We are excited to announce that we will be working with Sleep School to help you sleep better, naturally. Sleep School At Work, is a programme proven to radically improve your sleep to help you live better.
About Sleep School
For our colleagues including health professionals, key workers, local authority and emergency services staff across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) you have exclusive access to the Sleep School At Work programme includes a digital Sleep Support Platform containing a range of sleep help guides to teach you about and support your sleep.
You have exclusive access to:
- Upcoming programme events and webinars
- Webinar recordings
- Sleep help guides
- Free, confidential sleep survey - to help us tailor the Sleep School at Work programme just for you
How to access Sleep School:
Visit: https://kwblmk.sleepschool.org/ and use code: kwblmk123
Upcoming webinars
Shift work is any work that falls outside the normal 7am to 6pm working hours. Different shifts include evening, night and early morning shifts, which can be rotated over a set period of time.
The webinar 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
Book your place on Eventbrite to join Wednesday 18 October 2023 at 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
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
Book your place on Eventbrite and if you have any questions, get in touch with us at keepingwell.blmk@nhs.net
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
Book your place on Eventbrite to join the webinar on Wednesday 13 March 2024 at 12.30pm-1.30pm.
Recorded webinars
Sleep and Menopause
Dr Guy Meadows, Clinical Psychologist and Co-founder of Sleep School delivered a one-hour webinar on the effects menopause and hormone symptoms such as hot flushes, insomnia and restless legs has on sleep.
Watch the webinar recording by visiting the Sleep School platform and use the code kwblmk123
With 42% of menopausal women showing signs of insomnia, the session began with a poll asking participants to score how well they sleep at night, poll results showed over 45% responded that they ‘mostly have poor nights sleep’.
Many staff members during the session mentioned how brain fog and anxiety from having menopause has impacted their sleep most nights.
Dr Guy Meadows invited staff to think about self-kindness techniques and what they would say to a friend/colleague struggling with menopause.
If you're looking for further support on menopause and perimenopause, visit our women's health resources page.