Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health and Their Impact on the Workplace
Speakers Alexandria Hannah Walker and Lisa Joanne Elsworth aim to raise awareness of the issues surrounding alcohol in the workplace and how mental health and well-being is at the center of the problem. Participants will learn how lockdowns have increased the drinking habits of more than 20% of people, negatively impacting mental health. Even on a very simplistic level, normalized and “normal” drinking are problematic in the workplace. Our speakers will provide actionable takeaway tools for HR professionals to use when dealing with these issues in the workplace.
Learning Objectives:
- Hear how people are impacted by alcohol, including how it impacts their sleep and mental health.
- Hear about the effects on the workplace in terms of absenteeism, presenteeism, inclusion, relationships, productivity, and health and safety.
- Discuss how alcohol impacts physical health and the relevance of this in the workplace.
- Learn how to have discussions about alcohol with colleagues and recognize problem drinking.
- Hear how alcohol is normalized and the impact of this on staff.
Alexandria Hannah Walker
Alex is co-founder of The Sober Experiment and Bee Sober, is a mum of three and an accredited training provider focusing on alcohol recovery. She has a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences, a PGCE and is currently a fully qualified, accredited and experienced realignment coach and trainer.
After realising alcohol was impacting her mental health, Alex decided to give it up. Alex is practicing self-care and mindfulness as part of her continued sobriety journey.
Alex’s favourite self-care tools are exercise and running. Alex is a volunteer speaker for Nacoa, to support children of alcoholic parents, something which is very close to her heart from her own childhood experiences. Alex’s aim is to write and publish her own book to spread the word on how amazing sobriety is.
Lisa Joanne Elsworth
Lisa a mum of three is a director of the IPHM, an international accreditation board for Holistic Complementary Alternative Therapists and Training Providers. She is also a co-founder of The Sober Experiment and Bee Sober, an amazing social group for sober people all across the UK and a volunteer speaker for Nacoa, delivering talks to organisations throughout the UK, such as schools and youth clubs; raising awareness of NACOA's services and the effects of parental alcohol problems on children.
Lisa is a positive thinker and will always find humour in even the darkest or most trying situations. Lisa believes that sobriety is the best thing that has ever happened to her, everyone she has influenced and everyone she continues to influence.
Lisa’s aim is to motivate everyone she comes into contact with using positivity, gratitude, mindfulness and self-care to bring about happiness and success whilst spreading the sober word.