This slide-set takes participants through a wellness process designed to energise a new network. It takes 1.5 hours and includes a 10 minute meditation (email me for the script). The process attends to the 5 ways of wellbeing: "connect, take notice, keep learning, be active, give".

1. Energising our network
• Emotional fitness
• Personal goals
• Motivation and working well
Rosanna Hunt, Ph.D
Senior Associate

2. Speaker, author and blogger
Organisational psychologist
“Everyone Counts” award winner for
leading improvements in staff wellbeing
Institute for Leadership and Management
coach
20 years facilitating large scale change in
the NHS
Runner, yoga & meditation practitioner
Rosanna Hunt, Ph.D. CIPD Cert., ILM5

3. The plan for this session

4. 4 |
• Listen and be supportive - your experience and
perspective is really important
• Be open and honest – the impact of the demands
on health services is diverse
• Confidentiality – Chatham house rules / don't put
individual and department names on the Menti
surveys
• Share – listen and share how you can use the
learning to increase your and your colleagues' ability
to thrive at work
• Get stuck in and contribute!
How do we want to be with each
other today?

5. 1 – 10
1 = not very well
10 = very well
Menti poll - How well do you
attend to your personal wellbeing
at work?

6. Line up line up!
Task 1:
Organise yourselves
into a long line in order
of the length of time
you have worked in the
NHS

7. What matters to you?
Task 2:
With your partner,
discuss why do we need
a network and what do
we want from it?

8. Menti poll – Share
an insight from
your conversation
Reflect on your conversations

9. “My organisation is constantly
changing for changes sake”
“I have little control over many
aspects of my job”
“I don’t have enough
time to do my job as I’d
like”
“My job is likely to
change in future”
Source: Robertson Cooper / Good Day at Work
“I am not involved in the
decisions affecting my job”
5 biggest factors affecting employee
wellbeing in the UK

10. “My organisation is constantly
changing for changes sake”
“I have little control over many
aspects of my job”
“I don’t have enough
time to do my job as I’d
like”
“My job is likely to
change in future”
Source: Robertson Cooper / Good Day at Work
“I am not involved in the
decisions affecting my job”
5 biggest factors affecting employee
wellbeing in the UK

12. Using this network as an energy source
The NHS Institute for innovation and Improvement (2011)

13. Individual resilience: Emotional Intelligence
"The ability to perceive,
use, understand,
manage, and handle
emotions"
Four pillars of emotional
intelligence
Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness
Relationship management
Daniel Goleman
Where do your EI strengths lie?

14. Individual resilience: The importance of
thriving out of work
Those who thrive out-of-
work show…..
80% better health
89% better thriving at work
38% more satisfaction with
how they handle incivility
Image source: Forests for wellbeing | Forestry England
What helps you to thrive outside of work?
Polarth, C. (2022)

15. Team resilience:
Leading with visible self-care
- recognising when you are
approaching “fully baked”
and need to take action to
prevent burnout
- Those who do this…
Have employees who are
55% more engaged
Are 53% more focussed and
likely to stay
Schwartz, T (2022)
How do you / could you demonstrate self-care at
work?

17. The source of energy at
work in not in control, it is
in connection to purpose.
Don Berwick

18. This is protected time for meditation
The purpose is to re-energise through
quiet contemplation
You will be guided through the
meditation
Guided meditation – 10 minutes

19. "Research from across
the world shows clear
links between
improved staff
experience and better
care for patients"
Dawson, J (2014) “Staff experience and
patient outcomes: What do we know?” A report
commissioned by NHS Employers on behalf of
NHS England July 2014