Where To Get Help With Your Wellbeing

Education leaders feel immense stress, and it can have serious impacts on headteacher wellbeing. Here's why that matters and what to do to improve your wellbeing.    

The Education Support's 2023 Teacher Wellbeing Index has, once again, highlighted some of the key challenges facing education staff, but what can leaders do to help prevent workplace stress and improve the wellbeing of those they lead?

This guide explores how you can achieve excellence in people through the seven stages of the employee lifecycle.

Working in education and perfectionism often go together, but striving to be flawless can hurt teacher wellbeing. Check out our tips to manage your inner perfectionist.

Discover some of the key steps you can take to better protect and improve your own wellbeing in this useful guide.

Compassionate leadership is an essential component in creating the organisational culture for positive staff wellbeing. Find out more in our complete guide to compassionate leadership.

Take a look at our helpful guide containing tips, ideas, and resources for managing your finances.

Watch the video to explore the impacts that a lack of sleep can have on your physical and mental wellbeing.

Workplace relationships have an immeasurable impact on wellbeing. Learn more about repairing old relationships and building new ones today.

Discover the importance of setting boundaries for school staff, including the types pf boundaries, key principles, and how to sustain healthy workplace boundaries.

Discover how to create the foundations for excellent wellbeing in this useful guide.

Education staff are often with others all day, but loneliness still impacts teacher wellbeing. Learn more about how loneliness impacts you and what you can do to combat it

Discover how you can use Mental Health Awareness week to kick-start conversation around mental health and highlight the importance of staff wellbeing.

Take this course to explore the importance of communicating and managing expectations for staff wellbeing, which covers 3 of the 12 leadership competencies proven to prevent and reduce staff stress.

Take this course to explore the importance of being a respectful and responsible leader who manages their emotions and leads with integrity. This course covers 3 of the 12 leadership competencies proven to prevent and reduce staff stress.

Compassion fatigue in education can lead to poor education staff wellbeing and job burnout. Learn how to recognise and combat it with this useful guide.

Read this useful guide to deepen your understanding of why boundaries for education leaders are vital and how establishing boundaries can help combat issues within schools.

Discover how you can help your staff avoid burnout in this helpful guide.

Although the terms are often interchanged poor mental health is not the same as having a mental illness. Watch this video to explore what mental illness actually is and how it differs from mental health.

It can be difficult to know how to start a conversation with a colleague or someone you manage about their mental health. Watch this video to discover 10 useful tips to help.

Watch the video to explore when a low mood may be a normal response life stressors and discover the evolutionary purpose of low moods.

Anxiety can both be a normal reaction to the stressors of day-to-day life, or a sign of a mental health illness. Watch this video to learn how to tell when anxiety is 'normal'.

What exactly is mental health and how does it differ from mental illness? Watch this video to find out.

Listening is a key skill for leading in an empathic way which supports employee wellbeing but there are many things that get in the way of listening effectively. Explore 7 of them in this video.

Recent UK-wide statistics on the wellbeing of school staff indicate the importance of feeling appreciated and supported in the workplace. Watch this video to discover why creating a culture of appreciation is important.

Watch this video to discover why sleep is so essential for positive mental and physical health.

Discover some of the most common sleep problems in this useful video.

Discover some top tips for improving sleep in this helpful video.

Watch this video to explore the Interest Based Rational Approach to "principled negotiation" which encourages parties to use joint problem solving techniques, rather than positional bargaining.

Discover what burnout is and how to avoid it in this useful guide.

Saying no can be difficult! Read this useful guide to discover the importance of saying no and learn how to say no confidently and professionally.

Managing parents who are difficult or aggressive is stressful for anyone working in education. Use these tips to improve family relationships and protect teacher wellbeing.

Relaxation is crucial for positive mental health but how can it be achieved amidst immense pressure? Watch this video to hear 5 top tips.

This compassionately written guide explores the sensitive topic of suicide and suicidal feelings.

Secondary trauma has a profound impact on today's schools. Learn more about the symptoms of secondary trauma in education staff and strategies to cope with it.

Do you struggle with sleep? This guide will help you understand why sleep is important, the common causes of sleep disturbances, and how to improve your sleep quality.

Discover the powerful connection between physical activity and education staff wellbeing in this useful guide.

Take this course to explore how to improve your personal effectiveness, including enhancing productivity, managing energy, and managing your workload.

Take this free course to explore strategies for managing your workload, including setting priorities and dealing with specific issues and distractions.