Free mindfulness and resilience resources

Optum Mindful Matters

Wish you could worry less? ? Want to experience more joy in the moment? Mindfulness may help. Learn how to make it part of your routine with Optum Mindful Matters, by eM Life. It’s available online and via the eM Life app.

• Expert teachers
• Daily live sessions
• On-demand content, 24/7
• Virtual mindfulness concierge
• Meditation timer

To get started visit livewell.optum.com (access code intuitintl) or download the eM Life app from the App Store or Google Play.

Virgin Pulse life coaches

Through Virgin Pulse, our telephonic wellness coaching programme offers access to certified professional coaches who provide individualised, goal-oriented guidance, wellness education, strategy development, and encouragement. They can help you design wellness plans for weight management, nutrition, tobacco cessation, physical activity, stress management, and overall lifestyle improvement. Coaching sessions are designed to motivate you, build confidence in your ability to make behaviour changes that will last, and help nurture new habits that lead to long-term success.

To get started, log in to your Virgin Pulse account. Under the Programmes tab, select Work Place Options: Live Well Wellness Coaching to choose a topic and find a date and time for your initial call. The call length varies, and you can have up to 6 calls per year with your coach.

Bupa Touch

24/7 access to self-paced online programmes designed to help you take control of stress and worry.

• Stress
• Sleep
• Alcohol
• COVID-19
• Money worries
• Resilience
• Body image

Register online at bupa.co.uk/touchdashboard to create an account or download the Bupa Touch app. From the Mental Wellbeing tile, select Other ways we can help. 

RethinkCare for adults

Want to relax and stress less? Increase your creativity, innovation and resiliency? Communicate more clearly? Find more joy in life? Where there’s RethinkCare, there’s a way!

Through Virgin Pulse, you can access the RethinkCare digital mindfulness platform and explore more than 1,250 sessions with master trainers. Just choose your programme and select a 1-, 5-, 10-, or 20-minute session and you’ll be on your way to greater mindfulness!

RethinkCare programmes include:

• Learn the Basics of Mindfulness: Learn foundational mindfulness training techniques and practices to improve all aspects of your life.
• Be a Better Leader: Through the on-demand Search Inside Yourself^TM programme and the SIY Advanced Training, you can sharpen your skills in the areas of self-awareness, empathy, communication, and leadership. Search Inside Yourself was developed inside Google and is now a globally recognized programme offered by corporations, nonprofits, and government organizations.
• Boost Your Physical Health: Master new skills to stay active and healthy through athletic mind training, relaxation breathing, and more.
• Create Mindful Relationships: Learn to build empathy and strong relationships with friends and loved ones.
• Perform at Your Best: Become more confident, creative, and curious—so you can unlock your full potential.
• Develop Self-Awareness: Reach your peak performance by improving your most important relationship: the one you have with yourself.
• Know Your Emotions: Learn how to face grief, anger, and anxiety by turning difficult emotions into growth opportunities.
• One-Minute Practices: Take short breaks to power down, power up, and power forward.

RethinkCare’s Grow programme for teens

Studies show teens who practice mindfulness improve their focus, concentration and school performance. RethinkCare’s Grow programme can help your teen be healthier, have better relationships, perform optimally, increase their performance at school and in sports, or get more sleep.

Your dependents ages 13 and older can register and instantly gain access to more than 30 training goals supported by 250 programmes and 1,500 unique sessions. The Grow programme is based in science, mindfulness, and positive psychology.

First-time Grow users: Your children ages 13 and older can access RethinkCare’s Grow programme by creating an account at the Intuit-specific Grow site and then start their mindfulness practice. Once registered, they can use Grow on their computer or through the app to practice anywhere.

Family Mental HealthLine

If you pick up on a worrying change in the mood or behavior of a young person in your life, the Bupa Family Mental HealthLine can help. Speak to a trained advisor and mental health nurse and get advice about what to do next. Your child doesn't have to be covered under the Intuit medical plan and using this service does not count as a claim. Available any weekday 8AM to 6PM 0345 266 7938.

Other resources

Liveandworkwell.com

Provided through Optum, the Liveandworkwell site supports you in improving your overall wellbeing. Learn more about resilience and mindfulness through webinars, current research and articles, and practice tips.

Supportiv Peer Support Network

Want to connect with people who can relate to what you’re going through? Join Supportiv, an anonymous peer-to-peer support network open to all Optum EAP members. You’ll have 24/7 access to real-time, moderated chat in a safe, supportive space. To get started, log in to the Optum (using access code intuit) and then look for Supportiv on the Crisis page.

Wellbeing for Life programme

Have a regular massage therapist who helps you cope with life’s stressors? Getting support to find your path with a life coach? The Wellbeing for Life programme supports you in your mental health and wellbeing journey. Get reimbursed up to £850 per fiscal year for eligible expenses that support your mental health and wellbeing.