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.
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
Sign up for your place on Eventbrite to join on Wednesday 20 September 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.
News (archive)
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Closure of Keeping Well Service in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes from 1 October 2023
Published on: 29 August 2023 -
Understanding your tricky brain and getting to know your mind workshop
Published on: 28 July 2023You are invited to join a one-day online workshop to understanding your tricky brain and getting to know your mind.
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Can you help shape our Sleep School programme?
Published on: 3 July 2023We’re working with Sleep School, to help you sleep better. Complete a short survey monkey to share what sleep related topics you want to see.
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Sleep and Menopause webinar – watch the recording if you missed it
Published on: 7 June 2023Watch the webinar recording of Dr Guy Meadows, Clinical Psychologist and Co-Founder of Sleep School deliver a one-hour webinar on the effects menopause has on…
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Latest Keeping Well BLMK newsletter out now (May)
Published on: 17 May 2023Read our May 2023 newsletter, highlighting service news, events and offers.