With the workplace wellbeing now becoming a priority for many companies along with post pandemic fallout - the move to hybrid working, regaining a work-life balance, I offer group workshops and 1:1 sessions to meet the variety of needs workers face.
About me
Having spent 12 years supporting creatives to find new roles combined with 10 years as a psychotherapist and coach working with individuals and with teams, I’ve discovered my superpower is helping creatives reconnect to themselves, each other and to their creativity.
We cannot do our best thinking, let alone creative thinking when we are in stress mode so my approach combines therapeutic techniques to arm people with strategies to manage stress as well as coaching -to enable them to reach their potential. My approach is holistically addressing your team’s wellbeing whilst nurturing communication and creativity.
A Date With Your Team -
One Day Reboot Retreat
What is it?
This is not just another team building day - it’s the perfect blend of wellbeing, productivity and inspiration. ADWYT is a bespoke one day retreat to reconnect and facilitate creativity and relationships. Bespoke to your team’s specific needs and ideal for a kick off/ launch of a new project or when you generally need a reboot. We cannot do our best thinking, let alone creative thinking when we are in stress mode so my approach combines therapeutic techniques to arm people with strategies to manage stress as well as coaching -to enable them to reach their potential. My approach is holistically addressing your team’s wellbeing whilst nurturing communication and creativity.
As the team leader, you may feel stretched, feeling like you have to be responsible for the wellbeing as well as productivity of your team. What if you could outsource this - providing the space to help you and your team to decompress, foster improved communication and connection and boost creativity. Spend the day in a gorgeous setting away from the office and rekindle the spark. This could be a one- off retreat or regular retreat as part of your ongoing wellbeing commitment to your team.
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Creative teams who are depleted and a bit lacklustre in need of some TLC, space and inspiration to start thriving again.
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An opportunity to pause and reset
Simple tools for dealing with stress and improving wellbeing
Enhanced communication and working relationships
Increased sense of belonging and cohesion
Renewed creativity, inspired thinking and idea generation
Improved productivity
Positive impact on people, business and ultimately your bottom line
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Book a call with myself and your team leader to discuss needs
I will come back with a proposal for your bespoke retreat day
I can organise the venue (I work with beautiful spaces in Oxfordshire and Richmond) or you can book your own (this is not suitable for an in house meeting room)
Agree the date and details
Team members to fill out a confidential survey to further understand needs
Enjoy your day and let me do the rest!
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Through my ‘A Date with Your Business’ retreats I’ve witnessed so many creative people burnt out by demands of life and work, let alone the constant distractions (slack, teams, google chat messages) and it’s my mission to reboot people and bring the joy back into the creative process and their work. A Date With Your Team was inspired by the positive results achieved in taking just one day out of a business and how powerful that would be for a team.
Individual 1:1 Coaching
Human beings are complex creatures and sometimes they need more support than chatting with their peers in order to do their best work.
I’ve developed a hybrid approach of therapy and coaching. The therapeutic element provides confidential space to talk with practical tools and strategies to combat blocks, whether that’s stress management, working relationships, better time management or setting boundaries. Releasing these stucknesses allows effective coaching - asking the right questions to allow people to come up with their own best solutions and take action.
My sessions can be offered as stand alone sessions or allocated to individuals where specific needs have been identified as packages of 5 or 10 sessions.
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Arrange a conversation to decide the best approach for business needs
You decide how many sessions you need for your employees, depending on need and size of your business and the frequency of uptake
Employees are then sent a booking link so they can book a 60 minute session at their convenience
I will let you know when you are nearly out of credits and you can top up, as required
My workshops
I can also work with you to create a bespoke workshop to meet your team’s needs. My specialism is working with people in the Creative industries of Fashion and Media, however, whatever sector you are in, I am very happy to speak with you about how your organisation could benefit from my expertise.
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Make Resilience Your Superpower! Resilience isn’t a personality trait, it’s a learning process. Through greater awareness we can learn how to identify our trigger points, manage our emotional response to challenging situations, change our perception and transform negative experiences into our superpower! In this workshop you will learn what the components are that make up resilience. Your secret and not-so-secret drivers that impact your resilience and how to use these to develop mental and emotional strength. Access your inner resources - using your past as a springboard to help you handle life better today. Grow your reserve of resilience so that when sh** hits the fan you don’t go into meltdown.
You will leave with your own personal action plan to keep building your resilience.
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The pandemic has understandably destabilised most of us. We find ourselves anxious, uncertain and having difficulty focusing. I’ve created this Stress Management Workshop with my top tools and strategies specifically to address both the physical and mental manifestations of stress and the effect it’s having on our focus during this challenging time.
• Tools to deal with spiralling thoughts and worrying
• Strategies to calm the nervous system in moments of panic that you can use anytime
• Accessible and practical solutions for staying calm, maintaining focus and feeling in control
• We’ll finish with a powerful stress busting guided meditation that will calm your system and enable you to access this calm state whenever you need to.
• Q&A session
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As we navigate the shifting landscape of the pandemic and lockdown, we’re having to continuously adapt our ways of living and working. Lines between home and work have been blurred for a while now and it’s understandable that we're feeling burnt out. Overwhelm, burnout, resentment, guilt, feeling drained, feeling like you don’t have any control are all issues that can be helped by having an awareness of boundaries and by taking action to create better ones. It’s now even more important to create and preserve boundaries with work and life to remain happy, stress free, focused and present.
Key session takeaways:
• Discussion on what poor boundaries show up in different areas
• Conquering ‘Zoom fatigue’ a dive into our digital boundaries - how to have healthy limits around screen time and social media
• Actionable steps for behaviour change
• Practical tools to strengthen boundaries to create more balance and harmony in your life as we emerge out of lockdown and beyond
My workshops and individual coaching sessions can result in the following:
Improved stress and anxiety levels
Happier individuals and happier teams Increased confidence and focus
Greater motivation
Better time management and prioritisation
Improved productivity
Better relationships and collaboration at work
Less employee sick days
Greater employee retention
Increased resilience
More job satisfaction
Some illuminating stats:
“With employers seeing a return of £5.30 on average for every £1 invested in staff mental health, the economic argument for putting wellbeing at the heart of post-covid recovery is clear.”
- Paul Farmer OBE, CEO, Mind
“Business units with engaged workers have 23% higher profit compared with business units with miserable workers. Additionally, teams with thriving workers see significantly lower absenteeism, turnover and accidents; they also see higher customer loyalty. The point is: Wellbeing at work isn’t at odds with anyone’s agenda”
– Jon Clifton CEO, Gallup Source: Gallup State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report
Prioritising employee wellbeing can significantly increase retention, boost employee advocacy, and strengthen employee engagement.
Employees who experience high levels of wellbeing in the workplace are 3 times more likely to intend to stay with their employer.
They are also 3 times more likely to go the extra mile in their work.
- Source: 2024 Great Place To Work Workplace Culture Study
“Combining strengths and wellbeing at work is potentially the most transformational treatment yet in the urgent pursuit of resiliency, mental health and ultimately, net thriving”
- Jim Harter, Phd, Chief Scientist for workplace management and wellbeing at Gallup
Corporate client feedback
“ Resilience is your super power, a great workshop and really gets you to think about the way you behave in challenging situations in work and personal life.
It has really supported the team and myself on how we approach our day to day challenges to how we respond to things we find difficult to deal with. Even if we are not sure how to approach the challenge we are all more aware of how are colleges feel and can support each other. We use a lot of what we have learnt in our teams one to one catch ups as well as appraisals.”
Annalisa Gioia – Head of Design, Oliver Bonas
“Kate has provided individual wellbeing coaching sessions for our team since June 2021 and all the feedback I've received has been so positive. I know that these sessions have made such a difference for our Portlanders, giving them a space to talk freely and strategies to deal with the challenges they are facing. Kate has made the whole process so easy with an online booking system and is very responsive when we have a team member in need of an urgent session. I highly recommend Kate to any companies wishing to support the mental wellbeing of their people!”
Emily Williams - Global HR Business Partner, Portland
“Kate carried out a fantastic workshop for the Heathrow Corporate Communications team on Stress Resilience and setting boundaries last month. Kate encouraged group conversations and provided the team with helpful coping mechanisms on being stress resilient and mindful on emotions – both at work and in our personal lives. I’d highly recommend Kate to speak at your team meeting, away day or individual coaching! ”
Shabana Bhatty - Communications Planning Executive, Heathrow
"Kate has been incredible with helping us coach and support our team on topics around wellbeing. The feedback from the team has been outstanding, the attendance and engagement has been some of the highest we've seen with any of our wellbeing initiatives. Looking forward to working on more coaching in future!"
Angharad Callaghan - People & Culture Partner, Instant Impact