Know your mind

Learn how your mind works to improve your health, work and relationships

COVID-19: a springboard for mental health?

29 March 2021

As we acknowledge the various anniversaries of the COVID-19 pandemic and look back over a year of worry and suffering, our thoughts turn naturally to what happens after all this is over. There is light at the end of the tunnel, for the developed world at least, and we all face the prospect of returning […]

The three types of burnout

22 March 2021

Are you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed? Have you become cynical or negative at work? Do you snap at co-workers, find it hard to concentrate, or struggle to find the energy you need at work? Does work feel like a drag rather than something that engages your mind? You might be burnt out. Burnout is a […]

Mindapples Happy Hour

8 March 2021

Hi everyone, we enjoyed our last public webinar so much we’ve decided to do another! And this time it’s a happy hour… Happiness is one of the most elusive concepts in life: chase it and it always feels out of reach, yet sometimes we find it when we least expect it. So how can we […]

Finding balance

4 March 2021

Since the beginnings of our campaign, Mindapples has found supporters in the creative communities. Perhaps it’s because people involved in the arts and innovation recognise the importance of their minds and their capacity for change, or perhaps it’s because they enjoy the celebrations of individual ways to wellbeing, and a more human-centred approach to health. […]

Wellbeing in lockdown

28 January 2021

Everyday mental health is a more pressing issue than ever. Those of you who have been following Mindapples’ activities during the COVID-19 pandemic will know we’ve been putting more of our material into the public domain to get people talking about we can all do to look after our minds. (Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, […]

How to recognise and manage our emotions.

25 January 2021

Mindapples trainer Anna helps us all to notice when our emotions are getting in the way of us managing our responses and shares some top tips into how we can all keep our cool.

Mindapple-a-day: Set personal goals

Mindapples trainer Amanda shares a mindapple about goal setting. Have you set yourself a target or a goal which helps you focus your mind?

How to communicate with others whilst working remotely

Mindapples trainer Anna discusses how to communicate with others whilst working remotely. This video shares lots of top tips on how you can improve collaboration within a team and encourage better communication.

Mindapple-a-day: Eating chocolate

20 January 2021

Amanda shares one of Gitas five a day for her mind. Why is chocolate such a comfort? Robert Thayer talks about moods being a relationship between energy and tension, when we have high energy and low tension this is our ‘happy place’, or state of flow. Completing tasks feels easy, we’re motivated and in […]

Mindapple-a-day: Calling friends on Zoom

5 January 2021

Mindapples trainer Amanda shares Nigel’s mindapple, chatting to friends on zoom. Feeling related to other people is an important psychological need, the self-determination theory explains that relatedness is an absolute basic need in order to feel good. So although Nigel’s zoom call is ‘just for a chat’, he’s providing an absolute basic psychological need for […]