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 MBSS, the programme combines nearly four decades of professional lighting expertise with current research into light, sleep, circadian timing, and health-supportive environments. Attendees learn what a quality lighting strategy should include, why professional competence matters, and how better-informed decisions can create more comfortable, supportive, and effective places for people to work and spend time.
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 how decisions about daylight, artificial light, glare, controls, and spectral quality can influence visual comfort, alertness, and the experience of a workplace. If people are reporting headaches, eyestrain, fatigue, or discomfort, the course helps you ask better questions, review proposals with greater confidence, and recognise where specialist investigation could add value.
Over two days, attendees develop practical skills to assess how an organisation’s light environment may be affecting comfort, alertness, sleep, and wellbeing. Using real-world examples, the course shows how to identify priorities, engage confidently with lighting proposals, and balance human needs with compliance, operational requirements, and environmental responsibility. Current research and professional guidance show why daylight, visual quality, circadian timing, and spectral characteristics should be considered together from the earliest design stages. This integrative approach can strengthen architectural quality, support the people using the space, and reduce avoidable environmental impacts.
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 is designed for NHS and healthcare professionals who want to understand how light and darkness shape the experience of patients, staff, and visitors. Delivered in accessible terms, it connects daylight, integrative lighting, and spectrally specific approaches with circadian timing, visual comfort, emotional wellbeing, and the practical needs of clinical environments. Attendees gain a clear foundation for recognising health-supportive lighting and understanding where better decisions can make a meaningful difference.
Participants will learn how to recognise quality lighting specifications, assess maintenance requirements, and understand how controls and technologies shape the patient and staff experience. The course examines the relationships between light, sleep, circadian timing, orientation, visual comfort, alertness, and stress, translating the research into practical questions for healthcare projects and existing facilities. Attendees leave better equipped to challenge proposals, contribute to stronger briefs, and make informed decisions throughout design, refurbishment, and operation.
Book this training for your organisation and give your team the knowledge to make better-informed decisions about daylight, integrative lighting, patient experience, and staff wellbeing.
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 carefully specified artificial light are essential considerations in buildings where people spend long periods. Integrative lighting goes beyond simply changing colour and brightness: when properly designed, it considers daylight, spectral content, timing, intensity, glare, colour rendering, controls, and the melanopic light reaching the eye across the day. Bringing these factors into the brief from the outset creates opportunities to support visual comfort, circadian timing, daytime alertness, and night-time rest, while reducing the likelihood of costly corrective work later.
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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 pioneering research by Professor Glen Jeffery, Professor Robert Fosbury, and a growing international community investigating how red and near-infrared wavelengths interact with biological systems. Available online or in person, it gives professionals and health-conscious individuals an accessible introduction to mitochondrial function, the broader spectrum of daylight, and why wavelength, timing, and dose matter. Attendees will examine how emerging findings may contribute to future approaches in healthy ageing, visual function, metabolic health, recovery, and health-supportive environments.
We examine published research into red and near-infrared light across clearly defined areas, including mitochondrial function, retinal ageing and visual performance, post-meal glucose responses in healthy adults, and wider plant and animal biology. The course shows why wavelength, dose, timing, tissue, and participant group matter, and how promising findings can inform future health practice, workplace wellbeing, and environmental design. Whether you are a professional or simply curious about your own light environment, you will leave better equipped to recognise credible innovation, understand the opportunities, and follow this rapidly developing field with confidence.
Join us at the forefront of light and health research, and discover how emerging evidence can inform healthier choices, more supportive environments, and the next generation of responsible light-based innovation.
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.
Do you offer webinars to help new parents understand their baby’s sleep needs?
Yes. Our evidence-led webinar helps parents understand why sleep can be irregular during roughly the first 50 to 100 days, while circadian rhythms and clearer day–night patterns are developing. Babies vary, so this is a guide to a common stage of development rather than a deadline. Drawing on published infant-sleep research and Lorraine Calcott’s completion of the International Sleep Medicine course, the session explores how daytime light, darkness at night, and carefully considered night-time lighting can offer gentle, age-appropriate cues for babies and parents. It complements established safe-sleep guidance with realistic ideas for this demanding stage of family life.
Do you provide education for care-home teams about light, sleep, and circadian health?
Yes. Health Wellness Sleep provides evidence-led education and consultancy for care-home owners, managers, and staff. Sessions explore how daylight, artificial light, glare, timing, controls, and darkness contribute to visual comfort and shape the 24-hour experience of residents and staff. We help teams recognise priorities, ask better questions, and make informed decisions while respecting people’s varied visual, sensory, and care needs. Where a project requires professional lighting design, specification, or technical review, these services are available separately through it does Lighting Ltd.
What can you offer if employees report headaches, eyestrain, fatigue, or discomfort?
Health Wellness Sleep offers workplace education and consultancy to help employers understand the lighting environment. A Workplace Light & Sleep Review can consider daylight access, light levels, glare, timing, controls, and spectral characteristics, alongside the tasks and spaces where concerns are reported. It helps teams identify practical questions, prioritise next steps, and decide whether a more detailed lighting review would be useful. These concerns can have many causes, so the review describes lighting conditions rather than diagnosing or determining the cause of individual symptoms. Where technical lighting design or specification is needed, that can be discussed separately through it does Lighting Ltd.
Contact us to discuss a workplace review or masterclass.
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