Programme For Life
In-House or Hybrid Course
Build Teams and Transform Working Relationships
Workplaces can demand a lot from people, and it’s easy for teams to feel overwhelmed and stressed in today’s disconnected, hybrid workplaces. In challenging moments, negative thinking and self-doubt impact us all. And as a HR leader or manager, you see this first-hand every day.
How can we help people perform at their peak?
You want to equip your teams with the skills and mindset to handle everyday working life. The right programme will bond your team closer, build an unbreakable spirit and drive their performance – together.
Developed and delivered by Dr. Brian Pennie, neuroscientist and resilience specialist, Programme for Life is designed to promote a sense of belonging, community, trust, and shared vulnerability between work colleagues, leading to deeper connections and smoother, more productive working relationships.
Over a series of 90-minute sessions, Brian uses smaller group discussions, experiential exercises, self-reflection exercises, and workbooks, tailoring them specifically to your organizational goals.
Programme For Life Training
Programme
Duration:
6 – 10 x 90-minute sessions
Location:
In-house or hybrid
How Will I Benefit
Connect more deeply and learn more about their work colleagues
Develop a core set of values to guide you towards your true north
Develop greater self-awareness
Discover what lights the fire in your belly
Eliminate self-doubt and limiting beliefs
Create a better work/life balance
Learn how to stay calm under pressure and prevent burnout
Learn how to break bad habits and develop good habits
1. Individuals or executives feeling disconnected at work
2. Teams looking to create greater unity within the group
3. People struggling with self-doubt, lack of confidence, and a mean inner-critic
4. Leaders who want to unearth the power of a values-based living
5. Managers who want to understand their people better
6. Individuals who want to break bad habits
1. Discover how negative thinking and limiting beliefs hold you back in life
2. Learn about the power of self-talk and its dark relationship with emotion
3. Build a science-based toolbox that will change your relationship with anxiety and stress
4. Learn how to pause and create space during emotionally challenging events
5. Build greater self-confidence while unearthing your own personal superpower
6. Learn how to reframe limiting beliefs about yourself (e.g. I’m not good enough)
7. Develop a core set of values that will guide decisions and actions
8. Discover the difference between value-based and feelings-based decisions
9. Overcome procrastination and fear and take purposeful action in both work and life
10. Learn how to break bad habits and develop good habits using neuro and behavioural science
1. CONSULTATION – We sit down and discuss your precise needs, getting a clear understanding of what challenges you face as a leader and your staff deal with on an everyday basis
2. UNDERSTANDING – Having listened to what you said, we develop a tailor-made programme with key-performance indicators built-in to ensure your needs are met. Whether in-house, remote or a hybrid model, we find what works best for you.
3. DELIVERY – Over the course of six weeks or two full days, Brian personally delivers six two-hour/90-minute sessions to departmental teams, units, or selected groups (online or in-person).
4. FOLLOW-UP – On completion, attendees are provided with toolkits and a workbook to help them get the most from the programme with Brian providing follow-up support for up to 90 days afterwards
1. Lost Potential: Discover how negative thinking and limiting beliefs hold us back in life and learn about the power of self-talk and its impact on our emotional worlds.
Module one focus on a problem many people face today. Namely, limiting beliefs, negative thinking, and the stories we tell ourselves. This foundational human problem is why many people do fail to live up to their true potential, restricting themselves through self-doubt and a harsh inner critic. This session will also dive into the problematic relationship between self-talk and emotions, and how this dark side of language can limit so many aspects of our lives.
Module 1 will teach you how to:
- Discover how negative thinking and limiting beliefs hold us back in life
- Learn about the power of self-talk and its dark relationship with emotion
- Connect more deeply and learn more about work colleagues
2. Breaking Free: Find out how to foster greater self-belief and confidence by building a wall of evidence that focuses on people’s unique talents, and helping them to unearth their own personal superpowers.
Module two will address many of the human challenges highlighted in session one. It focuses on building self-awareness, dissolving challenging emotions, creating a space between external stressors and our emotional response to them, and reframing limiting beliefs using a powerful technique from cognitive behavioural therapy. This session will also show people how to foster greater self-belief, by building a wall of evidence (based on consistency and baby steps) that focuses on people’s unique talents, and helps them to unearth their personal superpowers.
Module 2 will teach you how to:
- Develop greater self-awareness around the mental and emotional worlds
- Learn how to reframe limiting beliefs (e.g. I’m not good enough)
- Build greater self-confidence while unearthing your own personal superpower
3. The Mind-Body Connect: Learn how our brain and body react to both calming and challenging situations
Module three helps people to understand the mind-body connection, in terms of both neuroscience and psychology. With an emphasis on a stressed-versus-relaxed state of being, this session will highlight our amazing capacity to create change from the inside out. It will also demonstrate how our brains can work against us, and how we can develop strategies so our brains can work with us. These strategies include the latest evidence-based findings in the areas of exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness.
Module 3 will teach you how to:
- Learn how our brain and body reacts to both calming and challenging situations
- Build a science-based toolbox that will change your relationship with anxiety and stress
- Become more focused, present, and attentive by utilising the neuroscience of mindfulness
4. A Guidance System for Life: Identify and develop a values-based framework that will help you make decisions and take actions that align with your True North
Module four will highlight the immense power of creating a values-based system to direct your life. Our values provide a pathway for finding our true authentic selves, as well as guiding us to what’s important in our lives. This session will demonstrate tools that will help you to identify and develop your values, as well as a metaphorical technique to help you make decisions and take actions that align with your True North, instead of making feelings-based decisions which often pull us off course.
Module 4 will teach you how to:
- Develop a core set of values that will guide decisions and actions
- Discover the difference between value-based and feelings-based decisions, and how the latter can pull us away from what’s important in our lives
- Learn how to use a simple and practical metaphorical tool to guide you in times of stress
5. Magic and Miracles: Push towards purposeful action, while at the same time finding balance in daily life.
Module five will discuss the topic of purpose, pointing people towards their “why” and true calling in life – both personally and professionally. This process requires action, and knowing how to take those first steps is crucial. That’s the core objective of this session, which will help people to unearth what truly lights the fire in their belly, take a leap of faith when they feel fearful, and lean into every moment expecting magic and miracles. This session will also push people towards purposeful action, while at the same time finding balance in their lives.
Module 5 will teach you how to:
- Shine a brighter light on your why, your purpose, and true calling in life
- Prevent burnout and feeling overwhelmed by creating a better work/life balance
- Overcome procrastination and fear and take purposeful action in both work and life
6. Taking Action: Change behaviour and bad habits, and learn how to create and sustain progressive habits, including powerful morning routines, intention-setting and more
Based on the latest research from behavioural psychology, module six will show people how to change their behaviour and habits. We will discuss the science of habits, the power of keystone habits, how to break bad habits, and how to create and sustain progressive habits. This session will also discuss the science of motivation and procrastination, helping people to take positive action even when your mind says no. Lastly, it will show people how to create a powerful morning routine, helping them to set their intentions, increase their energy, and take positive action throughout the day.
Module 1 will teach you how to:
- Break bad habits and develop good habits using neuro and behavioural science
- Create powerful morning routines that will positively flow into other areas of their lives
Become more intentional, self-directed, and self-accountable for their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing
“I want to absolutely hammer home how brilliant this course was. Every aspect of it. I am gutted it is finished, and truly believe that there is not an employee in the NTMA that wouldn’t benefit from the course. I give my strongest recommendation that they continue to use Brian (ideally to a greater extent) in this highly successful and beneficial course.”
“ The key to this course is spending time with a guy that knows what he’s talking about. You’ll like and relate to him and you GET IT, the science, the ideas, the fact that it’s all there for the taking! This course has broken down some of the limiting beliefs I was letting get in my own way, and being in a bit of a lull, Brian he has ignited my passion to get me back on track. I’m so excited to continue exploring the tools and implementing the golden nuggets I’m taking from this course into my own life.”
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Dr. Brian Pennie
With a PhD in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin, Brian is a published author and trained neuroscientist. By combining lived experience with academic expertise, he develops programmes for blue-chip brands to help people gain full control over their mental, emotional, and external world.