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As well as providing bespoke training programmes for orgainsations, The Self Leadership Initiative also hosts public and online training workshops. These shorter sessions focus on a core skill or tool to help you in both your professional and personal development.

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CAMPAIGNING: PERSUADING WITH NARRATIVES

06/02/25, 10.00-11.00am on Zoom

How do you get people to back your campaigns. Freebies? Mottos? Tiktok dances? They may catch a few supporters but what you really need is a powerful story.

In this online workshop, you’ll learn how activists build their narratives in order to connect to their audience, and you’ll get practical tools to start using in your own campaigns. You’ll take away:

  • Understanding how to draw out the emotional messages of your campaign
  • Examples of campaign narratives in action to illustrate their power
  • Practical prompts and tools to workshop your own campaign ideas
  • Confidence to build a narrative for your campaigns
  • A greater sense of connection to your ideal audience

WELLNESS LAB: COPING WITH STRESS AND UNCERTAINTY

13/02/25, 10.00-11.00am on Zoom

Unfortunately stress seems to be a built-in feature of modern life. But we can all can all learn to cope with stress and uncertainty in a way that’s healthier for our body and mind. This session will walk you through some simple but effective tools to better cope with the stresses of life. You’ll take away:

  • Strategies for understanding unhealthy stress coping mechanisms and gradually swapping them for healthier ones
  • Tools to connect with your body and relax your physical response to stress
  • A tool for identifying sources of stress and focusing your attention where you can make a difference
  • Breathing exercises to activate your parasympathetic nervous system – calming down the stress response
  • Support in action planning what stress busting tools you’ll implement in your life
  • And we’ll end with a meditation to help you relax and take wellness into the next part of your day

GIVING COLLEAGUES CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK

06/03/25, 10.00-11.00am on Zoom

In order for your team to perform well, bond and grow you want a culture of giving feedback. But sometimes we accidentally slide into complaining or criticism which brings down team morale and puts us off regular feedback.

This online workshop will help you to feel more confident giving your colleagues the kind of feedback that will be constructive, well received and build trust in your team. You’ll take away:

  • Understanding the importance of good feedback
  • Recognising the common barriers and pitfalls to good feedback
  • Examples of best practices for giving your feedback in constructive and supportive ways
  • Prompts and acronyms to build your confidence in giving feedback to your colleagues
  • The chance to practice reframing critical feedback into more constructive alternatives

WELLNESS LAB: SETTING WORKPLACE BOUNDARIES TO IMPROVE YOUR WELLBEING

13/03/25, 10.00-11.00am on Zoom

Many people struggle to set boundaries at work for a whole host of reasons. But healthy boundaries are essential to look after our wellbeing and therefore our effectiveness at work. Some of the keys to setting great boundaries are knowing what you want (or don’t want), why that matters to you and being able to communicate that to others in an assertive way – confident but friendly. And there are tools to help you achieve this. You’ll take away:

  • Understanding the different types of boundaries we set and understanding your current patterns and preferences.
  • Strategies for feeling more confident and assertive – ready to have workplace conversations about boundaries.
  • Guidance on how to assertively and diplomatically put boundaries in place and ask for what you want.
  • Tips on how to say no in a way that feels comfortable for you
  • Support in action planning the boundaries you want to strengthen in your work.
  • And we’ll end with a visualisation to help you build your confidence.

HELPING PEOPLE SPEAK UP AND ENGAGE IN MEETINGS

01/04/25, 10.00-11.00am on Zoom

You finally managed to get everyone in the same room or teams call… but all you can hear is tumbleweed! Either that or the same few voices are leading the conversation. It’s frustrating because you know people have more to offer.

this online workshop will give you a buffet of facilitation tools and practical tips that help people to feel more comfortable participating in meetings and which liven up meetings too. You” take away:

  • Understanding the main barriers to speaking up in meetings
  • Strategies for building psychological safety in your team
  • Tips on framing more purposeful questions and instructions for participation
  • A range of interactive participation tools to get people talking

WELLNESS LAB: SUPPORTING COLLEAGUES WHO EXPERIENCE ANXIETY

10/04/25, 10.00-11.00am on Zoom

More of your colleagues experience anxiety than ever before – whether you know it or not. And each person’s anxiety may show up in different ways. We can learn strategies to help people to slow their thoughts, relax the body and take a measured approach to their anxiety. When colleagues feel supported it means they experience greater belonging in the team and hopefully able to manage their challenges more effectively. You’ll take away:

  • Understanding what anxiety is and how it may manifest for different people.
  • Awareness of the different contributors to anxiety.
  • A tool to help you talk colleagues through negative or worrying thoughts.
  • Strategies for supporting colleagues who are experiencing a panic attack.
  • Tips for helping anxious colleagues to engage with and relax their body.
  • Prompts for generating a workplace wellbeing plan to put support in place.
  • And we’ll end with a deep relaxation exercise to help you take wellness into the next part of your day.

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