The Body Hotel
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STAFF WELLBEING
& CPD PROGRAMME
The Body Hotel: Self-Care Suite was a movement for wellbeing programme designed and delivered in collaboration with Velindre NHS trust. It aimed to improve self-care and stress management for employees within the NHS, but with particular focus on the teams of nurses and allied healthcare professionals working across palliative care within the Velindre NHS trust.
The programme featured several workshop formats, including Embodied Skills in Clinical Practice CPD workshops, wellbeing sessions during established staff meetings, Self-Care Saturdays intensive workshops, and movement interventions as part of conferences and professional development sessions.
The aims of workshops are to:
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Create positive spaces to explore your wellbeing creatively;
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Foster positive experiences amongst staff to strengthen leadership and team building using movement and nonverbal communication;
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Learn new skills and practices to support both yourself and service users.
Full evaluation Report:
Filipponi, T. and Wallace, C. (2025) The Body Hotel Self-Care Suite: Evaluation. Pontypridd: University of South Wales. Available at: https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/30988588/The_Body_Hotel_Self-Care_Suite_Evaluation_Report.pdf
We offered 16 sessions, and 122 participants engaged with the project.
Self-care Saturdays
We led several workshop intensives, we will deepen our movement practice and treat ourselves to checking out from daily life and checking into our bodies. You will learn more about dance/movement as a tool for our wellbeing, and reflect on how we can nurture and replenish ourselves, enjoy connecting with others in person, and re-engage with play and creativity.
We will keep holding these bimonthly and they will be open to the whole movement community. Sign up to our newsletter so that you don't miss the next one!
Continuing Professional Development: Embodied Skills in Healthcare Contexts
We offered workshops to staff teams at Velindre, which focused on developing nonverbal skills to work with clients, and engaging with activities that encouraged self-reflection and self-care by using dance/movement. The focus of the programme was specifically on team-building and engaging with wellbeing through the arts. We worked with:
Clinical Psychology Team
Clinical Nurse Specialist Teams
Clinical Trials Team
Menopause Café
Therapies Teams (Allied Health Professionals)
Have a team that could benefit from an innovative approach to CPD?
We are always happy to work with you and tailor our workshops to your team. Get in touch and we can have a chat about how to promote burnout prevention and staff retention in your organisation!
