The Keeping Well BLMK service and Sleep School will host a four-week part series of the common sleep essentials that everyone can practice to getting good sleep naturally.
Part 1: Prioritising sleep - 17 January 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Introduction to the Sleep School’s 4-part series workshop
- Review of common challenges stopping us from getting enough good quality sleep
- Why it’s important to prioritise sleep for our mental, emotional and physical health
- Understanding how much sleep we need to be healthy and how to get it
- Practical advice on how to manage a sleep debt
- Experiential practice of a clinically proven tool to help you fall asleep quicker during difficult times
Part 2: Winding down for sleep - 24 January 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Darkening down and its role in helping us to wind down for sleep
- Review of common challenges preventing us from winding down for sleep
- Exploration of the science and fundamentals of winding down including lifestyle,
regularity, routine and relaxation based activities
- How to create a daily wind down routine habit for better sleep
- Experiential practice of a clinically proven tool to promote a positive mindset before
bed and better sleep during challenging times
- Practical advice and tools on how to manage stress and physical discomfort at bedtime
Part 3: Falling asleep quickly - 31 January 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Flexible thinking and its role in helping us to fall asleep
- Review of common obstacles stopping us from falling asleep quickly
- Understanding of science behind how we fall asleep and what happens during sleep
- Practical advice on how to fall asleep either at the start or middle of the night
- Experiential practice of a clinically proven tool to help you fall asleep quicker during
difficult times
Part 4: Waking up refreshed - 7 February 2024 12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Regular Sleep and its role in helping us to wake up refreshed
- Review of the common challenges causing us to wake up unrefreshed
- Practical advice on how to create a daily wake up routine habit
- Practical advice on how to become a morning person
About Keeping Well BLMK
The Keeping Well BLMK service, in partnership with the local talking therapies services, provides support for a range of emotional difficulties to key workers including NHS staff, staff providing care to others in the community and in residential homes and voluntary sector organisations in the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes area. This also includes teachers plus those working in emergency services (police, ambulance service, fire brigade).
About Sleep School
Sleep School offers science-based and data-driven support for individuals and organisations struggling with sleep. The Sleep School At Work programme includes a digital Sleep Support Platform containing a range of sleep help guides to teach you about and support your sleep.
If you have any questions about the webinar please get in touch at keepingwell.blmk@nhs.net
