Flattening the Curve: Supporting our Workforce towards a Healthier Trajectory post Covid-19, By Jane McNeice
It’s been quite a few months since the Mind Matters team connected with delegates who attended the Health & Wellbeing at Work Conference 2020 in Birmingham. The Conference now seems worlds away in terms of time, change, learning to adapt, and images such as that of Dame Carol Black’s keynote featured in this post – a congregation of people which would now risk our health and incur a hefty fine! Some of our contacts we’ve met at previous Health & Wellbeing at...
Read More“i-ACT rather than RE-ACT” The mental health training programme that’s taking the working world by storm and helping Managers and Employees to be pro-active and positive about workplace mental health
By Jane McNeice, I-ACT Online Instructor & Founder of Mind Matters Since our inception in 2015, Mind Matters has slowly and deliberately built a comprehensive suite of mental health training courses with the aim of promoting a ‘whole business’ or ‘whole community’ approach to mental health. At Mind Matters we want to ensure that whatever stage of need a person is in – sustaining good mental health and early intervention through to crisis – there is a course we can offer that will...
Read MoreMy WHOLE Self: Chronicles of an Anxious Small Business Owner during Covid-19 Coronavirus, by Jane McNeice
So my husband says “Please stop talking about Coronavirus, you’re killing me.” And I get it, when I’m highly anxious about something I just can’t contain it. It becomes contagious and as equally painful to others as it is to me. So I’m trying to spare my husband and write down how I feel instead… Two weeks ago, week commencing 24th February I had started to get anxious about Covid-19 Coronavirus. I’d already gone into my preferred coping mechanism of over-planning, fuelled further by the...
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