L&D Workshops
Designed by Dr. Jacqui Wilmshurst, our one-of-a-kind workshops in resilience, team effectiveness, wellbeing leadership, and relational skills equip and empower individuals and teams for success
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Building a resilient organisation
‘Resilience’ has become a buzzword and has been overused and, at times, misused to put undue responsibility on individuals rather than systemic change.
However, in parallel with carefully designed organisational change, personal development continues to have a core place in supporting employees to navigate challenges and complexity.
Our unique, personal and relational skills workshops combine solid evidence-base from psychology, neuroscience and health sciences - with creative and innovative approaches to learning.
Learn more about what squirrels and earthquakes can teach us about personal and team effectiveness.
Workshops
Peer Support Skills for Wellbeing
The leap from personal resilience and self-care is a big one, but one that it is often assumed we will have to make when we find ourselves facing challenges to our mental health and wellbeing that are beyond our own resources.
The role of self-aware, skilled social and peer support at work is often overlooked, other than to provide reactive interventions for helping someone in crisis.
Our peer support skills development equips and empowers your people to offer self-aware and appropriate support to peers on an ongoing basis, contributing to a culture of psychological safety and building a proactive approach to wellbeing across your organisation.
Core resilience and Relational skills
The “Be More Squirrel” workshops are a series of lessons on core resilience and relational skills, via stories of the rehabilitation journeys of rescued squirrels.
Skills include: non-verbal communication, dealing with uncertainty, managing conflict, creating and holding healthy boundaries, rest and self-care and self-awareness
Re-igniting Curiosity
We all start out curious, but by the time we reach adulthood, curiosity has often been knocked out of us in favour of following rules, norms and conventions. Research shows a powerful link between curiosity and success, wellbeing and positive relationships.
This workshop brings lessons and stories from Jacqui’s work with wild crows to reignite curiosity and channel it towards your own personal learning and goals.
Adapting in Turbulent Times
We've all had a recent experience of sudden and unexpected disruption to our own versions of 'normal' in our own lives and in the wider world. Adapting to sudden change, uncertainty and disempowerment requires new learning, awareness and skills.
This workshop draws from real-world experiences of sudden and enforced change (including kidnapping!) and from research in psychology and neuroscience to cultivate new skills to equip you for an increasingly turbulent and uncertain world.
Resilience in Adverse Working Environments
All workplaces present challenges, especially in relation to pressure, pace, resources and relationships. Some roles and professions, on top of all this, operate in environments with additional and foreseeable challenges and risks. These environments are often referred to as 'hostile environments', and roles can include news journalists, humanitarian aid workers, emergency responders, auditors, Cx and many more.
This course goes beyond the usual resilience training to deliver knowledge and skills tailored especially for working in such environments.
Mapping out a whole organisation approach for Learning, Wellbeing and Belonging
Our MaPS™ Academy is a foundational programme that equips and empowers everyone in the organisation; employees, managers, key stakeholders, and C-Suite, to understand and carry out their ‘duties of care’, and their roles and responsibilities in relation to creating long-term, sustainable organisational and culture change.
Leading for Wellbeing
A comprehensive 6-12 month development programme for leaders and managers, equipping them to lead and manage for wellbeing.
This program features monthly virtual (or in-person) sessions designed to bring tangible benefits to employees and your business.
With a cohort size of 16, diverse in seniority and experience, this program incorporates action learning for ongoing skill development and practical application.
Additionally, we foster a culture of peer support and learning, including a buddy system to promote mentoring and reverse mentoring relationships throughout the journey.
Testimonials
Jacqui worked on a project run by myself at Sheffield Hallam University and the director of South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network, with a group of Film Media and Production students - Mental Health & Working in Film and TV.
Jacqui created and delivered sessions on building personal resilience and accessing resources to overcome mental health challenges at work and handling difficult conversations, scenarios and reasonable adjustments at work. Jacqui was a pleasure to work with and her openness and honesty was refreshing and inspiring. The students really enjoyed and benefitted from her sessions, saying: "always inspirational to hear from Jacqui" and "Jacqui was really informative and made me feel more positive about myself".
Rachel Gradwell - Higher Education Employability Adviser at Sheffield Hallam University