Whether you are looking for an impactful conference keynote or workshop, I will tailor my content to the unique culture and climate of your organisation, and your specific event requirements. Below are a few examples of my keynote and workshop topics.
Banish "Toxic Positivity" and other workplace wellbeing nightmares (Keynote)
Whilst pizza nights, “casual Fridays” and team away-days can contribute to the wellbeing and optimal functioning of individuals and teams, they can also spectacularly backfire.
This keynote highlights the essential elements that enable individuals and organisations to flourish. I will share evidence-informed and experience-led examples to transform workplace culture, including (but not limited to!) strengths-based approaches to improve teamwork and performance, practical everyday wellbeing approaches and tools, and how to create an environment of psychological safety at work.
Tie up your LACES™ (keynote or workshop/s)
Delegates will learn about my practical, evidence-informed LACES™ (listening, appreciation, connection, emotional clarity, strengths) framework for wellbeing.
Through practical examples and, if the workshop format is chosen, opportunities to practise the tools and skills, delegates will leave with a toolkit of resources to support not only their own wellbeing, but the wellbeing of their colleagues, families and friends, too.
SMILE™ for happiness, connection and resilience (keynote or workshop)
Delegates will learn how to apply key evidence-based tools and habits from positive psychology and related fields to improve the quality of their lives inside and outside of work.
SMILE™ (Strengths, Meaning, Interest, Love, Engagement) will provide them with a range of practical ideas to implement in- and outside of work for improved communication, productivity, and enjoyment.
What's your Superpower? (keynote or workshop)
Understanding and working with strengths supports a positive workplace culture. In this keynote or workshop, delegates will learn about the power of character strengths to make life easier and more fun.
I will demonstrate simple techniques through applied examples (and practical individual, pair and group exercises, in the workshop format) that will enable participants to:
- Explore their own strengths
- Learn to strengths-spot in others (colleagues, employees, family & friends)
- Design ways to work with strengths to create more productive, successful and enjoyable workplaces and make life in- and outside of work more fun
(Re-)discover your Joy (Workshop)
In this practical and highly interactive workshop, I will guide participants through a series of carefully-crafted questions and activities in pairs and small groups to help them uncover:
- What gives them joy
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- What they are proud of
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- How they can incorporate more of what gives them joy and a sense of pride and achievement into their lives, in- and outside of work
Workplace Culture Improvement through Appreciative Inquiry (keynote, workshop or full Appreciative Inquiry process)
Appreciative Inquiry is a strengths-based approach to achieve organisation-wide change/improvement with active participation from all stakeholder groups. By focusing on “what works” and involving stakeholders at every stage, this approach enables organisations to create workplace culture and other improvements will full buy-in from their staff.
I am a certified Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner and have been using this methodology in my doctoral research to improve whole school wellbeing. I have also used this approach in workshops outside of school settings to enable diverse groups of people to work together to create common goals and action plans for improvement.
Whether you wish me to guide you through a full Appreciative Inquiry, or want to learn about its principles and use some of the tools and techniques in your organisation, I can facilitate this.
What I wish I'd known sooner: Removing the fear and stigma from important mental health conversations (keynote or workshop)
On 26th September 2024, my youngest daughter, Hannah, was detained under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act and was subsequently held in a psychiatric ward for two weeks under this section.
As awful and terrifying as this experience was for her, and for the whole family, we have learnt a lot about the conversations we wish we’d had more openly over the previous 10 years.
In this keynote or workshop, delegates will find out how to have these crucial conversations about mental health with family, friends and colleagues, without fear or stigma.
This keynote or workshop will be tailored to the particular audience, whether it’s a group of parents, a staff group in a school, leaders and middle managers in a business or other organisation, human resources professionals, or community group.
The information I will share will be based on my own and my family’s experience, what I have learnt through supporting my daughter through her mental health challenges, and my previous work as a trainer for a mental health charity (which included becoming a trained mental health first aider).
50% of my fees from Keynotes and workshops for parents, schools and businesses based specifically on my family’s experiences of Hannah’s mental health challenges “What I wish I’d known sooner”, and what I have learnt from the experience that can support others to have open and honest conversations about mental health, will be donated to Mind via Work for Good.
On 26th September 2024, my youngest daughter Hannah was detained under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act and was subsequently held in a psychiatric ward for two weeks under this section.
Mind, the mental health charity, were invaluable in helping me navigate the complex legal situation. The person I spoke to on the legal helpline was so kind and helpful, and gave me so much information I needed. The website information was also really clear and useful, not just for me and my husband, but for Hannah, too.
Hannah has bravely decided to share her journey by raising funds for Mind for her 25th Birthday, and has given me permission to share our family’s story in order to help others.
I have therefore created a new keynote and workshop for parents (but not only – also for anyone working in schools, and for businesses), to help them know what I wish I had known: How to talk to people about mental health, and how to look after ourselves while we support those we care about.
I want to not only share what I have learnt, but support Mind in doing so, by donating 50% of all my fees from this specific keynote and workshop to Mind.
