Our Services
Know More provides corporate wellness support to businesses through our training programs and act as a resource for any employees who are struggling with their mental wellbeing. We offer eight pillars of support: corporate wellness, first aid for mental health, domestic abuse, coercive control, suicide risk, grief and bereavement, safeguarding, and wellbeing for kids.
Our goal is to help businesses identify when their employees are struggling with any of the above issues and also be a resource for individuals who prefer to speak to someone outside of their organisation.
Corporate Wellness
Wellness in the workplace is about the proactive and responsible approach that organisations and individuals can take to support and look after the health of their workforce. By cultivating a working environment that promotes mental, physical and environmental health, employers can positively impact on stress, reduce absenteeism and improve the workforce energy and performance.
Promoting health and wellbeing at work is not just about free healthy lunches and yoga sessions. It is so much more. It’s about how a company demonstrates that they value their people, and how they will support them to lead healthy and fulfilling lives, both inside and outside of work.
Candidates look for employers that support their health and wellbeing whilst at work and look for companies that will treat them as individuals and understand their wellbeing needs. They want a better work-life balance and a better relationship with their employer.
Know More can assist you with the implementation of a health and wellbeing strategy to help improve existing employee engagement resulting in them less likely to leave and look elsewhere for work.
First Aid for Mental Health
Mental health can strike at any time and can affect people from all walks of life. Although things are improving, stigma still exists around mental health and as a society we do not take care of our mental health like we do our physical health.
First Aid for Mental Health enables an individual to identify risk factors, warning signs and to develop skills and the confidence to help someone who may be experiencing mental health issues, whilst keeping yourself safe. It is about spotting signs and symptoms of common mental health issues, providing non-judgemental support and reassurance and guiding a person to seek professional support.
As well as having a huge impact on the individual, poor mental health has severe repercussions for employers – increased staff turnover, rising sickness, absenteeism, burnout, decreased motivation and productivity.
It is essential on both a personal and organisational level to promote and support wellbeing and mental wellness and provide the right support to create a more engaged, happy and high performing culture within your organisation.
Know More are here to assist in identifying risk factors and warning signs.
Domestic Abuse
Domestic abuse can happen to anyone, regardless of age, background, gender, religion, sexuality or ethnicity. It is rarely a one-off incident and is the cumulative and interlinked types of abuse that have a particularly damaging effect on the victim.
It is the power and control of one person over another in an intentional and perpetual manner. Domestic abuse is a silent epidemic, impacting 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men in their lifetimes. It often includes sexual violence and stalking.
Type of abuse include physical abuse, economic abuse, sexual abuse, coercive control, psychological abuse and tech abuse.
It can have a significant impact on the health, wellbeing, work performance and attendance of employees who will often feel unable to confide in others or seek help.
Two dominant elements common to all relationships of domestic abuse and violence are power and control.
NO ONE deserves to be abused. Abuse is not your fault. You are not alone.
Know More are here to support you in every way we can.
Coercive Control
Coercive control occurs within a current or former intimate or family relationship which causes an individual to fear that violence will be used against them or cause them serious alarm or distress that affects their day-to-day activities.
It involves a pattern of behaviour or incidents that enable a person to exert power or control over another, such as isolating a partner from friends and family, taking control of their finances, dictating what they wear or who they see, or tracking their movements through the internet or mobile phone use.
Coercive controlling behaviour is an act or pattern of assaults, threats, humiliation and intimidation that is used to harm, punish or frighten their victim.
Know More are here to help identify the warning signs.
Suicide Risk
Suicidal thoughts are far more common than many people think and there can be extensive stigma in talking about suicide. It is important for employers to create a non-stigmatising culture and a safe space for their employees to talk.
Not many employers have frameworks in place that encourage their employees to talk to someone about suicide and to find ways to seek help. Most managers and employees have never received training to deal with situations where someone discloses suicidal ideations.
Employers have a duty of care to their employees and all steps which are reasonably possible need to be taken to ensure the physical and psychological health, safety and wellbeing of their employees.
If someone knows their concerns will be listened to with empathy and understanding, this can help that person to take the first step in accessing support services and securing the help they need.
Know More are here to assist employers with the important role of signposting their employees to the right professional support.
Grief & Bereavement
Grief is the normal and natural reaction to a loss. It is a typical process for an individual to go through after a death and can manifest in many ways that can have a profound impact on the individual. No one has the same symptoms as another however, it has been identified that typically, individuals feel anger, become withdrawn, have feelings of sadness.
It is important to remember that the loss of an individual and grief are typical and integral aspects of life. However, when a bereavement happens, this can bring a flood of emotions while the individual tries to process the death. Grieving is a process it is not something an individual should “get over” or “move on from”.
When an individual is faced with bereavement, it can be hard to adjust to the changes that death brings to life. It can particularly impact an individual’s personality, belief system and sense of reality.
Bereavement is defined as the time that is spent adjusting to the loss. There are no set guidelines of how bereavement may look or how long this period lasts. There is no right or wrong way to feel, act and cope during this period.
It is best not to think of bereavement as something that an individual recovers from, as this implies that the individual will return to the state they were in before the death.
Experiences in life have an impact on the individual and help to create the individual’s own reality; a death of someone the individual knows can be one of the, if not the biggest impact an individual can face as it alters their entire world.
Know More are here to walk with you through this sad and painful process.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is every person’s responsibility - it is a way of protecting individuals to live a safe life. The main aim is to make sure people receive safe and empowering care. To do this, the process should ensure that everyone is subject to equal rights and receive the support they need.
It is good practice to think about how we safeguard everyone in our organisations at all times, including protecting staff from harm and inappropriate behaviour such as bullying and harassment.
Learning opportunities should be put in place to consistently develop and maintain the necessary measures, attitudes, skills and knowledge amongst staff and all those that contribute to your organisation’s work.
Everyone connected to your organisation should know how to keep children, adults at risk and staff safe and know what to do if concerns arise.
Know More are here to assist.
Wellbeing for Kids
Children often don’t have much control over their lives but by cultivating a strong and stable mindset can help them navigate the things that life throws at them. The good news is that this can be learned and it’s never too early to start!
The Wellbeing for Kids workshop helps children build and develop good habits that will support their wellbeing by building skills in reflection, mindfulness, meditation, creative expression and more. These tools will then carry through into their lives, as they learn to live in the moment, be grateful for the things they have, set goals for themselves, see problems as challenges and approach life with confidence and capability.
The Wellbeing for Kids workshop begins by encouraging children to keep a wellness journal and use this for reflection as they continue on to explore creative, physical and focused techniques for building resilience, calm, and contentment.
Know More provides the tools to lay the foundations for building stronger, more resilient mental health for your children.