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19/04/2026

Free Webinar: Stress Management in Everyday Life

Our free webinar for Stress Awareness Month is titled ‘Stress Management in Everyday Life: Practical Strategies for Enhancing Wellbeing‘ will be of interest to anyone wishing to learn how to manage stress, become more relaxed and enhance their wellbeing. In this session, Professor Stephen Palmer and Dr Siobhain O’Riordan will explore the foundations of stress and its impact on health and wellbeing. The lecture will introduce practical techniques such as cognitive reframing, the benefits of connecting with nature, and a range of relaxation skills that can be quickly applied once a person has had sufficient practice.

Overall, attendees will learn simple, effective strategies to enhance resilience, improve wellbeing, and make sustainable positive changes in everyday life.

The event is supported by the

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OwhpXGDZT0WUqSwZJxlBKA #/registration

16/04/2026

Free Webinar: Stress Management in Everyday Life: Practical Strategies for Enhancing Wellbeing.
Date & Time: Apr 27, 2026 11:45 AM BST
Speakers: Professor Stephen Palmer and Dr Siobhain O'Riordan PhD

This webinar may be of interest to anyone wishing to learn how to manage stress, become more relaxed and enhance their wellbeing. In this session, Professor Stephen Palmer and Dr Siobhain O'Riordan will explore the foundations of stress and its impact on health and wellbeing. The lecture will introduce practical techniques such as cognitive reframing, the benefits of connecting with nature, and a range of relaxation skills that can be quickly applied once a person has had sufficient practice.

Overall, attendees will learn simple, effective strategies to enhance resilience, improve wellbeing, and make sustainable positive changes in everyday life.

Stress Awareness Month is held annually during April. It is dedicated to raising awareness about stress, its causes, and the impact it can have on our health and wellbeing. It offers an opportunity for individuals and organisations across the UK to engage in important conversations about stress management, share resources, and encourage practices that promote mental resilience.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OwhpXGDZT0WUqSwZJxlBKA #/registration

Webinar: Stress Management in Everyday Life: Practical Strategies for Enhancing Wellbeing. This webinar may be of interest to anyone wishing to learn how to manage stress, become more relaxed and enhance their wellbeing. In this session, Professor Stephen Palmer and Dr Siobhain O'Riordan will explor...

04/03/2026

EVENT: The 7th Climate Coaching Action Day is being held on the 5th March, 2026.

The International Society for Coaching Psychology supports the Climate Coaching Action Day and the free, online conference, Bridging the divide: courage, compassion and wisdom in climate coaching, which starts at 09:25 GMT on the 5th March.

https://www.climatecoachingactionday.info/whats-happening/

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Conference: Bridging the divide: courage, compassion and wisdom in climate coaching

09:25 Welcome with Prof Stephen Palmer

09:30-10:30 Workshop: Growing hope with Lorenza Clifford

What if we became really alive to the role hope plays? What might be possible when we prime ourselves to generate hope through cumulative daily practices? Lorenza offers a relational perspective on hope, inviting us to participate: reflect, draw or journal on our own experiences to grow hope.

10:30-10:45 Break and networking

10:45-12:15 Harnessing the power of Relational Mindfulness in climate coaching, with Liz Hall and Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder.

Relational Mindfulness is a pioneering and timely coaching approach which helps us deepen connection in our relationships, with ourselves, our clients and the Earth, supporting more courageous collaborations and enhancing presence, awareness and wisdom. This session will be partly experiential – participants will have the opportunity to practise Relational Mindfulness dialogue exploring topics relevant to climate and sustainability coaching.

12:15-12:30 Take aways, handover & close of conference

Pre-recorded sessions available all day:

Pre-recorded interview with the CCA’s Claire D’Abouville, Fran Smith and Kat Haber on the CCA’s research among pioneering climate coaches. In the interview, we talk about why the CCA carried out this research, what they found, and also some tips for sustainability coaching from the interviewees.

Pre-recorded lecture on Climate Coaching Psychology with Prof Stephen Palmer.

In this paper Climate Psychology and the emerging field of Climate Coaching Psychology will be discussed. The application of an informative, ethical, coaching psychology approach to tackling debilitating climate change worries, ecoanxiety and ecodepression will be described.

Invited congress paper with the late Dr Alison Whybrow recorded in 2020.

Title: Climate change and coaching psychology: How do we respond to the feedback we are receiving?

What’s Happening The 7th Climate Coaching Action Day takes place on 5th March, 2026 This initiative was launched in 2020 by Coaching at Work, but although we mark it, too, it was always intended to be an invitation for others to embrace, as have organisations, including the Climate Coaching Allia...

12/01/2026

Free Virtual Lecture: Doctoral College Seminar Series, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. 20th January 2026, 1-2pm GMT.
Title: A resilient approach to navigating the winter blues
Speaker: Prof Stephen Palmer PhD FAREBT. Coaching, Health & Counselling Psychologist
Platform: Zoom

The 'Winter Blues' is a popular term used by the public although it is not a medical condition. This presentation will consider the possible reasons for a mild, and temporary dip in mood, energy, and motivation that can happen during the winter months. It often occurs after the holiday season on our return to work and/or studying. Then the presentation will focus on practical, coping strategies including easy to use thinking skills to challenge any 'Winter Blues Thinking'.

In the UK, about 3% of people have significant winter depression which is known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Therefore, knowing when to seek professional help will also be highlighted in this lecture.

https://uwtsd-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/urySKGBgRbeDeAHNZASXQw #/registration

Cyfres Seminarau’r Coleg Doethurol Sut i drechu melan y gaeaf Athro Stephen Palmer 20 Ionawr 1-2yb Mae ‘Melan y Gaeaf’ yn derm a ddefnyddir gan y cyhoedd, er nad yw’n gyflwr meddygol. Bydd y cyflwyniad hwn yn ystyried y rhesymau posibl dros y cwymp bach, dros dro hwn mewn hwyliau, egni a chy...

12/08/2025

FREE CONFERENCE: International Relaxation Day Online Conference, 15th August, 2025

Conference Theme: Harnessing Relaxation to Enhance Wellbeing
Depending upon your time zone, the conference is held on 14th & 15th August, 2025
Location: Virtual. Conference held on Zoom & YouTube
Cost: Free event

Key:
* = Live Zoom webinar or meeting.
+ = Pre-recorded presentation premiered on YouTube.

Quick Links to register and/or attend each session below. Times in BST (UK time):

1. *Harnessing Relaxation to Enhance Wellbeing with Prof Stephen Palmer & Dr Siobhain O’Riordan 09:45 BST to 11:15 BST. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GJKJZ9o7QBWBsc0kqduiGw

2. *Relaxation Club with Prof Stephen Palmer & Dr Siobhain O’Riordan. 11:45 BST to 12:45 BST. Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mzdbIvSLR26rdSKYJbk-Ig

3. +Mindfulness - a trainable dimension of health and wellbeing with Dr Karen E. Neil. 13:00 BST to 13:30 BST. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAlijghms0

4. +Sufi Qawwali Music for Stress Management with Yumna Ali. 14:00 BST to 14:30 BST. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4EviXg-WKE

5. +Coping creatively and using creativity to cope: How creativity can be applied in meditation and stress management with Dr Qing Wang 14:45 BST 2.45pm. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7t8aiq473A

6. *Leadership, self-care and relaxation with Dr. Richard MacKinnon. 15:00 BST to 16:15 BST. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zp7b5i_gQYGedK7ZU0UuXA

7. +Relaxation for All: Cultivating a Way of Being in Everyday Life with Prof Stephen Palmer PhD (32 minutes) 16:30 BST 4.30pm. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnmj-NZFf7c

8. +Mission Impossible? Reclaiming calmness in a highly anxious world, with Judit Varkonyi-Sepp. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRK4v8tezR4

Welcome to the International Relaxation Day Online Conference, 2025. We have presentations from relaxation and stress experts, academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world sharing with us their knowledge about relaxation and mindfulness methods and techniques.

For ease of watching internationally with the different time zones, there are some live presentations using the Zoom Platform and some are pre-recorded which are premiered on YouTube.

For the live keynote papers, afterwards, speakers will join attendees in a Zoom Meeting room to discuss their presentations.

Visit the conference website for full programme details: https://www.internationalrelaxationday.com/ird-conference-2025/

The supports International Relaxation Day and the conference.

Video: Introduction to International Relaxation Day and the International Relaxation Day Conference, 2025 with Prof Stephen Palmer PhD

25/07/2025

Introduction to International Relaxation Day & the Conference, held on 15th August, 2025

Coming soon is International Relaxation Day (IRD) and our free virtual IRD Conference, 2025. We will have presentations from relaxation and stress experts, academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world sharing with us their knowledge about relaxation and mindfulness methods and techniques.

The conference may interest members of the public, HR, health professionals, psychologists, counsellors, coaches, managers and academics who may wish to learn more about relaxation techniques and their benefits to enhancing health and wellbeing, and reducing stress and anxiety.

The introductory video includes 9 minutes of information about IRD and the IRD conference and then at the end, a 10 minute recording of birds singing at dusk in west Kent, England, UK.

Conference Recognition

The conference is recognised by the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and the International Society for Coaching Psychology for continuing professional development (CPD). Both organisations support International Relaxation Day.

Audio recording: © 2020, Stephen Palmer: Birds at dusk in a woodland, located in west Kent, England.

Introduction to International Relaxation Day & the Conference, held on 15th August, 2025Welcome to the International Relaxation Day (IRD) and our virtual IR...

11/07/2025

Latest article: Transition Support as a Leadership Competency

This article builds on past work about transitions by introducing the idea of 'transition dimensions', which can offer additional insight and understanding when navigating transitional times. One of these dimensions 'visible vs hidden' is considered further in the context of the workplace, where transition support is an increasingly important leadership competency.

Citation: Panchal, S., Palmer, S. & O’Riordan, S. (2025). Transition Support as a Leadership Competency. Coaching Psychology International, 18, 5, 1-4.

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