Emerging from lockdown: accommodating change, maintaining health, well-being and performance in the workplace.


As we emerge from lockdown, we all face uncertainties, whether financial, what our workplace will look like, potential change to our organisation, role or responsibilities, or job security in the face of Covid-19 impact.
Dr Annie Wright leads us through 3 key areas which will equip us to navigate the changes we may face. By understanding how resilience, and emotional intelligence affect us physiologically, and how we can apply this knowledge in a practical way to improve our mental adaptability, we will learn how to be better prepared for, and manage, the challenges which lie ahead, and how to lessen any potential impact to our mental and physical wellbeing.
The seminar will include practical exercises in which you will apply these concepts to your present and potential future circumstances.

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Emerging from lockdown: accommodating change, maintaining health, wellbeing and performance in the workplace.

As we emerge from lockdown, we all face uncertainties, whether financial, what our workplace will look like, potential change to our organisation, role or responsibilities, or job security in the face of Covid-19 impact.

Dr Annie Wright leads us through 3 key areas which will equip us to navigate the changes we may face. By understanding how resilience, and emotional intelligence affect us physiologically, and how we can apply this knowledge in a practical way to improve our mental adaptability, we will learn how to be better prepared for, and manage, the challenges which lie ahead, and how to lessen any potential impact to our mental and physical wellbeing.

The seminar will include practical exercises in which you will apply these concepts to your present and potential future circumstances.

Dr Annie Wright DC BA BSc (Hons) MRCC FRCC (Anim)

Annie started training to be an Army Officer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in early 1992. Unbeknown at the time, the events of the next few months were to shape the rest of her life, and her career. The physical adversity that followed was to become the foundation of a deep desire to help others overcome adversity, be it physical, mental, or in business. She gained an empathy, and deep understanding of just what it is like to be there.

A few weeks into the course Annie started to experience debilitating knee pain. Despite this she graduated, and was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps. She served in a variety of specialist roles which by their nature required her to learn the skill of collating a vast amount of data, and being able to identify the key relevant strands. Annie had a number of operations on her knee, but success was limited resulting in a major impact on her physically and, as she came to realise much later, emotionally. As a result she was unable to pursue the very specialist role that she sought; she decided to leave the Army, and retrain as a Chiropractor qualifying in 2001.

This may seem a very different career, but there are many similarities; both require the collation of a mass of information, analysis, and logical deduction to inform action. Possibly due to her own injury, and also her former training, Annie quickly gained a reputation for success working with chronic pain, and injuries. Over the years, Annie has adopted a number of treatment types, or modalities, partly in her search to find a solution to her own chronic pain issues with her knee, but also to those of her patients.

This journey provided the perfect foundation for working with the wider health issues that her pain patients were presenting with. Annie, and her patients found that by working in a completely holistic way addressing diet, activity, and mindset, alongside other treatments, there could be substantial improvement not only in a patient's pain and function levels, as well as in any associated lifestyle disease (hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular, etc), but also in what Annie terms the daily symptoms of “poor body efficiency”, namely fatigue, lethargy, and lack of clarity, or focus.

This led Annie, at the request of some patients, to provide health coaching to help senior executives regain that “essence of vitality”.

Annie now specialises in helping people through either one to one, or group coaching, to regain that “essence of vitality” by turning themselves from being the biggest handbrake on their personal development either at work, in their business, or sport, into their greatest asset. From this coaching experience Annie has embarked on a Masters Degree in Behaviour Change at Derby University, to aid her in her understanding of why people behave as they do, why they don’t do things they want to achieve, and how to help people make the behavioural change necessary to gain the outcome that they desire.