Self-care

Calm website

Take a deep breath. Enjoy this curation of meditations, sleep stories, music and more, all hand-picked to support your mental and emotional wellness through this time.

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Free online courses from 'Living Life'

Online courses covering low mood, stress and resiliency. Work out why you feel as you do, how to tackle problems, build confidence, get going again, feel happier, stay calm, tackle upsetting thinking and more.

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Video by Oakwood Training Service

I'm a Mental Health First-Aider; how do I look after myself at this time?

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Thriving with Nature - a guide for everyone.

Making the most of the UK's natural spaces for our mental health and wellbeing.

Health Assured

This website is a dedicated online resource designed to support your health and wellbeing. The portal provides confidential access to wellbeing fact sheets, videos, self-help programmes, interactive tools and educational resources to help with life’s challenges.

Warming up and warming down: self-compassion in Times of Threat

Dr Chris Irons, a clinical psychologist and specialist in Compassion Focused Therapy, explains why it is as important for therapists to practice self-compassion before and after their client sessions as it is for athletes to warm up and warm down.

Organisational culture/values/feeling/relationships/wellbeing in and after the pandemic

Karen Treisman discussing the importance of how organisations make people feel during this time; and how the values of trauma-informed practice need to be embedded and modelled; and our staff wellbeing needs to be at the forefront.

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Sleep, nighttime difficulties and nightmares

A video by Dr Karen Treisman discussing some of the reasons why people might be either/or struggling to fall asleep, having disturbed or change sleep, and/or feeling exhausted and tired more than usual in the context of the pandemic.

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