Stress Mastery
This workshop is for everyone because stress is inescapable. Stress not only impacts organisational productivity, it impacts people's lives. Many view stress as a major hindrance to wellbeing and performance in all areas of work and life. But there is a catch. Although stress can be very challenging, science shows us that it is not always negative or debilitating. Stress can be powerfully positive and people can stress better with practice - even mastering their experience of stress in ways that strengthen resilience and fuel growth.
Overview
This session will…
- Explore the truth (aka science) about stress - how to harness it, grow from it, and master it in life and work.
- Draw on the latest science and interventions for upgrading our relationship and responses to stress.
- Learn how to practise new mindsets that strengthen stress responses and promote resilience.
- Control & Influence - How to navigate stress and challenge we can control, and how to approach what is out of control to avoid unnecessary wear and tear on health, wellbeing and performance.
- Emotions - How emotions influence experiences of stress - personally, professionally and socially.
- Resourcefulness - it’s the ‘new black’ - Do away with the old bounce back and harden up resilience messages and learn how resourcefulness is a powerful and natural process of human resilience. Not only does it promote recovery, it drives post-challenge growth.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- Evidence-based exercises that upgrade stress mindsets and responses to promote resilience and resourcefulness.
- Stress Mindsets - Introduce new science helping us upgrade our relationship and responses to stress, identifying unhelpful and outdated mindsets and practicing approaches that strengthen stress mastery.
- Better understanding of the mind and body responses to stress.
- How to reframe 'challenge stress’ to harness the activation response for high performance and resilience.
- Broader set of labels to recognise types of stress and enhancing vs hindering impact.
Recommended Duration
2 x 90 minute workshops
Also available as:
- Single session i.e. Keynote (45-90 mins)
- 3hr workshop inc. skills practice
Mindful Action
The crux of high wellbeing and performance comes from optimising attention and action. This workshop will help identify modern-day traps, habits, and biases that weaken mindful awareness and attention. It explores how mindful practice strengthens mindful action, wellbeing, and performance in work and life.
Overview
This session will…
- Challenge people to explore the traps to being mindful and focused - from modern-day distraction and multi-tasking, to underlying biases towards negativity and mind-wandering.
- Define what is Mindful Action and how to apply it in work and life.
- Explore the value of mindful practises for improving wellbeing and performance.
- Provide an understanding of how mindfulness is key to mastering stress.
- Identify defaults, habits, and biases that render us unproductive and unstable.
- Time well spent - Learn practices that help you perform with greater focus, flow and flexibility.
- Learn how breathing influences our nervous system, stress activation, and energy levels.
- Practice makes progress - How practicing mindfulness is cross-training for wellbeing and performance.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- Experience with practical strategies and techniques for mindful action that strengthen performance and wellbeing.
- Identify defaults, habits, and biases that compromise performance, cause stress, and impact health and wellbeing.
- Practices for building mental and emotional awareness, focusing attention, being psychologically flexible, and taking effective action - even in times of pressure and uncertainty.
- How to punctuate our day - integrating simple routines and exercises to improve our personal, professional, and social life.
- Knowing better to being better - More than understanding the science and strategy, experiencing practices that are easy to integrate into life and work routines.
Recommended Duration
2 x 90 minutes
Also available as:
- Single session i.e. Keynote (45-90 mins)
- 3hr workshop inc. skills practice
Leading Wellbeing
Show leaders where wellbeing fits into the flow of leadership and work, and how to strengthen team and organisational wellbeing culture and performance outcomes.
Overview
This session will:
- Onboard leaders to a framework for building wellbeing culture strategically - instead of reactively.
- Deeper understanding of the dynamics of wellbeing and performance and how this impacts optimal outcomes of the organisation.
- Explore key principles of wellbeing leadership science and the Demands-Resources methodology.
- Help leaders identify what they can and can’t control when building wellbeing culture.
- Explain how leaders who are feeling and functioning at their best can create an environment for people and teams to thrive.
- Facilitate dialogue into leadership and employee accountabilities for wellbeing action.
- Onboard leaders to a practical wellbeing ’Check In’ process that promotes regular team wellbeing dialogue.
- Help leaders recognise they can lead wellbeing culture professionally even if they aren’t perfect at wellbeing personally.
- Examine wellbeing routines leaders neglect and how to find opportunities to encourage teams to exercise self care.
- Encourage leaders to 'put on your own oxygen mask first before helping others’ so they can be and lead at their best.
Outcomes
Key outcomes leaders walk away with include:
- Effective ways to lead wellbeing and show consistent commitment to wellbeing culture.
- How to rally and support team action around wellbeing challenges and opportunities for improvement.
- Tools to regularly check in and strengthen wellbeing culture.
- Leaders will get a sense that leading wellbeing can be integrated into the flow of their work.
Recommended Duration
2 x 90 minutes
Also available as:
- Single session i.e. Keynote (45-90 mins)
- Half day or full day deep dive with scenario based training
Optimising Collaboration
Explore how to optimise collaboration in teams and relationships, and the challenges to building and sustaining a high-performing team culture in the modern age.
Overview
This session will…
- Explore the science and key practices that drive sustainable collaboration and high-performance culture.
- Illuminate key personal and interpersonal strengths and challenges associated with forms of communication and interaction.
- Highlight how stress, pressure, and perceived risks trigger human instincts, counterproductive biases and defensive reactions that disrupt cooperation, collaboration, and change.
- Establish key building blocks of trust, and practices for navigating difficulties including mistrust, trust violations and conflict.
- Explore the role of communication and social behaviours for achieving optimal outcomes together, and the impact of miscommunication, misunderstanding, and communication breakdowns.
- Outline the role of Psychological Safety for supporting a culture of high-engagement, collaboration, innovation, change agility, and wellbeing.
- Help people adopt a ‘win-win’ mindset and methods for achieving mutually beneficial outcomes through collaborative relationships and teamwork.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- A solid understanding of values and practical approaches for building sustainable relationships and a culture of collaboration.
- Increased awareness of how trust, mutual respect, inclusivity and cooperation lead to better interpersonal and team interactions and outcomes.
- Clarity on human defences that can trigger behaviours and communication that prove counterproductive to collaboration.
- Insights into the role and impact of different communication methods in interpersonal settings.
- New ways to talk about how to work together towards collectively beneficial outcomes.
Recommended Duration
3 hours includes immersive activity and facilitated dialogue into relationship and communication dynamics.
Recharge Well
Investing in routines that conserve and boost resources for sustainable high performance and wellbeing.
Overview
There has been a rise in stress and mental health challenges in our work and lives in recent times. Burnout risk is high and now officially recognised by the World Health Organisation.
How people recover and show up is critical for the future success and sustainable productivity of your teams and your organisation. When investing time in recovery it’s important that people consider doing the things that will recharge and rejuvenate them - not what will put their wellbeing and health at greater risk.
We designed an experience to inspire people to learn about and decide what micro and macro recovery can look like in their work and life routine.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- A practical 3-part approach: Recharge (Charge the battery), Conserve (Reduce the waste), and Invest (Win-Win energy exchange)
- Vital wellbeing tips backed by science, timely exercises, restorative routines, and even some playful practices
- How we need to switch our stress alarm system to ‘All Clear’ to aid our recovery
- What it takes to be feeling and functioning well in preparation for transitions ahead - change, hybrid work, peak work periods
- How engaging in things that are fulfilling and meaningful yields significant ROI
- How to reset and restore a sense of balance
Recommended Duration
60 to 120 minutes
Wellbeing Fundamentals
This workshop is designed to inject energy, positivity and hope into your people’s life and work. People identify why wellbeing is important to them and reflect on their unique strengths and challenges. People get connected and inspired to more regularly check-in on themselves and others and to integrate wellbeing actions and self care into their work and life.
Overview
This session will:
- Explore wellbeing fundamentals for mental, physical, and social health and resilience in life and work.
- Recognise and discuss modern challenges, key stresses and imbalances that impact wellbeing, performance and growth, and stimulate ideas for action.
- Overview the 8 science-based wellbeing and performance factors and gauge the strengths and challenges across the audience.
- Experience practical exercises and tools for strengthening individual and group wellbeing awareness and action towards improved wellbeing and mental health in life and work.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
Self-Care - Why and how to integrate wellbeing practices in the workplace and in life.
Employee morale: people will feel more connected with their peers and their work.
Clarity - key wellbeing challenges and priority areas for growth in life and work.
Increased appreciation of the link between wellbeing and performance.
Practical exercises and tools to integrate into routines for improving wellbeing in life and work.
Recommended Duration
60 to 90 minutes
Time Mastery
This workshop will support people to feel more in control, achieve more, and have more time to spend on the things that truly matter to you.
Overview
There’s never enough time, right? It is something we always want more of, worry about wasting and yet we can’t stop it or slow it down. Time Mastery is about reframing what ‘time well spent’ is, being mindful of the things that distract us or disrupt our productivity, and learning how to focus and prioritise to ensure we are working towards our goals and aspirations.
This workshop will support people to feel more in control, achieve more, and have more time to spend on the things that truly matter to you.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- We look at some disruptors of time including; how our technology and tech habits can undermine time mastery and how ‘busyness’ and overload can lead to self-undermining work habits and behaviours
- A mindset moving from Multi-tasking to Mono-tasking
- Tools for improving your attention skills will help you strengthen your focus and heighten your awareness, which will in turn help you combat mind wandering, tech distractions, interruptions, procrastination, and always on overstimulation.
- The power and benefits of integrating micro-breaks into the flow of your day.
- The ‘what not to do’ list - Neglectables
Recommended Duration
60-120 minutes
Burnout
Burnout can impact wellbeing, performance, and work-life balance. Understanding its causes and signs is key to prevention. Proactively strengthening resources can buffer against burnout, while recovery strategies and support services aid resilience. A strong wellbeing culture and leader check-ins foster open communication, early intervention, and sustainable work practices.
Overview
This session will:
- Understanding Burnout: The causes, signs, and symptoms of burnout. The associations with engagement, mental health and wellbeing, work-life balance, and overall performance and health.
- Proactivity & Prevention: Evidence-based practices for proactively strengthening resources that buffer against burnout and prevent the downward spiral.
- Recovery & Support: How to approach burnout recovery using personal strategies and practices, as well as reaching out for support and engaging with services that aid recovery and reduce the likelihood of future burnout.
- Wellbeing Culture: How social resources in the workplace and home can foster a positive and supportive environment where people proactively check in and offer assistance to each other.
- Leader Support: How to regularly check in with leaders to promote open communication, early intervention and support, and explore healthy work practices and wellbeing routines.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- How to recognise burnout signs and symptoms in self and others.
- Resources they can build to buffer against stress-related decline and promote recovery during extended periods of stress.
- How different demands cause strain, and how to craft work and resources and demands for better person-work-life fit.
- Evidence-based exercises that strengthen important mindsets to promote healthier stress reactions and responses.
- Better understanding of the mind and body responses to stress, how to regulate the stress response mindfully, and the impacts of excessive and chronic stress.
- How to set boundaries to prevent overload and other causes of prolonged stress, and to make time for self-care practices and support routines.
Recommended Duration
60 to 120 minutes
Innovation
A science-based innovation process designed for groups to identify challenges and opportunities and generate innovative ideas that can be pitched, shortlisted, and planned for implementation and impact.
Overview
This session will…
- Clarify key challenges and opportunities where innovation will deliver positive change, growth and impact.
- Bring groups of people together to generate, pitch and evaluate wellbeing ideas and prioritise implementation.
- Immersive, multi-stage idea generation process ensures participants are engaged in producing a level of idea diversity and large volume of great ideas.
- Integrate wellbeing data insights and key principles into the idea design and evaluation.
- Guide the facilitation of breakout groups to ensure optimal idea generation and collaboration that strengthens ideas, pitching, and implementation.
- Digital idea capture and evaluation tools provide a complete record of idea production, pitching, evaluation and prioritisation processes.
Outcomes
Key outcomes include:
- Clear list of ideas captured, fleshed out, and evaluated, stored securely and shared using cloud-based tools.
- Guidance on how to move from insights and ideas to implementation and impact.
- Build individual and team confidence with generating and communicating/pitching innovative ideas.
- Strengthen team and leader understanding on how to evaluate ideas, shortlist and prioritise, and plan implementation.
Recommended Duration
2 x 90 minutes workshops or 1/2 day workshop
Includes pre-session challenge discovery, creative thinking exercises and digital capture of innovative ideas.
Bullying - Recognise, Respond, Recover
Develop a culture of psychological safety where people surface and address inappropriate behaviours in the workplace.
Overview
This session will: Although bullying is a term that has certain parameters and criteria, it’s perhaps even more important to empathise with the feeling of being bullied. People often use the term bullying to describe the feelings associated with experiencing or witnessing inappropriate or unfair behaviours in the workplace.
It is helpful for people to address feelings of bullying by better identifying types of inappropriate behaviour that can manifest as these feelings. When people can more clearly and confidently identify and express their feelings and the behaviours associated with them, there can be better reporting, dialogue and intervention.
Establishing an environment where it is safe to surface, discuss, and address inappropriate workplace behaviours - from victims to witnesses to the whole community - will strengthen psychological safety in the workplace.
What the session will cover
Key areas this workshop will cover include: What is bullying & incivility?
- What is bullying & victimisation?
- What is incivility & injustice?
- What does it look like in a workplace context
How can it happen in the workplace?
- Examples of how & why bullying emerges & persists in the workplace
- Psychosocial risk factors associated with bullying & incivility
How to respond?
- Putting a name to bullying that is taking place
- Language for better identification & dialogue
- Positive steps to take for self, in teams, with leaders & key support resources / services
Recommended Duration
60 to 120 minutes
Grow for Good
One of the biggest challenges people face when investing in wellbeing is establishing and sticking with routines. This session shows people what it takes to grow for good using the latest behavioural science tools and techniques, and how to navigate relapse along the growth path.
Overview
This session will:
- Provide a comprehensive process and action-focused checklist for initiating and sustaining learning, progress, and growth.
- Outline how traditional ‘outdated’ goal setting tools and motivation tactics tend to fall short.
- Get realistic about taking action, highlighting the importance of starting small to build momentum and drive progress over time.
- Help people to demonstrate resilience, addressing setbacks and relapse, revisiting growth priorities and revising plans that people promote growth for good.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- Clear understanding of what process and practices help us take action and move from knowing better to being better.
- Practical solutions for setting and achieving goals.
- Principles for identifying and responding to relapse.
Recommended Duration
90 minutes
Psychological Safety
Learn how everyone in the workplace has a role to play in establishing, strengthening and sustaining psychological safety through trust, communication and collaboration.
Overview
This session will…
- Introduce psychological safety including why it’s important in the workplace and the role everyone plays in establishing and sustaining it.
- Surface key personal, interpersonal and cultural challenges that effect psychological safety.
- Explore factors that contribute to psychological safety and how to best promote them and lead by example - including trust, respect, inclusivity, cooperation, and striving for mutual benefit (aka Win-Win).
- Discuss challenges that can arise in creating and maintaining psychological safety, such as personal, interpersonal, and cultural barriers, and the impact of stress, conflict, incivility and bullying.
- Learn strategies and best practices for fostering psychological safety, including effective communication, building trust, promoting collaboration, reaching out for and providing support.
- Highlight impact of psychological safety on team performance, innovation, change agility, and wellbeing.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- Increased awareness of how trust, mutual respect, inclusivity and cooperation lead to better interpersonal and team psychosocial safety and outcomes.
- A solid understanding of values and practical approaches for building sustainable relationships and a culture of open communication, sharing, and collaboration.
- Clarity on human defences that can trigger behaviours and communication that prove counterproductive to collaboration.
- Insights into the role and impact of different communication methods in interpersonal settings.
- New ways to talk about how to work together towards collectively beneficial outcomes.
Recommended Duration
90 minutes includes facilitated dialogue into relationship and communication dynamics.
Speaking Up
The "Speaking Up" module aims to empower participants with the confidence and sense of safety needed to share their thoughts, even if they are unpopular or controversial.
Overview
This session will…
The "Speaking Up" module aims to empower participants with the confidence and sense of safety needed to share their thoughts, even if they are unpopular or controversial. It will help them discuss problems and difficult issues with people outside of their direct team and feel confident in raising concerns about plans and decisions that affect everyone.
This succinct course is designed to provide practical strategies and insights to foster a culture of open dialogue and proactive communication within the organisation.
By the end of this course, participants will feel more confident in sharing their thoughts and raising concerns, understand the importance of open communication in the workplace, and be equipped with practical strategies to enhance their communication skills and contribute to a culture of transparency and collaboration.
Outcomes
Key outcomes people walk away with include:
- Realise the importance of sharing thoughts, even if they are unpopular or controversial.
- Recognise the positive impact of open communication on team dynamics and organisational outcomes.
- Understand the importance of raising concerns about plans and decisions that affect the organisation.
- Develop confidence in discussing problems and difficult issues with people outside of their direct team.
- Participants will learn practical strategies to improve their communication skills, enabling them to discuss difficult issues constructively.
- Learn practical strategies to improve communication skills and discuss difficult issues effectively.
- Gain insights into the role and impact of different communication methods in fostering collaboration and respect.
Recommended Duration
60 minutes