Past event
Organised by The CIPD Branch in Manchester
CIPD students: Boost your wellbeing and future career! Learn to manage stress, build resilience, and thrive as you study HR.
This event will help CIPD students understand how to manage stress, build resilience, and support wellbeing as they study in HR and prepare for their future careers as HR practitioners or organisational leaders.
A 2025 report on the state of the global workforce by research firm Gallup reveals that 41% of British workers experience daily stress, while 26% report high levels of sadness. How can modern people leaders prepare to address this challenge? Whether you want to stay ahead of trends in mental well-being or are navigating your own stress, this hands-on session is for you.
Join UCLA-trained mindfulness educator and mental health advocate Rachel Kanarowski for a fast-paced virtual event that challenges traditional approaches to “self-care” and explores why many well-being activities fail as we approach burnout. Learn how to recognise the warning signs of chronic stress in yourself and your team, apply mindfulness techniques as stress first-aid, and create a detailed self-care plan before burnout strikes.
This session includes:
Session Materials:
Participants will receive access to a digital download following the session, including:
Speakers bio:
Rachel Kanarowski is a speaker, author, and organizational development consultant focused on staff well-being across healthcare, education, and nonprofit groups.
Her workshop, "Self-Care 2.0" has provided over 2,500 employees across 15 organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Google, and the American Lung Association with a science-based framework for understanding and responding to chronic stress. This innovative approach earned Rachel the "Trauma-Informed Care Champion" award for the City of Chicago in 2023.
Prior to her current work, Rachel spent 15 years as a leader in consumer marketing and the media, including as Editor-in-Chief of InStyle magazine in the Czech Republic.
She's passionate about a future that includes access to well-being for people from all backgrounds, leading her to relocate to the UK to join the 2025 cohort on the MSc Science and Health Communication at the University of Manchester.
Rachel is also a UCLA-trained mindfulness facilitator with the Mindful Awareness Research Centre, a division of UCLA Health housed within the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour. She was the Mindfulness Education Lead for the Chicago Department of Public Health, where she has provided public health officials and staff with weekly stress-management training from 2020-2023.
Please note:
1. Webinar joining instructions will be sent to you again 1 day before the event, with a further reminder, 20 minutes prior to the event starting.
2. The session may be recorded and shared with people afterwards. Please bear this in mind and have your camera off if you do not wish for your image to be shared.
3. The chat function will be used for participants to engage with the webinar, so just be mindful of the login name you use and ensure you are happy for other people to see this.
4. For security reasons, it is requested that participants join the live session 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time and with the same name as registered on Eventbrite as not doing so may cause a delay or non-admittance to the event.
5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.
6. If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate.
Tue 25 Nov 2025, 18:00-20:00
101 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DF
