Transcript ABOUT WELL BEING - Hampshire County Council

ABOUT
WELL-BEING
Tony Markham
January 20th 2009
What Is Well-being?
Psychological Well-Being
If you spot stress and burnout, it’s already too late
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Corporate Performance
Olympic Medal Winning Speakers Leadership and Performance focus
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Employee Health-Check
On-site health-check kiosk, tests weight, hydration, body fat and pulse
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Personal Trainer – London
Improve the way you look and feel with professional exercise regime
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Pilates & Yoga Retreat
Rejuvenating Break Canary Islands Massage and Fitness, Stunning Scenery
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What is Well-being?
8 areas that research shows are important to long term well-being:
Environment
Activity and Leisure
Health
Food
Community
Family and Friends
Work and Learning
Me
Each focus can help us to make lasting positive changes to our lives by
making a series of small healthy decisions.
What Is Well-being?
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Physiological Vital Signs
• Weight
• Hydration
• BMI (obesity)
• BFI (Body Fat Index)
• Heart Rate
• Blood Pressure
Change 4 Life
Eat less
Exercise more
Live longer
How Are We Designed To Think?
• The cortex – insight, foresight, needs of
others as well as self…
• The limbic brain – emotional, care…
• The amygdala – flight, fight, flock...
STRESS
"Stress can be defined as a state we
experience when there is a mismatch
between perceived demands and
perceived ability to cope…
(this) determines whether we feel no stress,
distressed or eustressed."
Looker & Gregson (1997)
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Many events that create stress in individuals
do not actually take place! They are
perceived events that have been built up
in the mind.
"I have suffered a great many calamities,
most of which never happened.“
Mark Twain
FEAR
F – False
E – Expectations
A – Appearing
R – Real
Optimism
• Consciously choosing optimism over pessimism can
sometimes make the difference between success and
failure.
• Optimism isn’t just about predicting the future with an “it
can be done” attitude, it’s also about present-moment
responses to day-to-day events that shape the fabric of
our lives.
There are three steps you can take towards optimism:
• Recognise that you might tend to think pessimistically
• Remind yourself that YOU are the thinker of your own
thoughts
• Be easy on yourself – most people don’t do things to
harm themselves on purpose
Richard Carlson “What About the Big Stuff?”
Optimism – Making a Difference
• The good news from academic research is that up to
40% of the difference between people’s levels of
wellbeing is under individuals control
• This means that it is more effective to invest your time
and energies in skills and strategies that will improve
your relationships, your outlook on life and allow you to
pursue and develop passionate interests
• Academics talk about learned optimism, productive
coping strategies, psychological engagement, people's
internal focus of control and their emotional intelligence
Learning To Be Optimistic
• Think for a minute how you look at things in life: are you
a glass half-full or a glass half empty person? How
optimistic you are has a large effect on your wellbeing
• For example, optimistic people recover from illnesses
faster; they take better care of themselves; persist in the
face of failure; and even win presidential elections more
often than pessimists
• What is interesting is that optimism can be learned
Self-Confidence
“The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt”.
Bertrand Russell
CONFIDENCE
Gail Lindenfield provides a simple acronym that helps to
build up and maintain your confidence:
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C – Compromise – if reasonable
O – be Open and honest
N – Negotiate – firm and wise
F – Fair – to you as well as others
I – Innovate – don’t wait for others or fate
D – Direct and clear speech
E – Expressive –show feelings when appropriate
N – Non-verbal – use your body and be aware of
hidden messages
C – Chance – take risks!
E – Empower EVERYONE!
"If something ails or bothers you, it is not
the thing itself but the importance you
attach to it
- and that you have the power to change at
any time.“
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
2nd century AD
“Headfirst”
Expectations Of You
Teachers are expected to reach
unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they
accomplish this impossible task.”
Haim Ginot
Job Satisfaction
The way you feel about your job will revolve around Hygiene Factors.
These factors are either ‘satisfiers’ or ‘dissatisfiers’. These are:
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Company policy and admin
Supervision/technical competence of your superiors
Quality of interpersonal relations
Salary
Status
Job security
Quality of personal life
Working conditions
Ask yourself how these things affect you and then how they might be
different for the staff in your school. What can you do to affect these
hygiene factors, especially in the light of remodelling the school workforce.
The Art of Being Positive
• Eileen Mulligan (“life coach”) links the
importance of how you feel and how this
connects to your actions
• She stresses the importance of visualising
what you want to achieve. Your
enthusiasm is infectious and that
enthusiasm can be brought to life by
asking the right questions
• “How” questions concentrate your mind on
improving your performance. “Why” questions
keep you blocked with the problem
• Problems and how you adapt to them are a
useful and necessary part of your development
• Instead of asking “Why is my school not
performing well enough?” it’s more useful to
ask, “How can we work together to improve?”
• Understand the present, do not be burdened by
the past and accept the uncertainty of the
future. In this way, you will be able to adapt to
anything that comes your way!
Back To Our Core Purpose
“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I
am the decisive element in the classroom. It's
my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to
make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be
a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated
and a child humanized or de-humanized.” Haim Ginot
ENJOY YOUR WELL-BEING DAY!