Mental Wellness Blog & News
Stop self-sabotaging mental health at work
10.10.2019Today’s workplaces demand success, securing good healthy attitudes towards mental wellness can bring future prosperity financially, productively and improve staff loyalty.
Why is this?
In modern workplaces, we rely heavily on our inner mental functions to get the work done. Still, up to now, we have been reactive to our mental functioning and act only when stress or even more serious m...
Read more How to remove a toxic work environment?
18.09.2019Intrapersonal education is the key to business success and employee engagement. Let’s look at what happens when people fail to have good intrapersonal skills?
Our inner processes trigger reactivity and this reactivity is what leads to work-related interpersonal conflicts. As we have noticed ‘toxic’ relations at work environment are getting bigger as employees fail to perf...
Read more Why intrapersonal skills matter more than interpersonal skills?
22.08.2019We often think that the person with the most professional skills or technical knowledge will get promoted fastest and achieve the best work results. But is this really the case?
When we face work-related pressures or come into contact with possible stress triggers it isn't a lack of professional skills that stop us.
What truly stops us is:
Our inner reactions to outside ...
Read more Burnout classified as occupational phenomenon
06.06.2019The good news is that employee and entrepreneur burnout is preventable. What is burnout? Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) included employee burnout in its 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon.
Burnout is described in the chapter, "Factors influencing health status or contact with health se...
Read more Productivity is directly dependent on intrapersonal skills
28.05.2019The current dominating and outdated paradigm is that mental health problems are caused by external factors and those external things and situations that cause stress, burnout, depression, and anxiety, need serious rethought.
Most of us consider it totally natural to blame others and outer situations for our mental health issues. By doing so, we neglect our own personal respo...
Read more How to prevent stress and burnout in the workplace?
07.05.2019As you are aware April was Stress Awareness Month in the UK?
What did you change in your life? What did your employees obtain in new skills for preventing stress and burnout?
Last year's Health and Safety Executive reported1 that "stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 57% of all working days lost due to ill health" in the United Kingdom. Some oth...
Read more Strategic Partnership for making proactive mental wellness accessible in New Zealand
16.04.2019In New Zealand, every year one in five will be diagnosed with a mental illness and many more will struggle without seeking help. Mental disorders are the third leading cause of health loss for New Zealanders. As recently discussed at the World Economic Forum by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, this problem needs a more preventative approach.
Wellness Orbit is pleased to a...
Read more High profile mental health panel in Davos
26.03.2019Mental health was a hot topic at the 2019 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting held in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos.
For the first time ever, there was a separate Mental Health Panel featuring very high profile speakers such as the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, and Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
To be honest, such a high-level discussion surprised even ...
Read more Intrapersonal skills are the foundation of work-life integration
07.03.2019“The concept of the work-life balance has always been false and is a long-outdated approach.”
In her latest article, 'Balancing act to integrate work and life', published by UK's leading independent HR publication Personnel Today, Dr. Helena Lass explores how intrapersonal skills enable us to stay fully focused on the actual task at han...
Read more Mental fitness – the source for good life and business
24.01.2019While physical fitness has been high on the list for people and employers alike, we still fail to see that we need a similar proactive approach also for our own mental fitness.
As keeping the mind fit demands quite a similar proactive training approach to going to the gym, we have carefully designed and developed the world’s first mental wellness gym for teams. The only difference is...
Read more Mental wellness got more attention than ever before
15.01.2019How was your year?
We often measure the results of a good or bad year with external factors, based on what we achieved in the physical world: a new car, a new phone, or a new relationship (be it business/work or personal life related), etc.
How often do you stop to reflect on what you achieved in your inner domain?
For example:
Are you more productive and engage...
Read more International Stress Awareness Week
06.11.2018An endless amount of things around you can trigger stress. Like technology we use (freezing of computer or app when you are most busy), unfriendly remarks (in social media), problems at work (toxic workplace or colleague), financial problems, external crises, difficult family relations, etc.
However, those external triggers around us aren't the real cause of stress.
It is foolish to...
Read more Excellent mental wellness boosts productivity
10.10.2018Arianna Huffington has said, "Create a wellbeing culture, a healthy workforce is a productive workforce". This insightful perspective underscores the undeniable truth that only healthy minds have the capacity to perform at their best.
Prioritizing mental wellbeing within workplace culture is not just a gesture of care but a strategic investment in overall productivity and su...
Read more Why Mental Wellness Matters for your team?
01.10.2018Back in 2017, CoFounder Magazine published an article by entrepreneur Marc Dillon entitled, ‘Stress Test’, it raised the question of how to effectively deal with stress as an entrepreneur and employer.
Work-related stress clearly is the main obstacle that doesn't let you get the best results from the team that you lead. This article inspired Dr. Helena Lass to write a ...
Read more Why should your team strive for excellent mental wellness?
06.09.2018Mental wellness is a proactive approach to mental health – it is the discipline that helps to keep all our inner capabilities in good shape.
When people are equipped with effective methods to handle everyday challenges, pressures will not escalate to stress and from there on to burnout and mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, etc.
WHY DOES PREVENTING STRESS MATTER?
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