving you the tools to cope when it matters.
Identifying and Using Personal Strengths to Support Resilience
In this course, led by our wellness expert Lynda, discover what your character values and strengths are and why they are so important. Lynda will help you to identify them, to help you to lead a more fulfilling life, and increase your resilience.
Demonstrating resiliency doesn't mean you have not suffered, but that you have harnessed your inner strength to achieve an optimum level of resilience enabling you to cope to with life's ups and downs.
The HSE Building Block Model of Resilience.
In this course, led by our expert trainer Lynda, discover your capacity for resilience. Learn about the HSE building blocks of resilience, the importance of knowing and using your personal strengths, and finally how you can develop your resilience.
Set out by the HSE, this evidence-based model focuses on the promotion of mental well-being adapting to common roadblocks to self-care. The model provides a unique opportunity for everyone to learn and practice key elements of well-being.
Tailored Training for Your Team
We provide professional training programs that are developed by industry, for industry. Our range of programs can be delivered in a way that suits the needs of your business to offer your employees learning that is accessible and flexible.
We add value to your business by providing specialised, flexible and scalable training that meets your training needs. As your workforce grows and evolves, our globally certified and industry-validated learning solutions can assess, train and qualify your employees. For more information on how we can help please visit the in-house training page.
Membership, Stay Connected. Stay Relevant.
Completing a program is a point-in-time exercise that delivers huge value, but there is a next step to maintaining the currency of your skills in the ever-evolving professional world.
Membership is the next step.
A unique platform, membership is designed to ensure that you stay in tune and up-to-date with the latest tools, trends and developments. Being a member provides just-in-time training and continuous professional development, and an exclusive and evolving content library informed by subject matter experts and industry leaders.
