DeMontfort Healthy Living

Outstanding Soft Skills Training

Jessica Robbins we are truly and utterly passionate about people and I know this from my own experience. Her training courses are designed with the different learning styles in mind, empowering you to learn in the way that suits you!  Jessica and her dedicated team create courses to teach, inspire and develop people in all areas of business using accelerated learning techniques, NLP and performance psychology within an entertaining fun environment.

Making the difference – Jessica ensures you are confident, practised and competent in what you’ve learned by the end of the course and raring to start using it back at work!

Getting Started – a range of ready-to-run Management, Leadership and Soft Skills training courses are available for you to choose from.

If you would like Jessica to tailor a course or workshop for a unique set of requirements, please email  info@jessicarobbins.co.uk with your telephone number and a course advisor will call you.

Inspirational Leadership

Management Skills

Change Mangement

Maximising Team Performance

Powerful Presentation Skills

Personal Impact & Effectiveness

Sales Mastery with NLP

Sales for non-salespeople

Negotiation Skills

Project Management Skills

Advanced Coaching skills for managers

Communication Skills to Motivate

Assertiveness at Work

Stress Management

Train the Trainer

Please contact her on 0800 083 8013

Email: jess@jessicarobbins.co.uk

Website: http://www.jessicarobinson.com/index.php

Jessica Robbins – Peak Performance Expert, Speaker & NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)Trainer

Jessica Robbins is a superbly talented lady with an array of professional skills, who empowers you to be and to achieve whatever you wish.   With her team of passionate Performance Specialists, Coaches, Trainers and Consultants Jessica delivers powerful solutions that result in success for individuals and organisations.

Jessica has a powerful ability to make you feel at ease and the most important person in the room.  What impressed me most about Jessica is her amazing active listening skills which she shared with us and which so often are not present in our busy every day communication.

Jessica provides the tools and life skills to inspire you with the focus, training and accountability to achieve consistent results.

Just as personal fitness trainer enables you to become fit and have the body you want, Jessica’s Lifestyle Coaching Programme helps you build the kind of life you deserve, focussing on what’s important to you.

Peak performance coaching is designed for anyone striving to be the best they can be. From directors of companies, to poker players, athletes, performing artists and anyone who has to perform at their best day after day.

With Jessica, you will discover the specific path for you to achieve what you most want from your life.  However impossible you may feel at the time, Jessica’s coaching programmes will help you on this amazing journey, using powerful techniques, encouraging you every step of the way towards achieving everything you want.

I mentioned that Jessica is talented – well not only does she run a very successful company, but she is also a professional singer and athlete – all achieved through her belief in herself through NPL and Peak Performance Programmes -  is she an inspiration and an absolute joy to work with making her seminars and workshops fun, entertaining and successful for you.

Please contact her on 0800 083 8013

Email: jess@jessicarobbins.co.uk

Website: http://www.jessicarobinson.com/index.php

Cleanse Your Liver with Lemons

If you are a chocoholic or like to over indulge in sweet treats, not only will you have a blood sugar imbalance but also you will place a lot of stress on your liver, which is the detoxing organ of your body.

Kate A’Vard from Alkaline By Design suggests this very simple liver detox

1.       Drink the juice of 4 lemons neat upon rising for 5 consecutive days.

2.       Swish your mouth out with water and then spit out. Best not to clean teeth either side of this activity for 30 minutes.

3.       Then after about 15 minutes follow on with a pint of normal water.

4.       Once your 5 days is up, continue one day a week, then on your other days,  drink a pint of warm water with the squeeze of half a lemon upon rising.

As you start to do this, you will desire chocolate even less.

Beginners Raw Food Demonstrations

Do you want to find out how to slim down for the summer and stay slim forever?

Then you need to add more raw food into your diet.

It must taste good or better than the usual suspects and be quick and easy to do. (Few ingredients and equipment you are likely to have at home)

These are the 4 weekly beginner’s demonstrations:

Dairy alternatives that will eradicate your cravings

A range of pates for quick and simple snacks

Sauces, dips and relishes to liven up any dish

Desserts to make your heart rejoice and NO sugar

To introduce you to the art of Raw Food Preparation

Come with your friends and watch how it is all made

Take away recipes to easily make dishes at home

Only £10 per demonstration

9th May 6.00pm – 7.30pm

Day Resource Centre, Bedford Health Village

3 Kimbolton Road, Bedford MK40 2NT

Phone 07972 131666 to book your seat

or email Ann Peckham Ann.Peckham@sept.nhs.uk

Step Away From The Desk Presentation – Free Download Plus Useful Contacts

As you may have read under the events section, I am going to be giving a presentation at the Institute of Directors in Luton on 15th April 2011.

For those of you who can’t make it, or for those who were there and would like a copy, here is the link to download the presentation slides that I used to illustrate my talk:

Step Away From The Desk – Free Download

All I ask is that you let me know what you think in the comments section below.

You may also be interested to find out more information on employee engagement as well as some of the other points I covered in the presentation.

Black Dog – Independent HR Employee Engagement – contact Gill Craik http://www.blackdoghr.com/services/employee-engagement-and-employee-surveys

Pulse Health Screening – contact Sue Bedford http://pulsescreening.co.uk/Corporate/

Bio Protective Systems – contact Bindi Desai  http://www.bioprotectivesystems.com/

Healthy Results – contact Carole Batchelor http://www.healthyresults.co.uk/

Healthy Work Places – http://www.fph.org.uk/uploads/l_healthy_workplaces.pdf

Patrick Holford Nutritionist – http://www.patrickholford.com

Sport England – http://www.sportengland.org/default.aspx

NHS Choices – http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/healthy-eating/Pages/Healthyeating.aspx

Powerwatch – http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/

Uni Key Health – http://www.unikeyhealth.com/earthing

DWP – http://www.dwp.gov.uk/health-work-and-well-being/

Work Smart – http://www.worksmart.org.uk/health/

CIPD – http://www.cipd.co.uk/hr-resources/factsheets/stress-mental-health-at-work.aspx

Office Fitness Clinic – http://www.shelterpub.com/_fitness/_office_fitness_clinic/OFC_clinic.html

Healthy Eating Lives – http://www.healthyworkinglives.com/advice/workplace-health-promotion/healthy-eating.aspx

Creating a Healthy Work Place – http://www.fph.org.uk/uploads/l_healthy_workplaces.pdf

If you would like more information for you or your staff please contact Margaret Duggan on 0800 902 0336

Thanks for reading.

The Miracle Man – Morris Goodman

If you really want to see how powerful your mind can be then have a look at Morris Goodman – The Miracle Man. I had the good fortune to see and listen to Morris when he visited the LG Arena in Birmingham in April 2011.

What an inspirational, humble witty and enlightening man. Having suffering horrendous injuries in a plane crash and told he would never function again in doing all the tasks we take for granted like breathing, eating walking to name a few, Morris believed in himself and the power of his mind to walk out of the hospital unaided. When you are having a bad day think on this and you will realise life is really not so bad and you can do much more than you think you can.

10 Top Tips for Improved Health at Work

Some of these tips may seem quite obvious but it’s amazing with repeated mental patterns bad habits become the norm – little steps lead to big changes.

1.    When you rise in the morning drink a large glass of water (warm if you wish) with lemon, fresh ginger etc. to cleanse and energise your body for the day ahead.  This also alkalises your body which is a healthier for you.

2.    Fill a 2 litre bottle of fresh water to drink throughout the day.

3.    Sit comfortably at your desk, with chair at suitable level to support good posture and all you need nearby to prevent straining or injury.

4.    Ensure the tool bar of your computer is at eye, look away from your computer frequently to allow you to relax your eyes and blink.

5.    Get up and walk about every 20 minutes – ideally leave your work place.

6.    Fill a container with nuts & seeds (if you have a nut allergy replace with Nairn’s rough oat biscuits) and also fresh fruit like apple, pear, pineapple, berries and fresh coconut for snacks.

7.    When possible leave your desk to eat your lunch, give yourself time  and take a break in the fresh air when and where possible.

8.    At mealtimes ask yourself ‘What information is in this food?’  It will make you think twice

9.    Lead by example. Employees are more likely to take health seriously if they can see you looking the picture of health. Do it to feel it. Vibrant health is great for your business!

10.   Never retire from, but retire to something for cognitive longevity, health and happiness.

For more information please email Margaret at  mrd@demontforthealthyliving.co.uk

My Presentation at the Institute of Directors in Luton – 15th April 2011

I’m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Institute of Directors (IOD) in Luton on the morning of the 15th April 2011 as part of their breakfast networking group.

In my presentation, I’ll be discussing some of the major health issues that are affecting workplace productivity and more importantly, some of the ways to deal with them. This is becoming a big factor in terms of company productivity, as unhealthy employees cost businesses time and, crucially, money. All businesses want to improve their bottom line and making their employees healthier can help them achieve that.

If you’re in or around the Luton area and you’d like to join us for breakfast and hear me speak on this subject, then click here for more details.



Price: £17+VAT members, £21+VAT non-members
Venue: Putteridge Bury Conference Centre, Hitchin Road, Luton, LU2 8LE

Carole Batchelor – Grief Recovery Expert

I have had the good fortune to work with Carole Batchelor for several years and during this time I discovered what an honest, professional person she is, with a dedication to helping others.  Carole speaks with passion and from a place of experience and loss.  Sadly Carole’s husband died from skin cancer so if there is one person who knows how to help you through your difficult and sometimes traumatic experience it is Carole.

If you have been affected by loss and are looking for answers as to what do you do to help yourself deal with the emotions you are experiencing, then I know Carole maybe able to show you a way of get

Who do you know who maybe going through dealing with a death, a divorce, or other major losses in their lives – you can help them by contacting Carole.

This Grief Recovery programme takes place over 12 weeks by Carole.  I have actually completed this course so that I could help and inform my clients and have a greater understanding of what is involved on this Grief Recovery course. It is not a counselling course – to for me it is much more than that (there is of course a place for counselling and some very talented counsellors available to offer help)  It was only as the programme developed where I was made aware and realised that we all carry unresolved grief in our head and hearts for many years.

Carole possesses the skill of active listening, by this I mean she will give you her time and attention(and a Kleenex if  needed) with valuable information to help you come to terms with your personal grief and dispel so many of the myths and misinformation which surround our limited understanding of grief.

The practical steps learnt each week in a very caring and safe environment allowed each member of our group to fully participate no matter how painful revealing their grief. Group members encouraged each other and offered support when required.

Grief is a very normal part of our lives and that we need re-educating in how to be prepared for it so that when it does come as it will to all of us to some degree, that we are ready to deal with it practically and intelligently. I would recommend Grief Recovery to anyone who is grieving and any enlightened person who wants to prepare for that eventuality in the future.”

If you feel a course might not be for you at the moment then you can always read the Grief Recovery Handbook, recommended by Carole.

Carole is a busy lady of many talents and specialises in Food Intolerance Testing, which is a quick, painless and needle-free way to test for food intolerances to milk, yeast, sugar, wheat, fruit, dairy and over 90 other food products.  Carole also offers Thought Field Therapy (TFT) to treat and deal with phobias, such as fear of flying, fear of dentists and fear of heights. It can be used to treat addictions, including smoking, as well as anxieties over relationship problems, illnesses, redundancy, work-related stress and panic attacks.  For more information please visit http://www.healthyresults.co.uk/

When contacting Carole from this site please quote DEM/GF01

The Real Food Festival 2011

The Real Food Festival (5th-8th May 2011 in Earl’s Court, London) offers an alternative to the current, industrialised systems of agriculture, food manufacture and distribution.

With an existing food system that has evolved to be a generating huge profits rather than a system to feed people, the Real Food Festival promotes a different approach that aims to feed people good, seasonal, nutritionally-dense food and drink that has been produced in a sustainable and ethical way.

For tickets and information, visit The Real Food Festival Website.