Compassion at the heart of well-being: an inter-disciplinary study to evaluate the effect of a meditation intervention and a positive psychology intervention on well-being and compassionate care among healthcare employees

Arm 1: Meditation intervention - The training will involve 3 x 6-hour workshops in a group setting. Training will combine psycho-education and instruction; participant experiential exercises (ie, meditative exercises), self-reflection, peer-to-peer discussion and review, and whole-of-group discussion and review. - The meditation exercises are: deep relaxation meditation ("yoga-nidra" practice); mindful breathing and body-awareness; loving-kindness meditation; other-oriented compassion meditation; and self-compassion meditation. - Participants will receive worksheets to complete reflective exercises and take notes during the training sessions - This intervention will be delivered by an experienced meditation trainer with over 10 years teaching experience. - This intervention will be delivered face to face in a group - The intervention will comprise 3 x 6-hour workshops over 4 weeks (session 1 will be in week 0 of the trial; session 2 will be in week 2 of the trial and session 3 will be in week 4 of the trial). - The intervention will occur in metropolitan hospitals and health-care centres (i.e., the workplace of participant nurses) - Adherence to the intervention protocol will be monitored via a third-party research assistant with experience in participating in meditation programs, sitting in on approximately 20% of training sessions across the trial. Arm 2: Positive psychology intervention - The training will involve 3 x 6-hour workshops in a group setting. Training will combine psycho-education and instruction; participant experiential exercises (ie, positive psychology and self-coaching exercises), self-reflection, peer-to-peer discussion and review, and whole-of-group discussion and review. - The experiential activities in this intervention focus on the development of skills relating to: values-clarification, strengths-identification and goal-setting; solutions-focused thinking and self-coaching; developing self-kindness (non-meditative), gratitude and connecting to others. - Participants will receive worksheets to complete reflective exercises and take notes during the training sessions - This intervention will be delivered by an experienced coach and positive psychology trainer with over 10 years teaching experience. - Mode of delivery: This intervention will be delivered face to face in a group; - The intervention will comprise 3 x 6-hour workshops over 4 weeks (session 1 will be in week 0 of the trial; session 2 will be in week 2 of the trial and session 3 will be in week 4 of the trial). - The intervention will occur in metropolitan hospitals (i.e., the workplace of participant nurses) - Adherence to the intervention protocol will be monitored via a third-party research assistant with experience in participating in positive psychology programs, sitting in on approximately 20% of training sessions across the trial.