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Lunch & Learn
Workplace Wellbeing Sessions
Bitesize Sessions. Meaningful change
Practical 45–60 minute workplace wellbeing Lunch & Learn sessions that help people understand themselves and others under pressure — in a way that feels human, grounded and genuinely useful.
Not just awareness. A pause. A conversation. A starting point.
Connected Ape delivers workplace wellbeing sessions for organisations, teams and leaders across Worthing, Sussex, London and online throughout the UK. Our sessions support resilience, communication, mental fitness, leadership and performance at work.
Delivered by practitioners with experience across workplace wellbeing, leadership, coaching, therapy and science-based breathing.
Who is this for?
- Frontline teams
- Office-based teams
- Leaders, managers & caring roles
- Customer-facing
- Creative professionals
Our approach
- Trauma-trained
- Nervous system-aware
- Practical, not performative
- Deeper learning. Real application.
- Interactive sessions that go beyond awareness
- Understand
- Regulate
- Sustain
- Connect
- Lead
- Stand-Alone & Campaign Led
7 in 10 people
Learning improves their sense of connection to their organisation
Workplace Learning Report 2024
Why organisations start here
These sessions work well when you want to:
- Support your people, but are not sure where to begin
- Offer something practical rather than tick-box wellbeing
- Open up conversation without overwhelming people
- Introduce a first step before larger workshops or programmes
Unlike many wellbeing talks, we do not simply deliver information.
We think carefully about:
- Psychological safety
- The reality of modern working life
- How pressure affects thinking, communication and behaviour
- Giving people practical tools — not just more information
Before each session, we take time to understand your people, your challenges and what would make the greatest difference.
Most capable people do not need more pressure to perform. They need more understanding of what is already happening underneath the surface.
Our bitesize workshops sit within a wider system — allowing organisations to start anywhere, and build over time.
Explore our Workplace Wellbeing Sessions
Every session sits within one of six areas of the Connected Ape approach — helping organisations support wellbeing, resilience, communication and performance.
Workplace wellbeing sessions that build awareness of what is happening beneath pressure — and rethink how we approach resilience, wellbeing and performance at work.
- Understanding Pressure & the Nervous System at Work
- Burnout: Early Signs & Prevention
- The Imposter Phenomenon Under Pressure
- Anxiety, Capacity & the Nervous System at Work
- Menopause, Wellbeing & Performance
Often followed by: Thrive Mode – Unlocking the Brain–Body Secrets of Resilience, Burnout Breakthrough, Breathe Life in Work™
Understand → Improve awareness, communication and decision-making under pressure
Workplace wellbeing sessions that help employees manage stress, regulate their nervous system, improve focus and perform under pressure.
- Breathe Life in Work™ →Learn More
- Boundaries Without Burnout
- Working Under Pressure: Reset & Refocus
Often followed by: Thrive Mode, Wellbeing Wisdom – Beyond Resilience, Sustainable Strength
Regulate → Support energy, focus and performance in real time
Sessions that strengthen long-term resilience, reduce the risk of burnout and support sustainable performance over time.
- Caring without Crashing – Understanding and preventing overload
- Parents Carrying the Mental Load →Learn More About Working Parents
- Working Under Pressure: Reset & Refocus
Often followed by: Wellbeing Wisdom • Boundaries Without Burnout • Sustainable Strength • Get Your Pink Back
Sustain → Protect long-term resilience, retention and capacity
Workplace communication and confidence sessions that strengthen relationships, trust and collaboration.
- Understanding Imposter Phenomenon at Work
- Difficult Conversations Without More Pressure
- Get Your Pink Back
Often followed by: Compassionate Communication • Collective Ape • Sustainable Strength
Connect → Strengthen communication, confidence and working relationships
Leadership wellbeing sessions that help managers support people, improve communication and create healthier, higher-performing teams.
- Leading Under Pressure
- Supporting Others Without Burning Out
- Recognising the Hidden Signs Someone Is Struggling
Often followed by: Neuro-Leadership Reset • Collective Ape • Adaptive Agility
Lead → Help leaders create healthier, higher-performing teams
Flexible, responsive workplace wellbeing sessions designed around a specific audience, challenge or moment in time
- Men’s Mental Fitness
- Younger Minds at Work
- Menopause, Wellbeing & Performance
- Career Wellbeing Taster
Potential next step: Men’s Mental Fitness Cohort — a monthly men’s-only follow-on group designed to continue the conversation and support wellbeing over time.
Stand-Alone → Respond to current challenges with focused, relevant sessions that support your people and organisation
Right Depth, Right Delivery
Frontline & Caring Roles: Trauma-trained and nervous system-aware support for emotionally demanding environments, where people are often carrying more than others realise.
Office-Based Teams:Designed for sustained pressure, mental load, focus demands and the quieter build-up of stress over time.
Leaders & Managers: Focused on helping leaders understand pressure in themselves and others, support people well, and create healthier team dynamics.
Customer-Facing & Creative Professionals:
For people who spend much of their day supporting, communicating, creating or being “on” — often carrying emotional labour, visibility and high expectations.
Flexible by Design
- 45–60 minute sessions
- Online or face-to-face
- Small groups or wider teams
- Suitable for team meetings, wellbeing weeks, away days and development days
- Can be adapted to your people, priorities and working environment
Despite the name, these sessions are not just for lunchtime.
Where possible, we recommend building in a short pause before and after the session — because people are more likely to reflect, reset and take something useful away.
from insight to action
What Happens Next?
Why Connected Ape?
- Trauma-trained and nervous system-aware, not just wellbeing-led
- Delivered by practitioners with experience across coaching, therapy, leadership, workplace wellbeing and science-based breathing
- Shaped around how people actually function under pressure — not how we think they should
- Practical, not performative: people leave with tools they can genuinely use
- Carefully adapted to your organisation, your people and what is happening beneath the surface
- Able to sit alongside existing wellbeing, EAP, leadership and people initiatives
- Thoughtfully curated rather than one-size-fits-all
Supporting people more effectively under pressure can improve communication, engagement, decision-making and retention — whilst reducing some of the hidden costs of burnout, presenteeism and overload.
Real Impact, Real People
“I came away with far more information and understanding than I expected. The trainers created an environment where I felt safe to ask questions and I left with tools I could actually use.”
— Project Manager
“ The Men’s Mental Fitness was a great session offering a variety of tools that can be used to manage physiological and mental stress.
— Team Leader
“A really useful reminder of what anxiety is, how it can present in yourself and others, and how to support both.”
— Senior Nurse Education Fellow
Not sure where to start?
A Practical Starting Point
for Wellbeing, Resilience & Performance
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