Reducing Stress, Improving Performance and Enhancing Wellbeing
Online Conference 27 April 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Day 1
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Faith Holloway, Compassionate Employers Programme Lead, Hospice UK
9:40am
Keynote address: Reducing stress in the workplace and improving employee experience: the HR perspective
- Assessing how stress affects staff and what HR can develop new approaches to workplace health
- Changing norms, starting conversations and setting new boundaries for the working week and ways of communicating
- How does change benefit staff and what impact does it have on efficiencies across the organisation and employee experience?
Adrian Cruden, Head of People, Friends of the Earth
10:00am
Special Keynote: Can we create a happier place?
Professor Lord Richard Layard, founder-Director, the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, and Member, Economic Affairs Select Committee, House of Lords
10:20am
Keynote address: Why should we care about stress?
- How have people's awareness and knowledge of stress in the workplace evolved since the pandemic?
- Examining the root causes of stress and methods for putting solutions in place
- Making conversations more visible in the workplace: understanding the importance of communication and breaking stigma
Carole Spiers FISMA, FPSA, MIHPE, Chair, International Stress Management Association
10:40am
Audience Q&A session
We will be joined by keynote speakers from the previous session for an audience Q&A.
10:55am
Rehearsing mindfulness and happiness
In this session, we will be joined by Charlène Gisèle, who will lead a 5-minute mindfulness practice before we enter a short break.
Charlène Gisèle
11:00am
Break and networking
11:30am
Keynote address: Managing stress in a chaotic world: What individuals can do (and what they can’t)
Melinda Smith M.A., Executive Director & Editor in Chief, HelpGuide
11:50am
Spotlight Session: What is the future of wellbeing and why should you care?
- Examining the data on stress in the workplace: painting a picture of challenges for organisations and individuals
- Moving from wellbeing 1.0 to wellbeing 2.0: How can we turn this astronomical challenge into an opportunity?
- What is the future of well-being? How can it reduce stress and help your workforce?
- Technology is the issue, but also the solution? Digital tips and tricks to create some spaces in your day
Ryan Hopkins, Future of Wellbeing Lead, Deloitte
12:10pm
Audience Q&A session
We will be joined by Ryan Hopkins for an audience Q&A.
12:30pm
Keynote address: Preventing burnout through adopting a compassion-centred approach
- Shifting the focus from an individual level to a larger workplace environment to address and prevent burnout
- Setting goals to increase well-being, prevent burnout, and enhance the early identification of signs of burnout
- Learning how to drive changes to workplace norms to enhance well-being
- Hearing what are the latest approaches to prevent burnout at the workplace
Justin D. Henderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Counselling, Therapy, and Social Counselling, Lewis & Clark College
12:45pm
Breathe exercise
In this session, we will be joined by Charlène Gisèle to have a short breathing exercise to help you relax before our lunch break.
Charlène Gisèle
12:50pm
Lunch and networking
1:35pm
Breathe exercise
In this session, we will be joined by Charlène Gisèle to have another breathe exercise to help you regain the focus before the Afternoon session starts.
Charlène Gisèle
1:40pm
Keynote address: Trouble Sleeping? How to break the vicious cycle of stress and sleeplessness, and why it matters
- Why are sleep and mental health so tightly linked?
- What can employers do to promote a healthy culture around sleep and recovery?
- Case studies: what is the impact of sleep improvement in the workplace?
Dr Sophie Bostock, Founder & Sleep Evangelist, TheSleepScientist
2:00pm
Keynote address: Incorporating mindfulness at all levels at work
- The link between mindfulness and leadership at work
- Defining mindfulness in the workplace and its special focus on individual and collective stress management
- Mindfulness as Team Sport: strategies for embedding mindfulness in your work culture more sustainably
Dr Jutta Tobias Mortlock, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, School of Health & Psychological Sciences, Department of Psychology, City, University of London
2:20pm
Keynote address: See me at work: Shaping the languages around stress and challenging the stigma and discrimination
- Stigma could happen anywhere: Understanding the work scenarios, languages, and behaviours where stigma might arise
- Launching the See Me In Work digital portal to enable improvement cycles at work to review cultures and policies at the organisational level
- Self-assessing the current workplace to ensure a stigma-free working environment
- Developing evidence-based and employee-centered improvement plans and learning from the good practices to enable further reflection on the project’s goals
Wendy Halliday, Director, See Me Scotland
2:40pm
Audience Q&A session
We will be joined by keynote speakers from the previous session for an audience Q&A.
3:00pm
Chair's summary and close
*Programme subject to change without notice
Faith Holloway, Compassionate Employers Programme Lead, Hospice UK