Corporate WorkshopsScience-backed workshops for teams that want to perform better.
Delivered as keynotes or half-day sessions, in person or online. Each workshop draws on neuroscience, psychology and lived military experience.
Workshop topicsWorkshops for real working environments
Each session combines research-backed theory with hands-on group exercises. HR managers can book a single topic or combine them into a half-day programme.
Wellbeing · 1.5 to 3 hours · In-person or onlineStress and Resilience Management
Your team is already under pressure. This workshop gives them a clear map of how stress works in the body, why resilience is a skill you can train, and a set of practical tools they can use the same week.
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Stress is not weakness. It is the body's physiological and psychological response to any demand, internal or external. This session opens with a clear distinction between acute stress (useful, even performance-enhancing) and chronic stress (the kind that wears teams down and drives burnout).
Participants explore the three main stress types: physical, psychological and chemical, and learn why stress perceived by the body is compoundable. The CUNE framework (Control, Unpredictability, Novelty, Ego) helps them identify their personal stress triggers.
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Resilience is the capacity to bounce back from difficulty. The key insight: you cannot build pre-programmed solutions for every future challenge, but you can build transferable skills that work across all of them.
Covered strategies include: breathwork and nervous system regulation, movement and thermotherapy, the role of social connection in stress recovery, sleep as a performance tool, and building a long-term vision that provides direction during difficult periods.
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Teams map their workplace energy in four quadrants: changes that affected them, personal stress responses, energy givers, and energy drainers. Groups discuss patterns, link them to self-regulation techniques, and identify one resilience practice to carry forward as a team.
This exercise works in-person on large sheets or on a virtual board. Group size: 4 to 6 people per group, approximately 20 to 30 minutes.
Leadership · 1 to 2 hours · In-person or onlineChange Management: a Neuroscience Perspective
Reorganisations, new ownership, layoffs, and AI adoption. Your people are not resisting change because they are difficult; they are resisting because their brains are doing exactly what brains do. This session shows the science and gives leaders practical tools for navigating it.
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The brain is a prediction machine. It constantly forecasts what comes next, and it reacts most strongly to the gap between prediction and reality, what neuroscientists call prediction error. The "comfort zone" is simply a low-prediction-error state: familiar, efficient, safe-feeling.
When change arrives, prediction error spikes. Unpredictability activates the same alarm systems as physical danger. This is why even positive change (a promotion, a new office, a new manager) can feel stressful. Participants leave this section understanding that resistance is not a character flaw; it is a predictable biological response.
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Based on Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model, the session maps the five stages from pre-contemplation to maintenance. The key leadership insight: someone who looks "resistant" is usually in an earlier stage, not opposed. Naming the stage lowers defensiveness on both sides.
The session introduces the Understand, Accept, Let Go sequence: the brain has to update its prediction model before it can tolerate and then release the old pattern. You cannot rush a team to acceptance without first helping them understand.
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Participants leave with four concrete strategies:
Keeping one or two anchors stable when everything else shifts.
Protecting the basics (sleep, movement, nutrition) as nervous-system bandwidth tools.
Reframing uncertainty from threat to curiosity.
Using connection as co-regulation.
A short exercise on change adoption (the Diffusion of Innovations curve) shows leaders how to identify early adopters and let them model the change publicly.
Performance · 1.5 to 3 hours · In-person or onlineFocus and Productivity: Getting the Right Things Done
Teams are not struggling with effort; they are struggling with direction and distraction. This session reframes productivity from volume to quality, teaches the neuroscience of focus, and gives each participant a personal planning system they can use immediately.
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Focus is not willpower. It is a neurochemical state driven by dopamine, adrenaline and acetylcholine. The session explains four key focus factors: interest, distraction management, energy, and the myth of multitasking. Participants learn why a distraction costs on average 23 minutes to recover from, and what actually disrupts and restores a focused state.
Practical strategies covered: using your chronotype and circadian rhythm, designing the environment to limit distractions, taking real breaks rather than passive scrolling, and reframing multitasking as task-switching (which carries a serious cognitive cost).
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Productivity is not about doing more; it is about doing less of what does not matter. The session introduces a macro-to-micro planning approach: starting with a yearly vision, breaking it into quarterly and monthly priorities, and translating those into a daily task list of two to three items aligned with organisational goals.
Time-blocking is covered as a tool for creative and knowledge workers: 90-minute distraction-free deep work blocks, with rituals that signal the brain to enter focus mode. The "eat the frog" principle, the 80/20 rule and planned free time round out the individual system.
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Productivity at the team level requires clear top-down priorities delivered consistently. The session covers pull-based task management (teams pull from a live priority list rather than waiting to be pushed tasks), matching assignments to individual strengths, and the distinction between manager and knowledge worker time needs.
At the organisational level, the session applies the same logic: values alignment, mission clarity, and running meetings that actually move things forward. A group prioritisation exercise wraps up the session, putting the framework into immediate practice.
Tailored · Topic of your choice · In-person or onlineCustom Workshop for Your Team
Every organisation has its own context and challenges. If none of the topics above fits exactly, or if you want a combination built around a specific situation your team is facing, reach out and we can design something together.
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A discovery call covers the team's situation, the specific challenge you are trying to address, the format that fits your schedule, and any existing initiatives to build on. From there, a session is designed around your context rather than a template.
Past tailored topics have included leadership communication during restructuring, team cohesion after remote-first transitions, and combining stress management with physical health for field teams. If you have a challenge in mind, get in touch.
InvestmentStarting from 600 EUR per session
Varies by format, duration and group size. Contact Samuel for a quote tailored to your team.
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