👥 Serves: 1 person, 11-25 people, 2-10 people, 26-40 people, 41+ people

🎚 Difficulty: Medium

⏳ Total time: Ongoing

🥣 Ingredients: Depends on which steps you implement

🤓 Wholebeing Domains: Community, Positive Emotion, Radical Care, Ritualising

💪 Wholebeing Skills: Altruism, Caring, Celebration, Exercising, Giving, Joy, Kindness, Optimism, Reciprocity, Trust

👣 Steps

Step 1 – Kindness

Make a colleague a cup of tea or coffee, buy someone flowers, send a complimentary email. Step 1 of our recipe “Inner happiness” offers more suggestions on ways to cultivate kindness.

Step 2 – Self-care

Leave work on time, walk part of the way to work, have a massage, enjoy a candle-lit bath. Your smartphone can be of help in this case: check out our recipe “Digital goodies” to discover many apps that can boost your wellbeing! And did you ever consider creating a budget for self-care?

Step 3 – Fun

Tell some jokes, be the smile you want to see in the world, do a random moonwalk, laugh! Here are some ideas to bring lightheartedness and playfulness in the office: “Connecting through music”, “Inspiration jar”, and “Positive gossiping”.

Step 4 – Embrace imperfection

Be content with 80% perfect, celebrate mistakes, treat yourself to small successes. If that is difficult to you, consider going through our recipes “Coping with unhealthy perfectionism”, “Rethinking rejection”, and “Swapping envy for joy”.

Step 5 – Productivity

Focus 100% on your work, don’t check emails for the first hour, delegate a task, have a power nap. We know that is easier said than done, so here are a few recipes to help you: “Flow state”, “Pomodoro® Technique for Wellbeing”, and “Tips for time management”.

Step 6 – Exercise

Have walking meetings, go for a morning run, cycle to work, join a sports club, walk part-way to work. We have lots of movement-based activities for you to try out: from our comfortable “Chair yoga” through our “Gentle morning flow” to our “Walking meditation” practices.

Step 7 – Do something different

Call instead of emailing, take a different route to work, bake cookies for the team, organise a random party. Don’t know where to start? How about our recipes “Creativity through boredom”, “Solo day”, or “The no-spend challenge” to see what you can learn about yourself by leaving your comfort zone.

Step 8 – Negativity fast

Stop nagging for a day, drink no alcohol for a week, let go of a grudge. Our recipe “Catharsis through clay” offers a creative way to process tensions through kneading clay. And if you struggle to keep other people’s negativity at bay, learn to protect yourself with our recipe “Releasing energy”.

Step 9 – Generosity

Gift 10% of your salary, help a colleague out, print this out and stick on the wall, organise staff social. However, it is also important to be aware of your responsibility with your generosity: find out how you can be an ally for LGBTQIA2S+ folks and BIPOC in the workplace.

Step 10 – Mindfulness

Meditate for five minutes, accept however you feel, listen without judgement, take a day off to do nothing. We have plenty of mindfulness-based recipes for you to try out: “4-7-8 breathing technique”, “5 elements meditation”, “Body scan meditation”, “Colour-breathing meditation”, and “Mountain meditation”.