We want to give our congrats to all our prize winners and to the ones that we have visited in the last month!
Well done to Lynda Pearce from the University of Plymouth, Jude Page from University Hospitals Plymouth and Leigh Jones from St Lukes! 

All of you are doing some amazing wellbeing work within your organisations, supporting your employees by signposting, encouraging healthier choices and sending out positive mental wellbeing messages! Well done and keep up the great work you are doing! 
We look forward to seeing you again in the new year for another catch up! 
Charley and Shawnie, part of the Wellbeing Champion Programme are arranging various meet ups, competitions, networking opportunities, support meetings and other updates for Wellbeing Champions in 2023, to make sure you are up kept up to date join our Facebook Group for more information! 

Throughout December we will be sharing with you tips all Christmassy related, for your physical, mental wellbeing, advice that you can share with your colleagues, friends and family as well as some fun festive events that are happening within Plymouth to get you into the Christmas spirit! 

Not yet following us on Facebook or Instagram, to get our Wellbeing advent calendar on your news feed? 
Follow us here, now! 

Here at Wellbeing at Work, we regularly update our calendar with all of the latest health campaigns, Wellbeing at Work events, Wellbeing Champion updates and Wellbeing Training sessions on our Wellbeing at Work Calendar!

To get you and your business started for wellbeing at work in 2023, we are giving you a head start with our fully updated 12 month calendar already set up for you to download!

Simply, click 'subscribe to calendar' below the calendar on the webpage, choose where you want to download it and add to your calendar.

If you would like a PDF version of all the main campaigns we are concentrating on for 2023 that is interactive and printable, click below.

 

 
Our Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training course is live for 2023 with availability in February! 

Our new MHFA course will ensure that all trained MHFAiders are confident to support themselves and their colleagues and/or members in the community. MHFAiders gain the knowledge and skills to spot the signs of a person experiencing poor mental health, the confidence to start a conversation and the tools to signpost to appropriate support.

The training is grounded in research. It has been developed through an inclusive lens, with input from people with lived experience and in collaboration with clinical practitioners, learners, and workplaces. It has been an MHFAiders confidence in supporting people with mental ill health. With our new offer, training doesn't stop when the course comes to an end. We provide continuous support for MHFAiders – well beyond initial certification – so people are confident, empowered, and motivated to carry out the role.

ONS analysis shows that violence against women and girls can lead to significant and long-lasting impacts such as mental health issues, suicide attempts and homelessness.

"Do you want to live in a community where Women and Girls have to live in fear of violence abuse and discrimination? If we see something troubling in our community, is it ok to walk on by?
Using the Bystander toolbox toolkit we explore ways in which we can safely prepare people to make a Bystander interaction."

Be part of the movement in creating a better community for women and girls and book yourself onto our bystander training for  January 2023. 

We have spaces left on our Connect 5 session 2 and 3 training courses, which is a follow on from Connect 5 session 1! 

Connect 5 is an evidenced based collaborative prevention toolkit and approach that promotes psychological knowledge, understanding and awareness and the development of skills, which empower people to take proactive steps to build resilience and look after themselves. Connect 5 is a training programme designed for deep learning supporting practice change for the wider helping workforce.
An incremental three-session programme, escalating skills though each session. The programme underpins the principle of ‘Making Every Contact Count’ and supports the aim of making the best use of the skills and local contacts of frontline staff.

If you have completed Connect 5 session 1, now is your time to book onto Session 2 and 3!

Upcoming Campaigns
Download our Wellbeing at Work Events Calendar here and use it for planning your healthy lifestyle events and ideas for your Wellbeing Champion role!
Also, keep an eye out on our social media for further details of each!

22nd Nov - 22nd December 2022 - Disability History Month - Held yearly, with this years theme "Disability, Health and Wellbeing". The Covid Pandemic has demonstrated across the UK and around the world just how fragile are the Rights disabled people have secured for themselves and how easily we become expendable. To find out more, click here.

25th Nov - 10th December 2022 - 16 Days of Activism: End Femicide - This year, the Campaign is continuing the 2021 30^th anniversary theme of Ending Femicide by spotlighting certain groups of women who are more vulnerable. To find out more, click here. 

1st December - World Aids Day - This year World Aids day is to raise awareness of HIV and remember the ones who have lost their lives to aids. To find out more, click here. 

2nd - 8th December - National Grief Awareness Week - This year, the good grief trust organisation are continuing to raise awareness of the breadth of support we have for grief within the UK. To find out more click here. 

3rd December - #Purplelightupday - A global movement that celebrates and draws attention to the economic contribution of the 386 million disabled employees around the world. To find out more, click here.

1st - 31st January 2023 - Dry January - A month long campaign for individuals to go alcohol-free! This isn't about giving something up, it's about getting something back. To find out more click here.