Health Designs Wellness Programme for Teaching Staff

• Programmes are tailor made to suit individual school requirements.
• Our aim is to equip and inspire your staff to deal with stress proactively – leaving them refreshed, restored and full of renewed motivation for their work

Benefits to School

• Reduces sick leave due to stress-related illnesses (22% teacher sickness attributed to stress)
• Equips teachers with skills to deal with stress proactively
• Good for morale - brings staff together as a team
• Improves staff performance
• Helps you meet your Health & Safety Executive obligations
• Improved staff recruitment and retention

Benefits to Teaching Staff

• Greater understanding of the physical and psychological response to stress
• Simple and practical tools and techniques to cope with stress
• Reduction of stress and anxiety leading to improved health and well being
• Enhances mental focus and concentration
• Feeling of be valued
• Ability to recognise stress triggers and signs of stress in themselves and others
• Time out for self care
• Enhances enjoyment of work life

Why use Health Designs?

• We are experts in stress awareness and stress management
• We offer a down-to-earth, practical and light hearted approach
• We are well trained and experienced facilitators (About Us)
• Our background in nursing provides an empathic understanding of working in pressurised conditions
• Our workshops offer a good balance between theory and practical exercises
• We ensure our teaching, advice and recommendations are based on sound theory
• All the exercises we introduce are simple and effective and can be easily incorporated into the workplace
• We have had consistent, high quality feedback from previous training courses

Our courses include:

• Easy ways to identify stress patterns
• Brief introduction to how our bodies respond to stress
• Top tips to cope with symptoms of stress
• Nutrition essentials - how to keep energy and concentration levels high throughout the day
• Simple to learn, calming breath exercises and mind clearing techniques
• Ideas to incorporate these tools into the work situation
• The content and timings of courses can be tailored to suit the needs of your staff.