1.Quality housing services make a huge contribution to community resilience.

A combination of higher living costs and lower benefits are putting normal life out of reach for thousands of social housing tenants. Unsurprisingly we’re also seeing an across the board increase in mental health issues. Raising awareness of very simple resilience building steps can make a real difference to how well your tenants approach change and cope with challenges.

 

2.The well-being of tenants is critical to a healthy and economically sound environment.

Lifestyle choices, relationships and personal histories all impact the way we feel about work. Embrace Resilience and Wellbeing modules are packed with easy to absorb information which supports productive working lives and economically viable neighbourhoods.

 

3. Healthy Communities are Sustainable Communities.

Helping people to stop smoking or think about their drug and alcohol use, weight loss, nutrition, exercise and mental health management makes a big contribution to community resilience.

Embrace gift a certain number of Resilience and Wellbeing e-learning modules to nominated communities every month.

Go to https://embraceresilience.com/free-courses-residents/  for more information and use the response form below to tell us about groups near you.

 

4. Improved employment opportunities depend on improved health outcomes.

Support fuller working lives by providing families affected by illness or disability with realistic insights and new coping strategies.

E-learning modules which provide need-to-know info about health conditions and suggest helpful ideas about care and pain management can make a huge difference to people living with illness or caring for family members.

 

5.Encouraging individuals to tap into their talents is a great way to build community engagement.

Embrace and Forever Manchester have co-designed an Asset Based Community Development module focusing on whats right rather than whats wrong in community settings, the course gradually turns beginners into fully fledged ABCD practitioners, with all the skills required to recruit, coordinate and sustain community projects.

The module works equally well for professional or community engagement. The material is easy to follow and highly interactive.

https://youtu.be/jiaTU5ypqzQ

 

 

Happy, and healthy individuals build happy and healthy communities.

Which is why Embrace created the Well-Being Ecosystem.

It goes without saying that home and community have a profound effect, for better or worse, on the way we perform at work.

Which of us hasn’t experienced times when worrying about family has challenged our ability to concentrate on the jobs we get paid to turn up for?

We’ve been privileged to work with organisations who take pride in their commitment to building healthy workplaces and in having a positive social impact on the communities around them. They know that economic well-being lays a great foundation for personal well-being. They also know how important it is to have a healthy and therefore more engaged workforce.

We know that communities need employment opportunities

and individuals need reliable work.

The Wellbeing Ecosystem is our unique way of supporting our partner’s initiatives and saying a big thank you for their contribution to our success story.

Every Family has an impact on the community they live in.

Good mental and physical health can’t be taken for granted, and not everyone can be an expert in staying well, which is why we developed our friendly, helpful and entertaining Resilience and Wellbeing learning modules.

 

Embrace use the profits generated from subscriptions to our health-related modules to provide free courses to young people, community groups and unpaid carers.

 

 

If you’re an employer who would like to get involved in the Wellbeing Ecosystem or a Community Group who would like to access free health and well-being learning for your members,  please go to 

https://embraceresilience.com/the-wellbeing-ecosystem/

Alternatively, call 0161 928 9987 and ask for Michael or Tricia

Let me be clear about one thing, I’m not a person who takes a casual approach to change

I’m a big fan of caution – up to a point.

I do like to think things through. 

Never the less, when it comes to change, advancing age makes me bolder and bolder.

Waiting for fate to give me a shove is not an option. As hard as it is when it’s time to make a change, I chose my own path because I’m the only person who truly knows what will and will not bring me happiness.

If you rely on another person to make you happy they will disappoint you, every time.

Fact.

Taking care of your own emotional well-being is your responsibility and yours alone. So, if you want to be the best person you can be, the best parent, partner, employee and friend you’d better take that particular responsibility very seriously indeed.

Change is inevitable and meeting it head on can be terrifying, but waiting for Lady Luck to shuffle the deck is also pretty nerve wracking and much less reliable in terms of positive outcomes.

So, I offer you …

Six excellent reasons to give caution a punch on the nose and make change work for you too.

1 Real problems rarely get easier with time.

That job that you hate is unlikely to ever become your reason to live.

Whatever it takes to change it is probably going to make more sense than staying put.

40 miserable hours per week is a completely unacceptable waste of life, right?

2 If change matters to you, it matters for a reason 

If you find yourself living with the wrong person, however perfect they may be on paper, wanting to leave doesn’t mean you’re  bad or ungrateful. In fact, wanting to leave just means you recognise the value of getting things as right as you possibly can in this one and only life.

3.Whatever you think about yourself is true.

And that’s ok because if you don’t like it, you can change it.

Believing you’re not strong or brave enough is life limiting.

Some people cling to the security offered by sameness even when it bores them literally to tears.

Others reach through the mist of uncertainty to get what they want.

Yip, they could fall off a cliff, but there are loads of us climbing back up cliffs, it’s pretty life affirming.

4. Embracing change will immeasurably improve your self-esteem.

Even if you think your self-esteem is more or less ok, like an ex-smoker tasting fresh coffee, the difference will be immediately obvious.

5 If not now when?

Perfect opportunities come and go like ether.

You can’t plan for them, you’ll most likely miss them, and anyway, they may arrive too late.

Have faith in your own resilience, work to your own timetable.

Be as kind as you can to others but remember, the people who would hold you back have their own agenda which won’t necessarily reflect your own.

6. Regrets – why have a few? 

When you look back at life from your creaking bath chair, will you be delighted to have stayed in an empty marriage, turned up for that soul-destroying job, and made everyone but yourself feel better?

If you doubt it – the time to embrace your own potential is now.

for more information about coping with change go to

https://embraceresilience.com/embrace-resilience-wellbeing/

and for even more inspiration check out

https://www.goalcast.com/2017/07/17/peter-dinklage-ready-never-comes/

 

 

Reasons to be less than cheerful, embracing the negative emotions that we all try to swerve.

Why even very happy people are sometimes sad

No one can be happy every day because sadness is not an optional extra.

Whilst it’s normal to try to avoid the emotion, and healthy to focus on more positive feelings, buried emotions as you probably know, can snap at your heels when you least expect them. Which is why finding your own special way to manage feelings of sadness is absolutely essential to good mental health. 

Sharing experiences of all kinds really can help a lot. The process of revealing your feelings to another person fosters closeness and helps to develop a feel good sense of mutual trust. With solid friendships in your resilience toolkit, you needn’t worry about loneliness and isolation.

In fact investing time and attention in meaningful friendships is one of the best ways to develop a really effective emotional balance. People who say they can call on more than five close friends, also say they are generally happier than others, according to http://hackspirit.com/7-habits-authentically-happy-people-nothing-positive-thinking-3/ 

Friendships aside, it’s also helpful to have a great visualisation trick handy for when reality brings us face to face with sad or painful memories and experiences.

Try this one for size next time you have a blue day.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height.

Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.

Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth.

Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots.

 In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”- Osho

Go to  https://embraceresilience.com/the-wellbeing-ecosystem/for advice on building resilience and well-being into your workplace with the Wellbeing Ecosystem