Creating Balance
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The important role flexible working plays in good mental health
Join us for an extra special webinar hosted by the MRS Flex Forum.
Book on today, pop in your diary and join us on 30 September with your refreshments at the ready.
We are so pleased to be joined by:
KEYNOTE: Find the FLEX that fits you
Sinead Jefferies, Founder of Vela
Part-time working, job shares, flexi-hours, occasional working from home. These are some of the ways we thought about flexibility pre-Covid. But now the whole landscape has shifted and the way almost everyone works has changed. So, what does it mean for how we achieve flexibility in our working life today? Does working from home – or having the flexibility to do so more often – make it easier or harder than it was before? In this session Sinéad will talk about what the big shifts in ways of working mean for our flexibility, and how it’s impacting work/life balance, mental wellbeing and our overall happiness at work.
WORKSHOP: I get knocked down, but I get up again
Karen Schofield, an award-winning speaker and experienced Insight and Planning consultant
Everybody has ‘resilience’, or the ability to bounce back from adversity. However, some people are naturally more resilient than others – not because they don’t feel the impact of difficult times, but because they’ve found practical ways to deal with them.
The good news is that we can all train ourselves to be more resilient, with a few simple steps!
Join us for this mini workshop where Karen will explore what resilience is, the factors which can help us increase it, and shares practical tips about how to manage our mental wellbeing amid the challenges which come with flexible and hybrid working.
CHAT: In conversation with...
Inger Christensen, Chair of MRS Flex Forum, Jennifer Perry, MD of Respondi UK and Darren Lewis , Country Manager at Kadence UK
We will round off this FlexForum with an interactive discussion on how we create workplaces with space for flexibility and respect for vulnerability. Kadence have worked hard to step up their mental health awareness and support and Jennifer will be talking to Darren on how they went about turning their mission into workable day to day arrangements - with the added challenge of the pandemic. You will be able to put questions to Darren, Jennifer and Inger live at the session. You are also welcome to submit them in advance by emailing hayley.jelfs@mrs.org.uk
Since moving to France with her family in 2015 she has worked remotely and was proud to be included on the Timewise Power Part Time list 2017. Following the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, she founded a consultancy, Vela, to support individuals and teams to achieve great things, remotely. She worked with organisations to help them understand and rebuild their working practices as well as offering training on key remote working skills.
Sinead leads the People & Talent programme for MRS, collaborating with people from a wide range of backgrounds to focus on supporting the sector on attracting new & returning talent, learning & development, wellbeing and agency culture & leadership.
Under her leadership, respondi recently won the MRS “Best Data Collection (Online)” for a pioneering study of attitudes among refugees in twelve countries across three continents, illustrating that her approach to research not only benefits commercial clients but can be used to tackle and better understand complex issues of importance to society as a whole.
Three years later, she took a few months out to travel solo around Asia, which included (in her opinion) one of the ultimate tests of resilience and mental strength, vipassana meditation, before relocating back to her home city of Manchester, UK.
Karen is a speaker, trainer and insight consultant. She is part of the senior leadership team at Blue Yonder Research, where she leads the qualitative business, specialising in innovative approaches to understand and influence decision making and behaviour.
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