About Aspire and Inspire
Founded in 2006, we provide health improvement and case management services to individuals and organisations. With rich experience of developing, tailoring and delivering coaching, mentoring and consultancy packages that reflect the needs of each client.
Aspire and Inspire implements health improvement strategies to facilitate wellness within personal and working life.
The Working Towards Wellness Initiative of the World Economic Forum states that to individual's, wellness is “an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices towards, a more successful
existence”. It suggests that, at corporate level, 'steps can be taken that reduce chronic disease and mitigate its debilitating impact on personal lives and organizational productivity'.
Sometimes life throws challenges you'd prefer to avoid, someone you love dies, a relationship ends, an accident or illness stops your independent lifestyle and presents unforseen financial problems and alterations to working practise and social interactions. The birth of a child - noone said it could be so difficult!
How can you ride the storm, using the expeience to build a new future, create new opportunities and become stronger?
This is where Angela's unique optimism and ability to see the wider picture and adapt comes into play.
If you stop fighting against the current, you can float downstream!
Try going with the flow for a mo!
If you glide, allow, do things you can do whilst unable to do the things that you think you want to do, you may even find that there are other opportunities out there and the ability to grow ideas and interests you didn't have time for when you were doing what you did.
Listen
To your gut reaction.
Act upon instincts.
Look for alternatives.
Make life a pleasure and adapt!
Think about your skills.
What makes you happy?
What fills you with excitement when you talk or think about it?
If you had the time, freedom and money to do it - what would you do?
Think of a time when you were on a roll - your very best - what were you doing? Who were you with?
What does it feel like to be respected?
Who do you respect?
Who do you resent and why?
What are the traits of a person you see as a role model?
Who are you?
Who are you to the people around you?
What are your strengths?
What could you improve about yourself?
What could you do to enable the peopel around you to be the very best that they can be?
What would that mean to you?
Do you have to be the best or as good as the best?
What do you contribute to a team and how do your skills compliment one another?
Angela Stephen is a passionate and influential practitioner. Investigative and creative, she taps into and blends available resources with supreme ingenuity. She has been instrumental in negotiating packages that significantly improve outcomes and so negate long term losses. Benefitting from 25 years experience within the NHS, latterly as a children's neuro-oncology Macmillan nurse specialist, with a national and international presence, working in both general and specialist settings. Expertise, education and training in history taking, symptom management, rehabilitation, facilitating adaptation and goal setting, coaching, mentorship, counselling and communication skills, group facilitation, bereavement support, leading empowered organisations, teaching and assessing. She will resume studies in January '11, towards an MSc in Health Improvement and Health Promotion at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Health for all The attainment by all the people of the world of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. WHO Geneva 1984.
Health Improvement Sustainable
enhancement of positive health and reduction in ill-health in
populations through policies, strategies and activities in the
overlapping action areas of: * Social, economic, physical, environmental and cultural factors * Equity and diversity * Education and learning* Services, amenities and products * Community-led and community-based activity. Tannahill, A. 2008. Health Promotion: The Tannahill model revisited: Elsevier
Laverack's 'new definition of health promotion' Health promotion is a set of principles (e.g. equity, compassion) centred around the concept of empowerment to enable people to take more control of their lives and health. Health promotion practice encompasses a range of communication, capacity-building and politically orientated approaches to help their clients (individuals, groups, organisations and communities) to gain more power (control) over decisions and resources regarding their health'. Health promotion Laverack G. 2007 Health Promotion Practice Building Empowered Communities" page 6 (box 1.2) ISBN: 033 522057-b.:
Laverack's 'new definition of health promotion' Health promotion is a set of principles (e.g. equity, compassion) centred around the concept of empowerment to enable people to take more control of their lives and health. Health promotion practice encompasses a range of communication, capacity-building and politically orientated approaches to help their clients (individuals, groups, organisations and communities) to gain more power (control) over decisions and resources regarding their health'. Health promotion Laverack G. 2007 Health Promotion Practice Building Empowered Communities" page 6 (box 1.2) ISBN: 033 522057-b.: