Workplace Wellbeing Talk Series
Supporting wellbeing at work does not always require long programmes or significant time away from day-to-day responsibilities. Often, meaningful change begins with small, focused learning moments that introduce practical tools people can use immediately.
The mindingu Workplace Wellbeing Talk Series offers 50-minute, evidence-informed sessions designed to fit into busy workplaces across Bunbury and the South West. Each session stands alone while also contributing to deeper skill development when delivered as a sequence.
These talks are grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles and self-compassion, offering practical skills rather than motivational uplift.
The workplace wellbeing talk series is chosen by organisations that want high-impact learning with minimal time commitment, while still being grounded in a coherent, evidence-based approach.
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The talk series supports workplaces to:
Introduce wellbeing and resilience in a low-barrier, accessible way
Equip employees with practical tools they can apply straight away
Build awareness around stress, habits, and patterns at work
Create a shared language around wellbeing and psychological health
Maintain momentum between larger wellbeing initiatives
Each session is designed to deliver value on its own, while also contributing to longer-term skill development when multiple talks are attended
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This option is ideal for organisations that:
Have limited time for training
Prefer short learning sessions that fit into existing schedules
Are starting or refreshing their wellbeing approach
Want flexibility without committing to longer courses upfront
It works particularly well for lunch-and-learns, wellbeing calendars, team development days, or organisation-wide initiatives.
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The series includes 15 standalone talks, each designed to:
Focus on a specific wellbeing skill or workplace topic
Have clear objectives and outcomes
Provide practical tools participants can use immediately
For delivery options, please enquire here
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Talks draw on Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) and self-compassion and include topics such as:
Work Life Balance Redefined
Stress Management
Resilience
Self-compassion
Mindfulness and Autopilot
Mindfulness for the Workplace
Self Care
Values
Values Based Goal Setting
Stepping Back from Thoughts
Dropping the Struggle with Emotions
Mindfulness in Daily Life
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From each talk, participants gain:
Clear, practical strategies they can apply immediately
Greater awareness of unhelpful habits or stress patterns
Increased confidence in managing everyday workplace challenges
Language and concepts that support healthier conversations at work
Session resources: Handouts for every talk, with some sessions offering guided audio practices to apply skills immediately at work.
Across multiple talks, participants progressively develop a deeper, more integrated skill set that supports wellbeing and resilience over time.
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Talk series offer flexible, bite-sized learning
Curated modular talks allow targeted customisation
Mindfulness courses build sustained awareness and attention
Resilience courses develop deeper psychological flexibility
Many organisations use the talk series as a starting point, a complement to courses, or an ongoing wellbeing offering.
Topics Available in the Series
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Session 1: Autopilot & Mindfulness
Most of us spend much of our workday on autopilot — reacting without noticing what’s happening or why. In this interactive session, we’ll explore autopilot including its upsides and downsides, introduce how to “do” mindfulness through experiential practices. Walk away with skills to help you be more mindful in your day and recognising when you are in autopilot.
What we cover:
About Autopilot
Benefits/disadvantages of Autopilot
Introduction to Mindfulness
Mini Mindfulness Practices
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Session 2: A Mindful Approach to Stress
Many of us experience stress when we’re faced with pressure, challenge, or change in work and everyday life. How we respond to stress can make a real difference in how it affects us. In this session, we’ll introduce the basics of how stress works and explore practical exercises and techniques to help you respond more effectively when it shows up.
What we cover:
About Stress
Exploring the Relaxation Response
Mini Relaxation Practices
Longer Guided Relaxation Practice
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Session 3: Mindfulness in Daily Life
Move mindfulness from theory to practice. We use activities to highlight key mindfulness skills. Learn how to turn daily activities into simple mindfulness practices as well as prompts and tips on how to integrate mindfulness into your day. Interactive and engaging, this talk shows mindfulness in action.
What we cover:
Activities to demonstrate key mindfulness skills
How to be mindful in daily life
Tips on how to integrate mindfulness into your life
Mini Mindfulness practices
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Session 4: Stepping Back from Thoughts
Our minds are rarely quiet—they’re often analysing, predicting, and planning. In this session, we’ll explore how thinking patterns influence our emotions, decisions, and behaviour, and how mindfulness can help us create space from our thoughts so we can respond with more awareness and choice.
What we cover:
About the nature of our thinking minds
Stepping back from thoughts techniques
Longer Guided Stepping back from Thoughts Practice
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Session 5: Self Compassion
Self-compassion is often underestimated, dismissed as “fluffy,” yet it’s a powerful ally for resilience and sustainable wellbeing. In this interactive session, we define self-compassion, explore its key components, and practise bringing it into everyday life.
What we cover:
What is Self-Compassion?
Why does it matter?
Introduction of the key elements of Self-Compassion
How to bring it into your daily life through simple practical tools
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Session 6: Values
Explore why values can be powerful motivators and helpful in navigating difficult challenges.
Discover some of your personal values, and learn practical ways to bring them into your daily life.
What we cover:
What are Values and why are they important?
Values as Tools for Resilience, Stress Management and Motivation
Identifying some of your personal Values
How to bring a personal value into your day in a meaningful way
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Session 7: A Mindful Approach to the Emotions
Many of us try to manage, suppress, or “fix” our emotions — especially in the workplace. But often, the more we struggle with how we feel, the more intense and persistent those emotions can become. In this session, we explore a different approach so that you can respond more effectively to emotions at work and beyond.
What we cover:
How to notice emotions more clearly as they arise
How to pause rather than react automatically
Mini techniques to use throughout your day to support this
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Session 8: A Mindful Approach to Self Care
Self-care is often misunderstood as spa days or other special activities — but it’s really about the small, consistent actions that support you day to day. In this interactive session, we explore what effective self-care looks like, why it matters, and practical ways to make it realistic and manageable, and to create a personal self-care plan anchored in your values.
What we cover:
What is Self-Care and why is it important?
How to bring Self-Care into your day
Creating your own values based Self-Care plan
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Session 9: Mindfulness for the Workplace
In this session, you’ll be guided through short, practical mindfulness exercises designed to fit into your workday. You’ll learn how to strengthen focus, develop more flexible attention, and approach communication and everyday transitions with greater awareness. We’ll also explore multitasking versus single-tasking as a way of understanding attention in modern work, helping you respond with greater clarity and intention.
What we cover:
The benefits of mindfulness at work and why it matters to you
Simple mindfulness practices for focus, communication, and transitions
Multitasking versus single-tasking and how each affects attention and focus
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Session 10: Values Based Goal Setting
Goal setting but in a values based way which can powerfully transform both work and life. We explore motivation, learn to frame goals positively, set SMART goals aligned with what matters most, and examine potential barriers. Using an exciting new tool introduced for the first time in this series, you’ll leave with practical strategies to create meaningful, actionable goals that truly support thriving.
What we cover:
SMART goals setting the ACT way
Motivation and willpower
Creating your own personalised, meaningful, SMART goal
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Session 11: Work Life Balance Redefined
“Work–life balance” often feels like an impossible standard, something to achieve perfectly in a world that keeps demanding more. In this session, we reframe it as something more realistic and meaningful. You’ll explore how mindfulness and values can support conscious choices, greater presence, and a stronger sense of alignment across the different areas of your life.
What we cover:
Rethinking work–life balance in everyday life
Exploring alignment between your values and actions across life domains
Choosing a value and taking a small, practical action, with opportunities to extend over time
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Session 12: Resilience
In this session, we bring together key skills to help you build a practical, sustainable approach to resilience. Using ACT-based tools, stress management strategies, and self-compassion, you’ll learn how to navigate pressure with greater clarity, flexibility, and confidence. You will also create your personal map to navigate a current challenge with greater confidence and clarity.
What we cover:
What is Resilience?
ACT skills for Resilience
Other helper skills for Resilience
Guidance to create you own personalised resilience “map” for a current difficulty
Support your team’s wellbeing in a practical way
The Workplace Wellbeing Talk Series is designed to open meaningful conversations about mental health, resilience and wellbeing at work.
If you’d like to explore bringing this series to your organisation, we’d be happy to discuss the options with you.
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