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Nutrition for Performance and Wellbeing

With Suzy Walgate
This session can be delivered as a one hour overview or a series of sessions exploring the effects of different food, and drink on our performance and wellbeing.

Our bodies are miraculous machines that are designed to be fuelled and driven by the food we eat. Food is not just calories, it is medicine – some food is full of good energy medicine and some food is SO unhelpful that it actually robs us of energy while the body tries to process it.

As we deal with life’s many challenges – juggling work life with home life, we want to have a spring in our step, feel a zest for life, enthusiastic about our work, look good, slow down the ageing process, and be at the top of our game.

In this talk we will unravel some of the myths and the confusion that has developed around what we should (and shouldn’t) eat and learn some simple principles on eating for health and optimum performance.

Healthy eating does not need to be complicated or dull. You’ll learn how to make the best choices for your lunch box or what to choose in restaurants and cafes during your working day.  You’ll also learn how to manage your shopping and fridge for tasty nutritious options at home, which allow for a restful nights sleep, leaving you feeling energised in the morning and ready for the day.

Nutrition is foundational to health, and it’s in our hands.  With some simple guidance and a few small changes we’ll help you transform the health of your body and your mind.

Suzy gave a fascinating speech about wellbeing which included effective and fast stress management techniques, nutrition, yoga at the office desk and much more. Everyone was very impressed. Her presentation style was superb, engaging, energetic, and educational, and much of it has been put into practice already!”

AW, Financial Planning Manager at JCH Investment

To book this talk (or series of sessions on nutrition) please get in touch with us to request available dates and chat to us about your individual requirements.

 

Resilience for a VUCA World

With Dr Carole

Dr Carole Pemberton believes everyone deserves to have a working life that is satisfying, allows for success and does not drain them of their physical, emotional and mental energies. These are not ‘soft’ aspirational words they are conditions which are key to both the engagement of staff, and their ability to perform in high demand environments.

Carole has spent her working life, researching, writing, consulting and working with individuals and organisations on the challenges of living out careers in organisations. That involvement with individuals at every age and career stage from graduate entrant to CEO has given her recognised expertise in career management, executive coaching and resilience.

Her interest in resilience grew from working with leaders who had lost access to their own resilience because of the relentlessness of demands, or because of career setback. Clients have taught her that there is no sustained career success without resilience, and her research has shown her that:

1. We are all resilient
2. No one, no matter how successful, is resilient all of the time
3. Resilience is more than physical wellbeing (although it plays a part)

Her approach, starts from recognising the resilience strengths which we all bring to our lives and then considering how those strengths can be applied or undermined by the context in which the person is working. She looks to then fill gaps in resilience capability, so that the individual is able to operate with the flexibility and agility that is required in organisations who are working in contexts of complexity and uncertainty compounded by the need for speed.

Alongside her work as a coach, she is also Visiting Professor in Business Coaching at the University of Ulster. This means that she brings a strong evidence base to her work, and her skill is in translating what academic research discovers into its practical meaning in the workplace. She is the author of a number of books including Coaching to Solutions: A Guide to Performance Coaching for line managers and most recently Resilience.

We have a wide range of offerings in areas related to resilience with Carole, all of which are bespoke for your organisation and your needs.

Resilience for a VUCA World can be delivered as a talk, specially designed workshop, as part of a more extensive resilience training programme or as an element of a leadership development programme. It can additionally be offered to whole teams so that resilience at a team level can be explored.

Each of us has a resilience template. That template is part genetics, part childhood experience but largely learnt through dealing with the ups and downs of life. This session focuses on:

• Understanding what resilience is and its relevance to individual performance
• Developing an individual profile and considering its meaning for how the individual shows up at work as a leader or team member
• Strategies for developing resilience muscle that encompass physical, mental and emotional energies plus the energy that comes from purpose

The session combines the evidence from research with high performers with activities which lead to defining actions for building resilience muscle.

Download our free PDF Guide on Measuring Your Resilience below.

Read about mindfulness and why it may not work for you here.

This can also be delivered as a live webinar by Zoom or similar platform.

Risk-taking for Change Makers

With Kamala Katbamna

We work in a climate that’s volatile, uncertain and complex. It’s also full of exciting possibilities – if you’re willing to take a risk. By developing courage and exercising our risk-taking ‘muscles’, we can begin to adapt to a new way of thinking and working. And by taking even more risks, we’ll start innovating faster and creating positive change within our organisations.

This fun and fast-paced session will help you experiment, learn fast and move forward with greater courage and resilience. The workshop will use singing and conducting to create a practical experience of risk and innovation, of leading and being led through change.

Together, you’ll learn a song in simple harmony. You’ll then have the excitement and challenge of leading an experiment using this song, engaging with constructive critique and being part of a group trying to interpret and respond to change. It’s an exciting challenge.

This hands-on, interactive session will help you:

  • Explore your personal relationship with risk 
  • Strengthen your courage to innovate and experiment faster and more frequently
  • Give and get fast, relevant feedback on your own and colleagues’ ideas
  • Offer challenge and dissent constructively and in the moment
  • Learn practical tools to improve your resilience and help you take risks more sustainably

The session will close with practical actions to help you apply your learning back in the workplace. There are no solos, and you don’t need any musical experience to participate fully!

Praise for previous sessions:

We’re creatives, so our job is all about taking risks and innovating. But that doesn’t mean we always find it easy! Kamala really helped me understand my personal response to risk, and be bolder about the ideas I put into practice. I’m now more confident about trying out ideas faster and with more of a game plan. And I back it up with the breathing exercises to stay calm! Definitely recommended.” Participant, Risk-taking for Change Makers

and another..

The risk session was fantastic, and really different to other sessions I’ve tried. Kamala really knows her stuff, and quickly had us challenging ourselves and doing things we wouldn’t have dared to a few minutes before! The idea of singing was a bit scary to begin with, but it was actually a great leveller. And it really helped us draw on that feeling of “what will people think of me, what if it goes wrong, what if I make a fool of myself” when you try a new idea at work. The directness and honesty of feedback within the group was amazing. Being able to experiment, develop what works and ditch what doesn’t quickly and confidently is such an important skill. I’ve been able to take this learning back to work and share it with my team.”  Participant, Risk-taking for Change Makers

Click here to read more on Choice, Risk & Innovation.

SHIATSU

With Matthew Leavey

Shiatsu is Japanese for finger pressure. This powerful treatment involves applying pressure on the meridians (energetic channels that run through all body parts) and working on the musculoskeletal system. The treatments awaken the body’s potential to heal itself. Shiatsu works on a deep and superficial level. Deep work induces a meditative state that encourages relaxation and reduces the effects of long-term stress, whilst superficial focuses on stretching and relaxing muscles, freeing up joints and realigning the spine. Regular sessions make a real difference to quality of life as well as preserving wellbeing and enhancing daily performance.

Shiatsu is available as a 60 min treatment for individuals at our centre in Surrey or as part of a programme for organisations. For the latter, please contact us to discuss.

Storytelling for Wellbeing at Work

With Preethi Nair

Our storyteller Preethi is a Harper Collins published author & has been described by the FT as “the storyteller who makes up the skills gap”.

Storytelling has the power to influence & change both individuals & organisations. It is an art form increasingly used to sell a concept, idea or set of values both internally & externally.

On this programme, which can be delivered in anything from a 2 hour to 1 day session with up to 50 people, we’ll explore the work of a storyteller & see how great stories are put together. You’ll learn about the tools they have at their disposable and then use these to put great stories together both in a group & individual context. You’ll come away with the skills of a storyteller along with a newfound creativity, a fresh innovative perspective and learn the power to influence through story.

This workshop can be taught across all levels from senior leaderships teams and down the line and can also be delivered as a live webinar by Zoom or similar platform.

Street Wisdom For Businss

With Justine Clement

“Whether for personal exploration or to encourage creativity in business, Street Wisdom is an incredible tool and important movement”
David D’Souza: Head of Engagement, CIPD

If you’ve not heard of this yet – where have you been?!  When you’re looking to create something new, fresh and memorable for your people, you don’t need to look as far as you think. There’s inspiration right outside your office. If you know how to find it. We’ll create a bespoke experience for your organisation.

What’s it about?

Street Wisdom is a powerful, innovative tool that helps reboot thinking, set new directions and unlock ideas. An immersive walking workshop that teaches individuals to use city streets to find fresh answers to the questions on their mind. Street Wisdom is already a global social enterprise popular in over 30 countries with powerful applications to help your business.  You’ll be joining other forward-thinking organisations such as Ogilvy, FT, Google & Samsung who have already tried it and loved it.

A growing number of businesses are waking up to Street Wisdom as a fresh new way to:

  • Crack problems
  • Inspire people
  • Unleash Creativity
  • Develop collaboration
  • Boost well-being
  • Connect with the community
  • Enhance personal development
What is it?

Street Wisdom is a global social enterprise with a mission to bring inspiration to every street on earth. It’s a technology that allows you to get unusual inspiration from your everyday surroundings. As fully trained-up Street Wizards, we’ll give you the skills to access the ‘invisible university’ that’s all around you on the streets and help you as individuals, or teams, to find fresh answers to personal or work-related questions – with profound results.

Why the streets?

Because they are many and varied. They are free to use. They are where we spend an increasing amount of our metropolitan lives. And they are a rich source of untapped wisdom. It turns out, you don’t need an exotic getaway to find inspiration, it’s right outside your door. And you won’t burn a tonne of fossil fuel getting there.

How can you experience it?

Street Wisdom is a generally run as a three-hour workshop, although our team will create a bespoke experience for your organisation. Plenty of individuals use Street Wisdom to solve their business problems, now, entire businesses can do the same.

It’s an innovative and sustainable way to:

  • Inspire your people and give them a way to inspire themselves
  • Find new ways around problems
  • Collectively set a new direction
  • Improve wellbeing
  • Connect you better with your community and customers
How does it work?

It’s very simple – that’s because the process has been refined for years.

Tune Up. Quest. Share.

1. First, our street guide helps you and your group tune up your senses so you can pick up much more information from the urban environment that you would normally.
2. Then you’re off on a journey by yourself – your street quest – where you ask a question and see what answers present themselves.
3. Finally, you gather together again to share what happened and, more often than not, wonder at how magical an ordinary street can become when you’re really aware of those hidden messages, chance meetings and unexpected discoveries.

Who came up with the idea?

Founder David Pearl is an internationally renowned speaker who specialises in igniting creativity and changing working cultures. With expert facilitators based around the UK, we can work at scale. Our toolkit and bespoke training sessions give in-house facilitators the ability to roll out Street Wisdom within an entire workplace – inspiring whole companies to use the streets as a source of new ideas.

What about the results?

In just three hours of walking and wandering, participants have resolved problems that have dogged them for years, found new business ideas, discovered new directions, and learned how to deal differently with living, learning and loving.

Street Wisdom by The Life Adventure can be run as a group experience booked by an individual on behalf of a group of friends, or for a team within an organisation who may be looking for answers to problems, or to innovate.  Ideally, you’ll need a minimum of 10 people, but get in touch here or tweet us to discuss.

It’s such a fascinating experience so if you’d like some further reading on it see this review on Street Wisdom by The Times.

Or read more about our own very first experience with Street Wisdom, as participants, here.

Street Wisdom For Businss At Home

With The Life Adventure

“Whether for personal exploration or to encourage creativity in business, Street Wisdom is an incredible tool and important movement”
David D’Souza: Head of Engagement, CIPD

Street Wisdom during Lockdown

Street Wisdom is a wanderful experience you have to do out there – in the street, right? Actually no. With all that’s happening we wanted to help your teams focus on staying calm, grounded and inspired without leaving their homes. It’s time to bring Street Wisdom, home.

We have applied our WalkShop techniques to your home and garden (if you have one), so you can still find everyday inspiration. Every day.

If you’ve not heard of this yet – where have you been?!  When you’re looking to create something new, fresh and memorable for your people, you don’t need to look as far as you think. There’s inspiration right outside your home office door. If you know how to find it.

What’s it about?

Street Wisdom is a powerful, innovative tool that helps reboot thinking, set new directions and unlock ideas. An immersive workshop that teaches individuals to find fresh answers to the questions on their mind. Street Wisdom is already a global social enterprise popular in over 30 countries with powerful applications to help your business. You’ll be joining other forward-thinking organisations such as Ogilvy, FT, Google & Samsung who have already tried it and loved it.

A growing number of businesses are waking up to Street Wisdom as a fresh new way to:

  • Crack problems
  • Inspire people
  • Unleash Creativity
  • Develop collaboration
  • Boost well-being
  • Connect with the community
  • Enhance personal development
What is it?

Street Wisdom is a global social enterprise with a mission to bring inspiration to every home (or street) on earth. It’s a technology that allows you to get unusual inspiration from your everyday surroundings. As fully trained-up Street Wizards, we’ll give you the skills to access the ‘invisible university’ that’s all around you and help you as individuals, or teams, to find fresh answers to personal or work-related questions – with profound results.

How can you experience it?

Street Wisdom Comes Home will be run as a 90 minute Zoom workshop.

It’s an innovative and sustainable way to:

  • Inspire your people and give them a way to inspire themselves
  • Find new ways around problems
  • Collectively set a new direction
  • Improve wellbeing
  • Connect you better with your community and customers
How does it work?

It’s very simple – that’s because the process has been refined for years.

Tune Up. Quest. Share.

1. First, we help you to tune up your senses so you can pick up much more information from your environment than you would normally.
2. Then you’re off on a journey around your home (and garden if you have one) by yourself – your quest – where you ask a question and see what answers present themselves.
3. Finally, you gather together again on Zoom (we’ll breakout depending on numbers) to share what happened and, more often than not, wonder at how magical an ordinary wander can become when you’re really aware of those hidden messages and unexpected discoveries.

Who came up with the idea?

Founder David Pearl is an internationally renowned speaker who specialises in igniting creativity and changing working cultures. With expert facilitators based around the UK, we can work at scale. Our toolkit and bespoke training sessions give in-house facilitators the ability to roll out Street Wisdom within an entire workplace – inspiring whole companies to use the streets as a source of new ideas.

What about the results?

In just 90 minutes participants have resolved problems that have dogged them for years, found new business ideas, discovered new directions, and learned how to deal differently with living, learning and loving.

Street Wisdom by The Life Adventure can be run as a group experience booked by an individual on behalf of a group of friends, or for a team within an organisation who may be looking for answers to problems, or to innovate.  Ideally, you’ll need a minimum of 10 people and we can work with up to 16, but get in touch here or tweet us to discuss.

It’s such a fascinating experience so if you’d like some further reading on the original Street Wisdom, see this review on Street Wisdom by The Times.

Or read more about our own very first experience with Street Wisdom, as participants, here.

Street Wisdom For Marketing Agencies

With Justine Clement

The Street Wisdom activity had the biggest impact on me. Embracing the idea and actually slowing down enough to notice the world was something that opened my mind quite a bit. I can safely say that I know what I want now.” D&AD New Blood Academy participant

What’s it about?

Street Wisdom is a powerful, innovative tool that helps reboot thinking, set new directions, unlock ideas and help you find answers when life is looking a little difficult. It’s an immersive walking workshop that teaches you to use city streets to find fresh answers to the questions on your mind. Street Wisdom is already a global social enterprise popular in over 30 countries with powerful applications to help your agency.  You’ll be joining other forward-thinking organisations such as Ogilvy, FT, Google & Samsung who have already tried it and loved it.

A growing number of agencies are waking up to Street Wisdom as a fresh new way to:

  • Crack problems
  • Inspire people
  • Unleash Creativity
  • Develop collaboration
  • Boost well-being
  • Connect with the community
  • Enhance personal development
What is it?

Street Wisdom is a global social enterprise with a mission to bring inspiration to every street on earth. It’s a technology that allows you to get unusual inspiration from your everyday surroundings. As fully trained-up Street Wizards, we’ll give you the skills to access the ‘invisible university’ that’s all around you on the streets and help you as individuals, or teams, to find fresh answers to personal or work-related questions – with profound results.

Why the streets?

Because they are many and varied. They are free to use. They are where we spend an increasing amount of our metropolitan lives. And they are a rich source of untapped wisdom. It turns out, you don’t need an exotic getaway to find inspiration, it’s right outside your door. And you won’t burn a tonne of fossil fuel getting there.

How can you experience it?

Street Wisdom is a generally run as a three-hour workshop, although our team will create a bespoke experience for your agency. Plenty of individuals use Street Wisdom to solve their business problems, now, entire businesses are doing the same.

It’s an innovative and sustainable way to:

  • Inspire your people and give them a way to inspire themselves
  • Find new ways around problems
  • Collectively set a new direction
  • Improve wellbeing
  • Connect you better with your community and customers
How does it work?

It’s very simple – that’s because the process has been refined for years.

Tune Up. Quest. Share.

1. First, our street guide helps you and your group tune up your senses so you can pick up much more information from the urban environment that you would normally.
2. Then you’re off on a journey by yourself – your street quest – where you ask a question and see what answers present themselves.
3. Finally, you gather together again to share what happened and, more often than not, wonder at how magical an ordinary street can become when you’re really aware of those hidden messages, chance meetings and unexpected discoveries.

Who came up with the idea?

Founder David Pearl is an internationally renowned speaker who specialises in igniting creativity and changing working cultures. With expert facilitators based around the UK, we can work at scale. Our toolkit and bespoke training sessions give in-house facilitators the ability to roll out Street Wisdom within an entire workplace – inspiring whole companies to use the streets as a source of new ideas.

What about the results?

In just three hours of walking and wandering, participants have resolved problems that have dogged them for years, found new business ideas, discovered new directions, and learned how to deal differently with living, learning and loving.

Street Wisdom by The Life Adventure is ideally run for around 8-10 people, but get in touch here or call Justine on 07714 333418 to discuss.

It’s such a fascinating experience so if you’d like some further reading on it see this review on Street Wisdom by The Times.

Or read more about our own very first experience with Street Wisdom, as participants, here.

Read about the Street Wisdom we ran at the D&AD New Blood Academy.

The Art Of Having No Idea

With Laurence Shorter
One of our marvellous presenters, Laurence Shorter, author of The Lazy Guru’s Guide to Life, offers a thought-provoking and unique exploration on how to enhance team and individual performance in a world in flux.

 

 

 

 

 

The answer is right in front of us

We’re pretending we know what we’re doing…

When actually we have no idea.

We’re trying to achieve something that’s unclear.

So we ignore our feelings in order to do things…even when they don’t feel quite right, which is very inefficient!

It doesn’t have to be this way. Laurence shorter, leadership coach & comedian – author of ‘the optimist’ & ‘the lazy guru’s guide to life’ – will talk you through ways of being that are less stressful and radically more creative and efficient: we’ve called it The Art Of Having No Idea. In this session he’ll share his experience of navigating uncertainty by accepting failure & confusion, giving examples from his own life and his work with teams, leaders and entrepreneurs. You will leave with both insights and practical tools for change.  You’ll also learn:

Effort vs effortlessness
An inquiry into how good things really happen

Space & Inspiration
A live experience of creative space

Shoulds & Can’ts
Understanding what gets in the way of creativity

Insights for Action
How we fill space & how to create more of it

If you’d like to book this session for your agency or organisation click here and we’ll get right back to you.

Click here to read more on the subject of not knowing and not doing.

Transformational Leadership

With Peter Merry

In today’s rapidly changing world, learning to lead and design our communities and organisations to ride the turbulence creatively is critical to our ability to make a positive impact. This workshop covers the subject of evolutionary change, and the implications for us as individual leaders, as well as for our organisational cultures and structures. It combines intellectual rigour with personal challenge, collaboration with creative expression. You’ll engage with integrative maps of organisational and leadership development, as well as instantly applicable practices for becoming more effective and dynamic as individuals and collectives.

Why do this workshop? As a result you’ll be able to:
  • Express clearly the nature of transformation as compared to other types of change
  • Reflect constructively on their own and others’ leadership capacity
  • Improve their transformational leadership capacity by taking concrete steps
  • Analyse and describe an organisation in terms of its level of development and agility
  • Choose appropriate implementation tools for large-scale collaboration
  • Design a strategy for enhancing the transformational quality of leadership and governance in an organisation
Who is this workshop for?
  • Anyone who realises that our current forms of leadership and organisation are inadequate to the complexity of change we are facing. It is for anyone already in a leadership role or wanting to play one. It is not for the faint-heart and requires significant brain-power and openness to your own personal development.
  • 14 sections with over 15 hours of material and multiple-choice quizzes to help you integrate your learning – you can work through it at your leisure and find what is most relevant to you.
  • There is much new thinking and many leading-edge practices described in the course so an open mind and willingness to experiment is important!
By the end of the course you should be able to:
  • Express clearly the nature of evolutionary change as compared to other types of change
  • Envisage products or services that help to meet the challenges of our times
  • Reflect constructively on your own and others leadership capacity
  • Improve your leadership capacity by taking concrete steps
  • Analyze and describe an organization in terms of its level of development and agility
  • Choose appropriate implementation tools for large-scale collaboration
  • Describe the impact of transformational leadership, strategy and governance in an organization
The main subjects covered include:
  • Transformation and Change
  • The Learning Organization
  • Levels of Leadership Development
  • Practices for Transformational Leadership
  • Personal Effectiveness and Resilience
  • Organizational Culture
  • Tools for Collaboration
  • Levels of Organizational Development
  • Creating an Agile Organization
  • Practices from the Future

If you would like to take this course as a more immersive experience with a group of co-learners and a course facilitator, and would like the option of getting academic or professional credits, please get in touch and we will connect you accordingly.

Presenter Suzy Walgate

Wellbeing coach Suzy Walgate has over 25 years of experience as a therapist and yoga teacher and now spends much of her time running in-depth wellbeing retreats in stunning venues. Her passion lies in teaching others about how to live their lives more fully and positively through topics which include yoga, nutrition and healthy eating, stress management, positive mindset, meditation and Emotional Freedom Technique. Suzy’s been advising people on their lifestyle for many years – the foundation of which is having a clean nutrition base from which the body can thrive. Many lifestyle factors contribute towards our health – she likes to make health as SIMPLE as possible, keeping it FUN and REAL.

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Nutrition - Feeding the Body for Performance and Wellbeing is available as a one hour talk, or series of sessions as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us on hello@learnshedlive.com to discuss what you'd like us to deliver for you.

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Presenter Dr Carole

Dr Carole Pemberton believes everyone deserves to have a working life that is satisfying, allows for success and does not drain them of their physical, emotional and mental energies. These are not ‘soft’ aspirational words they are conditions which are key to both the engagement of staff, and their ability to perform in high demand environments. has spent her working life, researching, writing, consulting and working with individuals and organisations on the challenges of living out careers in organisations. That involvement with individuals at every age and career stage from graduate entrant to CEO has given her recognised expertise in career management, executive coaching and resilience. interest in resilience grew from working with leaders who had lost access to their own resilience because of the relentlessness of demands, or because of career setback. Alongside her work as a coach, she is also Visiting Professor in Business Coaching at the University of Ulster. This means that she brings a strong evidence base to her work, and her skill is in translating what academic research discovers into its practical meaning in the workplace. She is the author of a number of books including Coaching to Solutions: A Guide to Performance Coaching for line managers and most recently Resilience.

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Resilience for a Vuca World is available as an offline talk or workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Kamala Katbamna

Kamala is currently developing research with neuroscientists at University College London and Ashridge Business School into resilience, leadership and social intelligence. She is also a trained musician and conductor, and a member of the British Voice Association. In her previous life, Kamala worked in television for 12 years for broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and Sky. She draws on her experience in both this high octane, fast-paced corporate world and as a performer on stage who must engage in the moment with risk, presence and the authentic voice. Kamala works with leaders at all stages of their careers, across the private, public and third sectors. She specialises in helping them gain greater self-awareness, take strategic risks, be more courageous, compelling, human and lead change. Using experiential tools including conducting and singing to help people show up as their full selves, she also uses these tools to create a degree of risk and exposure, helping them examine their responses to these conditions back in the workplace. It’s a unique and energising approach that ensures these sessions are insightful, effective and fun.

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Risk-taking for Change Makers is available as an offline workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Matthew Leavey

Matthew first came to Shiatsu through his 30 years of martial arts training. Having suffered various injuries, he discovered its ability to alleviate pain and this became his directing force towards learning Shiatsu and the healing arts. His early Shiatsu training inspired him to study 24 form Yang Style Tai Chi with Lei Lei Chu and he later returned to study Tai Chi Chuan Qi-Gong, Hsing Yi and Kung Fu with master Peter Warr. Matthew has incredible understanding of the rhythm and density of the human body and his Shiatsu sessions squeeze, bend and stretch the body to expertly work out any blockages, aches and pains that are caused by injury, inactivity, stress or illness. His clients range an entire demographic, from high-profile city bankers to professional athletes, octogenarians to infants. He treats each with vision, energy and empathy. He helped with the delivery of his own son using Shiatsu, tai chi and yoga with special breathing and hypnosis. As well as being extremely well qualified, Matthew works very much on an intuitive level. He specialises in Shiatsu-do, a style of Japanese acu-pressure massage. He holds a Dip BSSD in Shiatsu as well as a Dip BRSRM in Remedial Massage. He is a member of the Shiatsu Society and also has a Cert Ed Teaching Qualification from London’s Metropolitan University. His specialisms are: • Recovery and mobilisation from stress and exertion • Acupressure massage (Shiatsu) • Mind-calming and deep relaxation.

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Shiatsu is available as a 60 min treatment for individuals at our centre in Surrey or as part of a programme for organisations. For the latter, please contact us to discuss.

Price £100.00

Presenter Preethi Nair

Preethi Nair, author of 3 novels published by Harper Collins, is a writer and entrepreneur whose incredible story motivates audiences all over the world. Preethi left her job as a management consultant to set up her own publishing and PR company after her manuscript, Gypsy Masala, was rejected by most publishers. With no resources to rent an office and publish her book, she established a multinational company in her bedroom and appointed feisty director, Pru Menon (an alter ego) to energetically hype her work. Preethi won the Asian Woman of Achievement award for her endeavours. ‘Pru’ Menon’ was short-listed for PPC Publicist of the Year. Preethi has shared a platform with Sir Bob Geldof, Kevin Spacey, the head of Green & Blacks & Prêt a Manger and spoken on “talking less & doing more.” Preethi has completed her third novel and writes for BBC Radio 4 and a number of broadsheets. She is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, promoting creativity to young people. Preethi works with us to help blue-chip organisations take creativity and innovation back into the workplace.

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Storytelling for Wellbeing is available as an offline talk or workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

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Street Wisdom is available as a bespoke group event or we can create one for your team as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

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Street Wisdom is available as a bespoke group event or we can create one for your team as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

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Street Wisdom is available as a bespoke group event as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Laurence Shorter

Laurence is an author, speaker and creative entrepreneur. His journey of personal discovery has taken him from McKinsey consultant & tech entrepreneur to best-selling author and stand-up comedian. In his events, Laurence shares insights from creativity and business to frame a picture of how we could look at our problems in a radically different way. As a speaker and facilitator, he creates powerful spaces for people to step back, reflect and find new pathways towards success in their teams, projects and personal lives. His most recent project, The Lazy Guru’s Guide to Life – the world’s first cartoon guide to mindfulness – is a new approach to problem solving which answers the question: how do good things really happen? Today Laurence coaches CEO’s, consultants and creative teams, helping them to create extraordinary environments where results-driven innovation can thrive.

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'The Art Of Having No Idea' is bookable as a live 1hr talk through to a half day workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us on hello@thelifeadventure.co for more details.

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Presenter Peter Merry

Peter Merry is Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University, founder of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands, and a founding partner of Engage!. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading the organisations above, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multi-stakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. He has had his first book published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership). He is currently researching the application of noetic science and energetics to whole systems transitions. In this context, he is working on a Ph.D. with Ubiquity’s Wisdom School.

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Presenter Suzy Walgate

Wellbeing coach Suzy Walgate has over 25 years of experience as a therapist and yoga teacher and now spends much of her time running in-depth wellbeing retreats in stunning venues. Her passion lies in teaching others about how to live their lives more fully and positively through topics which include yoga, nutrition and healthy eating, stress management, positive mindset, meditation and Emotional Freedom Technique. Suzy’s been advising people on their lifestyle for many years – the foundation of which is having a clean nutrition base from which the body can thrive. Many lifestyle factors contribute towards our health – she likes to make health as SIMPLE as possible, keeping it FUN and REAL.

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Nutrition - Feeding the Body for Performance and Wellbeing is available as a one hour talk, or series of sessions as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us on hello@learnshedlive.com to discuss what you'd like us to deliver for you.

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Presenter Dr Carole

Dr Carole Pemberton believes everyone deserves to have a working life that is satisfying, allows for success and does not drain them of their physical, emotional and mental energies. These are not ‘soft’ aspirational words they are conditions which are key to both the engagement of staff, and their ability to perform in high demand environments. has spent her working life, researching, writing, consulting and working with individuals and organisations on the challenges of living out careers in organisations. That involvement with individuals at every age and career stage from graduate entrant to CEO has given her recognised expertise in career management, executive coaching and resilience. interest in resilience grew from working with leaders who had lost access to their own resilience because of the relentlessness of demands, or because of career setback. Alongside her work as a coach, she is also Visiting Professor in Business Coaching at the University of Ulster. This means that she brings a strong evidence base to her work, and her skill is in translating what academic research discovers into its practical meaning in the workplace. She is the author of a number of books including Coaching to Solutions: A Guide to Performance Coaching for line managers and most recently Resilience.

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Resilience for a Vuca World is available as an offline talk or workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Kamala Katbamna

Kamala is currently developing research with neuroscientists at University College London and Ashridge Business School into resilience, leadership and social intelligence. She is also a trained musician and conductor, and a member of the British Voice Association. In her previous life, Kamala worked in television for 12 years for broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and Sky. She draws on her experience in both this high octane, fast-paced corporate world and as a performer on stage who must engage in the moment with risk, presence and the authentic voice. Kamala works with leaders at all stages of their careers, across the private, public and third sectors. She specialises in helping them gain greater self-awareness, take strategic risks, be more courageous, compelling, human and lead change. Using experiential tools including conducting and singing to help people show up as their full selves, she also uses these tools to create a degree of risk and exposure, helping them examine their responses to these conditions back in the workplace. It’s a unique and energising approach that ensures these sessions are insightful, effective and fun.

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Risk-taking for Change Makers is available as an offline workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Matthew Leavey

Matthew first came to Shiatsu through his 30 years of martial arts training. Having suffered various injuries, he discovered its ability to alleviate pain and this became his directing force towards learning Shiatsu and the healing arts. His early Shiatsu training inspired him to study 24 form Yang Style Tai Chi with Lei Lei Chu and he later returned to study Tai Chi Chuan Qi-Gong, Hsing Yi and Kung Fu with master Peter Warr. Matthew has incredible understanding of the rhythm and density of the human body and his Shiatsu sessions squeeze, bend and stretch the body to expertly work out any blockages, aches and pains that are caused by injury, inactivity, stress or illness. His clients range an entire demographic, from high-profile city bankers to professional athletes, octogenarians to infants. He treats each with vision, energy and empathy. He helped with the delivery of his own son using Shiatsu, tai chi and yoga with special breathing and hypnosis. As well as being extremely well qualified, Matthew works very much on an intuitive level. He specialises in Shiatsu-do, a style of Japanese acu-pressure massage. He holds a Dip BSSD in Shiatsu as well as a Dip BRSRM in Remedial Massage. He is a member of the Shiatsu Society and also has a Cert Ed Teaching Qualification from London’s Metropolitan University. His specialisms are: • Recovery and mobilisation from stress and exertion • Acupressure massage (Shiatsu) • Mind-calming and deep relaxation.

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Shiatsu is available as a 60 min treatment for individuals at our centre in Surrey or as part of a programme for organisations. For the latter, please contact us to discuss.

Price £100.00

Presenter Preethi Nair

Preethi Nair, author of 3 novels published by Harper Collins, is a writer and entrepreneur whose incredible story motivates audiences all over the world. Preethi left her job as a management consultant to set up her own publishing and PR company after her manuscript, Gypsy Masala, was rejected by most publishers. With no resources to rent an office and publish her book, she established a multinational company in her bedroom and appointed feisty director, Pru Menon (an alter ego) to energetically hype her work. Preethi won the Asian Woman of Achievement award for her endeavours. ‘Pru’ Menon’ was short-listed for PPC Publicist of the Year. Preethi has shared a platform with Sir Bob Geldof, Kevin Spacey, the head of Green & Blacks & Prêt a Manger and spoken on “talking less & doing more.” Preethi has completed her third novel and writes for BBC Radio 4 and a number of broadsheets. She is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, promoting creativity to young people. Preethi works with us to help blue-chip organisations take creativity and innovation back into the workplace.

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Storytelling for Wellbeing is available as an offline talk or workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

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Street Wisdom is available as a bespoke group event or we can create one for your team as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

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Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

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What’s included

Street Wisdom is available as a bespoke group event or we can create one for your team as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

Price contact us to discuss your requirements

Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

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What’s included

Street Wisdom is available as a bespoke group event as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

Price contact us to discuss your requirements

Presenter Laurence Shorter

Laurence is an author, speaker and creative entrepreneur. His journey of personal discovery has taken him from McKinsey consultant & tech entrepreneur to best-selling author and stand-up comedian. In his events, Laurence shares insights from creativity and business to frame a picture of how we could look at our problems in a radically different way. As a speaker and facilitator, he creates powerful spaces for people to step back, reflect and find new pathways towards success in their teams, projects and personal lives. His most recent project, The Lazy Guru’s Guide to Life – the world’s first cartoon guide to mindfulness – is a new approach to problem solving which answers the question: how do good things really happen? Today Laurence coaches CEO’s, consultants and creative teams, helping them to create extraordinary environments where results-driven innovation can thrive.

MORE »

What’s included

'The Art Of Having No Idea' is bookable as a live 1hr talk through to a half day workshop as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us on hello@thelifeadventure.co for more details.

Price

Presenter Peter Merry

Peter Merry is Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University, founder of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands, and a founding partner of Engage!. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading the organisations above, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multi-stakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. He has had his first book published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership). He is currently researching the application of noetic science and energetics to whole systems transitions. In this context, he is working on a Ph.D. with Ubiquity’s Wisdom School.

MORE »

What’s included

On-demand access to 50 videos


Price £45.00