Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from 12 to 18 May 2025.  It’s always beneficial to pay attention to your mental and physical wellbeing. The benefits of actively looking after both, include: 

• Reduces stress – helps regulate emotions, making it easier to manage stress and anxiety. 
• Enhances focus and clarity – regular mindfulness practice improves concentration, memory and decision-making skills. 
• Increases emotional resilience – fosters self-awareness and decision-making skills. 
• Boosts happiness and wellbeing – being present in the moment encourages gratitude and a great appreciation of life. 
• Improves sleep quality – helps reduce insomnia and encourage restful sleep. 
• Lowers blood pressure – studies suggest mindfulness can contribute to heart health by reducing blood pressure and stress-related conditions. 
• Enhances immune function – a calm and mindful approach to life may help boost immune system responses. 

Lena by Inspire Wellbeing will be hosting a self-compassion webinar on Wednesday 14 May 2025 from 11am to 12pm. To register for the event, click here.  

This workshop will help you to: 

• Understand self-compassion, self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness principles. 
• Identify and challenge negative, automatic, critical, and unproductive thought patterns through guided practices. 
• Develop selflessness, gratitude, fulfilment, and positive self-worth to counter negativity, fatigue, and tiredness. 

SERC offers additional wellbeing support:  

• Mental Health First Aiders are located on campuses and are contactable via MS teams. 
• The Lena by Inspire Wellbeing employee assistance programme is available 24/7. 
• UK Healthcare counselling as well useful contacts can be found on the Mind Yourself App.