Mental Health Awareness Week – Learn

Continue to Learn

Continued learning throughout life helps to not only enhance self-esteem but encourage more social interactions and increased active life. Why not start your learning today?

Throughout the week we have a range of tips from our Mental Health experts including our environmental ambassador Cal Major, Mind charity ambassador, Paol Stuart Thomson & Paul Mcgregor from Everymind who have all kindly filmed a number of helpful videos for you, our colleagues to watch.

Don’t forget to also log your activity miles between 8th-18th May here, so we can reach 2,500 miles and donate £2,500 to the charity Mind. Every mile counts!

Try something new 💡

We often think that learning is just important for making sure young people develop skills, knowledge and experience to help them on their journey into adulthood. However, that's wrong! If we keep learning throughout adulthood and into later life, this can have a positive impact on maintaining and improving our mental health and wellbeing.

Setting personal goals has been strongly linked with higher levels of well-being so why not learn something new today?

• Take a new module on i.Learn and improve your Learning & Development here. 

• There are already a number of i.Learn modules for all colleagues to undertake - Mental Health Awareness (see here), Mindfulness and Meditation, Sleeping Better and much more.

• Find out something about your colleagues

• Sign up for a class

• Read the news or a book

• Do a crossword or Sudoku

• Research something you have always wondered about

Connecting with Nature Tip 3 - Learning - Cal Major 🏞

Each day our Environmental Ambassador, Cal Major will give you a top tip to improve your Mental Health by connecting with nature. Today is on ‘Learning’

Steve's blog on Mental Health Awareness Week🧠

Focusing on Mental Health, read our very own colleague blog from Steve Killick.

Click here to read Steve's blog  

Steve on his monthly 10-mile walk for Mental Health

Get Active for Mental Health Awareness Week! 🏃‍♀️

We are nearly a quarter of the way there but we still need your help collectively to reach 2,500 miles. If we do, then we will donate £2,500 to the charity Mind. Open to all colleagues, get active and log your miles below.

Click here to log your miles 

Helping to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone; you can contribute in various ways:

• Walking

• Running

• Cycling

• Rowing

• Treadmill

• Any other form of exercise which is recorded!

Remember it doesn’t matter whether you do 1 or 10 miles across the week, it all adds up and improves your Mental Health! 😊