Marketing Agency Series: Talk It Out
Marketing Agency Series: Talk It Out
With Chris Barez-Brown
The fastest, simplest way to boost your mental wellbeing.
This world is getting better and better, worse and worse, faster and faster than ever before. Our mental well-being is under threat and unless we learn to master a brain that is not designed for today; we could all be in serious trouble.
One in four people around the globe will experience some form of mental illness every year. The cost to our planet hits the trillion mark annually and with around 450 million people currently suffering with mental health related conditions it is one of the leading burdens to our healthcare system. Yet, according to the World Health Organisation, nearly two thirds of people never seek help, as the stigma that still exists around the illness is very much alive and kicking.
There are many reasons for this epidemic taking grip but one that is deeply evident is the demise of face-to-face conversation and a lack of awareness or openness about the things that are most important to us.
Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers opens with the story of a community, the Rosetans of Roseto, Penn, that seem to be vastly healthier and happier than their neighbours. Studies revealed that what made them so healthy and happy wasn’t down to food, exercise or wealth. It was the quality of their social network. They talked to people in their community every day. It was part of their day to day living; they had better lives because they took the time to talk and to listen, building deeper and more meaningful relationships as a result.
Our individualistic and technology driven landscape, exciting as it is, means we don’t talk as often. Not to real people. And the lack of, is ultimately having a detrimental effect upon our mental wellbeing.
If we don’t talk, we are essentially alone and loneliness has been proven time and again to make us unhappy. At any given time, more than one in five Americans will report that they have feelings of loneliness. A recent Finnish study showed that people of working age who live alone increase their risk of depression by up to 80%. We have lost our shine.
‘Talk It Out’ is a super simple, fun, fast, human exercise Chris created a number of years ago. He is not a mental health professional. He has simply learnt what works through the experience of training many people across many brands and agencies around the world. We also don’t claim it to be the finite answer to the complex mental health problem. What we do know is that it can help our mental wellbeing in agency life. A lot.
Why Talk it Out?
We know how to look after our bodies by eating well and exercising, yet very few of us invest in looking after our minds. Our brain is a muscle, like any others in our body, that needs to be taken care of. Talk it Out gives us the space to do just that. It is the fastest way to process complex situations and gain clarity, energy and inspiration and release our bottled-up emotions.
When we walk and talk, we access more of our subconscious and therefore much of our unseen challenges, frustrations and untapped passions come out into the light of day from the shadows of our more unconscious processing. For every opportunity that we have, we have a story. The story is our take on a situation, the one we keep coming back to time and time again. The one that keeps us stuck in today.
Just by sharing in a stream of consciousness we can change our whole relationship with what has literally been “on our minds”
Chris has run this technique with tens of thousands of people in agencies and brands (and beyond) and has researched it with Bristol University in the UK where they found that 85% of people felt better after Talk it Out.
Chris is passionate about using the technique to help people in agencies process complex situations they face on a daily basis and gain clarity, energy and inspiration through the power of authentic conversations.
Give it a try and see how you feel after this incredible session …
What they say about Chris
So much big talk about transformation… Chris actually delivers it. Time and again. Part art, part gift, part crazy man. He works his magic every time!
MARIA EITEL, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE NIKE FOUNDATION
Chris Baréz-Browns’ interactive, energetic and playful style works every time at every level. What he demonstrates is a totally human approach to living our lives, inspiring teams to think differently and creating great impact, who wouldn’t want that?
DEREK KENT, CHIEF MARKE TING OFFICER CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMIT TEE
Chris Baréz-Brown is a modern-day prophet. He has a gift…an uncanny ability to inspire change agents in my organization. Everything he touches turns to gold and shines ever so brightly.
KEITH WILMOT, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
Apart from the very insightful content and great techniques I thought the delivery was the best I’ve ever seen – very human and hilarious (and I have high comedy standards ;-))
OLIVIA DIAMOND, COMMERCIAL PROGAMME MANAGER, DIAGEO
See Chris in action delivering a Ted Talk here.
Presenter Chris Barez-Brown
Chris Barez Brown is a master of transformation. His unique energetic approach challenges businesses to embed a dynamic creative culture within their company ethos. Brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Unilever, Sony, Mediacom, ITV and WPP come back time and again as his results produce tangible returns on investment. The impact of his work with Unilever was recently featured in the Harvard Business Review. A talk delivered by Chris is, well, quite simply, like no other you will have experienced before. Chris’s life mission is people (with a side line in guitar playing!) This ethos, combined with a wealth of experience in innovation and leadership across 6 continents, means Chris’ talks are memorable, interactive and human. Through humour, charisma and expertise, Chris brings out the potential in everybody and people leave not just inspired and energised, but thinking a little differently about the world: Equipped with tangible skills to deliver immediate change to their lives. The Guardian recently summed up Chris’s style as ‘a long haired twinkly eyed cross between Richard Branson and a wizard’, which paints the most accurate picture: A dynamic business change-maker with a magical hippy vibe.
MORE »What’s included
Talk It Out is bookable as a one hour live talk as part of our Marketing Agency Series. Please contact us on hello@thelifeadventure.co for more details. Presenter Chris Barez-Brown
Chris Barez Brown is a master of transformation. His unique energetic approach challenges businesses to embed a dynamic creative culture within their company ethos. Brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Unilever, Sony, Mediacom, ITV and WPP come back time and again as his results produce tangible returns on investment. The impact of his work with Unilever was recently featured in the Harvard Business Review. A talk delivered by Chris is, well, quite simply, like no other you will have experienced before. Chris’s life mission is people (with a side line in guitar playing!) This ethos, combined with a wealth of experience in innovation and leadership across 6 continents, means Chris’ talks are memorable, interactive and human. Through humour, charisma and expertise, Chris brings out the potential in everybody and people leave not just inspired and energised, but thinking a little differently about the world: Equipped with tangible skills to deliver immediate change to their lives. The Guardian recently summed up Chris’s style as ‘a long haired twinkly eyed cross between Richard Branson and a wizard’, which paints the most accurate picture: A dynamic business change-maker with a magical hippy vibe.
MORE »What’s included
Talk It Out is bookable as a one hour live talk as part of our Marketing Agency Series. Please contact us on hello@thelifeadventure.co for more details.