Create a wellbeing plan for 2023
Set yourself and your people up for success in 2023 with these wellbeing plan tips from Groov VP Clinical Dr Fiona Crichton.
Highlights from our customer-exclusive new year webinar.
Groov customers and their people are getting their wellbeing goals off to a smashing start thanks to Dr Fiona’s recent webinar, ‘Create a wellbeing plan for 2023’.
Dr Fiona walked attendees through:
The science of mental wellbeing
Ways to spend less time in fight or flight
How to build a personalised wellbeing plan
Strategies for building resilience in tough times
The full webinar recording is exclusive to Groov customers and their people in the Groov app, but check out some of Dr Fiona’s top tips below!
Start by asking yourself these 7 questions
Before you start trying to build your wellbeing plan, it’s important to reflect on where you’re at and where you want to go.
The below seven questions will help shape your plan.
What matters most to you right now?
What are your interests/strengths?
What are you doing already?
Where are the gaps?
What’s one thing you want to focus on first?
What action will you commit to?
How likely are you to do it?
Keep these questions up your sleeve for every time you’re keen to set a new wellbeing goal.
Focus on small daily actions
Research shows if you do small daily things that fill your tank, you’re more likely to flourish than languish. Small, daily wellbeing actions also help protect against mental ill health.
Groov brings daily actions to life through our 6 Pillars of Wellbeing: Chill, Do, Connect, Move, Celebrate, and Enjoy. Doing at least one thing every day from each of these 6 Pillars will help you thrive.
“Why do we follow the 6 Pillars? Because that’s where the research shows us that if we are doing small things in those 6 Pillars, that is protective and helps us feel good and function well,” says Dr Fiona.
>> Request a demo to learn how the Groov 6 Pillars could support your people
Brush up on the science of wellbeing
Most of us know wellbeing is important, but how many of us really know why? This is where Groov comes in. Our product suite explains the brain science of wellbeing in an engaging way, and inspires you and your people to take daily actions to feel good and function well.
“Wellbeing is literally for everybody,” says Dr Fiona. “External things impact how we feel, so we need to have strategies for when things are a bit rough in our lives to make sure that we can top up.”
Part of creating a wellbeing plan is identifying strategies that will help you top up the neurotransmitters that get depleted under stress.
“We know we get depleted in dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins when we’re constantly running to things or constantly under pressure,” explains Dr Fiona.
For example, here are some ways you could top up dopamine:
When you learn at work
Reaching new goals
Noticing your progress
Understanding the brain science behind wellbeing is often exactly the motivation people need to make small tweaks to their life – for the better.
>> Get to know Groov to learn more about the science of wellbeing