Resources

Each day brings plenty of opportunities for mindfulness — from washing the dishes to waiting in traffic. Here are 6 ways to stay mindful through the day.

Jonny Benjamin MBE and Neil Laybourn will share their inspirational story Stranger on the Bridge, which shares the same name as the acclaimed Channel 4 Production, documenting Jonny’s journey with his own mental health and suicide attempt in 2008 and how a timely intervention by Neil on that day would inspire Jonny years later to painstakingly search for Neil and reunite the two strangers. **Content warning: Discussions about suicide

Get your workplace and co-workers to take part in On Your Feet Britain® – the national activity awareness day when 2 MILLION desk-based workers across Britain participate in a variety of fun and simple activities to #SitLess and #MoveMore at work.

How can parents ensure their children have a healthy relationship with technology? Social psychologist Sonia Livingstone suggests that the key lies in embracing technology alongside children -- and lays out a practical roadmap for how to get there.

As part of our efforts to bring staff from across the system together to share and celebrate wellbeing, Here For Each Other is launching a series of online Happy Café meetings. Chaired by Gerry Clarke from the World Happiness Project, these informal sessions will invite staff working in health and care across Dorset as well as the local councils twice a month to share their happiness and wellbeing experiences in a fun, informative and inspirational way.

A panel of problem solvers advise a struggling HR professional on how to ensure the mental health of their own team is taken care of.

Remember: It's a journey, not a destination.

What if leadership at work wasn't for a select few, but rather shared among many? Management consultant Gitte Frederiksen gives us the recipe for "distributed leadership" -- dynamic, multidimensional networks of leaders that tap into everyone's knowledge and creativity -- and shows how it allows teams to do more and do it better.

We all have incredible abilities and creativities that can get swamped and blocked by everyday life and work activities. By being more aware of our mind, body and behaviour, we can start to unpick the places where there may be space to develop and do more that is of value. This 1-hour session is based on mindfulness strategies and philosophies and is open to all regardless of existing mindfulness experience.

As part of our efforts to bring staff from across the system together to share and celebrate wellbeing, Here For Each Other is launching a series of online Happy Café meetings. Chaired by Gerry Clarke from the World Happiness Project, these informal sessions will invite staff working in health and care across Dorset as well as the local councils twice a month to share their happiness and wellbeing experiences in a fun, informative and inspirational way.

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for success.