Mind Nourishing

Mind Nourishing inspires and educates workforces to use the power of nutrition and the gut- brain connection to reduce the risk of mental health related sickness and presenteeism in professional service organisations.

Within professional services organisations, staff often face unique pressures that put their wellbeing at risk. High workloads and long hours driven by client deadlines can quickly increase the risk of stress and burnout across teams, especially in those in sectors like law and finance. In fact, according to a 2022 survey by Legatics (in partnership with YouGov), 92% of UK lawyers have experienced workplace stress or burnout, with approximately 29% experiencing it daily ( Legalfutures ). If this issue isn’t addressed it can impact the individuals risk of sickness and at an organisational level, impact productivity and profit.

Whilst workload is inevitably high within this sector, high performing organisations are seeking support that enables their workforce to:

• Take responsibility for their own wellbeing by offering the key education so that employees know how to fuel themselves properly to improve resilience and productivity
• Recognise limiting beliefs and address issues around their mindset so that they can improve performance and team coherence
• Reduce their risk of mental health related issues by ensuring staff members know how to improve their gut health which directly can impact mental health (and immunity!)
• Recognise that their employer is taking positive action to support their wellbeing and promote a longer retention of skilled staff members

With almost a decade of experience of delivering innovative workplace wellbeing initiatives to a range of high pressured teams within the housing, public sector and financial sectors, Mind Nourishing specialises in creating bespoke programmes to organisations that address key risks to employee mental health.

From addressing isolated remote workers through team building wellbeing themed cooking workshops, to ‘Recipe for resilience’ courses for stressed senior leadership teams, Mind Nourishing equips workforces with the skills, knowledge, and tools needed to make sustainable changes to both their diet and mindset. This ultimately reduces the risk of burnout and sickness across the organisation.

In a recent wellbeing roadshow for a national construction company, a series of Mindset and Meals workshops delivered measurable impact: 40% of attendees reported improved confidence in managing their mindset and mental wellbeing, while an impressive 94% reported increased confidence in creating nutritionally balanced meals.

At a strategic level, a senior management session created space for meaningful discussions and practical planning on how to better support workplace culture so that staff mental health is proactively protected. This programme contributed to the organisation achieving Gold Standard in its ‘Investors in People’ accreditation and is likely to support both talent attraction and staff retention going forward.

Alongside internal staff wellbeing programmes, Mind Nourishing also specialises in planning and delivering community based wellbeing support so that companies can successfully reach their CSR and social value requirements and improve the reputation of their organisation locally. Previous support has ranged from delivering ‘How food affects your mood’ programmes within food banks to allow social value requirements to be met to delivering ‘sustainable eating programmes’ for Green Energy companies looking to innovatively support and promote their Net Zero goals with their service users.

Mind Nourishing delivers evidence-based science in a fun and engaging way, using masters level registered health professionals. All programmes are designed to inspire change, align with organisational wellbeing strategies and focus on specific team and organisational needs.

If you are a People Manager, HR / Wellbeing Lead who wants to start designing or delivering support to employees to reduce the risk of mental health related sickness and presenteeism through engaging and innovative support.