Mindfulness For Business
PERFORMANCE & SUSTAINABILITY COACHING
Performance barriers at work are often wellbeing issues in disguise, emerging when we think about things too much (or in the wrong way), when we can't switch off and when we aren't disciplined about looking after ourselves.
These behaviours are often rooted in distorted expectations of what is achievable and skewed interpretations of what is sustainable. Our career is a marathon, not a sprint, yet too often we try to defy this.
Sometimes, things at home aren't helping, with personal issues bubbling away under the hood, throwing our wellbeing ecosystem out of balance or into turmoil. It is naive to think that life at home and performance at work are separate worlds that can be kept apart.
So I work with the whole person, offering a structure in which they can go where they feel they need to go, flexing and adapting my approach and my three modalities as appropriate.
I bring a mixed model of coaching, mindfulness training and therapy to provide novel, responsive and tailored support for:
- High functioning people driven to meet their professional objectives but who need to find ways of doing so sustainably, with attention paid to issues of psychological stamina and resilience.
- People who find themselves in some challenge or difficulty with adverse impacts on their performance, perhaps becoming overwhelmed, approaching exhaustion or burn-out.
Tapping into the benefits of gentle exercise, movement and the outdoors, my 6-session core programme is designed for outdoor delivery but can be adapted to an indoor office or home setting where preferred.
AWAY DAYS
Wtih 20 years of group coaching and facilitation experience, I can help you bespoke unique & refreshing away days for your organisation or teams.
At our inspiring but informal venue the outdoors can be part of the day, refreshing our thinking, altering our perspective and boosting our creativity and problem solving.
I am an expert in facilitating psychologically safe, inclusive and non-hierarchical group environments that encourage people to communicate freely and authentically.
For Lawyers & other professionals
Paulo worked as a commercial solicitor for two of the largest UK law firms after graduating from Oxford University and law school. He has an MSc in Psychology alongside his Coaching and Therapy qualifications. He works part-time at Nottingham Law School and his PhD focuses on the causes of psychological distress in lawyers (with an inevitable cross-over into other 'high demand' professions and occupations). This unique mix plus his own lived experience of a stress-induced breakdown informs his approach to his work with individuals and teams.
Mindfulness TRAINING For Health Care Teams
PRIMARY CARE PRACTITIONERS
Front-line NHS practitioners too often find themselves emotionally exhausted and suffering from compassion fatigue or emotional numbness. Mindfulness training helps cultivate self-compassion, and the ability to show care and empathy for ourselves goes to the core of being able to offer it to others.
Mindfulness training also builds psychological resilience. We know this from lived experience, but also from the weight of clinical, psychological and neuroscientific literature.
Our training sessions bring together a mix of mindfulness practices and theory informed by the evidence-based 8 Week Mindfulness Courses (MBCT and MBSR) and we cover mindfulness-informed techniques for relating to patients differently, being more present, listening more effectively whilst at the same time setting boundaries and empowering them to take ownership of their emotional and physical health issues.
We can put together a programme of training to suit your needs and time constraints, delivered from Roseland Farm, Derbyshire (between Chesterfield and Mansfield) or at your own locations.
CASE STUDY: NOTTINGHAM CITY GP ALLIANCE SOCIAL PRESCRIBER LINK WORKERS / HEALTH & WELLBEING COACHES
The NCGPA team came together once a month for a two hour session focused on their wellbeing and resilience.
SPLWs and HWCs do incredible work in primary care, signposting and supporting patients towards community-based health and wellbeing solutions, but holding people with often complex, chronic physical and emotional needs can be heavy, demanding work which can take a toll on practitioners. This is a space and an opportunity for them to regroup, pause and reset.
Our training also covers mindfulness-informed techniques that can be used in work with patients.
CASE STUDY: PARTNERS HEALTH LLP, SOCIAL PRESCRIBER LINK WORKERS (RUSHCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE NETWORK)
Often working alone in GP surgeries, the Social Prescriber Link Workers across the 12 Rushcliffe GP surgeries came together once a month to help reconnect as a team and to share some time and space for practical self-care.
A mix of mindfulness practices (sitting, moving, walking) and teaching on core mindfulness principles gave them space to breathe, but also developed skills for their own resilience.
Our training also covers mindfulness-informed techniques that can be used in work with patients.