Workshops

A healthy and well balanced diet is the body’s primary energy source. It constitutes the main building blocks for health and well being and aids in self healing and regeneration within the body. A well balanced diet will provide the body with all the essential nutrients it needs.  

                                        Mindful Eating                              

Many of us eat with restriction and feelings of guilt and shame, frequently on a diet, losing weight, then gaining even more, unsure of how to get back to “normal” eating. Does this sound like you? The Mindful Eating Workshop can help you change this and help you begin to understand why you have this kind of relationship with food and includes 10 benefits of mindful eating. You will learn how you can eat what you want, when you want and eat until you feel physically satisfied and full without ever having to follow another diet again. This workshop includes the following: 

                            Mindful Eating (An Introduction) 

•  What is Mindful Eating 
•  Body/Mind connection
•  How to recognise real hunger
•  Feelings
•  Five senses 
•  Motivation
•  10 benefits of mindful eating
    
      
                                         Food and Mood Workshop
      Understand how foods can affect your feelings and emotions

 How we feel can influence what we choose to eat or drink and vice versa. The following workshop will give insight and help you understand how foods can affect your feelings and emotions. The relationship between different foods and moods and how making changes to what we eat can improve things such as mood swings, anxiety, panic attacks, food cravings, intolerances etc. This is a fun and interactive workshop and includes information on the following: 

•  Well balanced meal 
• Good mood protein
• Good mood carbohydrate
• Good mood fat
• Vitamins and minerals
• Checklist
• Intolerances

                            Healthier Lifestyles/Weight management Programme

This is a 4-6 week programme which is aimed at trying to encourage healthier lifestyles rather than just focusing on weight loss. Each week there will be a different topic and this will include the following: 

• Food Diaries
• The benefits of exercise
• Motivation to Change
• Understanding food labelling
• Healthy Shopping
• Eating for Health

                                         
                                         Effective Communication 

This workshop is designed to help you evaluate and understand your own interpersonal communication skills and behaviour/working style. This workshop will provide you with useful exercises and helpful tips for becoming a good communicator – and team player!

• What is communication
•  How to be a good listener
• Communication stoppers and openers
• Poor listening styles-Barriers to effective communication
• What communication style are you
•  How to adjust to the different communication styles

                                         Lifestyle Creation

When we take time out to really look at our life and where we are going we begin to see the patterns we are working with and how they can be detrimental to our personal development and happiness. Knowing what you want and where you want to go in life is vitally important and this workshop offers a framework in which participants explore their own hopes and dreams in a fun and creative way. 

• Focus
• Gratitude first
• Create the space you need
• Dealing with fears and negativity
• Let go and trust                                                                                         

                Stress Awareness and Work-Life Balance

Stress is something that all of us need in our lives, but each of us needs differing amounts in order to remain healthy. The secret lies in getting the balance right. Fortunately stress can be addressed and it is possible to reduce the risk of stress related illnesses. Tis workshop will give  participants the opportunity to learn a number of different techniques for managing stress and creating a better work-life balance. It will also enable participants to become more productive through learning new relaxation skills.

                                            Stress Awareness Workshop                           

• The physical, mental and behavioural symptoms of stress
• How stressed are you
• Assess your stress levels
• How aromatherapy can help
• Relaxation techniques
• Experience meditation, breathing techniques and guided visualisation
• Mind/body connection using muscle testing

                                             Worklife Balance Workshop 

• Assessing your work/life balance
• Understanding what a healthy work/life balance is and how to achieve this
• Behaviours and what motivates us to change
• Action plan
• Employers responsibility