Emotional Wellbeing

Self-leadership Through Difficult Emotions

 

In this workshop, Amy focuses on embedding emotional wellbeing for high performance and psychological safety at work while creating the conditions for growth through adversity.

 
 

Life can often be tough in our complex and changing world. But with self-compassion, we can create acceptance of, and a path through, difficult emotions for ourselves and our colleagues. When we allow ourselves to gain strength through adversity, we boost wellbeing, engagement and energy.

Self-leadership is an essential part of our work and we can build capability to turn towards difficult feelings, process them and manage them for our individual and collective gain.

The methods are there to learn when we allow ourselves the space to recognise and evaluate our emotions.

Being able to manage our emotional responses enables us to control how we perform, especially in times of overwhelm. Shining a light on our patterns of behaviour means we can better respond — rather than react — during difficult times.

This workshop is designed for individuals who are experiencing difficult times and/or change. It is also very useful for team leaders or those in stressful roles who would benefit from leading their own emotions rather than being controlled by them.

In an organisation, these emotional management skills are essential for psychologically safe spaces where people can do their best work.

Developing emotional wellbeing enables us to pause and reflect on how we have coped during difficult times, then refocus on moving forward as our best selves.

Dr Amy Silver is one of Australia's leading voices in the area of emotion management and psychological safety for self and teams. Using the six-stage model (shown above) of managing emotions through self-regulation from her best selling book on the management of fear, Dr Amy will give participants not only tools and techniques, but confidence in themselves so that they can cope in difficult and changing circumstances.

 

Emotional wellbeing helps to create the conditions for resilient teams who can perform, safely and sustainably, even when under pressure.

 
 
 

Program outcomes

Key learnings will include:

  • Understanding the relationship between resilience, thoughts and emotions

  • Tools to evaluate thinking and create useful habits of thinking

  • Insights into how to cultivate self-compassion

  • Understanding why emotions are here and how to feel in control of them

  • A framework for managing thoughts and responses (as opposed to reactions) in difficult situations

  • An understanding of the personal non-negotiables which enable us to thrive throughout difficulty

  • A re-usable template for a 'meeting with self' to support participants in developing the habits that support healthy thinking and emotional wellbeing

  • A list of practical tools to help maintain emotional wellbeing during times of distress and/or high stress

  • Three simple techniques which can be used to manage feelings and ensure we can move forward through uncertainty.

 

Program Format

This program has a flexible format and includes practical take-away resources to ensure the
long-term impact of the sessions.

Foundation: 40-90 min talk/workshop

Maintain: Half-day or one-day immersion on self-management + four weekly videos following talk + pdf power-pack of reusable templates for self-coaching + 'how to guides for the tools covered in the session + links to video extras

Master: As above plus 90-minute group coaching/supervision (This works well for those dealing with the emotions of others and therefore may need extra supervision or processing to ensure they are not retaining secondary distress and that they are resilient for their stakeholders e.g. agile coaches, people in service roles.)

Includes Q&A, session recording, worksheets, links to videos, material, follow-up emails and all cheat sheets, plus a 40% discount (on RRP) on Amy’s books.

This program can be recorded and made available for a period of four weeks post-event. It can also be experienced as a one- or half-day session.

 
 
 

What clients say about working with Amy

Testimonials
Darren | Director

Amy understands how to help people bring all they have to the table. She can quickly see how people limit themselves and, in a non-threatening way, pushes them to give more. We have seen revenue increase by 37% YTD. In addition to this staff engagement has dramatically increased and attendance has been the best it’s been since the business inception.

Rebecca | Brand Strategist

Amy's profile tells you everything you need to know about her skills, professionalism and expertise. I verify all of those things, but would like to add what she is like to work with - as often that is the thing that determines the success of a project. Amy is engaged, interested and inquisitive. She brings energy, enthusiasm and proactive drive, delivering work with clarity, intelligent analysis and a good dose of common sense. She is a joy to work with.

Mei Lim | Communications Director

We recently worked with Amy to help us determine our strategic direction. How glad we were to have Amy! She helped us design the discussion guide and moderated groups with professionalism so that we got what we needed. She was outstanding, focused, efficient and really took the time to understand what we were trying to achieve.

Thomasine | Senior Insights Consultant

Amy has a science based approach, yet also has a personable manner that achieves great outcomes for those she coaches or participants in facilitation sessions. Amy has an exceptional toolkit of techniques that she applies effectively across multiple types of topics and challenges, distilling complex issues into structured exercises.

Helen | Facilitator and Coach

Amy is an extraordinarily perceptive practitioner and facilitator, able to get to the nub of people's concerns, needs and wants both rapidly and elegantly. Quietly confident and assured, she is never overbearing, yet provides strong and certain guidance to help people navigate their way to a more fulfilling professional and personal life. Her light touch, yet robust psychological approach, is a delight to observe and experience.

William | Director

Amy is charismatic, conscientious, knowledgeable and a fun person to lead groups. If you have the opportunity to work with Amy as a facilitator for your groups, I would take it!

Steve | Partner

Without hesitation I recommend and endorse Amy Silver. She remains one of the most approachable and professional facilitators I have come across. She effortlessly puts participants and clients at ease with her application of psychology and gets the most out of everyone in the room. She commands respect and attention and I would welcome Amy to lead and achieve the greatest outcome possible for any projects.

Bruce | Executive Managing Partner

Amy's presentation style is relaxed and engaging, and she makes it easy to participate. Her depth of knowledge of psychology, human behaviour, emotional intelligence, business, and change is excellent. I recommend using Amy's services particularly where you are wanting to develop leadership and enhance culture.

Candice | Demand & Supply Planning Manager

Working with Amy was a fantastic experience. She challenged the thinking I had traditionally had about myself, enabling me to use a different approach to my work. She also helped me with tools that I'd not used before in managing my team which produced great results!

Peter | Chief Executive Officer

Amy Silver is a rare combination of heart and head. She is a world class thinker and author on the art and science of influence, and how that applies to leadership and communication. She walks her talk, and shows up everywhere in her world with authenticity and courage (and occasionally with a mischievous glint in her eye). If you get a chance to work with Amy, you’d be mad not to take it.

Paul | Director/Owner

We engaged Amy to help us understand the blockers and strengths of our growing business. Amy conducted in-depth interviews with key stakeholders across our business, and with each Partner. She created a comprehensive report which highlighted the critical issues so we could cut through to actionable items. Because of our work with Amy we are now in a position to move forward in our succession plan and achieve our goals.

Johann | Founder, Decision Design

Without question, Amy is one of the most psychologically present, calm, disarming and clear thinking people I have come across in business. I recommend Amy to any executive looking for a credentialed, scientific thinker to add value to talent and consumer insights functions.

 

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