Resilience and wellbeing
Support is here for your workplace team or group to build resilience, productivity and general wellbeing.
Sparkhouse provides tailored workshops to support a diverse range of audiences, groups and teams. Whether you need skills, strategies or connections, we have what you need and will support you on the journey to resilience, wellbeing and productivity.
Resilience and wellbeing
These workshops draw on the principles of mindfulness and provide practical tools and strategies to manage and cope with workload stress, pressure and overwhelm.
Participants have the opportunity to build self-awareness and identify unhelpful personal habits and mindsets that potentially get in the way of better outcomes and the ability to embrace change.
We offer engaging workshops that are designed to be interactive and impactful.
All our workshops are tailored and could sit within your current wellbeing program, or be part of an off-site team day or part of a larger conference.
Alternatively, you may choose a series of workshops over a longer timeframe to deep dive into the different areas and enhance the opportunity to embed learning and change.
One-on-one coaching (in-person or online) is also available for those seeking a more personalised approach.
Areas that we cover include:
Strategies to reduce stress and overwhelm
Enabling individuals to take responsibility for their wellbeing
Managing strong uncomfortable (negative) emotions
Managing challenging relationships
Managing our own expectations and those set by others
Setting personal boundaries
Overcoming the habit of complaining and blaming
Understanding the discipline of self-care
What is 'true listening' to enhance relationships
The importance of compassion for self and others
Embracing change and uncertainty
"Rachel presented a fantastic workshop, that was interactive, engaging and fun. I would recommend to all small to medium-sized businesses to invest in this workshop as you'll be amazed at the outcomes".
Mike, Director, Russell Properties
"Rachel's practical, direct and clear delivery style meant she related to the entire team and provided mental strategies to use both personally and when dealing with clients. Our team was thoroughly impressed and we will be utilising her services in future team building and development activities".
Diane, Finance Industry
Workplace productivity workshops
The most valuable productivity tool we have is our ability to pay attention and focus on what is important and impactful.
Our productivity workshops enable individuals to have a fresh perspective on how they are operating in the workplace to enhance their feelings of control and productivity.
Areas covered include:
Prioritising the impactful and important work
Taming the chaos!
Making use of limited focus and attention
Taking control of distractions and interruptions
Managing perfectionism and expectations
Setting personal boundaries
Managing overwhelm and the feeling of 'drowning'
Getting on top of your inbox
Understanding and overcoming procrastination
Making sure you don't 'drop the ball'
Workshops are tailored to meet team needs, challenges, budgets and time availability.
One-on-one coaching (in-person or online) is also available for those seeking a more personalised approach.
"Rachel's workshop enabled me to truly understand where I was at and gave me the tools and motivation to make some significant personal changes to manage stress. Can highly recommend it."
Regional Manager, Finance Industry
"I am amazed at how much of what you spoke about was so ‘’on the money’’ when I think about my work habits etc and have already started making changes to the way I handle emails. Sometimes it the small things that can make a big difference."
Chris S. Accounting Firm
Mindfulness workshops
The essence of mindfulness is about awareness and the relationship with our own thoughts and emotions. This awareness enables us to reduce our tendency to worry and overthink and step away from the feelings of stress and overwhelm.
Whether you are after a one-off presentation at an off-site or team building day, or a series of workshops for your team, the topics are applicable to all aspects of a persons personal and professional life.
Areas covered include:
How to enhance to self-awareness
Recognising a frantic, scattered mind
Managing challenging emotions
Reframing our perspective and mindset
Self-compassion and forgiveness
The art of gratitude
Practising mindfulness enables us to be present and honest about how we are truly feeling and coping. It helps us not only support ourselves but also enables us to support and connect to those around us.
"Rachel is a fantastic speaker. Her messages around mindfulness and dealing with uncertainty was well received by all who attended the seminars. She provided practical tips for exercising mindfulness that you can fit into your daily life to bring clarity and calm to any situation."
Chantal, Craigs Investment Partners
"I loved every minute of the course and the information learnt is life changing! I would highly recommend this to everyone I know."
Ruth
"I came away with so many gems and feeling very inspired to lead a more mindful life! Your presenting style was fantastic, real and every working woman should book your course immediately! Can't wait for the next one."
Rachael
Resilience, wellbeing and productivity for teachers
Sparkhouse understands the current education environment means that many teachers and support staff are under increasing pressure and stress. Our workshops help to manage these raising demands and expectations to work more effectively and enable teachers to support their everyday mental and emotional wellbeing.
Workshops are tailored to meet needs, challenges, budgets and availability.
Areas covered include:
Taking responsibility for personal self-care and wellbeing
Managing workloads and gaining a sense of control
Having a more positive mindset to enable better outcomes
Enhancing emotional intelligence to support relationships
Building resilience in the face of change and uncertainty
Developing personal work/life boundaries
Keeping on top of admininstration tasks and emails
Attaining realistic strategies to manage stress and overwhelm
"Rachel was engaging, knowledgeable and passionate about the topic. All of the teachers who attended gave amazing feedback on how they were able to take away learnings from the workshop that they could apply in their day-to-day lives".
Chris Rennie, Deputy Principal
