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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 will close 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.
From Wednesday 23 August, 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).
To replace the local wellbeing hubs, a new regional hub for the whole of the East of England will launch soon; once the provider for that service is announced, we will signpost to them from the Keeping Well website too.
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
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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.
In a one-day workshop by Keeping Well BLMK & Dr Chris Irons, learn what compassion fatigue and burnout is, getting to know the signs and what to do.
Compassion fatigue and burnout can be very common problems for key workers, but do you know what these terms mean?
In this online workshop by Keeping Well BLMK and Dr Chris Irons, a leading expert and published psychologist, it will look at:
• What compassion fatigue and burnout means and how we can spot the signs
• The common causes of these difficulties, and how we can understand these through the lens of the three-emotion regulation system model.
• How developing compassion for ourselves can be a powerful way of regulating stress and supporting ourselves at work and in general.
Save the date to join on Wednesday 8 November 2023 10am to 4pm (a full programme of the workshop will be sent close to time of the event).
The Keeping Well BLMK service and Sleep School will explore how shift workers adopt healthy habits to practice everyday to help improve mental health when working shifts.
Join the one-hour live webinar will focus on:
- An in-depth look at the sleep challenges faced when shift working
- How to prepare for working shifts
- How to stay alert and energised when working shifts
- Practical tips on how to best wind down for sleep after working nights
- How to sleep during the day and manage daytime fatigue
- Optimal lifestyle habits for managing shift work
- How to effectively transition between shift work patterns
Join the sleep essentials and shift work webinar on Wednesday 18 October at 12.30pm-1.30pm. Sign up for your place on Eventbrite.
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
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.