Wellbeing Matters
A Support, Learning and Development Program, Transforming Wellbeing for Health and Social Care Teams
The client
Seven leading ICSs across the midlands, with many NHS Trusts involved, from each ICS
The challenge
The creation and delivery of a program that can be rolled out at scale across ICS and ICB organisations, while also retaining the necessary flexibility to respond to local needs.
Address burnout and absence due to sickness for frontline teams, at all levels of the workforce. To do so through an innovative and highly collaborative approach, connecting participants in mixed cohorts offering protected time to reflect and learn new practices which support resilience, self-compassion, and personal wellbeing.
The program
This 10-week program, made up of 5 x 1.5hr live sessions on MS Teams, is designed to offer a unique learning experience for participants with minimum demand on their time. Co-creating a safe and supportive space to share and reflect, sessions include:
- Mindset and perceptions on personal wellbeing
- Reframing vulnerability
- Empathy, compassion and self-compassion
- Listening and relatedness
Participants will develop a fresh mindset and an accompanying set of innovative, proactive practices to support their own, and others, wellbeing in a sustainable way. Embedded with opportunities for peer discussion, reflective practice, and a supportive practice partnership, the program goes beyond the acquisition of new knowledge, towards achieving behavioural change and transformation, underpinned by narrative transformation as our core methodology.
Feedback and data
100% of participants improved or significantly improved their:
- Awareness – of myself and my responses
- Resilience – understanding how to better support my personal resilience
- Compassion - towards myself and others
*from Wellbeing Matters program cohorts between September - January 2023
'[…] I needed this much more than I realised and feel so many would benefit particularly following the challenges of the pandemic'
Wellbeing Matters Participant, May 2023
'This has given me the opportunity to explore myself, my emotions, self-imposed barriers and loss of belief in myself, in not only doing my job but also in my personal wellbeing. It has restored confidence in my self-worth, raised my self-esteem and returned my enthusiasm for my job'
Wellbeing Matters Participant, May 2023
‘This program has helped me to understand myself better - show self compassion to recognise others concerns. I was surprised by how positive an impact my practice partnership had, and just what a difference it made to me. The understanding and sharing from others has enabled me to pause and consider others feelings’
Wellbeing Matters Participant, June 2023
Session on vulnerabilities was incredibly insightful. Changed my opinion on vulnerability and how important it is in healthcare. It helps to deal with situations with compassion and to help improve future interaction.
Wellbeing Matters Participant, September 2023
'Would recommend even to the sceptical.'
Wellbeing Matters Participant, October 2023
'It's made me stop and think, to become more self aware and to take time for myself each day if only for a minute or two to stop, relax and recharge'
Wellbeing Matters Participant, December 2023
'I was very surprised and overwhelmed at the impact these sessions had. I have been able to apply all topics and the usefulness of it in my own life'
Wellbeing Matters Participant, December 2023