Boost your team’s productivity and focus with Mind Body Energy, Sydney’s premier workplace mental health support provider. We are excited to introduce our transformative one-hour workshop, “Overcoming Distractions at Work,” tailored for the dynamic needs of the corporate world.

In this engaging session, delve into the core of today’s most prevalent workplace distractions. From the barrage of emails to the lure of social media, multitasking challenges, and the buzz of busy office spaces, we address it all. Our expert facilitators from Mind Body Energy will equip your team with practical, effective strategies to escape the distraction cycle and take charge of their workday.

What You Will Learn:

• Identify and Tackle Key Distractions: Gain insights into the typical workplace distractions and strategies for identifying them.
• Practical Strategies: Implement proven methods to reduce interruptions and stay focused amidst workplace chaos.
• Enhance Productivity: Create an environment that nurtures concentration and peak productivity.
• Focusing Techniques: Learn focus-enhancing mindfulness exercises, specially designed for the corporate world.

Why Attend?

• Improved Efficiency: Empower your team with skills to better manage time and attention.
• Enhanced Work Quality: Promote a focused work environment for improved output and decision-making.
• Reduced Stress: Combat the stress of multitasking and constant interruptions for a healthier workplace atmosphere.

This workshop, presented by Mind Body Energy, is ideal for teams of all sizes and roles, from top executives to newcomers. Break free from the detrimental effects of workplace distractions. Join “Overcoming Distractions at Work” and enable your team to reach their utmost potential.

In this one-hour workshop, tailored specifically for the corporate environment, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of anxiety, exploring its causes, symptoms, treatment options, and effective management strategies. The session is designed to empower employees by providing them with the tools and knowledge to effectively manage anxiety, enhancing their overall well-being and productivity in the workplace.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define anxiety and discuss its prevalence and impact in the workplace.
• Identify common triggers and causes of anxiety .
• Recognize the various symptoms and manifestations of anxiety.
• Explore treatment options and professional resources available for managing anxiety.
• Offer practical tips and strategies for managing anxiety day-to-day.
• Educate participants about anxiety disorders and the importance of seeking professional assistance when needed.

Participants will leave the workshop with a better understanding of anxiety and equipped with practical tools and strategies to manage anxiety in their professional lives. This session aims to foster a more supportive and health-aware corporate culture, encouraging open conversations about mental health.

Join Alison Hutchens, Australia’s leading Mindset Coach, for a powerful one-hour corporate workshop designed to help professionals overcome Imposter Syndrome and advance their careers. With her first-hand experience and practical strategies, Alison will guide participants through understanding and managing Imposter Syndrome, empowering them to build confidence and embrace their achievements.

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding Imposter Syndrome: Learn what Imposter Syndrome is and how it affects your career and self-perception.
• Identifying Personal Triggers: Recognize the specific triggers that lead to self-doubt and how to manage them effectively.
• Strategies for Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Discover practical tips for shifting negative thoughts, building confidence, and celebrating your successes.
• Building a Support Network: Learn how to leverage mentors and peers to support your growth and career progression.
• Action Steps for Career Growth: Gain actionable steps to move past Imposter Syndrome and confidently pursue your professional goals.

Why Attend?

This workshop is ideal for professionals looking to overcome self-doubt and advance their careers with confidence. Alison’s insights will provide the tools needed to break free from Imposter Syndrome and achieve your full potential.

In today’s fast-paced corporate environment, resilience and energy management are crucial for sustained success and well-being. Join Alison Hutchens, Australia’s leading Mindset Coach, for a dynamic one-hour workshop designed to empower professionals with the tools they need to thrive in the workplace. This session will focus on practical strategies for building resilience, managing energy effectively, and maintaining a positive mindset in the face of challenges.

What You’ll Learn:

• Resilience Building: Understand the key components of resilience and how to strengthen your ability to bounce back from setbacks.
• Energy Management: Discover techniques to optimize your energy levels throughout the day, enhancing productivity and reducing burnout.
• Mindset Mastery: Learn how to cultivate a positive, growth-oriented mindset that supports both personal and professional success.
• Practical Tools: Gain actionable strategies that you can implement immediately to improve your resilience and energy management skills.

Why Attend?

This workshop is ideal for professionals looking to enhance their ability to manage stress, maintain high energy levels, and stay resilient in the face of workplace challenges. Alison Hutchens will provide you with the insights and tools needed to not just survive, but thrive in your career.

Enhance Employee Well-being:

Join Alison Hutchens, one of Australia’s leading corporate wellbeing coaches, for an immersive Deep Relaxation group class featuring iRest/Yoga Nidra. This ancient practice, now modernized and evidence-based, offers profound psychological, physical, and emotional healing. Ideal for employees at any experience level, this practice is open to all.

Here are the benefits your corporate group can expect:

Psychological Benefits:

• Increase in Happiness: Foster a more positive and productive workplace environment.
• Decrease in Fear, Anxiety, and Depression: Enhance emotional stability and mental health, reducing workplace stress and absenteeism.

Physical Benefits:

• Reduces Insomnia: Improve sleep quality, leading to more rested and effective employees.
• Increases Energy: Boost overall energy levels, contributing to higher productivity and focus.
• Reduced Chronic and Acute Pain: Alleviate discomfort, which can improve concentration and reduce sick leave.

Emotional and Resilience Benefits:

• Strengthens Resilience: Enhance your team’s ability to handle day-to-day stress and challenges with greater ease.
• Tap into Calmness: Equip your employees with a technique to access a state of calm, even in the midst of a busy workday.

Additional Benefits:

• Equivalence to Sleep: One hour of iRest/Yoga Nidra is as restorative as four hours of sleep, offering a powerful tool to combat fatigue and burnout.

Practical Details:

• Guidance by Alison Hutchens: Benefit from the expertise of a renowned wellbeing coach.
• No Experience Required: Suitable for all levels, making it accessible to your entire team.
• Preparation: Participants should bring their own pillow and blanket for maximum comfort during the session.

By incorporating iRest/Yoga Nidra into your corporate wellness program, you will foster a happier, healthier, and more resilient workforce, equipped to thrive in today’s demanding business environment.

One-hour presentation:

Would you like to learn some effective habits that will help you reach your long-term success, increase your energy and productivity, happiness and confidence?

In this workshop you will learn:

• How to focus develop a growth mindset, thrive through change, recharge your mental health
• How to manage stress to strengthen and boost your resilience
• How to maintain focus in a world full of distraction
• How to reframe negative thinking
• How to tap into positive energy
• How to operate at a high-performance level without feeling overwhelmed

Extreme and unrelenting pressures of stress related to work and modern day living, can lead to the debilitating state we call burnout.
Burnout is a serious problem that can affect your performance and well-being. Research has linked burnout to many negative physical and mental health outcomes. It has also been shown to undermine the quality of relationships, decrease productivity and impact our sleep.

In this one-hour workshop we will cover:

• Burnout -the signs and symptoms and its cause, why it occurs
• What is stress
• Powerful strategies for prevention and recovery -improve your health
• Evidence- based techniques to manage stress and build resilience
• How to develop a recovery plan to create a more sustainable, happier, and balanced working life.

What is included:

• 1 hour of tuition via zoom or in person
• Free Stress Management Bypassing Burnout audio downloads

Let’s Talk Menopause

Designed for Corporate Professional Women, workshops and groups (25-30 people) 50-minute sessions. In person or via Zoom.

Our 2 or 4-week program has been designed to open the conversation around menopause. It provides an understanding of menopause, what is happening in the body and advice on how women can best support themselves. We cover the science, tools, and many helpful resources, so that working women can feel empowered to take control of their health and continue to feel productive and feel confident in the workplace.

WEEK 1

Understanding Perimenopause and Menopause

This session aims to educate you about the biological and physical process of perimenopause and menopause. You will gain knowledge and feel empowered with practical strategies to help you navigate this important time in your life and to come through it feeling healthy and revitalised.

This session will include:

• An introduction to perimenopause and the sequence of hormonal changes
• Common symptoms and diagnosis of perimenopause
• The impact of hormonal changes on the body and brain
• Treatment protocols for night sweats and hot flushes
• Essential dietary and lifestyle action plan

WEEK 2

Supporting your Whole Body

In this session you will learn about the potential health risks during menopause and preventative measures to include. In addition, you will gain more knowledge around which foods to eat and why, plus practical lifestyle strategies which you can confidently implement.

This session will provide education on:

• The difference between Menopause and Post-menopause
• Risk factors and preventative measures to help prevent chronic diseases
• The impact of reduced hormones on the body
• Dietary recommendations to help support a healthy body
• Ways to take action and ownership of your health for life

WEEK 3

Reframing and Rethinking Menopause

This session aims to educate and empower you to become resourced with self-knowledge, valuable information, practical actions, and behaviours that enable you to transition through this phase of life with confidence.

Learn how to:

• Create your vision for the experience you most want to have, see what truly needs your attention, where to spend your energy and how to move forward
• Educate yourself on your options and take responsibility for your health
• Build your own self-care plan. Access your own inner wisdom and power to support your own health
• Learn to value yourself and let go of negative beliefs
• Look forward to your “second spring” and learn to see it as a “celebration”-a natural transitioning stage of life

WEEK 4

Building Your Own Healthy Habits during Menopause

Learn how to develop positive habits and long-term strategies to support your own individual needs, including managing the things that impact or trigger you with deep compassion for yourself and others.

Learn how to:

• Build clarity and calm, feel happier and more alert
• Adopt some new positive” mindstyle” and “lifestyle” changes
• Reduce your stress and support your adrenal glands with effective breathing techniques
• Support your body for rest and repair with a good night’s sleep
• Practical tips and tricks to sharpen your focus and manage symptoms-turn down the heat on hot flushes

What is included:

A customised program for women in the workplace

• 4 x 1 hour hours of tuition via zoom (delivered over 4 weeks) or 2 X 1- hour sessions
• Ongoing support
• Support in writing your own policy for Menopause in your own workplace

This course will assist you to develop key life skills in your home/work life to understand life’s adversity and learn to deal with it particularly in times of stress. Over four weeks this course will teach you to recognise your inner strengths and resources and a variety of life empowering tools to help you increase your resilience.

You will learn:

• Discover the research on the neuroscience of stress
• Learn new skills to build deep resilience to deal with the stress of life
• Learn how to develop a mindset that fosters success
• Learn how to identify and leverage your strengths
• Practical strategies and insights for developing resilience in tough times
• Skills for thinking flexibly and being more creative
• Learn how to protect your well-being
• Learn to be a less stressed, more resilient, and happier you

 What is included:

• 4 x I hour hours of tuition via zoom (delivered over 4 weeks)
• Guided Audio Mindfulness Meditation downloads
• Daily Challenge Log
• 38 Mindfulness Tips eBook
• Ongoing support
• FREE 30 min personalised virtual Resilience Coaching session (after course completion)

Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Alison’s inspiring presentation on “Being Mindful” is the ideal foundation for building resilience, maximising your potential, and taking control of your mental wellbeing. You will learn some simple tools to recharge, be more efficient and much happier in your everyday life. Alison presents her tools and information in an entertaining, highly interactive, and practical way.

‘Mindful Eating’ is one mealtime skill that can fit with any healthy eating style. This practice involves applying simple mindfulness techniques to the process of eating. Research has shown that eating mindfully may help you to eat smaller portions and fewer calories and reduce emotional eating. Taking a more “mindful” approach to eating can enhance the enjoyment of your meals, aid good digestion, reduce anxious thoughts surrounding food, and improve your overall relationship with food.

In this one-hour online workshop we will learn what mindfulness is and how Mindfulness can transform our struggles with food and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating food.

In a 1- hour Workshop we will cover:

• What is Mindful Eating
• Hungry vs non-hungry eating
• How to deal with boredom
• The mindful eating approaches
• Minimising mealtime distractions
• Establishing new habits

Providing mental health support and awareness early can assist workers in returning to their usual performance quickly and avoid the problem worsening or a crisis emerging.

This workshop can:
Equip managers and employees to recognise the signs of mental health problems early & respond appropriately.
Decrease stress in staff as they have more understanding and know what to do if someone is having mental health problems or a mental health crisis.
Create a workplace culture that promotes and understands the importance of mental health.
Facilitate a culture that promotes seeking help for mental illness.
Teach staff boundaries so they do not get overly involved in someone’s mental health problems.
Give staff the knowledge to recognise if they themselves are starting to experience mental health and knowledge of the interventions available.
Decrease the stigma around mental illness.

Mental ill health costs Australian workplaces $4.7 billion in absenteeism, $1.6 billion in presenteeism and $146 million in compensation claims per year. Only 22% of full-time workers with signs of common mental illness receive treatment for their mental health problems Mental Health First Aid is an evidence-based training course which gives your employees the skills and confidence to have supportive conversations with their co-workers and help guide them to professional help if needed. It has been shown to increase knowledge, confidence and helping behaviours, and reduce stigma.

Mental Health First Aid at Work can assist with:

• Equipping managers & employees about early recognition of the signs of mental health problems and how to respond appropriately.
• Education staff and decreasing their stress as they will have more of an understanding about mental health and know what to do if someone is having mental health problems or a mental health crisis.
• Create a workplace culture that promotes and understands the importance of mental health.
• Encourage employees to seek help for mental illness.
• Give staff the knowledge to recognise if they themselves are starting to experience mental health and knowledge of the interventions available.
• Decrease the stigma around mental illness.

Good News: Australian workplaces can expect a return on investment of $2.3 for every $1 invested in mental health first aid training for staff.

Cost: The Mental Health First Aid Course can be run on site at your premises or you can sign up to any of the courses open to the general public.

PARTICIPANTS WILL GAIN THE CONFIDENCE AND SKILLS TO:

• Recognise the signs and symptoms of mental illness
• Find effective help
• Respond to early signs
• Respond to suicidal thoughts
• Have appropriate boundaries

INCLUDED:

• 12-hour course
• 186-page Mental Health First Aid manual
• Certification for 3 years
• Morning tea

Note: This course can be scheduled as 2 consecutive days (12 hours) or as four 3-hour sessions over 4 consecutive weeks.

The Skill of the Future (1-hour workshop)

Why not build a higher level of emotional intelligence? Studies have shown that high levels of emotional intelligence boost career success, mental health, relationship satisfaction, and overall happiness. It is one of the most in demand skills according to a recent survey completed by LinkedIn.

Emotionally intelligent people know how to:

• Authentically assess their emotions
• Think before they act
• Be self-motivated
• Be empathetic and assertive
• Build strong relationships

This means that means people with emotional intelligence are getting hired and promoted at a faster rate than others.

Higher levels of Emotionally Intelligent Workplace Behaviour also help combat work related stress and build your personal resilience. It can help you thrive!

In this one-hour workshop you will learn:

• What is EQ
• Why EQ is important
• What are the scientific benefits
• Why do we need it for the future