Let’s create happy and healthy workplaces
ON:SONG support mental health and wellbeing in businesses worldwide, through music.
Our immersive and participatory experiences improve diversity and inclusion and enable more creative and productive workplace cultures.
We work with science and academia, and regularly carry out our own research into the outcomes of our programmes, using frameworks developed in-house over a number of years.
By demonstrating impact and returns we look to increase access to joyful and enriching singing experiences for teams, whilst strengthening the case for greater investment in proactive approaches to wellbeing.
How can we help?
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Workplace Choir
Typically working in terms of 12 weeks, exploring themes and boosting wellbeing
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Year Round Choir
Perfect to unite your teams and work towards an event or recording
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One-off Experience
Perfect for team building, away days and wellbeing events
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Icebreakers & Energisers
Perfect for conferences, meetings and large-scale events
Benefits
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Happier, healthier employees
Feelings of positive wellbeing and an absence of negative emotions are fundamental to the overall health of an individual, enabling them to successfully overcome difficulties and flourish. Research shows that if we keep learning throughout adulthood and into later life, this can have a positive impact on maintaining and improving our mental health and wellbeing.
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Reduced stress
During our singing sessions, your employees will experience decreased levels of the stress hormone cortisol. When they exhale for longer than they inhale (as they do when they sing) their nervous system will be calmed and they’ll feel less stressed and anxious. Heartbeats synchronise when we sing and helps us to be fully in the present moment, providing a cathartic experience away from emails, meetings and budgets.
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Improved group cohesion
The feel-good hormones oxytocin and serotonin are released when we sing which helps to foster an increased sense of bonding and trust. The ‘ice-breaker effect’ of singing promotes fast cohesion between unfamiliar individuals, which bypasses the need for personal knowledge of group members gained through prolonged interaction.
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Improve your bottom line
Poor mental health among employees costs UK employers £42bn – £45bn each year. This is made up primarily of absence costs, presenteeism costs and turnover costs and is an increase of about £6bn and 16% on figures from 2017. Effective wellbeing initiatives have an average return of £5 for every £1 invested, increasing to £11 for every £1 spent for initiatives like ours.
After working with ON:SONG…
87%
feel more satisfied
in their job
99%
feel a stronger sense of community at work
94%
feel more confident
Headline stats from our workplace choir wellbeing impact report. Find out more.
Case Study: Lloyds Banking Group
“If you talk to people who have been participating, they just light up. It’s incredible! People are saying that they understand how to be more resilient in work.”
Gill Wylie - Group Transformation Director, Lloyds Banking Group
Not found what you’re looking for?
Get in touch and let us know what your business needs.
We can provide anything from one-off icebreakers for team building, events and conferences, through to regular choirs or tailored bespoke packages to create something which suits your people.
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