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17 articles · 9 guides · 10 recommendations — all free
Knowing how to check in with a colleague who seems to be struggling can feel difficult. This article offers practical guidance on starting a sensitive conversation, listening without making assumptions and agreeing useful support at work, while respecting personal boundaries and privacy.
Employees Matter · 5 min read
A personal account of the hidden impact of bullying, how it can shake your confidence and why telling someone can be the first step towards finding support.
Zoe Sinclair · 5 min read
A practical look at the caring responsibilities colleagues may be balancing alongside work, and how managers can offer thoughtful support, flexibility and understanding while respecting privacy.
Employees Matter · 5 min read
Hayley shares what parenting a transgender daughter has taught her about listening, respect and belonging, and how those lessons shape her understanding of inclusion at work.
Hayley Whitmarsh · 5 min read
An article exploring how relationship difficulties, separation and other personal challenges affect working life, and how we can ask for support and offer understanding when life feels uncertain.
Employees Matter · 5 min read
Drawing on published personal experiences, this article explores working life after a life-changing diagnosis, from deciding what to share and asking for support to how colleagues and employee networks can respond with understanding.
Employees Matter · 4 min read
Zoe Sinclair shares what switching off on holiday taught her about trust, letting go and returning rested enough to lead well.
Zoe Sinclair · 5 min read
Reflecting on losing a parent to suicide, Hayley Whitmarsh shares the complicated grief of those left behind, how her understanding has changed, and why making time to listen matters on ordinary days as much as awareness days.
Hayley Whitmarsh · 5 min read
Zoe Sinclair explores why time saved by AI can turn into more work, and what that means for our pace, wellbeing and breathing space.
Zoe Sinclair · 5 min read
Zoe Sinclair reflects on why it helps to pause before walking away, and how rest and perspective can change the decisions we make on difficult days.
Zoe Sinclair · 5 min read
Life outside work doesn’t disappear when we log on. Hayley Whitmarsh shares how a manager’s kindness made it safe to be honest, and asks what it takes to create a workplace where people feel supported through life’s difficult moments.
Hayley Whitmarsh · 6 min read
Knowing about someone’s experience isn’t the same as understanding it. Hayley Whitmarsh reflects on conversations that challenged her perspective and explores how ERGs can move beyond awareness to build human connection and deeper understanding.
Hayley Whitmarsh · 4 min read
Grief reaches beyond the person closest to a loss. Reflecting on a community motorcycle ride for a young boy, Hayley Whitmarsh explores how grief touches those around us and why quiet, consistent support matters at work.
Hayley Whitmarsh · 4 min read
Through her son’s job search, Zoe Sinclair explores the impact of impersonal recruitment on graduates’ confidence and why a human connection can make all the difference.
Zoe Sinclair · 5 min read
Zoe Sinclair shares how being a school governor has shaped her leadership, and what classrooms can teach us about helping people feel safe, valued and able to thrive at work.
Zoe Sinclair · 4 min read
Someone can be showing up and doing their job while quietly struggling. Drawing on her recovery from surgery, Hayley Whitmarsh explores the gap between raising mental health awareness and offering support that makes a difference.
Hayley Whitmarsh · 3 min read
Caring responsibilities don’t stop at the office door. Hayley Whitmarsh shares her own experience and explores how parents and carers ERGs help people feel heard, understood and supported when life changes.
Hayley Whitmarsh · 5 min read
I Release All Urgency - The Return Path 6-minute wellbeing practice with Yvonne - Award-winning speaker, wellbeing coach and self-leadership specialist Give yourself a few minutes to pause and step away from the pressure to keep going. This short practice offers space to slow down and reflect on the feeling that everything needs your attention at once. Set against a peaceful, sunlit garden scene, it’s an invitation to make a little room for yourself during a busy day. Find a quiet, comfortable spot and give yourself permission to pause.
Lifestyle & Healthy Habits
A practical article exploring how grief can affect working life and how colleagues and organisations can offer thoughtful support, respect individual needs and make work more manageable after a bereavement.
Grief & Loss
A practical pack to help employee networks turn member feedback into clear priorities and meaningful activities. Includes shared checklists, network-specific ideas, planning worksheets and review prompts to shape your year.
General Resource
A post event practical workbook to help you reflect on what you learned, consider how it relates to your work or life, and choose a useful next step. Includes examples, space to revisit your progress and an optional page for team or network discussions.
General Resource
A heartfelt preview of In Conversation — honest stories, real emotion and conversations that connect us.
Grief & Loss
Practical guidance to help managers recognise caring responsibilities, have supportive conversations and agree changes that help colleagues balance care with work.
Carers at Work
A practical guide to understanding menopause at work, having supportive conversations and agreeing changes that help colleagues feel supported and work well.
Workplace Culture
A practical guide to understanding individual work needs, having supportive conversations and making changes that help colleagues feel supported and work well.
Inclusion & Belonging
Practical tools to help managers understand changing health needs, agree useful work adjustments and plan for difficult days, absence and returning to work.
Stand Tall, Little Girl is the inspiring account of how Hope fought back from rock bottom, built a healthy life for herself, and used her story to effect real change for others suffering from the same devastating condition.
Hope Virgo · Books
Explore three books by parenting author Liat Hughes Joshi, offering practical ideas for raising children, managing screen time and navigating everyday family challenges.
Liat Hughs Joshi · Books
Join psychologist Dr Audrey Tang for honest conversations about mental health and wellbeing, bringing together expert insight, lived experience and practical ideas for everyday life.
Dr Audrey Tang · Podcasts
How to get a dementia diagnosis - Getting a diagnosis gives you and your family the best chance to prepare for the future.
NHS · Websites
In this episode of The Lifestyle Prescription with Pharmacy Planet, host Rena Dipti Annobil sits down with Vanessa Sturman - award-winning speaker, health coach, and nutrition educator - for a powerful and honest conversation about food, body image, and what healthy eating actually looks like in real life.
Vanessa Sturman · Podcasts
A registered charity working to improve the lives of people with dementia by funding medical research, support services, and assistive technologies throughout the UK.
Dementia Research UK · Websites
'Will help families and friends of people with dementia all over the world' Dame Judi Dench
June Andrews · Books
Carers UK – Practical advice, information and support for anyone looking after a family member or friend.
Carers UK · Websites
Carers and Caring is a complete handbook for anyone in a caring role, guiding you through the everyday administrative and emotional challenges of supporting a loved one.
June Andrews · Books
A good care home is a reward for a life well spent, and providing that care is a joy for the people who do it well.
June Andrews · Books
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