MINDFULNESS IN THE WORKPLACE

Innovation Centres have launched a free new initiative aimed at supporting their customers with the ongoing challenges around mental health and wellbeing within the workplace.

At a time when employees mental health and wellbeing are becoming more of a priority and focus within the business world, the team at the Health & Wellbeing Innovation Centre in Truro have teamed up with an experienced wellness business coaching and support company Mindfit Cornwall. The company includes experienced professionals that offer a real focus on wellness within the workplace. The range of professionals includes coaches, instructors and doctors and offer three areas of workshops, Mindfit for Business, Mindfit Coaching and Mindfit Retreats. They focus on things such as breathwork, guided mediation as well as exercises to improve posture and strengthen the core.

The Health & Wellbeing Innovation Centre is offering free monthly Wellness Sessions from January to its centre-based customers to attend during their working day.

Hayley Whitehead, business development manager for the Cornwall Innovation Centres said: “The intention behind the wellness sessions is to help our centrebased customers increase employee resilience, achieve better employee engagement, reduce sickness absence and increase performance and productivity.”

The sessions will include a range of workshop activities focusing on relaxation to relieve stress and anxiety and will introduce coping strategies to use in everyday life, especially within the workplace.

Hayley adds: “Depending on take up, the Cornwall Innovation Centres are hoping to extend the wellness sessions to include our office customers based at Tremough Innovation Centre and Pool Innovation Centre.”