Mental Wellbeing
Mental wellbeing is critical for organisational success. Since the COVID-19 pandemic more organisations have become invested in supporting and developing their peoples mental well-being. This is healthy wave. As experts in neuroscience our team is well positioned to help build organisational resilience.
The Trend of Raising Mental Health Awareness
If we choose to look for some positives to take from the global pandemic, one contender is the trend of raising mental health awareness. A considerable number of people have found the last year tough. Children have been separated from their friends. They've had to...
Stress Awareness and Resiliency
Do you know when you’re stressed out? Stress is your body’s way of dealing with challenges. It is built upon an evolutionary system which is tasked with sending biological messages between your body and brain. In the case of stress, these are both electrical and...
10 Free Time Activities Which Help You Perform Better at Work
In an era of increasing work pressure, high expectations and performance-related evaluations, the ability to build in an adequate work-life balance isn’t always easy. Impending deadlines, regular meetings and an endless stream of requests in your inbox means that you...
Bearing Yourself in Mind
What are you doing right now? You’re probably thinking, “What a silly question, I’m reading this blog.” But what else are you doing? Are you at work, at home, on a train somewhere? How are you feeling? Happy, sad, bored? Usually we aren’t consciously aware of all our...
Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind
Last time, I reported research into resilience – what it is and what resilient people do in order to bounce back from adversity. On the one hand, it is about being able to accept failures, learn from them and try again. On the other it is about having a particular attitude that will allow perseverance even in the face of daunting challenges. Two specific examples from last time were that resilient individuals dealt with feedback in a certain way, and also that they interpret situations differently. Put together, resilience is a mind-set that shapes the way you see the world – it is full of achievable challenges that may take several attempts to overcome. (But they *will* be overcome…)