Insight Labyrinth in the workplace
Emotional health at work
Insight Labyrinth provides training and group work that makes a real difference in the workplace. Employees are taken on a facilitated 'journey through the labyrinth' to become more aware of the impact of their 'state of mind' on their emotional health and wellbeing at work. They will also be given the opportunity to explore how to change this state at will, to one which nurtures creativity, peace, productivity and resilience.
The issue
During times of economic hardship and uncertainty many employers make the grave mistake of reducing/removing resources that help to foster emotional health in the workplace, whilst expecting employees to 'do more with less'. Yet the one area which a business or organisation really needs to address if it wants to lift itself from averagely successful to excellent is emotional health.
The reflex with poor emotional health and stress in the workplace tends to be to look away or deny it. The evidence says that this just doesn't work. For example, not dealing with stress and anxiety actually fuels the problem, as the thoughts and feelings involved will replay over and over, creating a low state of mind. A low state of mind leads us away from our innate health and wisdom and therefore makes it much harder to access our creativity, resilience, problem-solving abilities and communication skills.
Emotional health at work impacts directly on how well people and relationships are able to function: from the relationships between colleagues, between directors and staff, to the relationships between the organisation and its customers, stakeholders, suppliers, competitors, networking contacts, … and so on.
How Insight Labyrinth can improve emotional health
Insight Labyrinth can help your staff to safeguard their own wellbeing at work, whilst also gaining insight in to how they can remove/overcome self-limiting beliefs with ease.
I facilitate workshops (on or off your premises) that are tailored to the needs of your employees, using the labyrinth as a tool and metaphor, to help participants to discover and explore how to use their state of mind to move towards their personal and professional goals, and how to achieve greater emotional health and wellbeing in the process. These experiential workshops are creative, engaging, inclusive and effective!
I offer 3 different workshop options: a half-day, a whole day or a 2 day workshop.
The big question: What happens in the labyrinth?
Individuals undertake a journey on the single path that winds to the centre of the labyrinth whilst pondering a dilemma or challenge current to them in the work place (that they will have identified in the preparation workshop).
Walking the labyrinth's shape engages left and right brain hemispheres and has the effect of calming our busy minds. Once the mind is calmed we are more able to access our innate health and wisdom - and it is at this point that we can gain insight and clarity into the dilemma/challenge...The walk back out of the labyrinth is usually experienced as being focused yet relaxed; participants report feeling lighter, energised, playful, and more confident and resilient about working with the issue that was pertinent to them.
Far from being a maze, the labyrinth is a path to clarity and improved wellbeing!
Insight Labyrinth provides training and group work that makes a real difference in the workplace. Employees are taken on a facilitated 'journey through the labyrinth' to become more aware of the impact of their 'state of mind' on their emotional health and wellbeing at work. They will also be given the opportunity to explore how to change this state at will, to one which nurtures creativity, peace, productivity and resilience.
The issue
During times of economic hardship and uncertainty many employers make the grave mistake of reducing/removing resources that help to foster emotional health in the workplace, whilst expecting employees to 'do more with less'. Yet the one area which a business or organisation really needs to address if it wants to lift itself from averagely successful to excellent is emotional health.
The reflex with poor emotional health and stress in the workplace tends to be to look away or deny it. The evidence says that this just doesn't work. For example, not dealing with stress and anxiety actually fuels the problem, as the thoughts and feelings involved will replay over and over, creating a low state of mind. A low state of mind leads us away from our innate health and wisdom and therefore makes it much harder to access our creativity, resilience, problem-solving abilities and communication skills.
Emotional health at work impacts directly on how well people and relationships are able to function: from the relationships between colleagues, between directors and staff, to the relationships between the organisation and its customers, stakeholders, suppliers, competitors, networking contacts, … and so on.
How Insight Labyrinth can improve emotional health
Insight Labyrinth can help your staff to safeguard their own wellbeing at work, whilst also gaining insight in to how they can remove/overcome self-limiting beliefs with ease.
I facilitate workshops (on or off your premises) that are tailored to the needs of your employees, using the labyrinth as a tool and metaphor, to help participants to discover and explore how to use their state of mind to move towards their personal and professional goals, and how to achieve greater emotional health and wellbeing in the process. These experiential workshops are creative, engaging, inclusive and effective!
I offer 3 different workshop options: a half-day, a whole day or a 2 day workshop.
The big question: What happens in the labyrinth?
Individuals undertake a journey on the single path that winds to the centre of the labyrinth whilst pondering a dilemma or challenge current to them in the work place (that they will have identified in the preparation workshop).
Walking the labyrinth's shape engages left and right brain hemispheres and has the effect of calming our busy minds. Once the mind is calmed we are more able to access our innate health and wisdom - and it is at this point that we can gain insight and clarity into the dilemma/challenge...The walk back out of the labyrinth is usually experienced as being focused yet relaxed; participants report feeling lighter, energised, playful, and more confident and resilient about working with the issue that was pertinent to them.
Far from being a maze, the labyrinth is a path to clarity and improved wellbeing!
The benefits:
An employee who is in better emotional health will naturally want to contribute more to the business in terms of communication, connection, creativity, problem solving, leadership, teamwork, partnership, and vision.
The benefits to the business of investing in employees' emotional health are well known:
An employee who is in better emotional health will naturally want to contribute more to the business in terms of communication, connection, creativity, problem solving, leadership, teamwork, partnership, and vision.
The benefits to the business of investing in employees' emotional health are well known:
- increased productivity
- reduced absenteeism and presenteeism
- reduced levels of stress
- motivated staff and improved morale
- improved team strength and focus
- improved staff relations
- improved customer relations
- increased profits
- increased vitality
- stronger and happier personal relationships
- greater resilience in times of change, challenge and uncertainty
- easier resolution of workplace conflict