Non lighting professionals – understanding light in relation to health and sleep
This two-day course (available in‑person or online) has been expertly crafted for HR managers, Employee Experience Champions, Care Home Managers, Hospital Facilities Managers, Architects and Business owners/leaders with no prior experience in light and health.
Delivered by Lorraine Calcott IEng FILP IALD CLD MSLL MCIBSE BSS, the programme provides essential knowledge on what makes a quality design solution to maximise the health of those within the space and keep employees well and not fatigued.
The programme provides essential knowledge on
✓ What makes a quality health driven lighting design
✓ How do you know what good should look like.
You’ll learn to recognise the outcomes of your choices around light that impact well‑being and confidently review proposals to ensure compliance and value. Whether you’re reviewing a space that is causing headaches, eyestrain, or you are seeing ncreases in absence, this course equips you with the knowledge of how to tackle this growing problem in todays workplaces.
Over two days, attendees gain practical skills to identify challenges within your own organisations approach to health and the opportunity to focus on improving human wellbeing outcomes. The focus extends beyond mere aesthetics: you’ll explore how strategic lighting supports sleep, mood and environmental health, while ensuring your space still meets regulatory requirements. Science led research demonstrates how improved approaches to daylight and artificial lighting drives architectural excellence, protects the environment and positively affects occupants.
Secure your place and transform how you approach light and lighting, for your projects and your people.
NHS and healthcare professionals – How to use light to improve health
This half-day course has been specifically designed for NHS and healthcare professionals seeking to understand the critical role lighting plays in supporting both patient recovery and staff wellbeing. Delivered in accessible terms, this training explores the fundamentals of spectrally specific lighting, why it matters, how it works, and the consequences of getting it wrong. From circadian rhythms and cellular repair to glare reduction and emotional comfort, attendees will gain a solid foundation in what truly healthy lighting looks like in clinical environments.
Participants will learn how to recognise quality lighting specifications, assess maintenance requirements, and understand why certain controls and technologies can enhance, or undermine, patient outcomes. The course also examines how poor lighting contributes to sleep disruption, disorientation, and extended bed occupancy, while good lighting has the potential to shorten recovery times, improve sleep, and reduce stress for both patients and healthcare workers alike.
Book now to bring light-based healing into your healthcare practice.
New parents – Improving sleep and health at the start of your parenthood journey
This course is born out of a deep commitment to help new parents survive, and even thrive, through the chaotic early days of parenthood. Newborns don’t arrive with circadian rhythms in place, and as your baby struggles to make sense of day and night, so does your sleep-deprived brain. The result? Zombie parents lurching from bottle to cot, often too exhausted to think straight. But here’s the good news: by understanding how light influences your baby’s biological development, and your own, you can take back some control and start creating a calmer, more restful routine for everyone.
In this short but powerful session, you’ll learn what kind of light to avoid, what to embrace, and how to design a sleep-friendly space that actually supports circadian development for both you and your baby. From practical tips on night feeds to the truth about those tempting ‘sleep gadgets’, you’ll leave empowered, not overwhelmed. Parenthood will always be a bit exhausting, but it doesn’t have to be sleepless.
Join us and let light guide you through the most important transition of your life, with a little more rest along the way.
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Care Homes and Hospitals – Working lighting effectively into your premises
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A course for Care Home and Hospital developers, owners and facilitators
This half-day course has been created specifically for those involved in delivering healthcare projects who want to avoid the costly pitfalls of poor lighting integration. Too often, lighting is left to the last minute, or worse, handed to a free product-based layout from a manufacturer, and it shows.
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Learn to avoid costly well-being hurdles
Daylight and spectrally specific artifical light is no longer a nice to have for any building where people spend time. LED lights literally cause harm and if you don’t balance those effectively you are creating a health hazard that will be costly to replace.
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Real-world research
Through real-world research, attendees will learn how to engage with light and health experts proactively. In a world of ever growing health and wellness impacts don’t let your building be part of the problem.
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Key takeaways
You’ll leave understanding exactly what a professional light and health consultant brings to the table: safer environments, happier, healthier people, and fewer costly surprises.
Avoid expensive mistakes, get lighting right from the start and build smarter, not harder.
Improving your mitochondrial health – How to age better and live a healthier life
This three-hour course explores the groundbreaking research of Professor Glen Jeffrey and Professor Robert Fosbury at UCL, shining a light, quite literally, on how infrared can transform human health. Delivered online or in person, it offers professionals and the health-conscious public a compelling introduction to mitochondrial support through daily light exposure. From the vital role of daylight to the powerful regenerative effects of near-infrared, attendees will uncover the science behind better ageing, improved immunity, and enhanced cell function, all driven by light.
We’ll explore real-world, research-backed outcomes on how infrared lighting may support those living with many conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), and vision decline. You’ll also discover its surprising benefits for pollinators, plant vitality, and even food production. Whether you’re looking to improve workplace wellness, integrate light-based therapy into health practice, or simply make informed choices for your own wellbeing, this course offers practical insight grounded in the latest peer-reviewed science.
Join us to unlock the healing power of light and discover what ageing better and living healthier really looks like.
Frequently Asked Questions – Education and Training
What could I learn on your training course for non-lighting professionals?
We have a variety of offers for you to learn what is specific to your needs. There is no one size fits all and each course is tailored to help your sector better understand how to interact and utilise a lighting and health professional on your design team. We explain how to save cost on your project, deliver healthy, inspiring, innovative designs and why competency in your chosen lighting and health professional is essential. Health, education, hospitals, care homes, universities, pallative care, workplaces, retail, sports and social enterprises, you name it we cover it.
Do you deliver online courses and webinars?
Yes all formats can be accommodated and in the future we will have a full downloadable education programme online, in easy to learn 30 minute modules. Drop us a line to be on the wait list for these when they arrive info@healthwellnesssleep.co.uk.
If I am a new parent do you deliver webinars to help me understand my babies sleep needs?
Yes, we work with the health service providers to deliver meaningful information to you by webinar that will support you, your baby and help you get the most from this exciting (but tiring) time in your lives. Having a new baby shouldn’t mean you need to be like a sleep deprived zombie for the first two years, let us help.
Do you provide training for care home providers on how to light their properties to improve health?
We certainly do; in fact we have won awards for it. We can help you light these spaces not only to provide safe functional spaces but also to improve the sleep and biological health of those who work and live within it. We don’t just want you to live better we want you to sleep better too.
I oversee a company’s HR/Employee Experience and my staff are complaining of headaches and illness, what courses do you offer to help me improve our office environment?
This is an area of growing concern, and we can certainly help. Poor artificial lighting, restricted spectrum daylight, glare, screens and a variety of other aspects plague office workers but it doesn’t have to be that way. Bad lighting should never impact your staff and is normally down to poor design or product choices made by non lighting professionals, or perhaps even budget constraints meant to save money that are now hitting your bottom line with staff absence. We can help you improve, or eliminate, these costly mistakes and bring not only great functional well-lit spaces but also improve health and wellness, giving your company the thumbs up in how to be a great employer.
We deliver research led solutions that dispense with HR nightmares, get in touch for more information.
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