Reflection for awareness

It is evident some people are able to reflect on the events and happenings of the day, and extract the learning. It is also evident in some, the reflection may result in more time spent in what may not have worked! This activity helps guide the way to reflect with the purpose of growing and[…]read more

Getting to balance

Sometimes we take the ‘complex’ path to something can be quite simple. For example, there are simple things in the day to day, to help us get back in balance. This activity highlights something so simple, it might lead to a ‘smile’ when you tackle it! Getting to balance

Hospitality. What is it to you?

Hospitality is a great term to use when looking to build wellbeing and human connection environments. Hospitality has some shared understandings across cultures which can be a great reminder of some basic fundaments around sharing this planet. This activity as well as help define your own concept, may open the door to creating new ways[…]read more

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Creating a personal Future Vision

This activity is designed to help shape a future personal vision. Often we set future experiences based on what may be expected of us. This activity helps to shape future visions to also align with what is important to you. We show 2 ways of creating that ‘something’ for the future. One is based on[…]read more

Keep Moving Lifestyle (KML) Menu 1 Introduction

Keep Moving Lifestyle (KML) Keep Moving Lifestyle brings ideas and strategies for integrating common exercises and movements into your USUAL daily life. With 16 waking hours available to you, you will be amazed at how you can achieve physical benefits every day in every way. For your health, vitality and motivation! Each lesson covers a[…]read more

Live your Vision – the action

Action With buckets in place, the reality is you are on your way to creating the your vision. You are now in the process. You now have the  ‘how’ with your 4 P buckets open and filling. You are ACTIONING the vision. You know your why – the reason it is important to you. You have[…]read more

Create your Vision – the Vision

Personal Vision  After getting to your why, you would have reached some of your underpinning values. Those values are usually the deeper and more significant reasons for deciding on a particular direction. You have allowed to let surface, a little more about you, and remind yourself of something you may not have been addressing for[…]read more

Related links and more

    Here’s where we post links, articles, books and videos that have relevance to the process we have been through to establish the wellbeing platform that takes shape as the ‘workplace body’.

C Module 7: Communication & clarity.

  COMMUNICATION: ‘Listen / check’ ‘Good communication is the gap between confusion and clarity.’ Nat Turner Communication is a network of pathways that combine to serve a specific purpose and intention. Some of those pathways occur naturally (or with little conscious control over: e.g. the communication between our cells, our bodily functions and our body[…]read more

I Module 4: Intention.

  INTENTION – ‘My reason?’ ‘If you use the inner path, following your truth and clarity as your compass points, the outer world cannot help but respond to your intention.’Deepak Chopra  With demands arriving from many directions, it is no wonder it can feel overwhelming with where to start and what to give energy to.[…]read more

Listening in different ways

We know how important it is to listen and to be listened to. The truth is, it is one of the most underestimated skills around. We have intention to listen well. We believe we do listen well. We’re here to say, that there is always, always ways of improving our listening. And there is like[…]read more

Negatives and reframes

We develop patterns over our lifetime: patterns of thinking, seeing, doing, engaging, behaving, speaking. With our important ‘eye’ as the ‘critic’ (important in our evolution and development to survive the ‘attack’), we may have an over developed pattern for seeing the negative. This activity helps to reframe, open up the mind to new ways of[…]read more

Get to know your SOE self

Have you ever noticed that when you feel good you are able to do good? And contrary to this, when you don’t feel good or haven’t had your own needs met, your actions and approaches affect you, others and often the situation or outcome. For that reason, we use the term the SOE self as[…]read more

Creating a group Wellbeing Vision

This activity provides a few steps to begin creating a group wellbeing vision. It’s purpose is to find the common vision which is a great starting point to get the whole team ‘on board’ and moving in the same direction. A positive way to unite the team. Download the PDF to begin the activity. 1.[…]read more

Your Vision – summary & tools

We thought we’d share some tools and visuals to support you with moving from the things that may have stopped you in the past, and keep you moving towards what you vision for your future. Take a moment to see what resonates with you and is helpful to draw upon, along your path to moving[…]read more

Create your Vision – the possibilities

With the lid to the ‘boxes’ open, the mindset opens.   When you decide to open the lid, the very things you identified as obstacles to achieving the your vision, becomes the pathway. You are now looking for ‘how’. We say that with the lid off, it has now become an open bucket. The great[…]read more

Create your Vision -respect the problem

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PATIENCE links and more

Here’s where we will add helpful links, research articles, book titles that relate to the content from the PATIENCE program.  

N Module 6: Nonsense or not.

  NONSENSE – ‘Invest where?’ ‘Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against a solid reality, usually on the battle field.’George Orwel As humans we are connected to our habits, patterns and the way we have come to view and experience life. It often appears as an automated response. Often there is little time[…]read more

T Module 3: Thoughts.

  THOUGHTS: ‘Follow or not’  ‘Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.’ Peter McWilliams It is estimated that we have anywhere from 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day, many of which we are unaware of their presence. Research suggests, as many as 98 percent[…]read more

Escape and settle

Having quick access to what bring you instant calm, relief, balance, homeostasis, Whatever the sensation you are seeking to ‘feel better!’ An important step in the area of resilience is ‘knowing yourself’. It is not about what works for others, what others say you should do, what you think you should. It is what does[…]read more

Strengths at work

There is a lot of evidence and personal suggestion that when we work with our strengths it brings a better feel to the work we do. While we are resourced with the full range of strengths and capabilities, there is no doubt, some of our strengths play out more in a day than others. That[…]read more

Peel the onion – To your why.

Sometimes we head straight to finding a solution to what we see as a problem. We want it fixed. Often there is an important reason why we want something fixed. Quick solutions may address a small part of the issue, however the underpinning cause of our discomfort may not be addressed. When we take a[…]read more

Keep Moving Lifestyle (KML) Menu 2 – Introduction

11Keep Moving Lifestyle (KML) Keep Moving Lifestyle brings ideas and strategies for integrating common exercises and movements into your USUAL daily life. With 16 waking hours available to you, you will be amazed at how you can achieve physical benefits every day in every way. For your health, vitality and motivation! Each lesson covers a[…]read more

Live and track your Vision – make things visible

While you are conscious of it, you are doing something. So easily the small yet significant things, pass by. And as they do, they are easily lost. The way to secure the worth of these small things, is to make them more visible. Expand them in some way. Making things visible is the pathway to the[…]read more

Create your Vision – the obstacles

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Create your Vision – introduction

Welcome to the Vision Creation approach The Vision Creation approach is designed to nurture you – your whole self as you engage life. To create the vision that fulfil the things that are really important and valuable to you. We recognise the complexity that exists with striving for anything in the future whether it is[…]read more

E Module 8: Escape.

  ESCAPE – ‘Take a break’ ‘A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.’ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi When you’re feeling ‘out of sorts’ and you can’t explain or decipher what you need to change things up, ‘escaping’ by doing something you know brings instant calm and relief can be helpful[…]read more

E Module 5: Emotions.

  EMOTIONS: BREATHE ‘The reason we suffer from our emotion is not because of the emotion itself, but because of the resistance to that emotion.’ Teal Swan. When emotions (which are often described as energy in motion) are intense, they exert great force. Often the force is reflected in the nature of the motion /[…]read more

A Module 2: Attention.

  ATTENTION – ‘Focus elsewhere’ ‘Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.’ ― Susan Sontag In any one moment, there are an abundant of things happening at once, all of which are vying for your attention. Thoughts, beliefs, intentions created within your mind, sensations felt in your body, feelings[…]read more