Workshops

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I design and deliver workshops for organisations and professional groups seeking to strengthen resilience, clarity, and relational effectiveness.

These programmes are grounded in psychology, physiology, organisational research, and Gestalt practice. They are based on real work situations and on what is happening in the room, using live experience as the main learning material. 

Workshops are used both in high-demand contexts and in offsites and development settings to deepen engagement, dialogue, and shared understanding.

NAVIGATING CHANGE AND UNCERTAINTY - ENERGY, ADAPTATION, AND ORGANISATIONAL TRANSITIONS

A workshop exploring how individuals and teams experience organisational change and uncertainty, and how adaptive capacity is shaped through meaning, regulation, and relational context. The programme draws on Gestalt Therapy, systems theory, and organisational psychology to understand change as a lived, multi-level process rather than a purely managerial event. A central premise is that energy represents potential for change. When regulatory, relational, and structural conditions support this potential, people remain flexible and engaged. When these conditions are constrained, energy becomes locked into tension, resistance, and fatigue. Participants learn to work with change as information, to restore movement in disrupted processes, and to strengthen personal and collective capacity for adaptation. The workshop works with participants’ current change experiences, using live situations as material for learning and adaptation. 

Focus areas include:

• How change is experienced in daily work, relationships, and identity 
• The Gestalt Cycle of Experience and interruptions during transitions
• Stress and uncertainty across individual, team, and organisational levels
• Meaning-making, motivation, and psychological needs during change
• Power, influence, and organisational narratives
• Agency within systemic constraints
• Energy, recovery, and sustainable adaptation

Participants develop:

• Greater awareness of personal and relational change patterns 
• Skills for completing interrupted cycles and reducing unfinished business
• Strategies for self-support and boundary management
• Tools for influencing systems constructively
• Practices for supporting team resilience and psychological safety
• Action plans aligned with values and organisational realities

Suitable for: professionals, managers, leadership teams, and organisations undergoing restructuring, growth, cultural change, or strategic transitions.

MANAGING STRESS AND FOSTERING RESILIENCE (I) - Individual, Relational, and Organisational Perspectives

A two-part programme exploring how stress and resilience emerge across personal, relational, and organisational systems.

It integrates neuroscience, organisational psychology, and relational Gestalt approaches. Participants learn to understand stress as information rather than threat, and to work with it more intelligently.

Focuses on how stress develops through interpretation, bodily signals, motivation, and meaning.

Participants explore:

• Physiological and emotional stress signals 
• Autonomic regulation and recovery
• Values, motivation, and reactivity
• Organisational drivers of safety and performance

MANAGING STRESS AND FOSTERING RESILIENCE (II) - Workplace Dynamics and Organisational Stress

Examines stress as a systemic and relational process.

Participants work with:

• HSE Management Standards
• Psychological safety
• Power and authority dynamics
• Emotional contagion and boundary erosion
• Gestalt field and phenomenological methods

Together, the courses provide a pathway from personal regulation to systemic organisational resilience.

PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE

A practical programme for professionals working in high-stakes environments.

Focus areas include:

• Stress and decision-making
• Breathing and autonomic regulation
• Attention stability
• Rapid recovery strategies

Adaptable for finance, leadership, healthcare, and other high-responsibility contexts.

LEADERSHIP RESILIENCE AND DECISION-MAKING

A programme for leaders managing complexity and responsibility.

Focus areas:

• Leadership stress patterns 
• Emotional and relational regulation
• Perspective under pressure
• Authority and accountability

TEAM DIALOGUE, ENGAGEMENT, AND CONFLICT

A workshop designed for teams seeking stronger collaboration and psychological safety.

Participants explore:

• Communication patterns 
• Conflict escalation and avoidance
• Trust and accountability
• Constructive dialogue

Suitable for offsites and development programmes.

BREATHING AND PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATION

A practical workshop on respiratory and autonomic regulation for focus, energy, and recovery.

Informed by contemporary respiratory science and Buteyko-based approaches.

Participants learn:

• How breathing affects stress and cognition 
• CO₂ tolerance and nasal breathing
• Regulation techniques for work and sleep
• Recovery strategies

THE GESTAT CYCLE OF EXPERIENCE - AWARENESS, CONTACT, AND CHANGE

A workshop introducing the Gestalt Cycle of Experience as a framework for understanding behaviour, motivation, and relational patterns.

Participants learn to:

• Recognise interruptions in contact
• Understand unfinished situations
• Identify habitual blocks to change
• Support completion and integration

Used in individual, team, and leadership contexts.

INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

Longer-term programmes combining:

• Assessment 
• Workshops
• Coaching
• Follow-up review

Designed for sustained organisational development.