Team Support & Workshops

Teams carry a lot. High workloads, organisational change, exposure to distressing material, staff absences, difficult relationships — the pressures that affect individuals don't stay individual for long. They ripple.

At Well Balanced Minds, we deliver psychologically informed workshops, training, and team interventions designed to support staff wellbeing, build resilience, and create the kind of working environment where people can actually do their best work.

All sessions are facilitated by Dr. Mark Doyle, a BPS Chartered Psychologist with extensive experience delivering team support across NHS, public sector, and private settings.

Sessions are practical, evidence-based, and tailored to the needs and context of your team.

Workshop packages begin at £400 and can be tailored to your requirements. Get in touch to discuss what would work best for your team.

Preventing Burn Out through Self Compassion

Burnout is one of the most significant causes of long-term sickness absence in the UK — and it rarely appears overnight. This session covers a integrated Compassion Focused Therapy & CBT perspective on understanding burn out, what contributes to it and how to prevent it through skills and practices. This session involves mindfulness and compassion based practice. This session can be a short 90 mins session or 2-3 hours depending upon the needs of the team.

Understanding Trauma & Distress in the Workplace

Particularly relevant for teams in healthcare, emergency services, education, agriculture, and any setting where staff are regularly exposed to distressing or traumatic material. This session covers an integrated CBT/EMDR/CFT approach to understanding psychological trauma. This session involves mindfulness and compassion based practice. The session usually takes between 90 mins and 2 hours depending on engagement from the team.

Compassionate Workplaces

This session covers a range of material related to compassionate leadership, CFT and distress in working environments, compassion within teams and the importance of self compassion in leadership. The material has been developed from Dr Michael West & De Deborah Lee. The session lasts 90 mins to 2 hours and also covers two practices of mindfulness and compassion.

Psychological Skills to Manage
Anxiety & Distress

This session is a mixture of theoretical understanding from a CBT and CFT perspective along with practical skills to manage distress including demonstration of progressive muscle relaxation, calm breathing techniques, worry and rumination management, de-catastrophizing and challenging thoughts.

Introduction to Compassion Focused Therapy

A brief introduction to the theoretical understanding of Compassion Focused Therapy including evolutionary models, compassionate mind practices and how it can be applied in a range of settings. This session usually takes between 2-3 hours.

Post Event Team Reflection (PETR)

When a team experiences a significant traumatic or distressing event — a serious incident, unexpected death, threatening situation, or period of sustained pressure — the impact doesn't end when the event does. Research consistently shows that structured, peer-supported reflection in the aftermath significantly reduces the risk of lasting psychological harm.

The Post Event Team Reflection (PETR) is a trauma-informed group session based on current recommended guidance from the Association for Clinical Psychology. It provides a safe, voluntary, and facilitated space for team members to process what happened, reconnect with colleagues, and begin to move forward. It is not a debrief in the traditional sense — it is psychologically informed, compassion-led, and focused on promoting hope and sustainable coping.

This session is available as a standalone response to a critical incident or as part of an ongoing team support arrangement

CFT Reflective Practice on the impact of work on Mental Health & Wellbeing

This session is a regular session that can be adopted to support a team who struggle with distressing material or difficulties on a regular basis and require a safe, confidential and reflective space grounded in psychological safety to be able to discuss the impact of work on wellbeing and reduce the tendency towards emotional suppression which can cause significant distress and burn out over time.

Tailored Training Sessions

Sessions can be developed and delivered based on the needs of the team. Please get in touch if you do not see the workshop you would have anticipated here.

Who do we work with...

We have delivered team support and workshops across a range of sectors including NHS and healthcare, emergency services, education, agriculture, manufacturing, public service, and professional services.

If you're not sure whether what we offer fits your team's context — just get in touch.

We're happy to have an initial conversation with no obligation

“Great session - well presented by Mark and engaging to the audience.”

Compassionate Workplaces Training:

Anonymous, Belfast HSC Trust

Interested in support for your team?

We'd recommend starting with a short conversation — it's the best way to understand what your team needs and which session or package would be the right fit. There's no obligation and no sales pressure. Just a practical discussion about what might help.

Get in touch

Get in Touch

ADDRESS:

Morrison House,

107 Church Street,

Portadown,

Co.Armagh,

BT62 3DB

02838810129