The Trust is excited to announce a social psychosynthesis-informed project, aimed at supporting a direct need in society. The Exploring Anxiety Project, developed from a needs analysis, aims to help adults explore anxiety through a relational approach using nature and community as it’s themes.
At the Trust, we are inspired by developing a social impact project which holds the psychospiritual philosophies of psychosynthesis to assess how we can support a positive impact.
In business, anxiety is increasingly impacting people and their lives (6 in 100 people diagnosed in England) and the ripple effects are being felt within our communities and economy. With 822,000 workers nationally affected by anxiety every year, which is estimated to cost UK businesses up to £8 billion a year and an estimated 17 million working days being lost as a result*. Additionally, Covid, Climate Change and the Cost-of-Living Crisis are creating more unsettlement and change, which are adding to the increase in levels of anxiety in our society.
Nonetheless, not all those who suffer with anxiety are naturally diagnosed, as many people identify with the symptoms more than the term ‘anxiety’. From our own survey of around 100 people, we recognised that 95% are identifying with symptoms such as, overwhelm, perfectionism, stress and restlessness, but didn’t classify them as anxiety. What we’ve learned is by sharing our personal narratives within like-minded community, that this can help us demystify some of the symptoms as participants have learnt and shared from each other and built a support system. This project intends to support participants to explore anxiety, whilst learning how to manage the symptoms in a non-therapeutic approach.
If you are interested in running a programme, please download our Exploring Anxiety Brochure to learn more.
*https://championhealth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/workplace-health-report-2023.pdf
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In a presentation to HR Directors and Wellbeing Champions, supporting people with anxiety, we received feeback that the resources shared offered valuable, practical advice and techniques and we wanted to make this available to others. We explored both the impact that anxiety is having in society and how nature and the sense of community can support and reduce anxiety symptoms.
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We invite people over the age of 18 years, who are experiencing anxiety and would like to have a greater understanding of their symptoms and how to manage them, to join an Exploring Anxiety Programme.
The sessions are experiential and involve group discussions, which take place in nature. They are hosted by Exploring Anxiety Facilitators who will guide you through various relaxation techniques and experiments.
Exploring Anxiety programmes are either run in-house with corporations or within local charitable organisations. The corporate programmes fund and enable the community programmes to run free.
If you are interested in this project, you can keep up to date with developments and articles via the following links:
The Trust’s Social Impact Director, Kelly Tyler, interrogates the relationship between anxiety and digital interaction trends that have flourished since the COVID-19 pandemic. Kelly has conducted this research as part of her new social impact project, ‘Time to Trust: Exploring Anxiety’. Read the article here.
As a study from the University Of Queensland states: “If everyone visited their local parks for half an hour each week, there would be 7% fewer cases of anxiety & depression and 9% fewer cases of high blood pressure.” Particular attention over the pilot was paid to using nature as a lens through which participants could approach their anxiety. Read the article here.
According to a new survey commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation, one in ten (10%) of UK adults are feeling hopeless about financial circumstances, more than a third (34%) are feeling anxious, and almost three in ten (29%) have felt stressed in the past month. This corresponds to the survey that the Trust has conducted over the last 3 months, where 95% of people surveyed have experienced symptoms of anxiety, with over 45% are worrying about money. Read the article here.
Our intention is for the Exploring Anxiety project to grow and expand throughout communities. We are inviting people within both corporations and community organisations to train as Exploring Anxiety Facilitators.
This will enable you to run Exploring Anxiety Programmes within your organisations with ongoing support, assessment and quality assurance standards.
If you are interested in learning more and applying, please access further information.
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To book a phone call with our Social Impact Director, Kelly Tyler, or for more information about our social impact project, please contact reception on 020 74032100 or email ktyler@ptrust.org.uk.
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