LANCASHIRE CARE'S FIVE WAYS TO WELLBEING [PDF]

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LANCASHIRE CARE’S FIVE WAYS TO WELLBEING

FIVE WAYS TO WELLBEING

CONNECT

BE ACTIVE

NOTICE

KEEP LEARNING

GIVE

GET IN TOUCH Evidence suggests that by following five simple steps, we can all improve our health and wellbeing. Our day to day lives, at home and at work can be stressful and it is sometimes difficult or easy to forget to put our own needs first and take

some time out to just look after ourselves and our own wellbeing as well as others. As an organisation it matters to us that our staff are well, physically and mentally and feel valued and supported in every aspect of their

work, by every single member of staff. The integrity of our organisation relies on the fact that we are all aligned as a team, and that we look after each other, which ensures that Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust is a great place to work.

Use the ideas and tools outlined in these cards to help improve your wellbeing and that of those around you. If you want to find out more about our wellbeing initiatives in the trust, visit:

http://trustnet/staff/ HealthandWellbeing/Pages/home.aspx

CONNECT Connecting and listening to people, their perspectives and ideas makes them feel valued. Recognition of people and their contributions leads to motivation and empowerment which creates a positive mindset and strong sense of purpose and belonging, which links to better wellbeing. Co-design encourages the development of relationships and connection of people, and enables them to share challenges, whether in work environment or at home, without feeling the need to face the burden of responsibility alone, therefore creating a strong support network.

Not only that but opening up the conversation will generate much wider input, which will therefore lead to more diverse ideas and more effective solutions. This is particularly effective within a work capacity when involving users into your discussions.

The 5 I’s Model The 5 steps to co-designing What is going on?

What can we learn from others?

What do others think?

1. Identify Discovery leads to learning

3. Inspire Listening leads to opportunity

5. Iterate Evolution leads to reality

Why is this happening?

How can we solve this?

2. Insight Understanding leads to empathy

4. Ideate Ideas lead to experiments

Remember…

Be curious and creative with your ideas

Avoid talking over others

Value everyone’s contribution and build on it

BE ACTIVE Keeping your mind and body active is crucial to creating better personal wellbeing. Physical fitness, (such as walking or exercising) offers many benefits to personal wellbeing, but it is also important to take time to be more actively aware of your own thoughts and feelings to help manage stress levels. A simple and well evidenced way of doing this is through breathing exercises – which offer many benefits, such as increased energy levels, improved blood flow and detoxifying the body.

4-7-8 Breath The 4-7-8 Breath (also known as the Relaxing Breath) created by Dr Weil, is the perfect, portable stress

antidote. It takes very little time, requires no equipment and can be done almost anywhere at any time.

How it works Although you can do the exercise in any position, ideally sit with your back straight while learning the exercise. Place the tip of your tongue against the ridge of tissue just behind your upper front teeth and keep it there through the entire exercise. You will be exhaling through your mouth around your tongue; try pursing your lips slightly if this seems awkward. 1. Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound. 2. Close your mouth and inhale quietly through your nose to a mental count of four. 3. Hold your breath for a count of seven.

4. Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound to a count of eight. This is one breath. 5. Now inhale again and repeat the cycle three more times for a total of four breaths.

Remember • Exhalation takes twice as long as inhalation. • When first trying this exercise, do not carry out more than 4 rounds.

• With practice you can slow it all down and get used to inhaling and exhaling more and more deeply.

• Please do not try the exercise while operating heavy machinery!

NOTICE Mindfulness can be described as simply being more aware of the present moment, including your thoughts and feelings, your body and the world around you. It can positively change the way you feel about life and how you approach challenges. A common human experience we all go through, is blaming how we feel on the actions of others or external conditions, such as the weather, or a grumpy coworker. In other words, we allow our emotional state to be dictated to by people or actions that are beyond our control or responsibility. The Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) ‘Cause and Effect’ model challenges these beliefs, by calling you to examine more closely how you interpret and deal with external factors. This helps you to ground

yourself into a more resourceful state and offer personal wellbeing to help you deal with situations, by not allowing factors beyond your control effect your mood or emotions. When you’re at ‘Effect’, you’re likely to blame other people or situations, however, when you are in ‘Cause’, you are able to take responsibility and accept you have a choice about who you are, what you do and how you react to other people, their emotions and the events around you.

Cause & Effect Model

* Cause & Effect Meta Model by John Grinder and Richard Bandler

How does Cause and Effect help with wellbeing? The ‘Cause and Effect’ model, is a simple tool which can help you protect your emotional state and create better wellbeing for both you and those around you. Are you and your team more in ‘Cause’ or more in ‘Effect’? Teams can often hit a brick wall when different personalities clash or a problem arises, and it can

be easy to pass the blame for not making progress or implementing change, which in turn can cause you and the team emotional stress. The interesting thing you need to remember is that you always have a choice, no matter the situation. You can always take steps to change, and you can choose how you allow someone else’s actions effect your emotional state.

KEEP LEARNING Learning gives you a sense of achievement and a new confidence which can ultimately increase your wellbeing, and if we can better understand and learn from ourselves, then we are better equipped to support others.

Perception is projection Perception is projection is a great awareness tool– awareness of yourself, of others and of the world around you developed by Carl Jung, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst. Practising positive projections can result in a happy productive day, and gives you the control to turn around those days you just want to end. Perception is

projection works on the basis that you’re not so much perceiving the external world as you are projecting what you carry inside out onto the world around you. This means that the world is a reflection of your inner thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs - the outer world is a reflection of what’s going on inside.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.

Next time you are having one of those days, when it feels like everything is against you, why not take five minutes, look in the mirror and ask yourself:

Stephen R. Covey

• How am I feeling? • What is going on here? • What is there here that I can learn and grow from? Once you understand the learnings, the perception will change.

How does this help with wellbeing? When we encounter a projection, we can become conscious of it and deal with it. The learnings from this awareness can then help us change our own behaviour and that of others. It empowers us to take responsibility for our own thoughts and

projections, showing us that it is in our power to think differently and maintain a positive state and therefore promotes positivity in those around you. Practising positive projections can result in a happy productive day, and gives you control to turn around a bad day.

GIVE Giving feedback to colleagues is a crucial part of being a team and creating a culture of learning and ongoing improvement. When offering feedback, it can sometimes be easy to focus on what didn’t go well rather than what did and how this can be built upon.

Appreciative Inquiry Using Appreciative Inquiry helps rethink your approach to giving feedback, by asking you to focus on strengths, achievements and successes –looking at what is already working, rather than what isn’t. Focussing on these elements helps foster relationships, build trust and develop stronger connections through collaborative working. The approach is not about ignoring failures, but it helps individuals to collectively move themselves into a more positive and therefore more creative frame of mind to address challenges and develop imaginative solutions for improvement.

How can this be applied?

Problem Solving vs. Appreciative Inquiry Approach Problem-solving

Appreciative Inquiry

• What to fix

• What to grow

• Thinks in terms of: problem, symptoms, causes, solutions, action plan, intervention and all too often blame

• Thinks in terms of: good, better, possible

• Breaks things into pieces, leading to fragmented responses

• AI keeps the big picture in view, focusing on an ideal and how its roots lie in what is already working

• Slow pace of change – requiring a lot of positive emotion to make real change

• Quickly creates a new dynamic – with people united around a shared vision of the future

• Assumes an organisation is made up of a series of problems to be overcome, creating a deficit culture

• Assumes an organisation is a source of limitless capacity and imagination, creating an appreciative culture

Developed by David Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University.

How does Appreciative Inquiry help with wellbeing? Appreciative Inquiry encourages trust, helps to reduce defensiveness and therefore generally improves and strengthens relationships as a result. This promotes a positive organisational culture and also encourages innovation, without fear of failure, resulting it better wellbeing and performance across the organisation.