Belonging – What is it? To feel a sense of belonging means to be accepted… It’s a human need, just like the need for food and shelter. Feeling that you belong is vitally important to seeing value in life as well as coping with intensely painful emotions. Why...
What does it mean to ‘flourish’? Is it possible to determine the state of flourishing and apply it to all of humanity? Well, yes and no. There are some core elements that need to be in place but of course the practical specifics will be different for everyone. Some of...
How much do you enjoy your work relationships?… If you answered ‘a lot’ to this question you’re likely to be significantly more resilient than people who answered ‘not at all’… We invest a lot of our time and energy at work, it can be miserable when...
How conducive is your organisational culture to facilitating resilience in your employees? Sustained organisational performance requires individuals to have recovery periods. Without recovery periods people burn out. That applies to everyone, even you! How...
Are there any organisations that aren’t changing in some way? Are organisations ever stable anymore? Whether the change comes from external drivers such as Brexit or technology or internal factors such as restructuring – change is omnipresent. And maybe it’s no...
Who won’t have at least a small blow out over Christmas? Too much food, not enough sleep, not enough exercise and not looking after ourselves well enough…Let’s see if we can get back on track… This is the first in a series of posts on Resilience based around the...
We have been talking about resilience a lot at work lately, I am currently working with an organisation that is undergoing a great deal of change and increasingly we are trying to do more with less, to achieve higher targets whilst our world is changing around us. How...
Being kind makes us feel great. There is a mountain of research that outlines the benefits of performing acts of kindness. It improves our physical as well as our psychological health, so with anxiety and depression at an all-time high could kindness be the perfect...
How can Positive Psychology interventions improve menopausal symptoms? Menopause affects a billion people globally [1] and we barely talk about it. Mostly women ‘soldier on’ through difficult symptoms, often at a time of complex family changes. (children going to...