We recognise that our staff may sometimes face certain challenges in their personal or professional lives that are hard to deal with. This is why we offer a confidential and professional life management Employee Assistance Programme, provided by Health Assured, which provides a qualified counsellor who can offer emotional or practical support. It’s available 24 hours and completely free for our team to use, meaning they have access to support whenever it’s needed.
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week focuses on the theme of ‘nature’ – which seems particularly fitting after a year where we’ve had our freedom to go outdoors somewhat restricted. Now that restrictions are lifting and the warmer weather is just around the corner, there could be no better time to venture outdoors and find our way to wellbeing.
The ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ provide a guided set of pillars which can help us improve our mental health, focusing on themes of social connection, activity, mindfulness, learning and giving. Our agency chose to collectively take care of our mental health this year by joining in with the campaign in the following five ways.
Connect
We’ve experienced some fantastic growth as an agency over the past year, having welcomed four new people to the team since we went into lockdown. Although we sadly can’t quite meet up as a full team yet with there being so many of us, we managed to meet up in pairs this week in various places around the North West, either during our lunch breaks or after work. Whilst we still can’t wait until we can all be together again, some face-to-face interaction after such a long time was just what we needed to feel more connected.
