What will you do to improve your mental and physical wellbeing?

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter. This week is Mental Health Awareness week (13-19 May). Making it an ideal time to talk about; how you can better manage stress, the routines and rituals that make you feel good and how technology can help you better manage your mental and physical wellbeing.

This year's theme set by the Mental Health Foundation is "Movement: moving more for our mental health"

A useful reminder that taking care of our minds involves more than managing our performance and stress. It's about recognising the profound connection between mind and body.

Questions to ask yourself and others.

• What is most important to you?
• Is where you spend most of your time aligned with the things that are most important to you?
• What are the biggest stressors in your life right now?
• What are your most effective stress coping mechanisms?
• Do you exercise enough? How could you fit more movement into your day?
• What physical activities do you really enjoy that you haven't done for a while?

Learning tools for managing mental & physical wellbeing.

Technology?? - there's no getting away from it! It's possibly the biggest reason we are more sedentary and stressed today. Yet it's also an amazing way to increase your knowledge and help you move better when it's harnessed for good. Rachael Sullivan shares some insightful podcasts and her favourite apps below on improving mental health and wellbeing.

?? Feel better live more podcast hosted by Dr Chatterjee

This podcast is full of golden nuggets to improve your physical and mental health. We love that Rangan never advocates huge changes rather he suggests small nudges in daily habits to help us live better. If you're new to this podcast there's a brilliant BITESIZE listen below on how just 10 minutes of exercise a day can improve your mental health.

?? Building better leaders podcast with Shoorah founder, Lorri Haines, on how AI can be utilised to improve our wellbeing

Last month we had a brilliant conversation with serial entrepreneur Lorri Haines about what inspired him and fiancé Ferne McCann (Star of ITVBe’s My Family and Me) to start mental health and wellbeing app Shoorah. We particularly love this app for it's cleanse feature, Shuru 24/7 therapy tool and podcasts with Jeff Brazier on navigating bereavement.

?? The Calm app for daily mediations and sleep stories.

If you're wanting to become a more present and calmer leader we'd highly recommend the Calm app. We love it for the Daily Calm - a new 10 minute guided mediation delivered every day, The Daily Jay - an 8 minute upbeat daily narrative from guru Jay Shetty , plus celebrity narrated sleeps stories for both adults and kids!

Interesting read. How can daily movement improve your performance at work?

Book recommendation. The Rules of Life.

This book by Richard Templar offers succinct, practical guidance for navigating life's complexities. Templar's insights cover various aspects from personal development to relationships, helping readers cultivate success and fulfilment. It's a roadmap for mastering life's challenges and achieving happiness and prosperity.

Quote of the month.

A workshop for you focusing on understanding the drivers of peak performance.

Would you organisation or team benefit from better understanding stress, overwhelm, burnout & the performance curve to improve results?

Scaffold Coaching offers a one day workshop focusing on better understanding the psychology of peak perfomance. To improve the mental wellbeing, awareness and personal resilience of your people. Clients we have recently run this workshop for include JBA Consulting and 英国赫尔大学 .

In this one day course we explore:

• Where does stress, overwhelm and burnout feature in your performance?
• How do you use the performance curve to improve your performance and that of your team?
• How can you build better emotional intelligence??
• How can you better manage your day to day workload?
• What will understanding the different ways in which team members work help you achieve more?
• We can also bring in Wurkplace Wellbeing as a guest speaker if you want to tie it in with Mental Health First Aid (MHFA England) stress smart expertise.

Get in touch with Rachael Sullivan or John Tattersall if you are interested to find out more.

Stay curious. And remember to check out https://www.scaffoldcoaching.com/ to build better leadership skills.