Twenty five years as a chemist in the pharmaceutical and food industries allows Roger to use his background to help you understand what food and mood means for you and those you care for.
The Challenge
Stress causes people to eat badly. (I don't just mean talking with your mouth full or spilling drinks - although both could be symptoms of a stressful life.) The real problems are consuming comfort foods and drinks without any thought to how these are going to affect mental health in the medium or long term.
The Solution
As with everything to do with stress the problem can be approached in two ways. Here, rather than focusing on the stress that is causing the bad eating we turn the tables and give people a fantastic opportunity to change eating habits that they may not even have realised were causing stress.
The Result
Participants get to see their food and drink as more than just sustenance and sources of short term pleasure. Gaining an overview of the many food/mood links opens up new ways of reducing stress. In the longer term eating food that is good for the mood is surprisingly good for physical health too.
The Follow up
Participants are encouraged to pair up as well as selecting someone outside of work who will help them make one or two small changes to demonstrate to themselves that they can indeed take control of their food and hence influence their mood. All participants choosing to do this will receive support as I can be contacted by email.
Benefits to your business
Changing our foods for the better has indirect benefits on health and feelings of self-worth that in turn lead to improved performance.
Time for a session
Workshops of 90 and 120 minutes have proved popular with charity groups.
A full day of training allows for a pretty in-depth study of many aspects of this vast subject of food and mood.
Roger has also presented Mood and Food as a 30 minute talk to a larger audience.
Suggested number of participants
Workshops so far have been from 5 to 32 participants. The limiting factor is usually room size as some activities work best with lots of space and extra tables.
Things to consider before booking
Be prepared to make changes and be prepared to be helped by everyone around you.
© 2009 Roger Smith Stop Paddling ©
Oct26, 2009