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Reimagining Wellbeing: A Radical New Approach by Camena Ltd Camena Ltd is redefining how UK businesses approach wellbeing, harnessing the transformative potential of poetry as a powerful tool for brain development. Camena's innovative programmes cultivate the essential qualities that promote wellness and foster a healthy workplace culture. Wellbeing is integral to human experience, encompassing key traits like resilience, empathy, communication, perspective, and connection. These qualities, often shaped by experience, have become notably absent for many following the prolonged stress and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns. Historically, poetry memorisation nurtured these traits in educational settings. Camena believes that incorporating poetry into Learning and Development practices can address this growing need. Enhancing Wellbeing Through Poetry The practice of writing and sharing poetry allows employees to process complex emotions while enhancing emotional and cognitive skills. This approach builds resilience, empathy, communication, and perspective — crucial elements for boosting wellbeing and morale. By weaving poetry into the fabric of workplace culture, Camena's programmes help heal, increase engagement, and improve staff retention. Poetry is widely recognised for its therapeutic benefits; writing a poem fosters a sense of accomplishment, deepens interpersonal understanding, and strengthens team bonds. Camena's poetry-based programmes offer an engaging and immersive experience that promotes achievement, nurtures empathy, and reinforces connections within teams. Much like the holistic impact of walking in nature, exploring issues through poetry offers multifaceted benefits for both wellbeing and performance. These multi-sensory experiences reconnect us with our humanity, offering moments of respite, encouraging mindfulness, and rekindling our emotional awareness. Today's workforces face significant human challenges: overwhelmed by information, struggling with stress and anxiety, and grappling with emotional fatigue, burnout, disconnection, and low morale. To rebuild engagement, restore wellbeing, and heal workplace culture, we must embrace holistic, human-centric solutions which have stood the test of time. Engaging with poetry provides a comprehensive, immersive experience with proven therapeutic benefits, helping employees develop the core qualities needed to thrive in today's workplace. For more information about Camena’s unique approach to wellbeing, please contact us at info@camena.works.

Blue Monday, Back Again It’s Blue Monday, back again, The worst day in your workers’ year The day they dread above all others The day HR directors fear. The day on which more than any, Say, ‘that’s enough. I’ve bloody had it.’ And pen the letter saying, ‘Dear HR staff, It’s with regret, I quit.’ How about this year, you give Your staff a New Year’s gift, A symbolic, peaceful branch of olive, To ease their stress, give hope a lift. Poetry is what your staff lack, The foundational development tool for brains, To help them through their darkest days, Give shelter from bleak, midwinter rains. Your workforce needs engagement with poetry As a multisensory experience. To help process lingering traumas. And help the world around make sense. Nothing else can do what poems do: They build your brains, your soul and psyche, Teach self-care, how to process loss, And how to experience happiness. All those absent friends: Empathy, connection and resilience, Will be created, restoring morale, Communication, perspective and ebullience. Give now at last, the thing they need. The sticking plaster to heal old wounds To staunch your staff attrition bleed, And retune their ears to pleasant sounds. Start now, and start to bring back, The company ethos once held dear, Bring laughter back, with it performance, And approach with confidence, New Year. #BlueMonday #Poetry #Wellbeing #FoundationalDevelopmentTool

Twas The Night Before Christmas - By Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!" As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes--how they twinkled! his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath; He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night." Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.

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Can Empathy Be Taught? No... but it can be developed through engagement with poetry, the foundational development tool for the brain. #empathy #poetry #development #coreskills https://lnkd.in/ephzNP23

Great article from Harvard Business Review on the benefits of engagement with poetry for business. #poetry #development #wellbeing #leadership

Delighted to form The Poetry of Business, a LinkedIn group to discuss and share the benefits of engagement with poetry for business and organisations. Please join us, whether you are a business poet, a poet, teaching artist or business professional looking for effective methods to address wellbeing and development. #poetry #wellbeing #development #coreskills

Is your company facing a wellbeing crisis? Or a depression crisis? #poetry #wellbeing #development