The How to Heal programme The unique way to business success through your people

Call 0844 8704715 www.howtoheal.co.uk Email info@howtoheal.co.uk

“How to Heal believes anyone can learn to control and transform their responses to Stress, enabling their return to healthy, happy and productive lives.” Keira Henry, Founder, How to Heal

A new approach

Our programmes work because they are based on the science of PNI - psycho-neuro-immunology (interaction between psychological processes and the body). Lasting change in your employee’s performance needs to involve the body as well as the mind.

We design tailor-made, one-to-one sessions to account for different personality types and challenges, enabling lasting change.

Quickly teaches your people the skills they need to develop their own healthy new behaviour – without additional support.

It is not ‘counselling’. It is performance enhancing for all your employees, whatever their current level of wellbeing.

Flexible use - It works with psychological and physical illnesses such as depression, anxiety, fatigue and gastrointestinal issues – enabling a return to health and work.

The focus on PNI elevates your employees to a new level of understanding of Stress. No longer will it hold power over performance, health and wellbeing.

Why invest in your biggest asset – your people

• Absenteeism, whether work related (such as back pain) or outside your control (such as an employee with a ‘depressive personality’), costs UK business £13.5 billion per year (CBI figures).

• Absenteeism is predominantly related to Stress and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Up to 90% of doctor visits…may be triggered by a Stress-related illness”.

• With an average of £780 lost per employee per year (CBI), a company with 5,000 employees loses £3.9 million a year on sickness absence. £3.5 million of this could be potentially be saved with Stress prevention.

• MacLeod & Clarke research states: highly engaged staff increase productivity by 18% and profitability by 12%.

• Motivated staff have been shown to be 87% less likely to leave their current employment.

How to Heal reduces absenteeism and lack of engagement - increasing your profit margins. Read on to find out how.

What is How to Heal?

2. Tailor-made

programme teaches

powerful tools based

on PNI transforming Stress habits into life enhancing thoughts, moods and behaviours.

4. The employee is

empowered to follow the principles of PNI in facing challenges in their health, life and work, resulting in

good health, wellbeing and high performance.

How to Heal is a tailor-made ten hour programme which empowers your key people to new healthy behaviour using psycho-neuro-immunology (PNI). There are four main parts to the programme:

3. Practising tools in daily life and

work, fine tuning and learning additional tools for progress (.e.g. personality types’ Stress triggers).

1. Set goals for change, develop

awareness of personal ‘Stress habits’

and remove any blocks.

Stress is involved in approximately 90% of all health issues, leading to problems such as back pain, depression and anxiety. Understanding this is can be the key to reducing sickness absence. Using PNI brings about lasting change by stopping the impact of the Stress Vicious Circle on your employees’ performance.

How does How to Heal deliver results? • The body starts to produce healing chemicals naturally. • The body’s major systems (such as musculoskeletal and nervous systems) are

positively affected. • New neural pathways form in the brain, positively changing the unconscious

habits under which the issues have been working. • Negative factors, such as Stress, that are helping to keep the issues alive, are

removed…

...empowering lasting wellness, health and optimising employee performance.

Why does How to Heal work?

1. We are stressed enough to trigger a biological effect on the body. The stress response is abnormal.

2. This leads to illnesses developing (perhaps with contributing factors, such as an external stressor like a toxin).

3. Abnormal levels of stress hormones are in the body making us feel low or depressed and possibly anxious. Life is negatively impacted by the condition, leading to unhappy thoughts and emotions.

4. The low thoughts send messages (neurotransmitters) through the body registered as 'stress' and activating the 'stress response' - this is an abnormal stress response.

5. An abnormal cocktail of stress hormones are activated, adding to the condition's symptoms.

6. We feel physically ill and may experience low feelings, such as anxiety. The body responds to the low feelings biologically sending neurotransmitters around the nervous and immune systems. This impacts the quality of our thoughts - when we feel low, we think low.

7. The body and mind are now caught up in the Stress Vicious Circle.

8. The body learns to keep the illness going through ‘implicit learning‘. Without conscious choice (such as walking without having to think about it) the illness is able to take hold unconsciously.

9. As the Vicious Circle operates at an unconscious level throughout the whole body, we are unaware of it and feel unable to control it.

The Vicious Circle has formed

The Stress Vicious Circle

How to Heal works with:

• Stress

• Depression and Anxiety

• Back Pain and other Musculoskeletal disorders

• Return to Work Coaching

• Performance Coaching (e.g. confidence)

• Stress-related illnesses including: • Fatigue issues such as ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia • Panic Attacks, OCD, PTSD • Digestive disorders such as IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s Disease and food intolerances • Insomnia and sleep disorders • Migraines and Headaches • MS and other auto-immune disorders such as Grave’s Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis • Asthma, Hayfever, Allergies

Background to How to Heal How to Heal was founded in 2010 by Keira Henry, BA (Hons) Dip Clin Hyp NLP Coach SAC Dip (Neuro Psychological Immunology) MIMA, a NLP Master Practitioner and Health Therapist. Keira was inspired to leave her senior post in the corporate world and focus on helping people heal after she battled for five years to get over ME / CFS. Through trial and error she has been able to discover the secrets to wellness and discovered there is a way you can handle Stress and heal at the same time – when you use various Mind-Body tools and techniques, stopping the biological impact of Stress on the body. Keira has studied a variety of treatments which helped her recovery and is now successfully working to treat patients with many mind and body issues which supposedly ‘have no cure’ and which are exacerbated by Stress. Keira’s greatest joy is seeing her clients return to full health and vitality and being productive in the work place. Keira loves working with people and is a dedicated professional whose perception into her patients’ needs helps them to make a quick recovery. The best feeling in the world, she says, is hearing about her clients’ success stories. Keira is a Master NLP Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Coach. Keira was rewarded a Distinction in her Diploma in psycho-neuro-immunology. She also holds Certificates in Stress Management CBT. She has studied

Visualisations, NLP Health training, People Management, Business Coaching, Life Coaching, the Rosen Method and Enneagram Personality Analysis. She recently spent time in California, learning from the pioneers of NLP and Health on advanced treatments. Keira is a Member of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, Member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, Full Member of the Institute of Stress Management, Member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy and Member of the Institute for the Advanced Studies of Health in San Francisco.

10 reasons to use How to Heal

1. Reduces absenteeism costs and increases profit and productivity - enabling business growth. Early intervention is key, as after six months fewer than 50% of employees will return to work.

2. In line with ‘Fit Note’ and ‘Public Health Responsibility Deal’, unfit employees returning to work are unproductive. How to Heal helps your employees be fully fit for work.

3. Teaches self-responsibility. Some employees do not handle Stress as well as others – this is not something you can control. How to Heal teaches employees to manage their own responses more effectively, preventing future relapses or new conditions developing.

4. The programme focuses on giving the employee the right tools to break the Stress habit and embed change.

5. Coaches employees back to full health by resolving the issues.

10 reasons to use How to Heal

6. Private healthcare often only supports up to diagnosis.

7. The NHS and western medicine treat symptoms, not the cause, and have mixed results with chronic conditions. Most drugs do not cure illness, but only help manage the symptoms, increasing absenteeism.

8. As the NHS is underfunded, it is less likely to provide the type of coaching work How to Heal uses to get employees back to peak performance and contributing to the success of the business.

9. The personality types of those developing Stress-related conditions are often the hard-working and dedicated ‘achievers’, ‘perfectionists’ and ‘carers’ you want to keep. How to Heal works with these personality types to help them look after their health while still working productively.

10. Keira Henry worked in senior roles while struggling with ME so understands the issues employees face. As a Senior Manager she understands that companies need to run efficient businesses.

Want to find out more about How to Heal?

Visit us at www.howtoheal.co.uk Call 0844 870 4715 Email info@howtoheal.co.uk

We are happy to come to your offices at your convenience to discuss our unique programmes

Our invitation to you Why not try a free session (worth £400) with no obligation?