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An ever growing community of coaches, faciliators and designers and subject experts — designing and delivering learning experiences and resources that make a real impact on your business challenges.

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Author and entrepreneur Chris Baréz-Brown talks about how the simple act of writing a letter to someone who’s had a big impact on your life can help you feel more thankful every day.

How writing a letter can breed gratitude

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Author and entrepreneur Chris Baréz-Brown shares some easy techniques for priming your day with positive energy, with very little effort.

Filling your day with excitement and gratitude

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Vocal Coach to the stars Ingrid Gray walks us through some warm up techniques to up our vocal impact in all kinds of situations. 

Vocal confidence warm up exercises

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Vocal Coach Ingrid Gray takes use through some simple techniques for better and clearer articulation.

Vocal techniques for clearer articulation

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Psychologist Carol Dweck coined the terms Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset to describe the underlying beliefs people have about their characters, learning and ability to change. Out of these two mindset comes a lot of our behaviour, our view of success and ultimately our capacity for happiness. The bitesize beliefs below will keep you in growth mode, and keep you learning

Growth Mindset Mantras

These curated resources, many referenced in our Rethinking Resilience and Finding Fortitude courses, will help to deepen your understanding of the topic, and make practical applications daily. We've shared the workshop slides too, so you can replay what was covered among your teams. Be proactive, and learn by teaching!

Course Pack: Rethinking Resilience

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In this short video, author and entrepreneur Chris Baréz-Brown explains how movement can help unlock creativity.

Why you should work standing up

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Most of us are pretty bad at breathing, even though it's one of the most important things you can do to improve brain performance. Author and entrepreneur Chris Baréz-Brown shares a quick exercise to get you back in the zone.

Breathing for productivity

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Developed by the team at LifeLabs learning, and drawing from Daniel Pink's thinking in his book Drive — this model enables us to quickly sense-check how engaged (or disengaged) people in our team are feeling. Great for leaders and managers, and great for self-awareness raising too.

What's your team's CAMPS score? Get a snapshot of engagement levels.

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These curated resources, many referenced in our Strategies for Stress course, will help to deepen your understanding of the topic, and make practical applications daily. We've shared the workshop slides too, so you can replay what was covered among your teams.

Course Pack: Strategies for Stress

Burnout Reflections

This simple reflective tool support our live sessions and resources around the topic of burnout. It’s intended to provoke self-awareness around burnout, encouraging conversation and exploration around the topic.

Talking about burnout — a useful reflection tool

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This short, self-directed course distills some of the key ideas and exercises from our Better Breathing workshop — inviting you to revisit, experiment, practice and share.

eCourse: Better Breathing

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This curated collection of resources supports much of the content covered in our Educating Managers about Burnout workshops. Included are some snappy session slides, great for internal sharing and taking others through key aspects covered (there's no better way to embed your own understanding of something than teaching someone else).

Course Pack: Educating Managers about Burnout

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Flow is a state of deep focus where work and pleasure are one and the same. You'll recognise the feeling if you've ever lost track of time doing something you love. Here are the six steps to bring more flow into the day-to-day, drawn from the thinking of the father of flow himself.

Six steps for finding focus and flow, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in mind

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Short, intentional bursts of deep breathing are the scientifically proven and surest way to bring a greater sense of control, calm and focus to your mind and body. The simple steps, and audio guide, in this resource will easily get you experimenting.

Mindful breathing — the foundation of focus and flow

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A simple, physical and sensorial technique for bringing your attention to what's within your control and finding the focus to move forwards.

Get clear on control with a Clarity Clap

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Build self-belief and self-awareness simultaneously with this super-simple method for overcoming setbacks and re-discovering resilience. Introducing Setback Stories — a tool we discovered in the brilliant new book You Coach You. Here’s how to use it.

Smarten your approach to setbacks, by trying out a Setback Story

To Think

We discovered the timely tactic of a ‘To-think List’ when reading Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis’s book You Coach You, and hope we can tempt you to experiment with it too.

Don't forget to diarise thinking time — experiment with a 'To Think' list

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A ‘Done list’ is a quick, effortless and effective tool — shared in Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis’ book You Coach You — for finding resilience and growth in your daily efforts.

Build belief by recognising small wins — Try a 'Done List'

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Micro-learning: The Art of Noticing

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Micro-learning: Experiments for Resilience

This pack of resources supports much of the content covered in our Voice Gym workshop. Included alongside two video warm-ups from vocal coach Ingrid Gray, are a mix of curated bits to help you keep practicing what you covered.