Free workshops to support you, your colleagues and employees to move more during the working day

By GreaterSport | 23 August 2022 | TAGS: Active workplaces, Active Workplaces

Why is it important to move during the working day? 

Over one million adults are in employment in Greater Manchester, 24.9% of whom are inactive. With 60% of their waking hours at work for many over 50% of their day is sedentary, this inactivity is a real cause for concern. That is why Active Workplaces is a key work area for GreaterSport.

The sessions will focus on...

1. Ensuring that moving more while working is seen as normal and that permission is given from leadership
2. Helping workplaces to understand what kinds of activity count
3. Working to ensure that movement is included in workplace health and wellbeing plans

To delve into these themes, we are working with The Business Health Group and Malleable Minds on a series of workshops that will help us understand how we can help make these changes in our own workplaces.

Making Workplace Physical Activity the Norm
Wednesday 14^th September. 9.30am – 10.30am
with Stephen Lunt from The Business Health Group

Discover the cost of physical inactivity in the workplace and the benefits of increase activity in the workplace.

Workplace Physical Activity: Have we set the bar too high?
Wednesday 21^st September. 9.30am – 10.30am
with Stephen Lunt from The Business Health Group

What counts as workplaces physical activity and the difference between physical activity and exercise and the value of non-exercise activity?

Making work a moving experience
Thursday 22^nd September. 9.30am – 10.30am
with Aidan Kearney from Malleable Minds

How do we see work, what does it mean to us, and what do we think when we think about the idea of movement in the workplace? In this workshop we’ll explore the science of human perception regarding these concepts.

Making Physical Activity part of your workplace wellbeing strategy
Wednesday 28^th September. 9.30am – 10.30am
with Stephen Lunt from The Business Health Group

Is Physical Activity part of your wellbeing strategy? In this workshop we will discuss how physical activity must be in your health and wellbeing plan and how it can support other areas of you wellbeing strategy.

Small movements, big impact
Thursday 29^th September. 9.30am – 10.30am
with Aidan Kearney from Malleable Minds

What does it actually take to get movement into the workplace. We might at first think it means complexity and organised classes but is this really the case? By challenging thinking we will explore how simple actions and changes have big impacts.

Moving wellbeing plans in a new direction
Thursday 6^th October. 9.30am – 10.30am
with Aidan Kearney from Malleable Minds

In this workshop we’ll explore the evidence for why movement should be key in our wellbeing plans, how it links to other factors and what it means for overall wellbeing and performance, and how to build it in so that we can harness the impact.

Who are these workshops for?

These workshops are suitable for anyone with an interest in enabling movement at work. Employers, employees, workplace active champions, HR teams or anyone working with workplaces supporting health and wellbeing.

To book your place visit the workshop section of this website or if you require more information contact John Brady [email protected]

GreaterSport are also organising the GM Moving Systems Leadership sessions. These sessions are for anyone who feels like moving matters to you or your work. It’s a brilliant introduction for those interested in different approaches to leadership, especially where you're trying to create change and unite people across organisations, sectors and boundaries.