The Science of Wellbeing & Success

Good relationships lie at the very heart of happy and healthy lives.  

Sound friendships and professional achievements are often are rooted in our ability to relate to others.

Our capacity to engage in satisfactory relationships, personal, professional and romantic, depends heavily on social skills.  

Unfortunately, in the modern world, most people have become relatively socially de-skilled.  This is because we’ve been tempted to avoid the stress and embarrassment of engaging in realtime in-person meetings with one another.  

Working from home, email, texting, etc, have all contributed to this problem.  These societal changes may also be one causal factor for the significant rise in the incidence of psychological distress in recent years. 

The problem is that, avoiding social challenges, often enables people to feel better in the short term, so it’s kind of addictive.  But, this leads to a progressive de-skilling by that very same process.  

Social skills are developed and honed by engaging in interpersonal experiences. 

Loneliness and social isolation are on the rise.  In the U.S., around a third of the population report feeling lonely these days.  Many people who don’t feel actively lonely would welcome more vibrant social interaction and better social confidence.  

Psych-Social, offers both individuals and organisations short, cost effective, events to develop and enhance social skills, so as to empower people, to enrich their lives and to develop their productivity.  

There is a medically recognised epidemic of social isolation and loneliness in people of all ages.  Around a third of the population feel lonely. 

The physically harmful effects of loneliness have been compared to smoking some 15 cigarettes a day.

Quite often, a negative spiral sets in, in which 

1)  People feel lonely

2)  The lose social confidence

3)  They shy away from social interactions

4)  They feel still more lonely

5)  The cycle repeats…

Psych-Social events are designed to achieve four key goals:

We invite attendees to:

1)  Understand the roots of loneliness, and how surprisingly widespread this has become.  


2)  Develop the interpersonal understanding and resilience that is key to navigating the inevitable storms and pitfalls that accompany all types of relationships. 


3)  Learn to develop and refine interpersonal skills, and so enable people to make strong and authentic connections with people.  


4)  Enjoy the Psych-Social events, which are designed to both informative, entertaining, and just good fun.

We offer weekly in-person group meetings where you can learn something about the psychology and biology of social isolation, and how to overcome it.  

The sessions are designed so that you can attend as many, or as few, as you like.  Each session is designed to be a self contained unit, and not part of a linear course.  So, if you miss a few, and rejoin, each one should make sense and be helpful as an individual event.  

Psych-Social events are designed using evidence based principles and run by qualified professionals accredited by the British Psychological Society.  

The general format will include:

1)  A talk by qualified Psychologists about loneliness, and how to overcome it.  

2)  A demonstration of how to initiate conversation, without offending someone.

3)  An chance to practice starting informal chats with other people and to receive some friendly feedback to improve.

4)  A whole group opportunity to describe individual experiences.

5)  An informal non-alcoholic drinks and nibbles and music to end the event.

'Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.’ 

Marshall McLuhan