Mental Wellness Blog & News

The overall costs of poor mental health at work have again increased in the UK, according to a new report by Deloitte. In 2017, Deloitte UK published research that explored the benefits to employers of providing help for employees with their mental health in the workplace. Now Deloitte has updated its initial analysis to look again at the overall costs of poor mental health to UK empl...

The common problem related to mental health at work such as stress, burnout, or even mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are the result of lacking good mental wellness. Somehow people hope that they can just have mental well-being without doing anything for their own inner wellness. This hope is false as in 2018/19 stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 44% of all work-rel...

While some of us love the festive season, others fear the time off. Why? First, there are those stressful moments and deadlines before the festivities and then there is the time where you need to perform well in front of your family and friends. But this might be difficult if your mind is a mess and you can't let go of work-related thoughts.  Even if you have a stressful job or fe...

The proactive mental wellness approach at work is new and supports good work results for your team. The fact is, we all have mental health. We have it when we feel well and when we feel ill. FACT: We all have to consider workplace mental health Promoting a proactive mental health approach at work enables employers to support good working practices and brings measurable results. In ca...

Today’s workplaces demand success, securing good healthy attitudes towards mental wellness can bring future prosperity financially, productively and improve staff loyalty. Why is this? In modern workplaces, we rely heavily on our inner mental functions to get the work done. Still, up to now, we have been reactive to our mental functioning and act only when stress or even more serious m...

Intrapersonal education is the key to business success and employee engagement. Let’s look at what happens when people fail to have good intrapersonal skills? Our inner processes trigger reactivity and this reactivity is what leads to work-related interpersonal conflicts. As we have noticed ‘toxic’ relations at work environment are getting bigger as employees fail to perf...

We often think that the person with the most professional skills or technical knowledge will get promoted fastest and achieve the best work results. But is this really the case? When we face work-related pressures or come into contact with possible stress triggers it isn't a lack of professional skills that stop us. What truly stops us is:  Our inner reactions to outside ...

The good news is that employee and entrepreneur burnout is preventable. What is burnout? Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) included employee burnout in its 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. Burnout is described in the chapter, "Factors influencing health status or contact with health se...

The current dominating and outdated paradigm is that mental health problems are caused by external factors and those external things and situations that cause stress, burnout, depression, and anxiety, need serious rethought. Most of us consider it totally natural to blame others and outer situations for our mental health issues. By doing so, we neglect our own personal respo...

As you are aware April was Stress Awareness Month in the UK?  What did you change in your life? What did your employees obtain in new skills for preventing stress and burnout? Last year's Health and Safety Executive reported1 that "stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 57% of all working days lost due to ill health" in the United Kingdom. Some oth...

In New Zealand, every year one in five will be diagnosed with a mental illness and many more will struggle without seeking help. Mental disorders are the third leading cause of health loss for New Zealanders. As recently discussed at the World Economic Forum by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, this problem needs a more preventative approach. Wellness Orbit is pleased to a...

Mental health was a hot topic at the 2019 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting held in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. For the first time ever, there was a separate Mental Health Panel featuring very high profile speakers such as the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, and Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand. To be honest, such a high-level discussion surprised even ...

“The concept of the work-life balance has always been false and is a long-outdated approach.” In her latest article, 'Balancing act to integrate work and life', published by UK's leading independent HR publication Personnel Today, Dr. Helena Lass explores how intrapersonal skills enable us to stay fully focused on the actual task at han...

While physical fitness has been high on the list for people and employers alike, we still fail to see that we need a similar proactive approach also for our own mental fitness. As keeping the mind fit demands quite a similar proactive training approach to going to the gym, we have carefully designed and developed the world’s first mental wellness gym for teams. The only difference is...

How was your year?  We often measure results of a good or bad year with external factors, based on what we achieved in the physical world: a new car, a new phone, or a new relationship (be it business/work or personal life related), etc. How often do you stop to reflect on what you achieved in your inner domain? For example: Are you are more productive and engage...