“A Holistic Approach to Stress Management” (How to defeat stress, anxiety and depression).

Guest Speaker: John McConnel

Background and Introduction:

Mental health awareness is rapidly rising up the agenda for many businesses, as well as individuals, as we face a perfect storm of rising prices, supply-chain disruption and labour shortages, not to mention the effects of Brexit, Covid, the war in Ukraine and the climate emergency as well as our own personal challenges. In such circumstances, we need to be very fit inside ourselves in order to ride out the storm. We also need an awareness of others wellbeing.

Workshop Content:

In this afternoon’s workshop we are going to look at the different options available to us, as both human beings and business leaders, to counter the programmed reactions of stress, anxiety and depression.  In particular, we will explore:

• The mind-body connection
• The power of the mind to make or break us
• The hidden impact of trauma
• The importance of reconnecting to our higher self.

Outcomes

• A clearer sense of identity and purpose
• Tips and tools to nurture the body, mind and spirit.

John McConnel Speaker Profile

John McConnel is a retired stress management trainer and coach and a former prison governor and social worker, who has conducted many stress-related seminars and workshops in this country and abroad. Having experienced ‘burnout’ himself in the past, his presentations have a depth of wisdom, insight and understanding, which enable participants to explore more effectively the causes of their own stress and find empowering solutions.

Current, or former clients, include Imperial College, London School of Economics, South Bank University, St Georges University and a variety of local governments and charities.

For thirty years John has worked as a volunteer teacher and facilitator with the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University in London. He has a deep interest in the practical application of spirituality in daily life and he is the author of ‘Breaking Through The Darkness – how to defeat depression, anxiety and stress’. John also edited the highly acclaimed ‘Living Our Values – an inside out approach to change your world for the better’.