Teach Yourself to Sleep

The fall-out from not getting enough quality sleep is harsh – from exhaustion to a depressed immune system and long-term health risks… but what can we do to turn this around, if our sleep-wake cycle is in chaos?

Kate Mikhail’s first-person account of how she tackled her chronic insomnia, is an evidence-based book that brings sleep science to life. From NASA light science to how to tune into your body and sleep, Teach Yourself to Sleep is backed up by extensive research and exclusive interviews with many leading doctors, scientists, experts and academics – to help you understand sleep like never before and how you can give yourself the best sleep possible.

Teach Yourself to Sleep takes a thought-provoking and accessible look at the science and biology of sleep, opening up a new way of looking at sleep issues in a much wider context. It is the perfect blend of original research, practical advice and interesting history that brings a fresh perspective to the topic of sleep and a new approach for unlocking the obstacles that might be holding sleepers back from getting better, quality sleep.

After years of being awake half the night with chronic insomnia, at the mercy of recurring burn-out days, while working for national newspapers, and with three young children to look after (including twins), Kate knows what it’s like to survive on too little sleep.

More importantly, she also knows the extraordinary potential we can all unleash by upgrading the quality of our sleep, having delved into the biology & science of sleep and the mind-body loop, to fix her debilitating insomnia.

She shares with delegates why sleep is so fundamental to our health, wellbeing, performance and productivity, and why we need to look at sleep from a completely different perspective, to start each day strong, resilient and firing on all cylinders.

Featured topics

Peak Performance & Sleep Leadership, Employee Wellness & Productivity, Health & Wellbeing

Sleep is key to performance and an underused tool that can transform your wellbeing and workplace success. Quality sleep also makes you healthier, happier and live longer and reduces the risk of sick leave, depression and burn-out. Yet sleep deprivation is sky-rocketing, and many of us are completely disconnected from our sleep-wake cycle.

By understanding and appreciating the power of sleep in relation to work, using the 360-degree Teach Yourself to Sleep method, delegates can upgrade their health & wellbeing, resilience, happiness and productivity.

KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS

Unleash the power of sleep – for peak health, wellbeing & success

An inspirational look at the relationship between work, productivity, health and sleep. 

Is your sleep holding you back from reaching your full potential? What impact does your sleep really have on your workplace performance and the decisions you make? Understand the number 1 pillar of health, with easy, practical strategies and evidenced-based insight.

What we’ll cover

• Why quality sleep is fundamental to personal health & wellbeing and corporate success.
• The self-sabotaging fall-out of inadequate sleep and how to avoid selling yourself short.
• Dynamic leaders & teams: how to inspire, engage and motivate, so all can flourish.
• Why we are facing a 21st-century epidemic of sleeplessness that’s getting worse.
• Work & sleep science: why both NREM deep sleep and REM dream sleep are vital for optimum productivity.
• The top sleep disrupters, and the three sleep shapers that enable us to take control of our sleep-wake cycle.

Supercharge your mind-body self – to thrive & reach your full potential

Too often we’re disconnected from our circadian selves at the expense of our health, wellbeing, sleep, productivity and success. But what does this mean? What can you do? And how can this supercharge your workday too? Gain self-awareness and practical tools to take control and thrive.

What we’ll cover:

• The circadian you, and how this shapes your mind, body, sleep and performance.
• Circadian misalignment and the negative fall-out both personally and professionally.
• Why so many people are out of sync with their natural physiology, now more than ever.
• How working with or against your chronotype impacts your ability to work effectively.
• Chrononutrition – the ideal time to eat certain foods and why it matters.
• Why it pays to tune into your circadian self for peak health, wellbeing and productivity.

Keynotes also come as interactive workshops packed with actionable strategies.

T E S T I M O N I A L S

Wellbeing & Sleep Leadership

Have you heard about the benefits of sleep leadership for your employees’ wellbeing?

• • Employees are 19% more productive if they get 7 to 8 hours sleep vs 5 to 6 hours sleep [Dr Grandner et al]
  • Poor sleep quality is associated with every single symptom of depression [Dr Grandner]
  • Sleep deprivation costs the US economy $411 billion a year in lost work days [Rand]
  • The global economic cost of menopause symptoms (including sleeplessness) is estimated at $150+ billion

Kate is a passionate advocate of sleep leadership, having extensively researched workplace health via sleep health, to develop sleep masterclasses for leaders and teams and a holistic sleep leadership strategy, with a focus on bespoke solutions.

A typical masterclass includes:

• • Understanding the top 3 sleep disruptors and what to do to weaken their impact
  • How to alter your physiology, behaviour and mindset to boost sleep & whole-body health
  • Practical tools to use at work and at home, to set you up for deep, restorative sleep 

Sleep leadership is a forward-looking concept being taken up by companies to improve employee wellness. It gets to the very core of an organisation’s wellbeing, productivity and success, empowering employees to enhance their circadian health, upgrade their quality of life, reach their full potential and maximise the compatibility and collaborative potential of the team.

Everything about our day shapes our sleep at night, and the quantity and quality of our sleep impacts everything about the following day. By helping employees’ to strengthen their sleep health, leaders can attract and retain top talent, inspire their team to deliver, tackle wellbeing at a primary level and enable their people to be healthy in mind & body so that they can flourish and achieve their individual and collective goals, allowing the organisation to grow. 

To transform the health of your employees and drive productivity, get in touch (via the contact form) to find out how Kate can help you deliver sleep leadership solutions that work for your organisation.

* Readers’ names withheld for privacy