Training
New & Noteworthy!
Bespoke Professional Resilience Courses
Inspiring Conscious Leadership
Mindfulness For Professionals
Digital Wellbeing For Professionals
Burnout Prevention & Conscious Nutrition
Communication / Negotiation / Interviewing
New & Noteworthy!
Our Newest & Most Popular Workshops
We deliver exciting masterclass-style workshops that are interactive, inspiring, and will get your people talking about the things that really matter. Our most popular sessions are consistently reviewed as excellent by delegates from leading firms and we can tailor any session to the needs of your people.
POST-PANDEMIC PROFESSIONAL RESILIENCE
As we emerge from the embers of the pandemic an opportunity presents itself to harvest the learnings from the covid-era and to translate them into a personal and professional resilience plan. This session speaks directly to the human experience of encountering disruption, stress, uncertainty and vulnerability and how we can harness these forces as a clarifying energy in our lives. This experiential and interactive session will leave delegates with fresh practical strategies to inspire alignment, balance, wellbeing and inner strength.
THE WISDOM OF IMPOSTOR SYNDROME
Imposter syndrome refers to the internal experience of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be. I experienced it when I represented a client in Court aged 22, when I led my first meditation class, and when I changed my IN profile to International Mindfulness Expert. Perhaps it has been a feature of your career too? In this powerfully affirming workshop we will explore Impostor Syndrome as an indicator of growth, learning, and becoming. Together we will discover the wisdom that lies within this very human experience, aiming to emerge with increased courage, self-knowledge and confidence.
INSPIRING CONSCIOUS PROFESSIONALISM
An era of Conscious Professionalism is dawning, propelled by the disturbance of the pandemic, the crumbling of old leadership models, and the compelling focus of the climate emergency. The ideas of conscious business, conscious capitalism, and conscious leadership (which all point to a harmonic future rooted in purpose and impact-awareness) are not new, yet few individuals and organisations are conversant with the models, or know how to practically apply them. This dynamic and interactive session is designed to inform professionals, inspire teams and and spark dynamic conversations on how to move forward with excellence and integrity.
MASTERING THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE
A powerful and timely workshop offering delegates space to get clear on their priorities and consider practical steps to bring their work into balance with other commitments. With practices and exercises to help inspire and support increased wellbeing, this workshop will help your people make peace with their new reality and optimise their home/office lifestyle.
DIGITAL WELLBEING – (Updated For Pandemic-Era Professionals)
With most of us spending increased time with eyes on screens, this workshop is an inspiring and hilarious romp through the science and strategy of digital addiction that leaves delegates inspired to take a scroll pause and create some new digital boundaries! Consistently one of our best reviewed courses since 2012!
Bespoke Professional Resilience Courses
Our Professional Resilience course is modular, allowing clients to create their own tailored program based on their learning needs. Choose any combination from the modules listed on the right side of the page.
We can advise which elements might work best for your delegate group and how many to choose, dependent on the duration of your course.
Our most popular formulations for new clients are these:
Professional Resilience Part 1
- Resilience Awareness
- The Conscious Guide to Stress
- Stress Resilience through Mindfulness
- Digital Wellbeing
- Personal Wellbeing
Professional Resilience Part 2
- Emotional Intelligence
- Balancing Perfectionism
- Professional Boundaries: Saying No & Meeting Deadlines
- Navigating Change & Uncertainty
- Alignment and Success
RESILIENCE MODULES
- Resilience Awareness
- The Conscious Guide to Stress
- Stress Resilience through Mindfulness
- Mindfulness: Embedding Your Practice
- Digital Wellbeing
- Personal Wellbeing
- Emotional Intelligence
- Alignment and Success
- New Job, New Challenges
- Cultivating Work-Life Balance
- Professional Boundaries: Saying No & Meeting Deadlines
- Dealing with Challenging Behaviours
- Challenging Conversations
- Balancing Perfectionism
- The Wisdom of Impostor Syndrome
- Neuroplasticity & Happiness
- Joy
- Creativity
- Conscious Leadership
- Self-Compassion
- Navigating Change & Uncertainty
Inspiring Conscious Leadership
We find ourselves poised at a moment in history where fresh solutions must now call forward an entirely new paradigm of leadership consciousness.
Conscious Leadership is that paradigm.
Incorporating lessons on Self-Knowledge, Self-Maintenance, Self-Development, Self-Management, and Self Mastery, Conscious Leadership is the journey out of fear.
Allow Neil Seligman, Author of Conscious Leadership. Reveal Your Potential. Inspire Excellence. (Published Nov 2019 by White Lion Publishing, a Build+Become title) to design a bespoke Conscious Leadership programme exclusively for your needs.
EXAMPLE COURSES:
- An Introduction to Conscious Leadership
- Inspiring Conscious Professionalism
- Emotional Intelligence & Conscious Leadership
- 1:1 Conscious Leadership Coaching
Conscious Leadership Coaching
1:1 Conscious Leadership Coaching for CEOs, Managing Partners and Senior Leaders with Neil Seligman.
This is a powerful 6-month coaching partnership to resource, support and inspire you as you lead your organisation beyond the disruption of the global pandemic.
Mindfulness For Professionals
We specialise in short duration, high impact live trainings pitched perfectly for busy professionals and our industry-leading e-learning mindfulness programme Zen in Ten can be offered as an online addition or alternative!
Why not start with a series of three powerful live sessions:
MINDFULLY NAVIGATING CHANGE & UNCERTAINTY
The human experience is characterised by change and uncertainty at every stage, yet most find embracing these realities challenging and disorienting at the best of times, let alone during times of global disruption, political upheaval and environmental calamity. This inspiring workshop explores the benefits of upgrading both attitude and mindset with mindfulness as well as introducing the powerful practical skills of Self-Compassion and Self-Leadership.
Mindfulness, Stress, and Performance
Mindfulness, is not just about stress, anxiety and counting your breath, it is about strength, performance, and excellence. In this dynamic, inspiring, and experiential session we will explore the two sides of mindfulness: as a powerfully simple intervention for stress and as a catalyst for peak performance!
Mindfulness, Embedding Your Practice
Although mindfulness can be a simple short practice, it is not easy to embed in our busy daily lives. This practical session will give you all the tools you need to turn your interest and commitment into a regular practice that supports your mental wellbeing, resilience, and performance and becomes a friendly resource in your life. Consider this session a mini-MBSR!
Don’t Forget Our Online Programme!
Zen in Ten is the ten-day mindfulness challenge for people who need to slow down! Perfect for busy professionals it teaches delegates all the skills and theory to allow them to meditate for 10 minutes anytime anywhere without a phone, music or guidance! A single licence is £95 and affordable corporate group pricing is available for your cohort.
OPTIONS
- Mindfulness 101 / Professional Mindfulness
- Mindfulness Stress & Performance
- Mindfulness: Embedding Your Practice
- A Mindful Guide to Emotional Intelligence
- Mindfulness 4 Week Course
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Digital Wellbeing For Professionals
Fully Updated For Pandemic-Era Professionals!
We have all become digital addicts and the age of information has quickly become the age of distraction. In this powerful and hilarious session delegates assess the extent of their own addictive behaviours before learning how the internet and apps have been designed to purposefully addict users to dopamine cues.
This session is designed to leave delegates inspired and enlightened and free to commit to new digital boundaries, and win back their time and precious attention.
Consistently one of our most highly reviewed courses since 2012!
OPTIONS
Digital Wellbeing can be included as a module within a Professional Resilience Course or can run as a stand-alone 45-90 minute session.
Burnout Prevention & Conscious Nutrition
Burnout Prevention: Surviving to Thriving
Surviving to Thriving with Tuire Niinimäki is an eye-opening and inspiring workshop designed to help your people understand the realities of burnout and learn powerful tools to manage their stress and resilience. Highly recommended by our clients.
Conscious Nutrition
The Conscious Professional offers three Conscious Nutrition workshops which can be offered as stand-alone sessions or run sequentially to deliver incremental learning:
What’s Your Eating Personality?
You make over 200 food-related decisions a day, 95% of which are subconscious. In a fast-paced professional environment what and how you eat has a profound effect on your physical and mental wellbeing, not to mention your engagement and productivity at work. In this dynamic workshop you will discover which one of the five Eating Personalities you most align with and discover what is most likely to influence your daily food habits. With greater insight and perspective, you will leave with tailored nutrition tips and practical advice to take control of your nutritional wellbeing.
Performance Nutrition
You make 60% of your food choices at work and whether you are aware of them or not, they have a profound impact on your day. In this workshop you will learn how to unlock your potential by eating well and making powerful decisions to fuel your excellence. Do you know what it takes to nourish both brain and body for optimal productivity and resilience? Expect a dynamic workshop incorporating practical tips and strategies to take your performance and wellbeing to the next level.
Nutrition – Ask the Expert!
In this session, it is your chance to ask the nutrition questions you have always wanted answered. Diet dilemmas, food fictions, nutrition nightmares all welcome. This session will be guided by your questions as leading expert Laura Clark shines a light on the latest science and offers you sound and practical nutrition advice.
Your Trainers
Tuire Schoonen, Burnout & Mindfulness Expert
Having worked for Unilever as a Global Brand Development Manager for the first chapter of her career, Tuire experienced a burnout which inspired her next move. She is now an experienced and sought-after Mindfulness Expert with a passion for working with people who may be exposed to high-stress or fear they may be close to, or experiencing, burnout. Through her personal burnout journey, she brings not only her professional skills but a deeply compassionate and practical approach to help others avoid burnout, or successfully recover when burnout arises.
Laura Clark, Dietitian
Laura decided to become a dietitian combining her love of working with people and her passion for food and the science of nutrition. Laura has expertise in health and performance nutrition, as well as behaviour-change counselling. TV appearances include BBC Breakfast and ITV1’s ‘The Biggest Loser’. Laura leads Conscious Nutrition workshops for The Conscious Professional.
Communication / Negotiation / Interviewing
Powerful Communication For Professionals
Communication skills remain a differentiator in the workplace. In this dynamic, enjoyable, and interactive session Neil digests his years of experience as a Civil Law Barrister, International Public Speaking champion, and as a global keynote speaker, imparting the secrets that will help delegates get the basics right, develop their confidence and technical skill, whilst owning their unique power as a speaker.
Powerful Negotiation
This course is designed to give professionals the edge when negotiating on behalf of clients. Building from the ground up, the course tools participants with key definitions, concepts, styles and principles of negotiation. The core model being taught is the strong win-win model. Often overlooked is the concept of mindset and self-management. This course introduces delegates to the power of presence, empathy, intuition, and intentionality within negotiation. The course concludes with the rules of engagement, expert-moves, persuasion, delivery, boundaries and tactics.
Powerful Interviewing For Lawyers
Interviewing skills are foundational to the success of every case. Without the facts, everything else falls apart. The quality of information that arises during an interview will be dependent on the skill and technique of the interviewer. Often underestimated in their complexity, the inadequacy of interviewing skills often leads to a nasty surprise, or the failure of the case. In this session, delegates will develop the skills of genuine welcoming, listening, questioning, reassuring, persuading, spotting guesses, and much more.
A Mindful Guide to Challenging Conversations
How much time is lost fretting about a high-risk conversation with a client or colleague, and ruminating after the event on how it could have gone so much better? Conflict is a multi-sensory experience that churns the stomach, leaving us feeling emotional, angry, and out of control. It can turn a good day bad in a matter of seconds. As a result, most professionals would like to feel more skillful within conflict and more consistently able to represent their best self. In this dynamic and practical session we journey boldly towards increased self-awareness, naming our values within conflict, and growing in emotional intelligence. Our aim, to lead courageously whether conflict is present or absent, and to communicate precisely, honestly, and compassionately.
COURSES INCLUDE
- Powerful Communication for Professionals
- Powerful Negotiation
- Powerful Interviewing for Lawyers
- A Mindful Guide to Challenging Conversations
COACHING
1-1 Communication Skills Coaching is also available.
“Thank you for your enthralling session!”
Oliver Holmes, Human Capital & Diversity – Accenture
Consultancy
A 2020 report from Deloitte makes a compelling case for employers investing in mental health, with an
average return of £5 for every £1 spent.
It is no surprise that organisations are making workplace wellness a priority – the business case is solid. A well-executed employee wellbeing programme can have a direct impact on their bottom line, from reducing turnover costs through to dramatically improving individual and team performance. In this fast-paced and changing world, the companies which value and support
their people are those which enjoy long-term success. It is now therefore vital for businesses to prioritise the shared purpose, health and wellbeing of their people and teams in their vision, mission, and values. With our combined expertise in Corporate Wellbeing and Conscious Leadership we specialise in helping you do just that.
Deloitte: Mental Health and Employers. Refreshing the case for investment. January 2020.
Our Expertise
Conscious Leadership, Mindfulness & Professional Resilience
We know that an effective employee wellbeing programme goes beyond running ad hoc wellness activities – it must be embedded within the purpose and values of the business and become a framework by which the organisation lives, and in which everyone is invested. We help businesses across the world develop bespoke mindful education, conscious leadership and wellbeing programmes, with the expertise to then partner in their delivery.
Conscious Business Transformations
If a team or business were an organism, the state of its health, productivity, and performance would be dependent upon how it had been created nurtured and led. Where dysfunction arises, healing must be initiated before it can return to health and strength. We take on the role of observer-analyst-mentor, listening for the deeper causes underlying the dysfunction, opening the channels of communication, acting as a catalyst for the process, and laying the groundwork for transformational results.
Conscious Leadership Coaching for CEOs and Managing Partners
The Conscious Model developed by Neil Seligman describes how individuals and organisations can thrive whilst expressing integrity in all stakeholder relationships and the wider global community. Neil’s work with leaders is inspired by titles such as Conscious Business by Fred Kofman, Conscious Capitalism by Mackay and Sisodia, The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek and the research for his own book Conscious Leadership (White Lion Publishing 2019).