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1: Identify

The training starts with a series of exercises to identify both helpful and unhelpful performance responses. Some of these responses have become so unconscious and automatic, we don’t even realise we are doing them.

Candidates report that day one is a revelation, as they leave with a new skill that enables them to spot their unhelpful:

•  internal soundtracks and movies
•  language patterns
•  ways of editing information

The training explains how these affect us physically via the fight or flight response (often called the stress response).

2: Interrupt

Then, the Building Resilience training teaches how to disrupt the unhelpful responses - instantly as they occur.
This includes the responses you weren’t aware of before the training, and also those annoying performance barriers you do know about, that keep getting in the way.

3: Create

At the core of training is a technique that allows you to choose your response to everyday events.

For example: being relaxed and confident when presenting, or thinking creatively when put on the spot.

You practice the technique - in the training room and in private – until it becomes a quick, automatic, skill you can use anywhere.

The brain continually builds new connections as you use it. So every time we have a worrying thought or frustrated emotion, the brain gets better at worry or frustration. It also activates the fight or flight response at the same time.

Fortunately the reverse is true. By interrupting and creating an alternate response, you switch off the stress reaction and positively influence the connections in your brain.

With repetition the preferred reaction becomes your new default response.