The Wellbeing Team offer a wealth of knowledge and experience in coaching, mental health support and personal development to empower individuals in reaching their goals and potential.
The service utilises a person-centred approach providing clients with tools, techniques, therapies and support to empower and allow positive life changes to happen. We work in partnership with services within West Lothian Council as well as various health care providers, charities and partner organisations to ensure service users receive the most appropriate support throughout their personal transformation.
One to One service
Experienced advisers will provide one to one coaching and assistance to encourage positive personal development and support tailored to individual's needs.
The Wellbeing Team offer support with identifying long and short-term life goals and help in achieving them. The service is client led and therefore all goals are based upon clients wants and needs.
The advisers will use various techniques to support change and assist in goal setting such as:
Talking therapy involves working in a one to one setting with an adviser. The adviser will actively listen to individuals in a caring and non-judgemental manner. This method utilises various communication skills to encourage open conversations on sensitive matters allowing issues to be explored in a safe and supportive environment.
The exploration of topics, issues and barriers often helps in identifying goals and ways of overcoming issues that stand currently stand in the way of reaching those goals.
Sometimes it is difficult to identify our goals, barriers and pathway to get to where we would like to be.
A life coach is a professional that will guide and support individuals to maximise their potential and get the most out of their life.
An accredited Life Coach uses various tools and techniques and works along side an individual to encourage self-awareness, problem solving and goal setting.
This is a coaching technique which is designed to re-programme the sub conscious mind.
It encourages the individual to change the way they think, feel and act in order to release fears and unhelpful thoughts. Through releasing fears and unhelpful thoughts individuals are able to move forward and progress to gaining positive wellbeing which will allow them to start working towards reaching their goals.
The individual will work alongside a professional adviser to assess their current physical and emotional wellbeing. This will help to demonstrate areas that are already working well and areas that need to be improved upon.
After the initial assessment, an agreed action plan of positive goals will be created by the adviser. The action plan will recommend methods identified by the advisers to help achieve each goal and they will support the individual to achieving their goals
Group Work
The Wellbeing Team also offer online group work throughout the year in the form of workshops and short term courses.
The workshops provide a taster of the services offered via our one to one service and allow group interaction and questions.
The courses are a focused approach with set outcomes and tasks designed to encourage individuals to make decisions about their future and put the steps in place to reach their goals.
In order to achieve the most from the group work participants are encouraged to engage in the group interactions.
All courses are moderated and led by our advisers.
For more information on the group work offered please see course details below.
This workshop explores what wellbeing means and discusses challenges that prevent individuals from achieving positive wellbeing.
It considers the impact of fitness, nutrition, routine and sleep on wellbeing and also provides practical techniques such as mindfulness, meditation and journaling as methods of dealing with stress, anxiety and unhelpful thoughts. It increases self-awareness and provides positive practices to enhance emotional and physical wellbeing.
The workshop lasts approx 1.5 hours and is conducted by our advisers online via zoom.
Are you trying to find work, a lone parent, suffering with a physical/mental health issue or have recently undergone life changing events? Do you want help and support to move on in a positive direction?
If so, Women N2 Work is here to support and encourage woman to realise their potential and make changes for the future.
This 6 week programme covers topics that will assist in setting goals and help provide the skill set to achieve them.
Personal Development
This aspect of the course will be delivered by the Wellbeing Team and will cover topics such as -
Emotional and physical wellbeing
Setting healthy boundaries
Identifying unhelpful thinking and negative stories
Connection with others
Creating healthy routines focusing on the importance of morning routines
Understanding the importance and impact of the language we use
Goal setting, action planning and motivation
Once you have completed the personal development part of the course you will then move onto the employability sessions.
Employment Advice
This part of the course will be delivered by the Access2Employment team and will cover topics such as
