Workshops
Interactive, Practical, & Actionable Take-Aways
Workshops are high energy, interactive and practical.
These are usually booked for large or small teams or as part of a conference. Workshops have an educational component, personal work, large and small group discussions and immediate, actionable take-aways.
Each session usually lasts 2 hours, however content can be adapted from 1 - 4 hours to suit your event.
Our facilitator will host this session in person or virtually. Participants will be provided with further reading and content as well as additional support to increase sustainable behaviour change. Workshops can be adapted to your virtual platform of choice or ConsciousWorks can host your team on Zoom.
“Dr. Belanger's engaging style of presentation made the info more relatable than other presentations I have seen on the same subject and yes there are takeaways that I can start using right away.”
Mental Agility Event Attendee: Ontario Public Service
Workshop Topics
Mental Agility: Thriving Through Rapid Change
In the face of life's unpredictability and constant energy demands, we can feel the strain, especially with the added challenges of change, failure, and setbacks.
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This workshop draws from psychology, behavioural science, and neuroscience to provide insights on setting up your environment, community, and team for optimal performance in high-stress situations and periods of rapid change.
Join us for this transformative experience inspired by Dr. Lisa Belanger's keynote on proactive mental health, peak performance, and the future of work. Explore a user-friendly guide to unlock your brain's potential, discover cutting-edge insights from psychology and neuroscience, and learn practical takeaways for enhanced mood, productivity, and burnout prevention or recovery.
Together, let's elevate each other to reach our fullest potential and lead sustainably in today's ever-evolving work landscape.
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This workshop will focus on practical application and skill development. Take away simple tools to help build resilience, enhance performance, and avoid becoming overwhelmed. After attending, you will be able to:
Acknowledge the meaning and importance of resilience.
Understand the role of stress.
Identify strategies to stay motivated during challenges.
Establish behaviours and thought processes to thrive in monotony and change.
Learn how, when, and what to do to ensure recovery from stress and work.
Learn ways to promote re-strategization.
Understand how to fit these practices into busy schedules.
Take steps to set up an environment and culture to facilitate behaviours that promote wellbeing.
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Leaders and professionals looking to leverage individual, family, and community factors to improve resilience, enhance mental health, and navigate the unexpected.
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“Dr. Belanger is an engaging speaker whose activities and strategies are relatable and easily implemented, which increased the value of the session for me.”
“Loved the empathy example and suggestions for mental breaks. The answers from the Q&A session were very helpful.”
“I found the action items realistic and things I can actually implement. The daily prescriptions for your brain piece is something I can start using right away.”
Burnout For Leaders
Leaders grappling with burnout while supporting teams facing similar challenges face an overwhelming task. Burnout is pervasive, affecting leaders as much as anyone else.
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In a world where work is constant and the future is unpredictable, how can leaders care for themselves and their teams? How can they institute fundamental changes to prevent future burnout damage? This workshop confronts these questions.
Drawing inspiration from Dr. Lisa Belanger's keynote on leadership in an ever-changing world, it addresses the unique challenges leaders face today. The discussion encompasses cultivating skills for meaningful dialogues, leveraging diverse perspectives, and prioritizing the well-being of those under leadership.
Join us as we explore strategies to enhance personal and team mental agility, equipping leaders for the disruptive future of work.
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This workshop focuses on step-by-step, strategic plan development for addressing burnout within leaders and their teams. You will walk away knowing how to:
Define, understand, and identify the contributing factors to burnout.
Understand the impact of burnout on the body and mind.
Learn how to mitigate stress to optimize recovery.
Develop your own daily recovery plan.
Identify how systems, companies, and teams impact burnout.
Identify leadership tactics and develop a proactive plan to help prevent burnout within your team(s).
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Leaders looking for practical science-based strategies on how to prevent and recover from burnout for both themselves and their teams.
Burnout Prevention & Recovery
We each find ourselves on a spectrum from peak performance to burnout in our professional journeys. With the relentless nature of work and an uncertain future, the need for burnout prevention and active recovery is evident.
However, the challenge lies in the lack of guidance on how to navigate these crucial aspects effectively.
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Fortunately, there are skills, habits, work designs and systems that offer support in both recovering from burnout and preventing it. This workshop delves into the practical aspects of achieving high performance, with emphasis on leadership, culture and sustainable work environment. It introduces a paradigm shift in the relationship between work and rest, showcasing their interdependence in a comprehensive approach to productivity and well-being.
Drawing from research in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural medicine, attendees will gain insights into practical, capacity-building strategies that seamlessly integrate into demanding schedules, providing a pathway to reduce stress, elevate overall well-being, and achieve remarkable results—all while maintaining a surplus of energy.
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Define and understand burnout.
Identify the 6 contributors to burnout.
Understand the impacts of burnout on the body and mind.
Learn how to mitigate stress to optimize recovery.
Develop a daily recovery plan.
Identify how systems, companies and teams impact burnout.
Identify leadership tactics to help prevent burnout.
Develop a proactive plan to reduce the risk of developing burnout within yourself and within your team.
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This course is for students, leaders and professionals looking for practical science-based strategies on how to prevent and recover from burnout.
NOTE: This can be adapted specific to industries, eg. healthcare, engineering, technology.
*Workshop has been approved for continuing education credits for physicians with the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Continuing Education and Professional Development Office at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
Pay Attention! Fast, Simple Ways to Improve Your Focus Workshop
In today's world filled with distractions, the constant tug of our phones and the challenge of balancing home and work life can be overwhelming. While we're often told to pay attention, the actual skill of paying attention is rarely taught.
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This workshop addresses the practical aspects of improving attention skills, enabling participants to actively switch on their focus and maintain concentration.
Drawing inspiration from Dr. Lisa Belanger's keynote on thriving amidst constant change, it explores actionable behaviours to enhance clear thinking, productivity, resilience, sustained motivation, and avoid overwhelm.
By incorporating insights from psychology, behavioural science, and neuroscience, participants will gain practical tools to fortify mental strength and performance during periods of transformation and change.
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This presentation explores the latest research in psychology and neuroscience in a concise and engaging way. Walk away with practices that will improve focus and promote daily use, as well as an understanding of:
Why our environment invites distraction.
How focus affects our behaviours, life, job, brain and body.
How to incorporate short, daily practices to improve focus.
Research-based strategies on taking breaks to improve productivity, and mental capacity.
How to pay close attention (even for redundant work).
How to utilize techniques to help manage stress, improve performance, and regulate mental health.
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Leaders and professionals looking for practical science-based strategies on how to increase productivity and focus to improve performance and enhance mental health.
“Practical advice from a real person - mom, Canadian, busy, vulnerable, evidence-based approach. Easy to use strategies that work within minutes of investment.”
Mental Agility Event Attendee: Ontario Public Service
Psychological Safety
This workshop delves into the concept of psychological safety, crucial for fostering a workplace where individuals can be themselves without fear of repercussions.
This environment is essential for promoting risk-taking, creativity, and innovation, directly impacting business outcomes and individual team member engagement.
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This workshop explores the influential power of community and connection in both professional and personal realms.
Drawing from global case studies and the latest research, it highlights the importance of cultivating a supportive, psychologically safe, and collaborative environment for personal and professional success. Attendees will gain practical strategies for nurturing conscious connections, fostering a path towards making a more meaningful impact.
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Learning about skills and practices is important, but some topics need fundamental strategies so that they can permeate culture, have common language and be a source of ongoing efforts and learning.
These sessions first involve leaders collectively creating a strategic plan for the team, department or organization. This is followed by a session involving the entire group, or a specific set of representatives from the group to help facilitate conversation on implementation.
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Psychological safety will be explored in a series of articles, key concepts, examples and discussion among leaders.
Leaders will work with the facilitator to create a strategic plan and norms in the team, department or organization to create psychological safety.
This framework is presented to the entire group it supports followed by a discussion and strategic exercises to get ‘buy in’ and input from the team to improve the document.
Conversations, behavioural support and specific direction for leaders and teammates to implement the plan.
Active listening training for the virtual and in person world.
Leading from the Edge
Equip yourself with the skills to navigate the changing landscape of work. The fundamental shift in how and where we work demands new leadership skills, and this session delves into the key competencies needed to lead effectively in the future of work.
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This workshop addresses the challenges of leading through change and uncertainty, lead with empathy, create sustainable work cultures and key leadership daily habits needed now more than ever. Learn key techniques to inspire and facilitate change, backed by case studies illustrating the positive impact of leaders who model behaviours, whether in virtual, hybrid, or in-person work settings.
Explore strategies for setting up an environment and culture that supports desired change, increases personal and team capacity, while understanding your role in implementing sustainable and meaningful transformations for teams and organizations.
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This workshop is designed for all levels of leadership and is continuously incorporating the latest science, case studies and workplace trends. The audience will take away:
Enhanced communication skills for the remote, hybrid, in office and everything in between workplace.
Emotional intelligence remotely and how it relates to difficult conversations and conflict.
How to improve, practice and teach empathy.
How to create and implement the science on effective meetings.
Understand leadership and company role in proactive mental health for all team members.
Create a proactive strategy for mental health and performance for yourself and your team.
“Lisa Belanger is a phenomenal facilitator, who can help you and your group make lasting, positive change. Her approach is straight-forward, easy-to-understand and ultra-engaging (her four-hour workshop felt like it went by in an hour). She is also an excellent presenter…”
Bryan Zoran CEBS, Director, Educational Programs
Canada, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
Your Expert
Dr. Lisa Belanger, PhD, EMBA, CSEP-CEP
Expert in Behaviour Change
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