My sister was celebrating the second birthday of the intergenerational groups she runs in local care homes. One of the care homes bought her a bunch of flowers to say congratulations! The groups are full of kindness between all ages, so it was wonderful to see this kindness shown to my sis too. What kindness […]
“I’ve just found a new nail technician, closer to my home which suits me very well. However she is a French national and my French is intermediate level. The kindness she showed me in our first appointment warmed my heart. She maintained a steady flow of conversation.. Just enough silences to gather my thoughts! Tonnes of
“We had a love your colleague day at work where people could write notes about the things they appreciate about their colleagues. It was a really positive thing to read the notes, whether you featured in the messages or not. The timing was related to Valentines Day, the following Monday which is the day when
When I arrived at my desk on the first day of my new job, I was greeted by a Welcome box. It had some pens, pencils, a couple of notebooks, a cup, some teabags and some milk sachets, some wrapped biscuits, as well as campus maps and information. It was such a lovely welcoming gesture!
“Kindness in the NHS between healthcare professionals when patients sadly pass away is something I am not sure is talked about that often, and so I thought I’d share the following kindness story. I’m a nurse in our NHS, and have recently returned to work after a lengthly absence due to a traumatic patient death.
Dealing with lawyers is often very stressful for a lot of reasons so we love this story of how kind a lawyer is being and the difference it’s making to the client. “I’m having to use a lawyer, that was enacted on behalf of me by my union. I developed mental health impacts after an
I was invited by Carolyn Whitehouse to go along as a visitor to a meeting of the Thames Valley Professional Speaking Association because I want to grow the speaking side of Time for Kindness. She told me they were a friendly group and how right she was! Everyone made me feel so welcome and were
There are lots of ways kindness shows up in business and one example that was shared at one of our wellbeing workshops was this: “Sharing and connecting other people in business to me and my business.” Networking is powerful and helping someone to get those connections can make an enormous difference to their business. Our
Kindness is a key leadership skill and among other things it can make the difference between your business hiring the very best or being bottom of the list to apply to. After attending one of our workshops, The Holy Brook accountants had this to say: “One major takeaway for our team was reframing kindness as
The station manager knows that our family are regular train users. When I was buying a ticket recently, he made a point of telling me that the new timetable is coming into force in a couple of weeks and some of the trains have been removed from the timetable, so we need to double check
