Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Switching Off– Relaxation and Sleep

Course Code
50133937

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Nicola Neath

Suitability
All staff.

If this date is full, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to peopledev@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Tuesday, November 07, 2017, 14:00 to 16:00

Max Places:
30

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work: None

Overall aim of course
This workshop aims to help participants maintain and improve energy
levels by introducing to techniques to aid relaxation and a good night’s
sleep.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have considered ways to engage the body and mind.
2. Have discovered their personal preference for relaxation
techniques.
3. Have considered ideas on how to switch off and sleep well.
4. Have been given the opportunity to decide upon to some personal
action.


Indicative content: what the session will cover:
The course will help participants learn how to relax and improve your
sleep habits to maintain and improve your energy levels. An introduction
to different relaxation strategies and help to find personal natural
self-calming tools. Information and myth busting about sleep and how to
support a healthy sleep pattern. By teaching you how to constructively
switch off and recharge this workshop will help you to manage your
energy levels and functioning so that you can better achieve your
potential.

Learning and teaching methods: An interactive workshop. There will be an
opportunity to practice some relaxation so anyone wishing to try this
may find it restorative.

Tutor: Nicola Neath; University of Leeds Staff Counsellor – Nicola is
also an MBACP Accredited Psychotherapist.

Related courses
Resilience is our ability to manage and restore balance and performance.
Resilience skills help us through times of change and uncertainty,
following adversity, set-backs and times when things are, or were, too
much. These workshops support self-development. They are opportunities
to gain ideas and tools that can have a positive effect on you, your
work and your impact with others.

Positive models and individual strategies are covered to resource work,
life and organisational change, maintain creativity and support positive
relationships with others, and prepare for the future. The workshops
dovetail together and can be done in any order. They can also be taken
individually by participants who may have identified specific areas
where they would benefit from some guidance.

• Values and direction – knowing what matters personally and
professionally
• Working with stress and emotion
• Mindfulness and attention skills to steady and focus your mind
• Understanding grief, loss and setbacks in everyday life =
• Active approaches to worry, meeting things head on
• Working with change and uncertainty
• Understanding and managing anxiety and panic
• Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making
• Developing assertiveness and working with confidence
• Working with habitual thinking patterns – thoughts are not facts
• Positive skills for wellbeing at work

Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial.