How can I keep my staff in work?

Stress and anxiety are increasingly recognised for their role in work absence, causing a range of health problems from back pain to ‘burnout’ to ME/Chronic Fatigue. At the 2009 ISMA conference Dame Carole Black estimated that stress and chronic ill health in the workplace cost £100bn. Read more There is a way to reduce absence rates, retain staff and enhance wellbeing and performance with the brief immersion course Health Recovery.

Health Recovery, or a bespoke version, is a short, therapeutic course for employees experiencing ill health whether in the early stages of stress, anxiety, burnout or depression, or in the later stages of a fully blown condition. It was developed after experience of working with people with ME/Chronic Fatigue and anxiety disorders – people for whom there had been lack of, or insufficient, stress management to prevent serious health problems – and the realisation that such people could be caught at the stage where a need has been identified but before it has resulted in an acute episode or the beginning of chronic ill health.

Intensive course with Extensive Input

The training draws on a number of therapeutic approaches including Mindfulness-based Neurolinguistic Programming, Humanistic Neurolinguistic Psychology, hypnotherapy, Voice Dialogue, Human Givens, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Positive Psychology and the latest discoveries in the fields of neuroplasticity – our ability to change and rewire our brains, and therefore our physical responses – and psychoneuroimmunology – the interrelation between our mental and physical systems.

Aspects of the brain are not hardwired but “softwired” and can be reconfigured into new networks for more helpful, healthy functioning as a stroke patient learns to speak again by building neural pathways that bypass the affected part of the brain. Read more here

Both Recovery and Health Maintenance

The training has two interlinked aspects:

• the first is remedial; health is restored, allowing the employee rapidly to return to productive service

• the second provides stress management tools, preventing future ill health, addresses any underlying issues of, for example, confidence, self-esteem or perfectionism, and paves the way for future development in both personal and professional spheres.