Workshops

Helping employees and managers recognise stress early, prevent burnout and sustain healthy performance under pressure.

Pressure is an inevitable part of modern work.

Burnout doesn't have to be.

My workshops equip employees and managers with the awareness and practical skills to recognise stress early, prevent burnout and sustain healthy performance under pressure.

Grounded in occupational psychology, neuroscience and over 20 years of experience, every workshop combines evidence-based learning with practical tools participants can apply immediately. Workshops can be delivered as standalone sessions or tailored programmes and integrated with the AURA Stress & Resilience Assessment.

Clients include

Signature Workshops

My two signature workshops build both awareness and practical capability. Together they help participants recognise stress early and develop the skills to sustain healthy performance under pressure.

Recognising Stress Early: Preventing Burnout Before It Happens

Burnout develops gradually, not suddenly. Using my proprietary AURA Framework, participants learn to recognise where they sit on the stress–resilience continuum, identify their personal warning signs and understand how stress affects their wellbeing and performance.

Participants will learn to:

  • Recognise where they sit on the continuum

  • Identify their burnout warning signs

  • Understand how stress affects performance

  • Develop a personal resilience action plan

Sustaining Performance Under Pressure

Once people recognise when stress is becoming unhelpful, they need practical strategies to respond effectively. This interactive workshop introduces my Sustainable Performance Operating System, equipping participants with evidence-based tools to regulate stress, protect cognitive performance, restore energy and build sustainable ways of working.

Participants will learn to:

  • Manage pressure more effectively in demanding environments

  • Regulate their stress response in the moment

  • Protect focus, decision-making and mental performance

  • Build sustainable habits that support long-term wellbeing and performance

Specialist Workshops

Extend learning with focused workshops that build specific capabilities for sustaining performance under pressure. Each workshop can be delivered as a standalone session or combined into a tailored learning programme. Workshops include:

Leading Through Pressure

Equip managers with the skills to recognise stress, have supportive conversations and understand how their behaviour influences team stress and resilience.

Regulating Your Nervous System

Learn how to manage the stress response based on the latest neuroscience

Protecting Your Processing Power

Reducing cognitive overload and protecting focus under pressure.

Building Attitudinal Resilience

Identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop a more resilient, flexible and growth-oriented mindset.

Integrating Workshops with AURA

Workshops can be delivered as standalone learning experiences or integrated with the AURA Stress & Resilience Assessment.

Using assessment insights allows learning to be tailored to your organisation's unique stress profile, helping teams focus on the areas that will have the greatest impact.

Available:

  • In person or online

  • 60-minute awareness sessions

  • Half-day workshops

  • Full-day programmes

  • Leadership and manager development

  • Team development and wellbeing initiatives

  • “A highly practical, real-world workshop that helped people recognise and address early signs of stress before becoming overwhelmed.”

    — Andrea Brewster OBE, Lead Executive Officer, IP Inclusive

  • “Rachel’s workshop on Sustaining performance under pressure was informative , creatively presented and aptly directed at the environments and challenges typically facing barristers coping with their day-to-day workloads.”

    — Denise McFarland, Barrister & Mediator & Joint Head of Chambers, Three New Square Intellectual Property

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