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Workshops That Work

Topics for teams that are at capacity and still expected to deliver.


Most teams don't have a wellness problem. They have a productivity problem that's making people miserable. Workshops That Work give your team practical skills to get more done together, manage workload without burning out, and lead well through the actual pace of work.

This is a quick-reference list of topics. Each one is delivered as a 90-minute session or three-hour workshop. Every topic is customized to your industry, your team, and the pressures you're navigating right now.

 

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Workshop topics for your whole team

We tailor every workshop to your industry and the challenges your people are navigating. Whether you work in construction, manufacturing, hospitality, social services, education or tech, the training is designed to feel relevant to your team and their day-to-day work.

Calm-Busy, Not Stressed-Busy

Practical skills to stay focused and effective when the work keeps coming. Your team learns how to manage their energy and stress in real time, stay clear-headed under pressure, and contribute to a team that delivers without falling apart.

Who it's for:
Any team carrying high workload, competing priorities, or constant change.

The Mindful Workload

How to triage when everything feels urgent, distinguish what's reasonable from what's not, and have the workload conversations most people avoid. Your team leaves with a real prioritization system and the language to use it.

Who it's for: Anyone whose workload feels impossible and whose to-do list grows faster than it shrinks.

Burnout Prevention for High Performers

Burnout sneaks up on high performers. This workshop names how it happens, what the warning signs actually look like, and how to build in real recovery without losing the drive that makes someone a high performer in the first place.

Who it's for: Your most committed people. The ones who love their work and don't know how to dial it back.

Managing Stress and Worry Through Change

Practical strategies to manage mental energy and focus when the ground keeps shifting. Includes how to communicate about capacity, manage uncertainty without losing momentum, and stay productive when the work itself is changing.

Who it's for: Teams going through restructuring, leadership change, or any period of uncertainty.

Energy Management for People Who Never Clock Out

How to map your personal energy patterns, protect peak windows for your most demanding work, and recover without needing a full weekend to do it. Uses the Battery Boost Matrix as the core framework.

Who it's for: Anyone working long hours, irregular schedules, or in always-on roles.

Managing Emotional Labour

Names the real cost of emotional labour and equips your team with skills to do the work without absorbing the weight of it. Covers boundaries, recovery, and how to support each other through hard days.

Who it's for: Customer-facing teams, frontline staff, anyone whose job includes managing other people's emotions all day.

De-escalation Skills for High-Pressure Conversations

Communication strategies for managing confrontational situations safely while protecting your own mental wellbeing. Practice-based, not theoretical.

Who it's for: Anyone who handles upset customers, clients, patients, or members of the public.

Frontline Reset: Energy and Stress Management on Shift

About: Two tools you can use right on shift. The Energy Reset Matrix and the Stress Reset System. No extra time needed, no budget required. Designed for the reality of frontline work, including overnight and weekend shifts.

Who it's for: Shift workers in care, hospitality, manufacturing, and any operational environment.

Shift Work and Sustainability

How to protect sleep, social connection, and wellbeing across irregular schedules. Practical strategies for the realities of shift work, not idealistic advice that assumes a nine-to-five life.

Who it's for: Anyone working nights, rotating shifts, or non-traditional hours.

Holding Space Without Losing Yourself

How to support someone who's struggling without overstepping into territory you're not trained for, refer effectively, and recover emotionally afterward. Includes a conversation framework and a referral approach you can use the next day.

Who it's for: Anyone supporting people in distress as part of their job. Faculty, frontline staff, customer service, helping professions.

Vicarious Trauma and the Cost of Caring

What vicarious trauma is, what it looks like in real life, and what people can actually do to recover and protect themselves. Practical strategies for individuals, teams, and the leaders who manage them.

Who it's for: Helping professions, HR, anyone working with trauma-affected populations or supporting employees through crisis.

How to Look After Ourselves and Each Other

An introduction to mental health at work. How to recognize when a colleague is struggling, how to start a conversation, where to refer, and what role each person plays in a team culture where people actually speak up.

Who it's for: All staff. Often used as a kickoff or culture-building session.

Custom or White-label Workshops

For when you know exactly what your team is struggling with, and need a custom workshop to address it. Our workshops can be customized with your logo, brand voice and imagery. We create it, you own it.  

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Workshops for Leaders

Built for people leaders, managers, supervisors, and the formal and informal leads carrying responsibility for team performance. 

Leaders, managers, HR, & supervisors

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Leading Well: Foundational Mental Health Skills for Leaders

Builds the shared language and skills every leader needs. Covers the Mental Health Continuum, the difference between everyday stress and burnout, how to spot signs of a struggling team member, and what a leader's role actually is. The foundation everything else builds on.

Any Leader

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Your Team is Stressed: Here's How to Help

Practical strategies to move your team from stressed-busy to calm-busy. How to manage team energy through change, stay focused on what matters, and build a culture where the strongest performers don't leave first. For teams who are noticing Increased absences, turnover, decreased performance, quiet quitting.

Any leader

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Can We Talk? Navigating Mental Health Conversations

Tips, scripts, and practice for the conversations leaders dread. How to ask, how to listen, where to refer, and the common pitfalls that derail good intentions. Includes practice time.

Any leader

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The Hard Conversation Skills Toolkit

A practical framework for the conversations leaders put off. Performance issues, conflict between team members, behaviour affecting the team, and the conversations everyone needs but nobody is having. For leaders who avoid difficult conversations or who try and watch them go sideways.

Any leader

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Giving Feedback People Can Actually Use

How to give feedback that's clear, kind, and useful. The difference between feedback and criticism, how to deliver it so people can hear it, and how to receive feedback as a leader without getting defensive. For leaders whose feedback isn't landing, or who avoid giving it at all.

Any leader

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Delegation That Doesn't Backfire

How to delegate in a way that builds capacity instead of resentment. What to delegate, how to set people up to succeed, and how to follow up without micromanaging. For leaders who can't let go, feel guilty offloading work, or whose teams resist taking more on.

Any leader

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Compassionate Leadership

Compassion as a leadership skill, not a soft one. How it shapes communication, influence, and trust. How to use it as a tool for clear, business-focused decisions that keep your team and your performance intact. For leaders in high-stress environments or organizations seeing turnover, disengagement, or compassion fatigue.

Organizations going through change

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Leading Through Change and Uncertainty

How to lead a team through change without losing the people who matter most. Communication, capacity management, and the signals that your team is approaching the limit before someone hands in their notice.

Operational Leaders

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Mental Health on the Floor: When Your Team Can't Just Step Away

Strategies for supporting team wellbeing in environments where most generic advice doesn't apply. Practical tools that fit within shift work, safety-critical tasks, and the constraints of operational work. Manufacturing, construction, healthcare, hospitality, anywhere stepping away isn't an option.

OHS Professionals

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From OHS to PHSA: Expanding Your Safety Program

How to expand existing occupational health and safety programs to include psychological health and safety. Framed as compliance and risk, not wellness. Includes regulatory context and practical implementation steps.

Leaders, supervisors, & safety committees

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Psychological Safety in High-Risk Work

How to expand existing occupational health and safety programs to include psychological health and safety. Framed as compliance and risk, not wellness. Includes regulatory context and practical implementation steps.

Any Leader

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Beyond Benefits: Building Resilient Teams Without Adding Cost

Why traditional wellness perks aren't moving the needle and what actually works. Practical strategies that cost little and deliver measurable returns on retention and performance. For leaders and people teams under pressure to retain talent without an unlimited budget.

Any Leader

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Our Brains at Work

How brains work differently. Covers neurodiversity in the workplace, accommodating diverse cognitive styles, the brain's response to stress and trauma, and how to address unconscious bias in real management decisions. For any leader building a more inclusive, productive team.

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Choose the format that works best for your team

Lunch and Learn (90 minutes).
Introductory depth. Larger audiences welcome.

Three-Hour Workshop.
Up to 25 participants. Skill-building with a participant toolkit.

Full-Day Workshop.
Up to 25 participants. Deep skill-building with practice time built in.

Multi-Session Series.*
Two or more sessions over a quarter or year. Series discounts available.

Keynote.
Designed to anchor a conference, event, or kickoff. Larger audiences welcome.

*with discounted pricing available for booking a series

Investment

Workshops start at $2,500. Every team's different, so we start with a conversation about what you actually need, then send a custom quote built around it. 

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