Wellbeing in the workplace will be the focus of an action-oriented event staged by Bristol’s Happy City initiative at the city’s Watershed film and digital media centre.
The session on January 26 – called Plotting a Happier Year Ahead – will allow people to explore their own key opportunities, challenges or questions with their peers. It lasts from 12:30pm-5pm. 
The objective is to ensure the most productive start to 2017 by establishing businesses’ highest priorities for workplace wellbeing.
The event, which is supported by Bristol Business News, will suit HR professionals, managers and business owners who are keen to explore the ‘learning edges’ of wellbeing in the workplace with people who share their interests.
Happy City – the initiative set up by former regional director of Business in the Community Mike Zeidler and a group of enthusiastic volunteers in 2009 – will look at wellbeing measures and optimal happiness while a speaker from Watershed will explore the ecology of wellbeing
The bulk of the afternoon is designed to allow participants to control their own agenda and seek out what they need to help each other address the challenges or opportunities most important to them.
Mike said: “By gearing the event to the sharing of best practice, we aim to ensure everybody will leave with something they can start to apply in their workplace the next day.
“Currently, stress management, workplace design and mindfulness are top of the poll – we look forward to hearing people’s views.”
Happy City is plotting the top themes for workplace wellbeing from the following:
– Stress management
– ‘Leaveism’ (people working while on holiday or ill)
– Work-life balance tools
– Wellness programmes
– Workplace design
– business case for wellbeing
– wellbeing perks & rewards
– mindfulness in work
– Embedding the 5 Ways of Wellbeing
– Wellbeing measures
Organisers want people to pick their top three or make your alternative suggestions.
To register to attend Plotting a Happier Year Ahead, visit
https://www.meetup.com/Bristol-Happiness-Meetup/events/236262533/
