Blue Monday: hit single or the most depressing day of the year?
Blue Monday – not the hit single by New Order – but ‘the most depressing day of the year’. Although…
New Year and New Purposes: The Great Resignation
The whole world is going through a period of transformation and change. The digital and technological transformation started before the…
Endings and Beginnings – Owning 2021 and Looking Ahead to 2022
As we close out the year and say goodbye to 2021, we asked our team for their reflections of the…
Our Silent Saviours: Celebrating the Power of Trees this National Tree Week
National Tree Week is the UK’s largest annual tree celebration, running from Saturday 27 November to Sunday 5 December. Across…
Dialogic Practice in Organisational Culture
It is all well and good describing and explaining what dialogic practice is and how it differs from other models…
The Psychology of Change: 3 Ideas for Post Pandemic People Preparation
Following the past 18 months, I am making a very conscious effort to change some of my less useful and…
Reskilling for a Hybrid Workplace
It was only a matter of time before the natural progression of the status quo workplace life coincided with the…
The Psychology of Change
As people we enjoy comfort, routine, and a sense of security, but as soon as this is disrupted, we may…
Working in Asia: Mental wellbeing, stress and resilience through COVID-19
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Nelson Mandela Since March…
Resilience, wellbeing and mental health in the workplace
In 1954, Dr. Brock Chisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), stated that “without mental health there…
Blown Away
Here at Roffey Park Institute we think about resilience a lot. Long before the pandemic struck it was a core…
Managing the emotional side of change
One thing that we all have experienced during this pandemic is change. From changes to our personal lives to our…