Proud to launch and gift our nursing version of ShinyMind to all NHS nurses, midwives, and health care support workers in England.
Empowering Shiny Minds
ShinyMind is an evidence-based, proven mental health and wellbeing app, co-created with the NHS
ShinyMind gives people the power to shine, improve their wellbeing, build confidence and transform their lives.
Dr Shankari Maha
GP at Lea Vale Medical Group and Strategic Clinical Lead for BLMK ICS
Robana Hussain-Mills
Head of Professional Standards and Leadership – Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCGs/ICS
Dr Nicole Atkinson
Clinical Lead, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS & Senior Responsible Officer for Notts ICS Primary Care and Primary Care Networks
Simon Browes
Chief Executive Officer, Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub
The mental health and wellbeing app built to help everyone shine
An empowering, proactive and interactive resource with over 150+ masterclass exercises and tools for people to explore, discover, learn and understand themselves better.
ShinyMind is a personal, confidential resource proven to reduce stress and anxiety, and helps people build confidence and personal resilience to ride the ups and downs of the rollercoaster that is life.
Reduce Stress and Anxiety
To help deal with the challenging world we live in, our interactive tools and masterclasses can help you learn more about and manage stress and anxiety better. Of nurses we support working in challenging environments, 94% say ShinyMind helps them feel better and our Wellbeing Prescriptions are helping patients worry less.
Shine Bright
We want to empower people to understand themselves better, to develop greater self-awareness in all areas of their life so they can think well, feel well, be well and shine their brightest.
Improve Wellbeing
By developing a greater understanding of ourselves we can improve our positivity, performance and quality of life, benefitting not just us but our family, friends, colleagues and wider society.
We are proud to help…
The only app co-created, developed and tested in partnership with staff from all levels in the NHS and given the most challenging real-life assessment.
Trusted by NHS clinicians and now prescribed by clinicians as a ‘Wellbeing Prescription’ in the NHS, we have also worked closely with NHS England and Improvement to build a nursing version of ShinyMind to support over 500,000 nurses, midwives and health care support workers across NHS England.
Recognised as “Outstanding Practice” by the Care Quality Commission, ShinyMind has been assessed by the Academic Health Science Networks and is showcased as a ‘Proven Innovation’ on the Innovation Agency Exchange, suitable for widescale adoption across the health ecosystem.
ShinyMind is also available to those working and supporting their local communities in councils, social services, care homes, housing, education, police and fire services.
As organisations that serve and deliver for our country alongside our NHS, we want to share ShinyMind with as many people working in the public sector as we can.
ShinyMind is a trusted, evidence-based mental health resource proven to improve employee wellbeing and mental health, performance and teamwork.
44% of work-related absence in the UK is due to stress, depression or anxiety, with 12.8 million working days as a result. ShinyMind has been tried and tested among people in the most demanding jobs within the NHS and is proven to reduce sickness absence caused by these mental health conditions.
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70 %
reduction in sickness absence in relation to stress and anxiety -
64.3 %
app users still active after 30 days, compared to an average in sector of 6.29% -
94 %
of NHS nurses say that ShinyMind helps them feel better
Explore the app
Masterclasses
We all love learning about ourselves and in a busy world it’s good to know your time is being spent well. That’s why we’ve provided the science behind every activity. With over 150+ interactive masterclasses, ShinyMind allows users to build a personalised resource to guide self-exploration and stimulate learning, self-awareness, reflection and growth.
And we’re always working on new Masterclasses in collaboration with renowned authors, speakers, therapists and coaches to support our ShinyMinders.
Daily shines
In just 5 steps, ShinyMind’s evidence-based, daily wellbeing exercises help put everything into perspective and inject some empowering positivity into the day ahead.
The science: Giving a name or label to our feelings of pain, stress and sadness has been shown to reduce their intensity in studies utilising brain imagery, modern neuroscience and ancient Buddhist teachings (Lieberman MD et al).
Gratitude board
The good things and good people in our life can sometimes be overlooked, especially when we are busy or stressed. The Gratitude Board is there for you to collect and reflect on all that you are grateful for in your life.
The science: Research has shown that by taking just a little time to reflect and be grateful for the good in our life, not only do we appreciate them more, but we feel more positive, more optimistic, happier and healthier (University of California, 2003).
Positivity posts
Make someone’s day with a Positivity Post to let them know how much you appreciate them as a person, friend or colleague.
The science: Research shows that one of the best ways to help people thrive is to give them feedback. It increases a sense of learning, vitality and helps them feel valued. Recognition has also been shown to increase happiness at work and job satisfaction.
Messaging
Help build teamwork, morale and mutual support with ShinyMind’s positive messaging and community functions, allowing teams and colleagues to connect with each other.
The science: Social belonging is a fundamental human need, hardwired into our DNA. A study by Harvard Business Review found that a high sense of belonging increased job satisfaction by 56% and resulted in a 50% drop in turnover and 75% reduction in sick days.
Journaling
Discover the power of writing down your thoughts and feelings. The very act of writing reduces anxiety and can enhance health by lowering blood pressure and improving sleep.
The science: Writing accesses the rational left side of your brain, freeing up the more intuitive right side to deal with your feelings and together increasing your brainpower by working together (Pennebaker & Purcell).
The ShinyMind app recognises these challenges, and that different people have different needs. Users can filter what’s important to them… ShinyMind is now showcased as a ‘Proven Innovation’ on Innovation Agency Exchange, the online resource managed by the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) established by NHS England to spread innovation in health at pace and scale.
Jan Ross
CHIEF EXECUTIVE,
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
