WORKSHOPS

THE CAFFEINE-FREE “AWAKENED” WORKPLACE

A light-hearted and interactive program that explores how to wake-up at work without the aid of full-octane coffee or tea! Your group will explore how to cultivate more positive energy, peacefulness, and pleasure at work through the act of being more MINDFUL throughout their busy days. The AWAKENED WORKPLACE is where everyone consciously chooses to view and think about typical work-related challenges in ways that reduce the times when stress and negative energy can so easily be the outcome. Your group will hear messages, gain insights, and acquire practical tools to create the  kind of workplace environment that fosters good health, raises levels of engagement, cultivates strong relationships, produces genuine teamwork, and edges your organization closer to reaching its goals!

Your Group Will Take Away:

  • A greater understanding of the powerful role our perceptions and thoughts play in our daily experience
  • A set of methods to enhance their level of mindfulness throughout their busy days
  • A set of peaceful thoughts they can CHOOSE when challenges come their way
  • Knowledge of the “Ideal Performance State” – why it’s worth the effort to harness its powers
  • Information and tools that will empower them to create the kind of workplace they desire and help them feel their best each day!

*THE CAFFEINE-FREE AWAKENED WORKPLACE FOR LEADERS is also available

“…it was energetic, uplifting and exactly what we needed. Thanks for everything – I personally got so much of it!”- Jackie Phillip, Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation

REDUCING STRESS: Solving The Other Energy Crisis

Susan will raise your group’s awareness to cognitive and physical practices that will help them be peaceful, maintain good health and experience high energy when changes and challenges unfold in their personal and professional lives! This program promotes 3 main stress reduction strategies:

Awareness: A guided tour of the “Stress Pathway” (Observation, Perception, Response), to gain a greater understanding of the significant role thoughts play in creating experiences.

Mindfulness: The practice of being PRESENT when change and challenges unfold and consciously choosing to see things in ways that creates peaceful feelings rather than triggering the stress response.

Resiliency: Healthy habits that protect our health, maintain our energy, and triggers the relaxation response if and when chronic stress sets in – includes information and activities about: deep breath meditation, stretching, laughter, and play.

Your Group Will Take Away:

  • Knowledge of the stress pathway and the direct relationship between stress and our health
  • A greater understanding of the role our perceptions and thoughts play in how we experience changes and challenges
  • A set of key shifts in how they see and think about typical stressors – change your thoughts, change your stress level!
  • Awareness of healthy habits that can trigger relaxation, protect their health, and maintain high energy levels if and when chronic stress sets in
  • Information and tools that will help them contribute to to a peaceful, healthy, vibrant, and high performing organization

“Susan’s presentation was bang on! Her use of humour and real-life moments added greatly to her very serious topic.” - Kathy Bouma, Fanshawe College

YOUR NEW LENSES ARE READY FOR PICK-UP: Seeing Change in a New “Light”

Susan offers some new ways of viewing and thinking about change that can help your group stay in the “positive energy zone” during times in life that typically lead us to experiencing chronic stress and chronic negative energy. This session will provide your group with a key set of SHIFTS IN PERCEPTION that can help them protect their health, maintain their energy, and feel more at peace when life and work throws them those inevitable “curve balls”. To enhance the learning experience, each participant will receive a journal to help them apply the messages of the session to their own life. Along with great tips and tools, Susan will also share her own experiences with change and her personal “perception transformation” that inspired her to create a program about changing the way change changes us.

Your Group Will Take Away: 

  • A clear understanding of how change changes us
  • A stronger sense of empowerment over their experience with change
  • A higher awareness and understanding of the role that perception and thoughts play in the classic “stress pathway”
  • A set of new perspectives and thought processes about the role of change in our lives and why change happens
  • A set of changes to make within the self the next time change unfolds at work or in life
  • Information and tools that will help them contribute to to a peaceful, healthy, vibrant, and high performing organization

* this program can also be delivered as a 45 min. – 90 min. speech

“It’s not often that a speaker engages her audience as Susan did and left them wanting more. There were many laughs and “ah-ha” moments. Our audience left our event relaxed and better prepared to manage change and challenges as a result.” – Diana Zanin, DBM Canada

PUTTING THE POWERS OF HUMOUR TO WORK…AT WORK!

Based on her extensive experience serving clients in her successful speaking business and providing humour to audiences for over 10 years, Susan offers insights, messages, and best practices that can help your group deliver effective customer service through forming a connection with their clients/customers. This light-hearted program will provide your group with a set of practical tips and tools to help them use humour to deliver the uplifting, positive experience that your customers/clients are now craving more than ever and take their careers and your organization/business to the next level of success!

Your Group Will Take Away:

  • A greater appreciation for the powerful role right-brain skills play in providing service that stands out
  • Understanding that humour includes any actions, behaviours, and attitudes that create a positive and uplifting experience for people
  • Inspiration to be responsible for the energy they bring to each person they support and serve throughout their busy days
  • Awareness of the 6 main benefits of injecting humour into professional conversations/customer service interactions
  • Knowledge of the 5 key ways to instantly put humour to work and form a connection with another human being (Susan will share the golden rules of comedy and apply those principles to enhance your organization’s service delivery)

“Susan’s humour was completely engaging and at the same time, the take-away value was substantial.” – Margo Vanderland, Canada Colors & Chemicals Ltd.