About this session
A cost-of-living squeeze is different from ordinary overspending. Housing, food, energy, transport, childcare, insurance and other essential costs can rise while income stays the same, leaving less room even when the household has not meaningfully changed how it lives.
The first useful step is therefore understanding where the pressure is actually coming from rather than assuming every category needs another cut.
This session helps participants compare current household costs with what they were previously paying, identify which increases have had the greatest impact and separate essential commitments from expenses with more flexibility.
They then work through practical responses across providers, quantities, timing, routines and available support, prioritizing changes that can create repeated value rather than one-off savings that barely affect the overall gap.
Participants also examine what happens when optimization is not enough. They learn to recognize a genuine affordability gap, identify which support routes may be worth investigating and build a 90-day adaptation plan around the costs that matter most.
The session is practical and non-judgmental: the aim is to make rising costs easier to navigate, not to pretend every household can cut its way out of structural financial pressure.
What your people take away
- Identify which household costs have risen most and calculate the participant's own cost-of-living impact
- Protect essential commitments while distinguishing expenses that have genuine room to adjust
- Prioritize changes that reduce recurring costs rather than relying only on one-off savings
- Identify relevant workplace, provider, public or community support that may be worth investigating
- Recognize when the problem is a genuine affordability gap requiring a larger response or specialist support
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30 minutes
30 Minutes — Key Points: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting YouA focused 30-minute session on three key points from Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You: compare today's costs with your old normal, separate price increases from spending changes and identify the costs doing the most damage.
- Compare today's costs with your old normal
- Separate price increases from spending changes
- Identify the costs doing the most damage
Covers 3 of 4 points in Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You.
60 minutes
60 Minutes — Module 1: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting YouA practical introduction to the cost-of-living squeeze through the participant's own household costs. Participants compare what key essentials cost now with what they were previously paying, identify the categories creating the greatest pressure and build a personal cost-impact map showing where action is most worth focusing.
- Module 1: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You
- Live Q&A
Covers 1 of 4 parts: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You.
90 minutes
90 Minutes — Modules 1 and 2: Map the Pressure & Protect What Matters MostEverything in the 60-minute session, plus guided work separating essential commitments from costs with more room to change. Participants build a protected-cost baseline, identify the expenses creating the largest ongoing squeeze and prioritize the adjustments capable of making a meaningful difference without assuming every category can simply be reduced.
- Module 1: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You
- Module 2: Protect the Essentials & Rebalance the Rest
- Personal cost-increase mapping exercise
- Protected-cost and adjustment-priority plan
- Live Q&A
Covers 2 of 4 parts: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You and Protect the Essentials & Rebalance the Rest.
3 hours
Covers 3 of 4 parts: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You, Protect the Essentials & Rebalance the Rest and Reduce the Costs That Keep Repeating.
Full day
Full Day — Full Cost-of-Living Adaptation WorkshopFull coverage of all four modules with household-cost mapping, affordability exercises, recurring-cost reviews and realistic pressure scenarios. Participants identify where costs have risen, protect essential commitments, redesign the expenses with genuine flexibility and leave with a practical 90-day plan covering cost reductions, support routes and any remaining affordability gap.
- Module 1: Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You
- Module 2: Protect the Essentials & Rebalance the Rest
- Module 3: Reduce the Costs That Keep Repeating
- Module 4: Build Your Cost-of-Living Response Plan
- Cost-of-Living Pressure & Adaptation Map
- Protected household-cost exercise
- Recurring-cost redesign lab
- Support-route mapping exercise
- 90-day cost-of-living plan
- Live Q&A
Covers all 4 parts.
Also available as a 4-week or 8-week program, for change that lasts. Ask us about it.
What’s covered
Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You
Every length- Compare today's costs with your old normalParticipants choose the major household categories relevant to them and compare current costs with an earlier realistic period.
- Separate price increases from spending changesParticipants examine whether each category costs more because the underlying price increased, because the household is using or buying more, or because both changed.
- Identify the costs doing the most damageParticipants compare small increases across many categories with larger increases in housing, energy, transport, childcare or another essential area.
- Build your cost-of-living pressure mapParticipants bring their findings into one map showing what has increased, how essential the category is and how much flexibility may exist.
Protect the Essentials & Rebalance the Rest
90 minutes and longer- Define the household costs that must keep workingParticipants identify the expenses that protect housing, food, transport, caring responsibilities, essential communications and other needs relevant to their circumstances.
- Sort costs by how much they can actually moveParticipants classify remaining expenses according to whether they are fixed for now, adjustable with effort, flexible in the short term or genuinely optional.
- Redesign before you simply removeParticipants take one pressured spending category and explore alternatives such as changing quantity, frequency, provider, product or timing before deciding whether it must disappear entirely.
- Build a new workable monthParticipants combine the protected core with their selected adjustments and calculate what the revised household plan looks like under current prices.
Reduce the Costs That Keep Repeating
3 hours and longer- Go after recurring impact before tiny one-off savingsParticipants compare the value of reducing a repeated monthly cost with a one-time saving and identify where the same action could produce benefit over many future periods.
- Review the plan, provider or payment structureParticipants choose suitable recurring household costs and examine whether the current provider, tariff, plan, coverage level, payment method or billing structure still represents reasonable value.
- Target waste without targeting necessary useParticipants identify situations where money is being spent without delivering proportional household value, such as unused allowances, duplicated services, unnecessary fees or repeated waste.
- Calculate the annual value before doing the workParticipants convert a proposed recurring saving into its likely annual value and compare that with the effort, inconvenience or trade-off required to achieve it.
Build Your Cost-of-Living Response Plan
Full day only- Map the support that may already existParticipants identify workplace benefits, provider assistance, current public support and appropriate community resources that may be relevant to their circumstances.
- Prepare the conversation before a payment becomes a crisisParticipants identify bills or commitments where affordability pressure may require an earlier conversation with the provider, lender or another relevant organization.
- Recognize a genuine affordability gapParticipants compare available income with protected essential costs after reasonable adjustments and identify when the numbers still do not work.
- Create your 90-day adaptation planParticipants choose the cost reviews, household changes, support checks and conversations they will complete over the next 90 days and assign review points.
How booking works
- Book online. Create a free Workbliss profile, then pay with session credits, by card or by invoice.
- Pick a date. Choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or book now and set the date later. Need it sooner? Email hello@workbliss.ai and we’ll see what we can do.
- Choose your expert. Within 3 working days, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date.
- We deliver it. Your expert is briefed on your people and goals, then runs the session live online or at your site.
Questions about Dealing with the Cost of Living Crisis
How long is Dealing with the Cost of Living Crisis?
Dealing with the Cost of Living Crisis runs as 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 3 hours or full day. You choose the length when you book. A 30-minute session covers three key points from Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You: compare today's costs with your old normal, separate price increases from spending changes and identify the costs doing the most damage. A 60-minute session covers Find Where Rising Costs Are Hitting You in full, with a live Q&A. A 90-minute session adds Protect the Essentials & Rebalance the Rest. A 3-hour session adds Reduce the Costs That Keep Repeating. A full-day session adds Build Your Cost-of-Living Response Plan. It is also available as a 4-week or 8-week program.
Can Dealing with the Cost of Living Crisis be delivered online or in person?
Yes, both. It runs live online, so every office can join at the same time, or in person at your site, in any country.
How do we book Dealing with the Cost of Living Crisis?
Create a free Workbliss profile with your work email, then open Dealing with the Cost of Living Crisis to see the price for each length and book it. You can pay with session credits, by card or by invoice, and choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or set it later. Need it sooner? Email hello@workbliss.ai and we’ll see what we can do.
Who leads the session?
A vetted Workbliss expert, briefed on your people, culture and goals before the session. After you book, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date within 3 working days, so you can choose who leads it.
Can it be tailored to our company?
Yes. Every session is shaped around your goals, your people and the benefits you already offer, and delivered by experts in your people’s languages.