Introductions
Ricky Sloane
(Fabulous Bloke)
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Audience Mental Acuity Test
Staff Counselling, Relaxation
and Hypnotherapy?
– The Objectives
• To briefly explain the ‘free to staff’ counselling
service provided to Queen’s Staff.
• Understanding some of the barriers to relaxation.
• To have some knowledge about how the mind
works and how it can be influenced/manipulated.
• Use some techniques used in ‘Hypnotherapy’ to
help you to relax.
What is an Employee
Assistance Programme?
And how can it help me?
Employee Assistance Programme
QUB Staff - Overview
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Freephone 24 hour immediate telephone support
Structured telephone counselling
Structured face to face counselling available across NI
Financial advice
Legal advice
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Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Counselling Service
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Independent
Self-referred
Confidential
Free service
Complementary to professional support mechanisms
Complementary to personal support networks
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Employee Assistance Programme
Telephone Support
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Freephone number
Answered 24/7, 365 days a year
Immediate support
Staffed by professional, qualified &
experienced personnel
Appointments within 3 working days
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Employee Assistance Programme
Face-to-Face Support
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Networked with 100 counsellors province-wide
Best match of counsellors to issue
Structured counselling sessions:
- 6 x1 hour session model
Counselling available within 20 mile radius
Counselling available between 9am - 6pm (9am to 9pm Wed & Thu)
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Employee Assistance Programme
Counselling Model & Process
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One hour sessions
Time limited, practical & solution focussed
Clear boundaries of confidentiality
Moves from analysis of the problem to identify your
own skills, strengths & resources
Helps you to find a solution
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Your Working Life
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General Counselling
Support
Training Services
Performance Issues
Dealing with Work
Colleagues
Work Stress
Office Politics
Critical Incident Support
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Your Personal Life
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Bereavement
Caring for relatives
Family frictions
Childcare
Losing independence
(self or others)
Drug & alcohol abuse
Personal crises
Ill health
Depression & anxiety
Discrimination
Divorce
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Staff Counselling ‘Freephone’
Number
For free, confidential and
immediate support call
0800 389 5362
It helps to talk.
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Relaxation and Hypnotherapy?
Does anyone have any previous
experience of Hypnotherapy?
I promise:
At precisely 8 pm tonight –
you will not be clucking, and walking
around your home like a chicken.
Relaxation and Hypnotherapy?
What are the main barriers to relaxation?
• The ongoing pressures of work.
• Pressures from your personal/social life.
• Not being able to stop worrying about
things.........I can’t get to sleep!
• Noise.
• Distractions and other stimulants (TV?
Technology?).
• Email, text messages, Facebook, Linked-In,
Twitter – the 24 hour communications network!
Relaxation and Hypnotherapy?
Why is it important to be able to relax?
Relaxation it the best way to deal with excessive
stress in your life.
What is Stress?
What is Stress?
Defining Stress:
“Stress is the result of an imbalance between the perceived
demands on people and their perceived capabilities”
- Cox and Mackay
“The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or
other types of demands placed on them” - HSE
“The Fight or Flight reaction with nowhere to run and nobody
to fight” – Paul McKenna
The effects of excessive stress.
Physiological Effects:
When Confronted with Stress.
• Chemical messengers released into blood
stream.
• Stimulates release of corticoids and
adrenalin.
• Corticoids help the body to acquire energy
from energy stores in the body.
• Adrenalin causes the physiological
changes which produce fast, short-term
high energy levels required for fight or
flight.
How to relax and reduce
your stress levels.
Here is one very simple but surprisingly
effective technique to help you relax and to
reduce your stress levels.
How to relax and reduce
your stress levels.
Benefits:
Slows the heart beat.
Releases tension in the body.
Promotes oxygenation of brain
and body.
Can reduce blood pressure.
Relaxes the mind and body and
boosts the immune system.
Breathing Exercises
How to relax and reduce
your stress levels.
Breathing Exercises
Please all stand up and try this simple
technique.
How our Mind Works.
So…………
How does your mind work?
How can this information be used to help
you to manipulate your own mind and to
induce a state of deep relaxation?
How our Mind Works
What is the difference between your
conscious and sub-conscious brain?
Our conscious mind resides in the
cerebral cortex and this is the area used
for thinking and logical reasoning.
Our subconscious mind is located in
the primitive parts of our brain: the
medulla oblongata and the limbic
system.
How our Mind Works
How our mind works.
The conscious mind is the part of your mind that is
responsible for logic and reasoning. Our conscious
mind protects us and blocks, filters, distorts and
deletes incoming information.
The subconscious mind is the part of your mind
responsible for all of your involuntary actions
like emotions, your heart beat and your
breathing.
Your subconscious mind is also the storage
area of all your beliefs and memories.
Changing beliefs and unwanted emotions can
be done through hypnosis; by sending
suggestions to the subconscious mind.
How our Mind Works
There are 5 key occasions when your conscious
mind hands over bodily control to your subconscience.
Can anyone tell me what these 5 occasions are?
Look what I can do!
How our Mind Works
Indirect Elicitation Patterns (Use of Hypnotic Language)
• You can notice a certain sensation.
• You are listening to the sound of my voice and you
can begin to relax.
• You are breathing in and out and your are curious
about what you might learn.
• As you sit there smiling, you can begin to go into a
trance.
• You’re curious about hypnosis – you may be
wondering what I will say next.
How our Mind Works
Hypnotherapy Relaxation Technique
Over the next 8 minutes, I will show you how to use this
relaxation technique (used in hypnotherapy) to help relax
you and to help reduce your stress levels.
Relaxation and Hypnotherapy?