Listening is a skill which helps us to create safety, trust and connect with others in both our personal and professional lives. Andy Elwood shares stories from his career in search and rescue helicopters, showing you the vital role empathy plays in effective communication. By mastering empathetic listening, you’ll foster deeper connections, build trust, and improve relationships both personally and professionally.
Our 2024 opening session focusses on mental wellbeing. We discuss the critical issues rail workers face in these uncertain times. Life post-covid seems to be relentless. The cost-of living-crisis has taken hold, and we’re constantly facing challenges at work, whether that be budgets, safety or job security. Our discussion focuses on strategies to foster mental resilience, provide robust support systems, and create a healthier work environment.
Gain insight on how the rapid changes in today's world are influencing children's brains. As technology advances and urbanisation intensifies, children face both unique opportunities and significant challenges. This session will delve into how these factors impact cognitive functions, behaviour, and emotional wellbeing. Prof. Sam Wass discusses how modern technology can affect children’s brains and what parents and carers can do to support children’s attention in the age of constant digital distraction.
Shift work presents a unique set of challenges that can disrupt work-life balance, making it difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle. We all know that sleep, healthy diet, nutrition, vitamin D and exercises, are especially important when being a shift worker but how can you make healthy habits a consistent part of your life? How can you juggle family and social life when you don’t work 9 to 5? Listen to LNER Train Driver, Ross Clark, who shares what works for him in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and family life. Ross is interviewed by the one and only Heather Waugh.
Dr Sophie Mort helps you understand why we all feel anxious, stressed, insecure and down from time to time. Her three-step methodology helps you to identify problems arising from past experiences and current life events, and look at the patterns, bad habits and negative cycles that may make you feel stuck. Then, by drawing on established, proven therapeutic techniques, provides a toolkit of go-to techniques to use whenever you need them. This session offers support to those feeling lost at sea in today’s troubling times and gives you the tools to help get the most out of life.
Neuroscientist and bestselling author of The Science of Fate, Dr Hannah Critchlow, shows how two heads can be better than one. We look into how to cope with wildly differing opinions, balance our biases, prevent a corrupting force, and how we can exercise our intuitive ability to get the most effective outcomes. By sharing compelling examples of success, at work, in families, and in team situations, Dr Hannah shows us how to work, play and grow with intelligence.
Do you suspect you may be dealing with a narcissist in your life, but are not quite sure? Are you struggling to manage the behaviours of your parent, child, partner, friend, neighbour, co-worker or boss?
In this session, Dr Supriya McKenna introduces the different types of narcissists and explains the psychological manipulation tactics they use to pull victims into their orbits and trap them there. You’ll also learn how to protect yourself from a narcissist’s behaviours, how to communicate with them, and if you choose to, how to best escape their orbit, forever.
This session provides parents & carers with a window into the current popular technologies and how children use them. Demonstrating the massive positives and potential pitfalls, the session provides parents with advice, coping strategies and resources to help them understand and engage with their child’s online lives.
In this session, senior rail leaders answer questions about health and wellbeing in the workplace. Plus, we’ll catch up on RWL wellbeing events that are happening all across the UK.
Happiness expert, Paul Dolan, tells us how we can redesign our lives to become happier – with tips on making the most of our time, finding purpose, and how to listen better to other viewpoints.