I am pleased to help groups of people learn and apply self-compassion, mindfulness, and design thinking to manage stress, enhance wellbeing, address burnout, and enhance performance.
I design custom workshops and experiences for organizations and groups, and have worked with colleges and universities, non-profits, and professional development organizations.
Program topics include:
- Self-Compassion: Meeting stress with kindness
- Managing burnout and compassion fatigue
- Stress Relief: Mindfulness and Compassion Practices for More Ease
- Designing Your Life / Designing Your Work Life
- The art of compassionate listening
- Sustainable self-care: Designing a flexible and realistic routine
Program Options
- I customize workshops to meet your needs with a focus on practical skills for greater flourishing.
- Workshops typically include:
- A brief overview of relevant theory and research
- Empirically-supported exercises
- Self-reflection
- Small and full-group discussions
- Team-building to surface insights, themes, and ways of supporting each other
- Mindful movement and poetry (optional)
- Workshops typically include:
- I also provide 1:1 coaching sessions for team members who ‘opt in’ to coaching. Areas of focus typically include:
- Goal setting for enhanced well-being and flourishing
- A highly personalized process and support to make progress toward those goals.
- Support to design a realistic and impactful self-care routine
- The integration of evidence-based tools and practices to support learning and personal / professional development.
We will work together to design and customize a solution to meet the needs of your team or organization.
Sample Program Outlines
Coaching for Your Team with a Focus on Managing Stress and Burnout
(4 – 6 health coaching sessions for team members who ‘opt in’ to coaching).
- Identify signs of burnout, contributing factors, and possibilities to engage in meaningful work in more sustainable ways.
- Design a realistic and impactful self-care routine
- Set meaningful and individualized goals for well-being
- Integrate self-compassion, mindfulness, yoga, Designing Your Work Life as appropriate
- Engage in a highly personalized and supportive process to make progress toward those goals.
Foundations in Self-Compassion: Meeting Stress with Kindness
(Workshop – 1.5 hours)
- Learn the three components of self-compassion
- Explore research on compassion, physiology and how compassion can be helpful in the midst of stress
- Experience a self-compassion practice for moments of stress
- Learn about available resources for supported practice
Managing Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
(Workshop – 4 hours + 3 follow up coaching sessions per participant)
- Learn the three components of self-compassion
- Explore research on compassion, physiology and how compassion can be helpful in the midst of stress
- Experience a self-compassion practice for moments of stress
- Explore research on empathy and compassion, and how compassion can help to address burnout
- Explore compassion with equanimity – a practice that can be utilized in the midst of difficult moments with others
- Learn about available resources for yourself, and to share with others
Stress Relief: Mindfulness and Compassion Practices for More Ease
(1+ hour workshop + 5 health coaching sessions per participant)
- Explore mindfulness / compassion / yoga to release tension and stress
- Themes, areas of focus, and exercises will be chosen based on your goals for the session.
- 1:1 Health and wellness coaching scheduled with individual team members in a private and personalized process to help them enhance their well-being.
Build Your Own Toolkit: Life Design Approaches to Self-Care
(2 hour workshop + 3 follow up sessions per participant)
Learn how a designer’s mindset can help to elevate your approaches to self-care.
- Learn Life Design tools and resources that can help you prioritize wellbeing in challenging times
- Build your own tool-kit of self-care practices to release stress
- Experiential mind-body practices can be added to relax and recharge.
- 1:1 follow up coaching sessions help individuals to refine and expand upon strategies, and to more fully integrate meaningful self-care into their life.
What my clients are saying…
Heather has the ability to help us relax and connect with ourselves.
I love Heather’s style – she is calming yet simultaneously engaging.
I love your gentleness, your compassion and am grateful to have found you!
Heather is super grounded and an amazing facilitator.
Just listening to Heather makes me take a deep breath and see this is a personal growth opportunity, not a requirement or an expectation – she really puts off a “you do you” attitude that is uplifting and nurturing.
The facilitation was superb. I felt the presence and kindness of Heather in each session. She is especially skilled at asking open ended questions with curiosity and kindness that draw out more of the participants experiences.
(Heather) brings an intuitiveness to her work with others. She offers an incredible ‘safe space’. There was never a moment working with Heather where I felt what I was going to share would not be ok. She takes everything in stride and is a fantastic listener and teacher!
Heather was able to really hear what was shared and offer meaningful, honest reflection. I appreciated her teaching … and I had many “aha” moments.