Maintaining Wellbeing While Working at Home

Description

Maintaining Wellbeing While Working at Home

This two-hour session will look at how you can maintain your wellbeing and mental health while working from home during these uncertain times. We will explore several techniques, including mindfulness, exercise and gratitude, as well as how to manage your stress levels.

What you will learn

Here is our plan for the session:

We will give you ideas to help you improve your wellbeing while working at home.

Identifying stress and five steps for wellbeing at home

• What you already do well
• Identifying the body signs of stress
• Ideas to help to reduce stress
• Five steps that are proven to increase your wellbeing

Mindfulness

• What it is
• A simple practice you can try out at home
• Ideas for further exploration

Working with your thoughts

• Noticing how thoughts affect our wellbeing
• What to do about negative thinking

Movement, Chimps and Gratitudes

• Understanding how simple movement at home can help (and the importance of exercise, when you can get it).
• Noticing our own ‘Chimps’ and how to bring them under control
• How ‘Gratitude’ can increase happiness
• The effect of naming your emotions