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Access Sleep School – your platform to good sleep
We’re working with Sleep School, to help you sleep better, naturally. You have exclusive access to the digital Sleep Support Platform containing a range of guides, events and webinars to support your sleep.
Learn how to get access to Sleep School here.
Closure of Keeping Well Service in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes from 1 October 2023
The Keeping Well Service run by CNWL for key workers in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes closed on 1 October 2023.
The service was one of 40 national hubs developed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic to provide mental health and wellbeing support to NHS and social care staff.
Keeping Well will no longer take referrals. Those people currently receiving support from Keeping Well will be contacted directly and an individual plan created based on their needs.
Our website will still provide wellbeing information, signposting to other services and access to self-help resources. Visit the links below to view what other support is available (including webinars that will still continue in the next few months).
Best wishes from everyone in the Keeping Well Team; it has been a real privilege to work with and alongside you during the pandemic and recovery period.
Simon Warren
Keeping Well Service Manager
How to find other support
Upcoming webinars
The below webinars and workshops will continue to run until 2024. Please expand each accordion to find out more information about each webinar topic and how to book your place.
The Keeping Well BLMK service and Sleep School will host a four-week part series of the common sleep essentials that everyone can practice to getting good sleep naturally.
Part 1: Prioritising sleep - 17 January 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Introduction to the Sleep School’s 4-part series workshop
- Review of common challenges stopping us from getting enough good quality sleep
- Why it’s important to prioritise sleep for our mental, emotional and physical health
- Understanding how much sleep we need to be healthy and how to get it
- Practical advice on how to manage a sleep debt
- Experiential practice of a clinically proven tool to help you fall asleep quicker during difficult times
Part 2: Winding down for sleep - 24 January 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Darkening down and its role in helping us to wind down for sleep
- Review of common challenges preventing us from winding down for sleep
- Exploration of the science and fundamentals of winding down including lifestyle, regularity, routine and relaxation based activities
- How to create a daily wind down routine habit for better sleep
- Experiential practice of a clinically proven tool to promote a positive mindset before bed and better sleep during challenging times
- Practical advice and tools on how to manage stress and physical discomfort at bedtime
Part 3: Falling asleep quickly - 31 January 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Flexible thinking and its role in helping us to fall asleep
- Review of common obstacles stopping us from falling asleep quickly
- Understanding of science behind how we fall asleep and what happens during sleep
- Practical advice on how to fall asleep either at the start or middle of the night
- Experiential practice of a clinically proven tool to help you fall asleep quicker during difficult times
Part 4: Waking up refreshed - 7 February 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Regular Sleep and its role in helping us to wake up refreshed
- Review of the common challenges causing us to wake up unrefreshed
- Practical advice on how to create a daily wake up routine habit
- Practical advice on how to become a morning person
Whilst many of us have trained ourselves in and for compassion, and embody this with other people on a regular basis, we don’t always treat ourselves with the same kindness, care and compassion. Instead, many of us can actually treat ourselves in a harsh, self-critical manner.
In this session, we’ll look at how to understand our self-critics, and learn how we can treat ourselves like we would treat a best friend – with kindness, care and self-compassion
Our day-to-day working life involves working with a huge array of suffering and distress. Because of this, it’s natural and normal to experience a variety of different emotional responses ourselves whilst at work, and some of these might make us feel uncomfortable and distressed.
In this workshop, we’ll explore what difficult emotions are, and learn about a model of emotion regulation designed to help us take more helpful steps in managing some of the common emotions we experience in our lives. Using common examples from work, we’ll look to see how we can improve our emotion regulation skills
The Keeping Well BLMK service and Sleep School will explore psychological flexibility (how to manage work stress and anxiety's impact on sleep).
Join the one-hour live webinar will focus on:
- How to move towards who and what matters in our daily life in order to effectively navigate stress
- Science behind why we think and feel the way we do in response to stress
- Discussion of helpful and unhelpful stress coping strategies
- Experiential practice of clinically proven tools to help calm a busy mind and defuse negative thoughts and feelings during stress
- Take part in a Q&A session
Join the psychological flexibility webinar on Wednesday 13 March 2024 at 12.30pm-1.30pm. Sign up here on Eventbrite.
What is a tricky brain? How well do you know your own mind?
You are invited to join a one-day workshop with Keeping Well BLMK and Dr Chris Irons, a leading expert and published psychologist to explore:
- Our tricky brain design, and how some of the emotional difficulties we face can be linked to how our mind is evolved
- How and why we struggle as human beings, in particular as keyworkers in social and health care
- The purpose of our emotions – how they can help us but why they can easily get out of balance
- Techniques to help balance our emotions and manage common difficulties that can arise