This Wellbeing Wednesday our host, Rob Morris from Siemens Mobility, chatted to Dave Brown from the charity Samaritans. Dave discussed how Covid has impacted loneliness, the relationship between suicide and loneliness and things we can do help ourselves and others manage feelings of loneliness and isolation.
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Exploring love in leadership
This session on love is not soft and fluffy. Instead Helena Clayton puts forward a view of love that is robust and useful to us all, as she discusses how cultures that are loving are more likely to be high performing, creative, and innovative too.
Living in the present
Gelong Thubten is a Buddhist monk and author of Handbook for hard times, A monk’s guide to happiness and co-author of How to be human. In this session, he shares how to optimise mental performance through the mindfulness practice of being in the moment. The session explores stress reduction, mental focus and emotional resilience, and provides tools for integrating ‘micro-moments’ of mindfulness into a busy working life.
Mental health of children and young people
Our guest speaker, Hinal Patel, a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, shared insights and guidance on how to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing.