Balance: Understanding the Scales

The OLLIE Foundation’s Balance: Understanding the Scales is a friendly and interactive emotional well-being workshop designed to help you pause, reflect and understand what helps keep you emotionally balanced. Through practical activities, discussion and self-reflection, you’ll explore the pressures you carry, the support available to you and simple ways to restore balance when life feels overwhelming.

Life can sometimes feel overwhelming, with stress, responsibilities and worries all piling up. This session introduces the idea of emotional well-being as a set of scales, helping you to recognise what adds weight to the load side and what strengthens the support side.

You’ll leave with greater awareness of your own well-being and practical steps you can take to look after yourself.

The workshop explores how stress accumulates over time, why connection and protective factors matter, and how small actions can make a meaningful difference to emotional well-being. It encourages self-awareness, self-compassion and practical ways to maintain balance during life’s challenges.

Book a live online workshop delivered by The OLLIE Foundation team which includes opportunities for discussion and self-reflection.

If you would like to book an in-person session for your place of work or organisation please email contactus@theolliefoundation.org

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Talk explores:

  • understanding emotional well-being through the metaphors of weight

  • exploring how life’s pressures can slowly add weight to our emotional scales or tip them suddenly

  • recognising that well-being comes not from removing every stressor, but from strengthening the support side of the scales

  • exploring protective factors that help strengthen resilience and coping

  • understanding the importance of connection, belonging and support

  • identifying practical actions that help restore balance and improve well-being.

Attendees will:

  • gain a better understanding of what affects emotional well-being

  • identify early signs that their emotional well-being may be out of balance

  • identify personal sources of support, strength and resilience

  • feel more confident talking about stress, pressure and emotional health

  • leave with a greater awareness of how small changes can positively affect their quality of life

Info about the event

  • Duration: 1 hour

  • Delivery: Available online or in person

  • Certification: Certificate of Attendance available on request or in-person sessions

  • Age requirement: 16yrs +

Cost

  • Fully funded tickets are available, alternatively, choose a £5 or £10 donation.

  • In person session : price available on request

     

Housekeeping:

Whilst every effort is be made to discuss these topics sensitively and ethically, the subject matter could potentially cause you distress. Please consider if you currently feel ready to attend this talk. By attending the event, you agree that you understand that this is a talk (not therapy) and you feel ready to learn more.

We value and appreciate our incredibly diverse audiences who always come with a range of opinions, emotions, experiences and knowledge. To ensure that our online environment remains supportive, we work hard to provide a respectful environment, sensitive to the range of views in the room.

Here at OLLIE, we understand that sometimes you may prefer to join our session anonymously and that’s fine by us. You are more than welcome to have your camera off and audio muted throughout, freeing you up to move around, eat or simply relax whilst we guide you through the session.

If you book a ticket and then are unexpectedly unable to attend this event, even at the very last minute, please do let us know before the session, either by returning to the eventbrite link in your confirmation email or by emailing contactus@theolliefoundation.org.

Should the attendance on the session you join be very low, we will give you the option to transfer onto the next available session available should you prefer.

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