Tag: stress management

11 February 2025
employee mental health • mental health • mental health at work • resilience • sleep • stress • stress audit • stress management • stress reduction •

Coping With Stress: a bite-sized four-part course for employees

Stress in the workplace is on the rise, with increasing numbers of workers reporting that they’re struggling to handle the stress and pressure of the workplace. This rise in workplace stress can be fuelled by increasing job demands, reduced staffing, long hours, and pressure to be always available, in addition to societal uncertainty and rising mental health issues that can reduce our resilience to stress.

If left unchecked, stress levels that exceed our capacity to cope can impact mental and physical health, increase the risk of burnout, and fuel a drop off in engagement and productivity.

Our new Coping With Stress course is a series of 4 x 30 minute bite-sized sessions – provide your employees with key evidence-based tips and techniques for coping better with stress and increasing their resilience and robustness, improving effectiveness and productivity and reducing illness and sick leave.

The sessions are delivered by our team of fully qualified and experienced workplace mental health professionals (registered by the BACP and with a minimum of 10 years post-qualification experience in workplace counselling) These shorter 30 minute sessions offer an accessible way of empowering staff to manage their own stress levels and develop the skills needed to build sustainable resilience.

Session 1: How to assess your current stress and resilience levels

We all have a certain capability to absorb the stresses of life, but problems arise when the demands and stressors placed upon us exceed our resources for coping.  In this session participants are helped to understand where their pressures arise in their personal and professional lives, what coping strategies are in place and how we might begin to build greater resilience.

The session looks at:

  • The Resilience Jar – Understanding our stress levels
  • What is our stress signature?
  • Coping strategies and their efficacy

Session 2: Coping with Stress – Mindset

How we think our way through stressful situations and experiences often inadvertently sustains and exacerbates the experience of stress.  How we feel about stressful situations is the trigger point of the stress response. Simple but effective changes in mindset can help us make better decisions in the face of stress, cultivating greater equilibrium:

The session looks at:

  • Recognising when our thoughts are the trigger for our stress
  • Gaining perspective
  • Developing the skill of being present in the moment

Session 3: Coping with Stress – Actions

There are a variety of behavioural changes that we can weave into our life than can help us manage and reduce stress, and dramatically improve our resilience.  Exploring the role of physical activity, knowing when and how to take breaks and having the confidence to talk about your stresses and mental health are all covered in this session.

The session looks at:

  • Exercise and stress reduction
  • The importance of breaks
  • Setting and communicating boundaries
  • Connection with others

Session 4: Improving Sleep for Greater Resilience

Stress can impact our sleep, and sleep deprivation increases our susceptibility to stress! This session focuses on practical psychology-based techniques which are proven to improve sleep and maintain good sleep over the long term. We use principles from the model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i).

The session looks at:

  • The psychological connection between bed and sleep
  • How to create automatic behaviours that facilitate good sleep
  • The circadian rhythm and consistent wake up time

The Coping With Stress course offers employees a practical, evidence-based approach to managing stress and enhancing resilience. Through four accessible 30-minute sessions, participants will gain essential skills to not only cope with workplace stress but also foster long-term mental wellbeing. By providing tools to assess stress, shift mindsets, introduce positive actions, and improve sleep, this course empowers employees to take control of their health and productivity. If you’re interested in supporting your team in building a healthier, more resilient work environment, please get in touch for further details by completing the form below:

27 April 2016
corporate wellbeing • employee wellbeing • mental health in the workplace • stress management • what is employee mental health? • workplace mental health • workplace wellbeing •

What is Employee Mental Health?

When it comes to the workplace, there has been a high degree of focus on physical wellbeing for employees, with many companies laying on gym memberships, yoga sessions and massage sessions for staff. But what about employee mental health?

Employee mental health in the workplace is becoming a hot topic and with good reason. Mental wellbeing is vital for us as individuals and also vital for us as employees. Good mental health contributes to productivity, concentration, creativity, complex decision-making, communication and satisfaction.

Reduced mental health diminishes all these facets within us and as a consequence, our work suffers.

Workplace stress and the resulting anxiety may be a cause of mental health issues or there may be other causes outside work. Either way, there will be an impact on an individual’s ability to work. Stress, anxiety and depression can also result in a wide range of unhealthy coping strategies, such as an over-reliance on alcohol or other substances, excessive gambling, OCD, eating disorders or even self harm.

If your company is interested in the issue of employee mental health, improving your employees’ mental wellbeing and providing a duty of care for those who are suffering, we can provide a range of awareness, preventative and remedial services.

Our 60 minute “Managing Stress & Anxiety Workshop” is the perfect introduction to raising awareness and reducing stress-related mental health issues in your workplace. The one hour workshop is for groups of up to 20 people per session. It educates and enables all levels of staff around the issues of stress and anxiety, what the signs are that stress is becoming a problem, and how to effectively manage and reduce their own stress with our evidence-based programme.

We also provide confidential one-to-one Wellness Sessions in your workplace, which give employees a change to “offload” about their work or personal life stresses, or discuss anything that might be troubling them. These one-to-one Wellness Sessions take place in a quiet meeting room or office in your workplace, with a fully qualified counsellor, and are a great way for employees to talk to someone independent, trustworthy and experienced in helping employees with their workplace stress. The Wellness Sessions might be used by employees who have a very stressful job and who otherwise wouldn’t have time or the critical need to seek professional support, or the Wellness Sessions might be used by employees who are having anxiety or panic issues, are drinking too much or using other unhealthy coping strategies to deal with their stress.

Wellbeing Partners can also provide your company with a Mental Health First Aid training programme – the internationally-recognised training programme which provides a group of your employees with the training in how to spot the signs of mental health problems in the workplace, and what to do about it.

If your company would like to start a conversation around creating a mentally health workplace, or to book one of our fantastic employee mental health workshops or services, please get in touch. Call Nick Winfield on 07773 767248 or email [email protected]

www.mindfulnessintheworkplace.org

 

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