 A partnership built around your people
Every organisation is different, so we begin by understanding your people, your goals, and the pressures they’re working under. Together, we design an approach that’s practical, measurable, and built for the realities of daily work.
Rather than pushing new behaviours from the top down, we build capacity from the inside out. By supporting the body systems that regulate stress, focus, and recovery, people gain the clarity and energy that make new ways of working possible.
We turn science into simple, accessible practices that fit into the workday and strengthen performance from within.
Beyond initiatives
Creating change people can feel and keep using.
Many wellbeing offers raise awareness, but awareness alone doesn’t create change when people are already under pressure. Because behaviour follows physiology, new habits stick only when the body has the capacity to support them. Our approach builds that capacity first.
Through live, practical sessions, teams experience real-time shifts in stress, focus, and energy. We then train internal facilitators and provide ongoing access to our resource library, so the practices continue long after the sessions end. This turns wellbeing into part of how work happens, not a one-off initiative.
Our approach
Inspire. Train. Sustain.
Inspire
Before behaviour shifts, people need space to settle their physiology. Through live, guided sessions, teams experience calm, clarity, and capacity, alongside simple explanations of the science behind the change.
Train
Meaningful change lasts when skills belong to the organisation. We teach practical breath and movement tools and support internal facilitators to lead short, accessible sessions that keep the learning alive.
Sustain
Small practices, repeated often, create steady and lasting benefits. Guided tools and brief resets help people recharge through the day, while outcome tracking shows what’s improving over time.
Zara, Health & Wellbeing
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation
"This programme had some of the highest engagement we’ve seen across the Trust. Staff in high-pressure clinical roles made time to learn new skills, and many reported feeling better able to manage stress and stay present during demanding days. By the end, they were recommending the sessions to colleagues and keen to use the techniques with patients and peers."
Alex, Wellbeing Team
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
“This course gave our staff a clear, science-based understanding of how breathwork supports stress regulation and focus. Lucy’s practical demonstrations were easy to use straight away, and the weekly challenges kept people engaged. Staff have already begun sharing the techniques with colleagues and patients.”
Better for people. Better for performance.
When physiology supports performance, everything changes: stress reduces, communication improves, energy lasts longer, and teams respond to pressure with more stability and confidence.
These shifts matter. Â Work-related stress, depression, and anxiety led to 16.4 million lost working days last year, and MSK issues remain a major cause of absence. Organisations that prioritise wellbeing consistently outperform peers: 11% higher productivity, 21% higher profitability, and around ÂŁ4.70 return for every ÂŁ1 invested.
As capacity improves, absence drops, retention rises, and cultures strengthen from the inside out.
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