What we do

Learn more about our wellbeing workshops, culture & strategy consulting, health & safety training, keynotes and coaching.

Resilience & Wellbeing Training

Wellbeing & Resilience Workshops

Our dynamic and interactive workshops equip your team with scientifically proven tools and techniques to build sustainable high performance. Delivered in a format that suits you.

Health and Safety Training

We work with organisations to inform and transform (if needed) thinking around health and safety. Health and safety can sometimes be a difficult and confusing topic. We clarify and simplify it. 

Peak Performance Keynote & Mental Skills Coaching 

Todd Astle and Ged Robinson deliver an informative and engaging keynote talk, “The Men in the Arena” where they share powerful stories from their professional sporting careers.

How to teach and parent in uncertain times

Child psychologist Dr Emma Woodward provides her highly regarded keynote talks to parents and teachers focus on cultivating hope and resilience and managing anxiety in challenging times.

Culture & Strategy Consulting

Mark Jenner and Kim Tay can help you harness the strengths of your team’s culture and ambition to develop a clear purpose, vision and set of values that everyone can align to.

Wellbeing in Education

We bring the best of wellbeing science to life with practical tools for staff, students and parents, including staff surveys, wellbeing workshops for staff and senior students, and informative and entertaining keynote talks.

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Wellbeing workshop topics

Delivered in the format that suits you (from 1 hour to 2 days, face-to-face or virtually), our practical workshops are full of easy-to-apply tools.

The Real-Time Resilience Series powered by the NZ Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience includes:

  • The What, Why and How of Resilience – the fundamentals, including how to overcome the brain’s negativity bias.

  • Mental Agility – tools to increase psychological flexibility, prioritise ruthlessly, and learn to be more optimistic.

  • Managing Your Mind: Avoiding Thinking Traps – identifying and combating the typical patterns of thinking that hijack your brain.

  • Power up the Positive – how to harness the benefits of positive emotions to boost creativity and productivity, improve health, and reduce stress.

  • Growth Mindset – identify the fixed mindset triggers that slow growth and adopt the mindset that’s vital for innovation and a strong culture.

  • Overcoming Self-Sabotage – remove the handbrake to high performance with strategies to combat perfectionism in yourself and others.

  • Managing Stress – applying the stress mindset that boosts performance and creating your ‘Personal Stress Plan’ with proven mental and physical strategies.

  • Effective Work Relationships – tools for strengthening relationships, defusing conflict, and having more effective meetings.

  • Avoiding Burnout – understanding the drivers of burnout and how to avoid it for yourself and your team.

Other workshops we offer include:

  • The Science of Habits: how to do more of the things that build your wellbeing and less of those that don’t.

  • Move It: how exercise boosts your brain function and what to do.

  • Eat It: the nutrients that improve mental health.

  • Sleep Better: how to improve your sleep with proven strategies.

  • Emotional Intelligence: how to manage your emotions to increase energy and wellbeing.

  • Managing Anxiety: techniques to tame the anxious brain.

  • Jobcrafting: the small changes that make work more fulfilling

  • Strengths: harness your strengths to get more out of work and life

Health & Safety Training

Everyone coming to work needs to go home in the same or a better condition than when they arrived. Our training helps organisations implement an effective, compliant, relatable health and safety system that everyone wants to be a part of, ultimately improving organisational outcomes. Health means physical and mental health. Learning how to stay safe and healthy at work and having productive work relationships leads to increased personal and organisational productivity.

We work with organisations to inform and transform (if needed) thinking around health and safety. Health and safety can sometimes be a difficult and confusing topic. We clarify and simplify it.

Health and safety facilitator Stephanie Rumble has extensive experience in this area, leading our interactive and engaging workshops on:

  • Workplace De-escalation – dealing with challenging and upset clients with a straightforward, process-driven approach.
  • Managing Bullying and Harassment – recognising, coping with and managing workplace bullying and harassment.
  • Stress and Fatigue Management – understanding workplace stress and fatigue and tools to manage both.
  • Understanding Risk Management – how to assess risk and apply the principles daily in all work situations in a fun, straightforward way.

Peak Performance Keynote & Mental Skills Coaching

Todd Astle and Ged Robinson deliver an informative and engaging keynote talk, “The Men in the Arena” where they share powerful stories from their professional sporting careers. With their down-to-earth, engaging and highly entertaining style they promote perseverance, positive psychology and wellbeing principles.

The keynote provides practical insights to inspire, connect and encourage audiences to embrace their imperfections and their own stories, as we all strive to make sense of our unique journeys.  

Their mental skills coaching benefits not just athletes and sports teams. Experience and research show that when people apply the basic principles they are more likely to perform their tasks more effectively and achieve a higher level of success.

Through the coaching, participants create plans for developing their mental skills, learning how to improve their self-awareness and optimise their mindset to tap into their full capabilities.

Both the keynote and coaching give people a new sense of energy, direction, and confidence from knowing where to focus their energies and become the best versions of themselves. Todd and Ged understand how to keep growing after initial success – and how to bounce back when faced with setbacks and challenges.

How to teach and parent in uncertain times

Child psychologist Dr Emma Woodward provides practical ideas and strategies to help children flourish in uncertain times. Her highly regarded keynote talks to parents and teachers focus on cultivating hope and resilience and managing anxiety in challenging times.

“The world is changing, and at a pace much faster than our ability to keep up. We are currently facing many challenges and uncertainties, such as the impact of technology on the way we live, as well as facing a future with a changing climate. In addition to this, the current pandemic has focused us on the need to support our children and ourselves in different ways”. Dr Emma Woodward

It’s no wonder kids can become anxious, and parents can feel overwhelmed and sometimes beyond their capacity and expertise as parents and carers. But in the face of all these challenges, parents can cope and even thrive. They have the skills and resources through positive interventions to support their children to flourish – even when the most certain thing is uncertainty itself.

As well as being a child psychologist, Dr Emma Woodward is the mother of four young boys and a sought-after presenter and media commentator on child and adolescent wellbeing issues. In her work, she talks about:

  • Growing resilient children in times of uncertainty 
  • Managing anxiety, emotional regulation, and trauma-informed practice
  • Cultivating hope and the future-focused child. 

“The sessions were engaging, informed, down to earth and responsive to the needs of the participants. When our educators indicated that they would like more information on emotional regulation and distress tolerance, Emma pivoted and ensured that she included tools and strategies to meet those needs.

Feedback from our educators is that the impact of Emma’s professional development was profound. Her sessions were interesting, well-paced, interactive and practical which meant that the participants left feeling their time was well invested and they were equipped to support children and whanau. Dr Woodward’s sessions are always extremely well attended, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with her in the future.”

Barbara Hannant, Practice Leader, Educational and Child Psychologist, NZPsS; RTLB Cluster 8, Ngā Manu Āwhina

Wellbeing in Education

We bring the best of wellbeing science to life with practical tools for staff, students and parents, including staff surveys, wellbeing workshops for staff and senior students, and informative and entertaining keynote talks.

Understand how people on your staff are feeling and what matters to them. The survey:

  • Includes validated measures of wellbeing and resilience.
  • Gives key insights into engagement and culture.
  • NZ and international benchmarks for comparison.
  • Results that are easy to understand and shared in a presentation.
  • A clear picture of where to focus.
  • Can be customised to suit your school.
  • Gives staff confidence their feedback is completely anonymous.
  • Is quick and easy to complete.

Our Real-Time Resilience series was developed by award-winning global authorities on resilience in schools, Dr Lucy Hone & Dr Denise Quinlan of the NZ Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience.

  • Dynamic, interactive, and engaging workshops.
  • Based on scientifically proven techniques.
  • Full of easy-to-apply tools from the latest international research.

Empower your staff to reach their highest potential with strategies that:

  • Combat stress and burnout.
  • Equip people to cope with change.
  • Revitalise engagement where people feel more inspired and energised and actively contribute to a positive, inclusive culture.

“This was brilliant. Kim is such a great presenter, and the content was spot on. She was so calming to listen to. The pace was great, and the handouts followed nicely. So many things we can take into our classrooms and use with our kids”.
Northern Suburbs Kāhui Ako (Wellington).

Our informative and entertaining workshops help Y11-13 students understand what they can do to boost their resilience. Students learn how to:

  • Adopt a ‘growth mindset’ and combat perfectionism.
  • Manage anxiety and feel calmer and more connected.
  • Sleep better to gain energy, focus, and enhance learning.

“It was not too long and stayed on topic, providing information on a relevant issue.”
Student, St Cuthberts.

“What I loved was how you hit all the key points and personally, it was such a great summary for staff and our students. I think every time I hear the message it reminds me to keep going. It is so encouraging. Thank you so very much and I can’t wait for session two”.
NZ Rural Principals Association.

“Loved the new learning, the brain breaks, the time, taking away catch our calm, share our calm, be present.”
Kindercare NZ.

Share unique and uplifting insights with your staff, parents, and community with inspiring talks.

  • Dr Emma Woodward, child psychologist and sought-after media commentator, is an expert on how to teach and parent in uncertain times. Her talks are full of tools and strategies to help you support your children and teenagers.
  • Former international sportsmen Ged Robinson (rugby) and Todd Astle (cricket) share powerful stories from their professional sporting careers in their down-to-earth, engaging and highly entertaining style. Their talk suits adults and teenagers and provides practical insights promoting perseverance, mental skills, and wellbeing principles.

“The sessions were interesting, well-paced, interactive and practical which meant that the participants left feeling their time was well invested and they were equipped to support children and whanau.”
Barbara Hannant, Practice Leader, Educational and Child Psychologist, NZPsS; RTLB Cluster 8, Ngā Manu Āwhina.

“What an amazingly insightful talk, delivered in a relatable and accessible way, with actual practical applications! … Thank you so much.” Parent, Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland.

“[They] bring life to buzzwords like – resilience, wellbeing, performance, culture.”
Mark Ranby, National Practice Manager, New Zealand Rugby Players Association.

“It was an awesome session … very positive feedback from participants who valued the opportunity to reflect on their situation and the invitation to take proactive steps to look out for their wellbeing.”
Oceania Football Confederation.

Share the same concepts across your community to amplify the boost to wellbeing and resilience. We can tailor our workshops and talks to deliver practical strategies to:

Contact Sally Murray, wellbeing expert and former teacher, for a free
consultation to tailor a survey, workshop or keynote talk to suit your school or Kāhui Ako.

Culture

and Strategy Consulting

Mark Jenner and Kim Tay can help you harness the strengths of your team’s culture and ambition to develop a clear purpose, vision and set of values that everyone can align to.

Mark and Kim bring a unique combination of research techniques and business strategy to not only diagnose your culture, but also to work collaboratively with you to develop the strategy that will guide your business to success.

Their proven methodology gives you a clear picture of the culture in your organisation, including what makes people proud to work in it, what motivates and drives their behaviours, and how actual behaviours may differ from their aspirations. 

Mark and Kim use these insights and work collaboratively with you to refine and articulate the language and direction of your strategic plans. They are highly experienced in drawing out the ‘truth’ from your team, senior leaders, board and external stakeholders, and shaping this into something you can actually use in your organisation.