Week 6 – WAVE: Ride the Emotion – Building your Resilience   FACT: Large population-based research studies have indicated that the practice of mindfulness is strongly correlated with wellbeing and perceived health. Studies have also shown that rumination and worry contribute to mental...

Week 7 – Walking Your Way to Happiness – Building Your Resilience   “When we spend most of our time at work or thinking about it even when we're not physically in the workspace, our levels of cortisol - the stress hormone – are raised....

Week 8 - The Burn Book – Building Your Resilience Welcome to Week 8!   This exercise was brought to our team by our Client Development Manager, Zoe. If, like Zoe, you’ve seen the teenage Comedy film, Mean Girls 100 times, then you’ll...

Week 9 – Healthy Eating for High Performance   Mental health is more than just the way we think. It’s also what we eat, how we move, how we sleep, how we socialise and how we live.  What may seem simple but...

Week 10 – Raising your Happiness Levels for High Performance   Scientists once thought happiness was almost completely hereditary (dictated by a genetically determined standpoint). But thankfully, they've since discovered that in fact we have far more control over our emotional well-being...

Week 11 – Setting Personal Boundaries   “Setting boundaries and sticking to them is a fundamental part of human existence. How do you feel when someone you don't know (or have only just met) stands too close to you, talking right into...

  At Block Recruit, we recently read a very interesting article by Mark Rodrigues, about the importance of employee well-being in the workplace. His article highlights how life of today typically means a more sedentary lifestyle, less sleep and more stress...