Wellbeing – It’s often not what you think…
As individuals, when it comes to wellbeing we tend to know what we should be doing more of and what you should be doing less of, and yet do we do it? For most of us the answer is a resounding no.
There are a multitude of magazines, books and TV programmes, which are designed to tell us what to do. By contrast in Timothy Ferris’s book the 4 hour body, he says “there are 5 things which you could do which would make an incredible difference to how you look and how you feel, but if I just told you then you wouldn’t do it, you need to find your own way”.
Some programmes tell participants what they should be doing, eg drink more water, get off the tube one stop early and walk, eat smaller portions etc. For 10% of people this seems to work well, probably the same 10% who would be doing it anyway but for the rest it doesn’t. Our approach is different.
We get approached by a lot of companies asking for support with rolling out programmes, which work for all of their people, not just the 10%. Programmes, which help their people deal with stress and become more resilient, programmes, which lead to a thriving workforce with less absenteeism, higher levels of motivation and engagement and retention.
What Noggin do differently
We run a one-day experiential workshop. We explore wellbeing on a very personal level. We work at a deep psychological level, connecting with the physical compulsions, knee-jerk urges, and general unconscious processes that are the real stuff that drive and change behaviour. We coach participants to realise what wellbeing means to them (which is usually different to what they thought in advance) and then create compelling motivations for them to think and do things differently.
How we do it
We create convincing experiences, which shift attitudes and behaviours and get people doing things differently.
- We create a group dynamic of engagement, participation, playfulness and fun
- We challenge attitudes through discussions, counter examples, story telling and exercises
- We create experiences to orient people with the unconscious processes that are driving their current actions
- We coach new behaviour through innovative exercises
- We provoke unconscious changes so participants come away thinking and behaving differently
What are the benefits?
Each participant comes away with a personal understanding of what wellbeing means for them, and what they need to do to promote it in their lives.
In the sessions we’ve run, the personal realisations and resolutions were completely different to those participants anticipated beforehand. Typically what we think we should be doing, or what we’ve been told to do can be very different to what creates a personal experience of wellbeing.
The programme leads to a shift in behaviour, and because it is so personal, it sticks.
From an organisational perspective, the benefits are a more resilient, thriving workforce with less absenteeism, higher levels of motivation and engagement.
