As part of the mental health and wellbeing at work resources through Thrive At Night, we have designed a series of specialist interactive training course, delivered for Bristol Nights by Bristol based mental health and wellbeing specialists NAOS (Bristol) CIC. 

Recognising the unique challenges faced by night-time staff, Bristol Nights has collaborated with night time economy businesses, industry experts in mental health and wellbeing, and Bristol City Council’s Public Health team to create Thrive at Night. This joint venture ensures that the programme is tailored to the specific needs of night time workers, offering them the necessary tools and resources to maintain their mental health and wellbeing.

The Thrive at Night workshops encompasses a wide range of topics essential for maintaining a healthy work environment, such as anxiety and stress management, creating mentally healthy workplaces, compassionate leadership, recovering from serious incidents, and supporting employees who may be self-medicating as a reaction to stress. The deep dive session in October is dedicated to noticing and respecting differences, both in your team and in your customer base to help hospitality businesses to drive their diversity and inclusion policies with team members. 

The sessions will feature practical advice and techniques to help yourself and your team members find relevant services in Bristol for longer term support and dedicated sessions for freelancers and seasonal workers at risk of burnout. 

The programme, which has been almost a year in the making, also equips organisations with the necessary tools to develop and implement their own mental health and wellbeing policies.

To book a place on our free training sessions, please visit our Eventbrite

• ‍Introduction to Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/introduction-to-mental-health-wellbeing-at-work-2394579 ‍
• Deep Dive Wellbeing Workshops - https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/thrive-at-night-deep-dive-wellbeing-workshops-2392259

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Venues are spread across the city throughout the year to give team members access no matter which area of Bristol they are from. 

For more information on the groundbreaking Thrive at Night programme, and to download materials, visit www.bristolnights.co.uk/projects/thrive-at-night.

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Introduction to Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

This interactive workshop aims to help Bristol’s night time businesses to create and implement a mental health policy, and to create a plan which takes care of you and your team.

What to expect -

This interactive session guides you through the essential components of a mental health and wellbeing policy, for businesses who operate 6pm-6am

• What do we mean by mental health and wellbeing?
• Creating a Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy
• What does a policy need to contain
• How to communicate to your team
• Becoming a compassionate leader
• Five ways to wellbeing, and how to integrate these into your workplace

By the end of this session participants will

• Be able to identify the topics your mental health and wellbeing policy needs to contain
• Have a draft plan to communicate the policy
• Walk away with tools to monitor and evaluate the policy
• Learn communication techniques for addressing mental health and wellbeing of your teams.

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Participants of this session will receive printed versions of all of the Thrive at Night materials.

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These workshops are free to attend, and are repeated throughout the year.

To book your place, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/introduction-to-mental-health-wellbeing-at-work-2394579

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Deep Dive Wellbeing Workshops

9 topical workshops diving deeper into a wide range of topics essential for maintaining a healthy work environment, practical advice and techniques to help yourself and your team members.

Each of these workshops will only happen once. Places are strictly limited so please book early.

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Recharge & Thrive in the Night Time Economy  

• Discover how to recharge and maintain your wellbeing while working night shifts and irregular shift patterns.
• Weds July 19th
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deep-dive-session-recharge-thrive-in-the-night-time-economy-tickets-656571772847

Thriving in the Community: Living Well in Bristol and the Southwest

• Discover how to embrace a healthy lifestyle as a night worker. Create a personalised toolkit of wellbeing resources to suit you.
• Wednesday, 13 September
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thriving-in-the-community-living-well-in-bristol-and-the-southwest-tickets-656573367617

Deep Dive Session: Noticing and respecting our differences

• A wellbeing workshop on embracing diversity and fostering a culture of respect and inclusion in the Night Time Economy.
• Wednesday, 11 October
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deep-dive-session-noticing-and-respecting-our-differences-tickets-656573818967

Deep Dive Session: Freelancers and burnout/Seasonal working

• This workshop is for freelancers working in entertainment, events, and hospitality who want to boost their wellbeing and productivity
• Wednesday, 8 November
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deep-dive-session-freelancers-and-burnoutseasonal-working-tickets-656574420767

Deep Dive Session: Stress Relief in the Night Time Economy

• Learn and practise effective, hands-on techniques to help you recognise, address and manage stress at work.
• Wednesday, 17 January
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deep-dive-session-stress-relief-in-the-night-time-economy-tickets-656575935297
  

Deep Dive Session: A personal approach to the Five Ways to Wellbeing

• Create your personal roadmap to sustained personal wellbeing. This interactive workshop mixes practical steps with self discovery
• Wednesday, 7 February
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deep-dive-session-a-personal-approach-to-the-five-ways-to-wellbeing-tickets-656577209107

Team building, communication and collective decision-making

• Looking to boost teamwork and communication within your nightlife crew? A hands-on, engaging approach to improving team dynamics
• Wednesday, 6 March
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/team-building-communication-and-collective-decision-making-tickets-656577469887

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These workshops are free to attend, but spaces are limited. Early booking advised.

To book your place, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/thrive-at-night-deep-dive-wellbeing-workshops-2392259

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