Corporate Workshops
Equipping individuals with tools to manage the state of their mental and physical health.
I run workshops for organisations focussed on improving both the mental and physical health of individuals. Each workshop is tailored to the needs of the organisation and the goal of the workshops is to equip individuals with the tools that they need to manage both their mental and physical health effectively. Please get in touch with me at info@thefoodtherapyclinic.com to book in a free pilot workshop today.
“We are embedding health and well-being at the heart of our business strategy because our people are our greatest asset, and we recognize that a healthy, happy and committed workforce is vital to our business success.” - Alex Gourlay, MD, Boots UK
How Organisations Can Benefit from This Well-being Training
Happier, healthier individuals
This training allows individuals to boost both their mental and physical health and equips them with tools to manage their health over the long-term. Organisations can build a workforce of happy and healthy employees - creating a positive culture and invested/engaged workforce.
Increase in Profitability
The Farmer Stephenson Report comments that "Employers are losing billions of pounds because employees are less productive, less effective, or off sick”. Companies lose lots of money every year due to both mental and physical poor health. In fact around one in three of these working days lost in the UK is due to poor mental health and this is despite the fact that most mental illness is preventable. Our training equips individuals with tools which could dramatically reduce the number of working days lost and therefore could have a significant impact on the bottomline. Deloitte has produced a model which estimates that a workplace wellbeing programme would cost approximately £80 per employee and in a company of 500 employees (£40,000) and would result in net annual savings of £347,722.
Keeping Up With Competitors and Ensuring Employee Retention
Those employers that do not put well-being firmly on the agenda will lose employees to organisations that do. Individuals are actively looking for workplaces that look out for their health and well-being. More and more organisations are prioritising the health of their employees because they are realising that it is the best way to ensure employee satisfaction and guarantee long-term profitability. Many companies invest significant amounts of money just on recruitment and creating a workplace in which employees can be retained can really result in significant cost savings.
Preventing Illness Amongst the Workforce
The Health and Safety Executive’s 2016/17 labour force survey indicates that 12.5 million working days are lost due to poor mental health caused by work-related stressors. As companies work to make their organisations “safer” from a health and well-being stand-point, they notice that not only are there less absences but also employees are more engaged and productive at work.
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and for Quality Assurance
When individuals are stressed or tired - their brains operate in a similar way to when they are drunk. The most evolved part of the brain, the pre-frontal cortex, shuts down and does not work as effectively when an individual is stressed or tired. So organisations may have worked hard to recruit exceptional talent - but if they are not ensuring those employees know how to manage their mental and physical health - they could have a workforce that is not operating at its full potential. This training equips individuals with tools to better manage stress and tiredness as well as to change their thinking-patterns and therefore to optimise productivity.
Resilience Training
Mindfulness and CBT
Training
Sleep
Training
Eating Disorder Awareness Training
Nutrition
Training
Stress Management Training
Workshop Topics
Each workshop is tailored to the needs of your organisation
All of of the talks and workshops are focused on equipping your staff with the practical tools that they need to manage both their mental and physical health. Each session is designed to be entertaining, engaging and interactive - I aim to leave your staff feeling uplifted and inspired after the session and equipped with a tool-kit to help them to manage their own mental and physical health for the years to come.
Resilience Building
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We explore practical tools that you can use to change the way you think; to break away from unhelpful habits; and to help you to feel better day in and day out;
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You will learn tools that you can use to have the courage to finally pursue your dreams, to boost your confidence and self-esteem and to improve your performance and productivity;
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We will cover techniques from CBT, mindfulness, NLP as well as several other psychological disciplines. that will enable you to bounce back from stressors and set-backs more effectively;
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We look at how resilience building can boost both mental and physical health and prevent illness;
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We cover how to achieve behaviour change: most people know that they need to eat better and sleep more - we explore how you can actually bring about changes to your lifestyle; and
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We suggest how best to manage stressors and cover practical tools that you can use to feel more in control and better able to cope.
The Science of Sleep
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We cover why everyone needs sleep and the science demonstrating the benefits of sleep both for our mental and physical health;
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We explore practical tools that you can use to optimise your sleep quality, drawing on the scientifically-validated techniques from CBT-I;
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We look at what may be getting in the way of you getting a good night’s sleep; and
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We make the connection between sleep quality, nutrition, stress, mental health and overall life-quality helping you to understand how you can improve your sleep to change your diet, lower your stress levels and ensure that you are happier day-to-day.
SIGNATURE WORKSHOP ON OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD
Nutrition and Eating Psychology
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We look at some of the myths on nutrition and explore why there is so much conflicting nutrition information out there, helping you to make sense of the conflicting advice on nutrition;
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We cover what components make up a nutritious diet - also exploring how our genetic make-up and the state of our micro-biome plays a role in what diet is best for our unique body;
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We cover why, despite knowing what food is healthy, most people are unable to make the dietary choices that they know are best for their health and help you to understand why you may be eating foods that you don't really want to be eating;
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We cover the practical steps that you can take to make sustainable changes to their lifestyles and food-related behaviours - quick-fixes and diets rarely work long-term and you will learn exactly what to do to build habits that will last a lifetime;
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We explore the connection between food, mood and our thinking patterns and cover psychological tools that can be used to change your individual’s diet; and
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We look at why stress, boredom, sadness and low mood can often lead you to eat and look at how you can develop new coping mechanisms.
Beat Binge Eating
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We cover what typically causes binge eating and bulimia and help you to understand what is happening in your brain when you binge eat;
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We equip you with practical tools that you can use to stop binge eating for good;
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We explore what factors may get in the way of your recovery and cover how you can manage these;
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We help you to develop a new relationship with food that means you can feel free around food and start to find pleasure in food again too; and
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You will also learn how to prevent obsessive thoughts about food and your body - freeing you to just get on with enjoying your life.
Mindfulness and CBT
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We cover how these two psychological techniques can help you to manage your mental health and boost your well-being;
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We explore positive psychology and what you can be doing to boost the state of your mental health;
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We cover the science demonstrating that mindfulness and CBT are both proven to have beneficial impacts on everything from immune function to anxiety; and
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We equip you with practical tools to implement mindfulness and CBT into your daily lives - both in the workplace and in your personal life to enhance relationships and day-to-day happiness.
Eating Disorder Awareness
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We raise awareness and understanding of common eating disorders including anorexia, orthorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, bigorexia and dibulimia;
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We explore how perfectionism and an individual’s self-perception/confidence is often connected with the development of eating disorders; and
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We explore practical tools you can use if you have an eating disorder or to help those around you if they may be dealing with an eating disorder.
Manage stress effectively
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We explore what stress actually is from both a psychological and physiological perspective;
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We equip you with tools from a range of psychological disciplines to better enable you to manage stressors;
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We discuss how optimising sleep and diet can help to manage stress; and
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We help you to support those around you that may be feeling overwhelmed or out of control .