Having a great employee on your team is a privilege for your company.

Members of your team deserve recognition for the long hours and invaluable input they contribute to make your company thrive.

Stress at work can have many negative effects on your mental and physical health which can affect your performance.

Burnout is a serious matter and can lead to more serious health problems.

Nominate an employee to join our upcoming January Retreat

Restore mental clarity and Practice self-care

• Balance their mind

• Restore overall wellbeing

• Increase their resilience

• Learn stress management techniques

• Practice Pilates and meditation

Gift your employee or yourself and kickstart 2025 and learn healthy habits and strategies.

Participants can leave with a clearer sense of priorities and boundaries creating an improved Work/Life Balance.

DBC Health Retreats goal is to optimise the health of those who work in pressured roles with long hours.

Individually tailored, programmes to improve employee wellbeing

Our employee health assessments are designed to give people a better understanding of their health, wellbeing and risks.

Assessments include checks and discussions on the day, for both physical and mental health, plus ongoing support.

Boost wellbeing, motivation and productivity of your workforce.

With many HR leaders struggling to support the evolving wellbeing needs of their workforce, a useful guide for wellbeing programmes are the 4 key pillars of wellbeing namely: mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing.

DBC Health Retreats Team Building deliver onsite Employee Wellbeing Workshops in the Uk aimed at improving health, energy and performance in the workplace.

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Evidence suggests there are 5 steps you can take to help improve your mental health and wellbeing, these are connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give.

The workshops we offer are an easy way to develop new skills, improve wellbeing and help reduce absenteeism.

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Government, employers, the organizations which represent workers and employers, and other stakeholders responsible for workers’ health and safety can help to improve mental health at work through action to:

• prevent work-related mental health conditions by preventing the risks to mental health at work;

• protect and promote mental health at work;

• support workers with mental health conditions to participate and thrive in work; and

• create an enabling environment for change.

Action to address mental health at work should be done with the meaningful involvement of workers and their representatives, and persons with lived experience of mental health conditions.

Exercise improves mental health by reducing anxiety, depression, and negative mood and by improving self-esteem and cognitive function. Exercise has also been found to alleviate symptoms such as low self-esteem and social withdrawal.

When you have depression or anxiety, exercise often seems like the last thing you want to do. But once you get motivated, exercise can make a big difference.

Exercise helps prevent and improve a number of health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis. Research on depression, anxiety and exercise shows that the psychological and physical benefits of exercise can also help improve mood and reduce anxiety.

One reason that weight training boosts metabolism is because it encourages a development in lean muscle tissue.

A pound of muscle burns 35-50kcals a day compared to fat, which burns only 2!

So get lifting those weights…

I developed DBC Health Retreats 13 years ago, and it changed my life! It opened me up to new ways of living, starting from a place of wellness & empowerment.

I love retreats, mainly for the self-development aspect – you get to spend focused time on you. Helping my guests regain balance and get on track. Find out what’s working, what’s not. A retreat is the perfect environment for that.

On retreat, you experience little shifts & a whole lot of relaxation. When you’re relaxed, that’s when inspiration can most easily get through to you. You know – that lovely feeling of connection, knowing and gentle pulling towards something that will improve your overall wellbeing.

There are a  variety of retreats to choose from, depending on your needs!

• Health Detox Cleanse

• Pilates/Yoga

• Healing

• Self Love

• Meditation

• Self Development

So, are you wondering if a retreat can help you right now? Let’s see how many of these you say ‘yes’ to…

6 Signs you need a Retreat

1. Constantly feel tired.

2. Regularly experience Anxiety

3. Bored, fed up of life/work

4. Dream of a better life, job, lifestyle

5. Burn out, lacking energy, motivation

6. Feel disconnected

Do you feel stress is negatively impacting your physical and mental wellbeing?

Many situations can cause a stress response in the body. Changes at work, illness, accidents, problems with relationships, family, money or housing can all cause stress. Even seemingly small daily hassles like someone pushing in a queue can make us feel stressed. What links all these situations is that we’re unable to predict and control what is happening to us, and so our body goes into a state of increased alertness. And these events can happen all the time - triggering the body’s stress response over and over again.

When the stress response becomes prolonged (chronic), it has a very different effect to the short bursts that enhance the body’s abilities. In many cases, the system controlling the stress response is no longer able to return to its normal state. Attention, memory, and the way we deal with emotions are negatively impacted. This long-term stress can contribute to both physical and mental illness through effects on the heart, immune and metabolic functions, and hormones acting on the brain.

Some of the emotional and behavioural symptoms of stress overlap with those of mental health conditions like anxiety or depression. This can make it hard to distinguish where one begins and the other ends, or which came first. Someone who is stressed may feel worried, down, unable to concentrate or make decisions, irritable and angry.

DBC Health Retreats release tension and recharge with a healthy plant based diet, fresh juices, hiking, pilates and plenty of rest.

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Improve your health from inside, out!

Avoid ultra processed foods.

The microbiome consists of TRILLIONS of living microbes inside your gut. These little mood elevators work around the clock producing happy-chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. Making sure that you have a diverse and thriving microbiome can help not only with your mental health, but can prevent things like the urge to over-eat, and can help regulate your digestive system.

1. Make sure to eat your vegetables!

2. Cut out sugar and avoid processed foods

3. Probiotics are great for your gut

4. Avoid Antibiotics

5. Stock up on dietary sources of prebiotics

6. Fermented Foods are gut-friendly

7. Try to cut back on the red meat

8. Get enough sleep

9. Exercise

10. Make time for you!

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Changing behaviour, instigating and sustaining change across a workforce change can be challenging.
Building a Culture of Opportunity and growth, embedding Wellbeing into every project will help to re engage and motivate your employees.
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