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Bridget Jelley
Winter Wellbeing 101

Keeping our minds resilient and strong is important no matter the time of year, but in the winter months, especially as our days grow shorter and the sun slants lower in the sky, we need to put in more effort.

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Bridget Jelley
Did you say 'feedback'?

I asked a group of individuals in a performance session recently, what comes to mind when they think about feedback.

Grit

Coping with Change: How to Change when Change is Unexpected

Coping with Change: How to Change when Change is Unexpected

Mental health advice around change often centres on how to start or how to stop doing something: New Year’s Resolutions, Change Management, addiction cessation or the addition of new, positive habits.

We are frequently encouraged to step out of our comfort zones and embrace a growth mindset.

Proactively seeking change can help us to grow, learn, and develop.

Learning about how neuroscience impacts behavioural change is not only fascinating but gives us tools to make habit creation and habit cessation less painful and more efficient and rewarding. We covered some main points on this topic in part 1 and part 2 of our Change blog series.

But proactive change is not the full picture. At times, change is simply thrust upon us, and it isn’t always good.

How to Change: A Practical Guide

How to Change: A Practical Guide

In part one of our guide to change we looked at the ‘stages of change’ model. In part two, we will consider five practical strategies to successfully facing change and how we can apply those change strategies in ways that benefit both our performance and our mental health.

Here are five keys to change that we can keep in mind the next time we are either faced with change, or we decide to strive for change.

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Can’t Handle The Jandal: Stress and Burnout - what’s the difference?

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Can’t Handle The Jandal: Stress and Burnout - what’s the difference?

Burnout: the imagery in that word is evocative, and perhaps one reason why the term has become popular. Why? Because the picture that burnout conjures is so very much like the experience of it.

Burned out individuals keep going, like flames across a landscape, until they run out of fuel entirely and have absolutely nothing left to give. Not one spark remains. They are quite literally ‘burned out.’

How can we tell the difference, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

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IS THIS IT FOR GRIT and RESILIENCE?

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IS THIS IT FOR GRIT and RESILIENCE?

I love survival stories. Whilst often harrowing, they demonstrate the incredible power of the human mind and spirit in the most inhospitable conditions.

Laura Dekker, New-Zealand born Dutch sailor, pursuing her dream to be the youngest person to sail single-handedly around the world in the face of repeated opposition from Dutch authorities - grit.

Getting up and continuing to sail after being whacked on the head by a flying fish - resilience.

Yet, resilience and grit are perhaps now more readily associated with corporate wellness schemes, positive psychology, and psychometric testing in recruitment.

And yet, I began to wonder, is developing the ability to withstand trauma really what we want at work?

Wouldn’t it be preferable to create an environment where the capacity to avoid PTSD wasn’t a necessary quality?