About Got
Got a Wellbeing Week coming up? Don’t know where to start or what activities to offer? Want to do something different with a real long-term impact?
Wellbeing is front of mind for many organisations, using Wellbeing Weeks/Months as a way to engage people and build awareness. However, coming up with the activities and promotional events that are impactful and cost effective can be difficult.
As speakers and specialists on the topic of emotional and psychological wellbeing, we can support your Wellbeing Week in a range of ways – including delivering ‘drop-in’ style workshops designed around the pillars of positive psychological wellbeing to enable flourishing and thriving (i.e. PERMA+R model, for any positive psychology geeks out there!). We have something to suit every budget and agenda.
Speaking and Mini-Sessions
• Interactive Speaking Presentation: Introduce the PERMA+R model that supports flourishing and builds resilience. Includes a quick exercise around the key foundations of wellbeing and practical tips to strengthen our own and others’ engagement and wellbeing. See us in action!
• Wellbeing Team Conversations: Facilitated workshop working around the Wellbeing Conversation Mat, groups are encouraged to articulate what each pillar means to them, how they experience it at work and at home, and defined actions to strengthen wellbeing for all. These can be delivered for small or large groups (up to 200) and usually take around 2-3 hours.
Workshop Series
Workshops are 45mins long and can be run simultaneously or back-to-back throughout the day. People have the opportunity to learn the skills and techniques to support each pillar of positive psychological wellbeing:
• Sustaining Positive Emotions: This session explores the differences between ‘happiness’ and ‘wellbeing’. We look at how happiness contributes to wellbeing, and the benefits of cultivating positive emotions.
• Creating Engagement: In this workshop, we discover some of our core ‘strengths’ – things we excel at and are energised by. We also explore Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of ‘flow’ – a state of ‘losing ourselves’ in a task – which has a positive effect on our wellbeing, and most often occurs when we use our strengths.
• Developing Positive Relationships: This workshop explores the importance and benefits of relationships at work. Based on the work of Jane Dutton, we explore three methods – trust, task enabling and respectful engagement – to build ‘high quality connections’.
• Finding Meaning: This session is the deepest and most thought-provoking of the series, exploring what makes life worthwhile. In line with the work of Viktor Frankl, we look at ways to experience and create purpose in our lives.
• Encouraging Achievement: In this session, we look at the benefits of an optimistic mindset, and how this can be developed to increase our sense of achievement
• Building Resilience: This session draws our learning together to relate it specifically to stress. We look at the neuroscience of threat, and how we can minimise our negative emotions and behaviours in difficult situations.
We also offer a range of products and tools, including Wellbeing Notebooks and Conversations mats. To purchase these directly via our online shop click here.
Our products and workshops are a proactive approach to support wellbeing that gives people the skills and techniques so they are better equipped to handle all of life’s challenges. Based on the PERMA+R model of wellbeing we empower people to be their best selves and flourish and thrive.
For more information on how we can support wellbeing more broadly email us at info@baileyandfrench.com or call +44 1273 830 830.
About CIPD
Alex Bailey, of Bailey & French, talks at the CIPD Sussex Branch Conference, Thursday the 14th September -‘The Future of Work is Beyond Employee Engagement’.
Alex introduces the HR Innovation Curve, “designed to show exactly where we need to be focusing our attention if we want to be our best, most innovative selves and build the best organisatons we can. It also tells the story of this evolution of needs. In the session, Alex focuses on three points 1) How Wellbeing is more than Employee Engagement, 2) Explores a positive model of Wellbeing that supports that distinction and 3) How we can innovate People functions in the future to really help people flourish at work and beyond.
Enjoy!
For more information on our wellbeing programmes, including our wellbeing conversation mat, workshops and notebooks, email us at info@baileyandfrench.com or call +44 1273 830 830. To purchase the wellbeing conversation mats and notebooks directly via our online shop click here.
About Three
Developing organisational wellbeing can feel like a big task. We know it’s something we should be doing, but often don’t have the first idea what to do, what will make a real difference, and what will be a waste of our shiny new budget (and result in us not getting it again next year).
Here are three easy, practical and scalable things we can do:
1. talk about it
Our Wellbeing Conversation Mat is a great way to start conversations. This simple A1 sized conversation mat gives a ‘pulse-check’ of current levels of wellbeing across people, teams and whole organisations. Simple and easy, a session can be run as a lunchtime activity or form part of an away day with teams. Conversations open with, ‘What is wellbeing?’, and move through each of the PERMA+R foundations in turn.
2. give people skills
We run a series of six wellbeing workshops to help people learn how to manage their wellbeing. These can be run in-person or virtually through online learning – either by the Bailey & French team or by internal champions, who we can upskill through a train the trainer session. They’re interactive and fun – encouraging active peer-to-peer learning and exploration, and making wellbeing easy for everyone to understand and apply on both an individual and organisational level.
3. make it everyday
Our Wellbeing Notebooks support people to build their self-awareness and individual learning. They’re packed with activities, reflection questions and practical tasks, designed to keep wellbeing front of mind everyday. They’re easy-to-use and enjoyably tactile, incorporating naturally into day-to-day work, and making wellbeing something that’s simple and ongoing for everyone, instead of an arduous annual project for the HR Team.
For more information on our wellbeing programmes, including our wellbeing conversation mat, workshops and notebooks, email us or call +44 1273 830 830. To purchase the wellbeing conversation mats and notebooks directly via our online shop click here.
