Science-Based with Actionable Take-Aways

High Energy, Interactive Workshops for Leaders & Professionals

Empower Your Team

..with proven strategies to prevent and recover from burnout, boost focus and productivity, and enhance overall performance. These workshops equip your organization with the tools to foster resilience, well-being, and sustained success.

Great for leadership development, team building and corporate events for groups of all sizes.

Workshops are often booked as part of a conference or corporate event but can also be offered as a stand alone.

All Dr. Belanger’s workshops have been inspired by her top keynotes and are an opportunity to dive deeper into these topics in an interactive setting to explore real life situations your organization is facing.

  • Workshops usually last 2 hours, however content can be adapted from 1 - 4 hours to suit your needs and can be hosted in person or virtually.

  • Each workshop has an educational component, personal work, group discussions and immediate, actionable take-aways.

  • Participants will also leave with additional reading and resources to increase sustainable long term behaviour change.

Workshop 01

Psychological Safety

This workshop delves into the concept of psychological safety, crucial for fostering a workplace where individuals can be themselves without fear of repercussions.

This environment is essential for promoting risk-taking, creativity, and innovation, directly impacting business outcomes and individual team member engagement.

Drawing from global case studies and the latest research, it highlights the importance of cultivating a supportive, psychologically safe, and collaborative environment for personal and professional success. Attendees will gain practical strategies for nurturing conscious connections, fostering a path towards making a more meaningful impact.

    • Psychological safety will be explored in a series of articles, key concepts, examples and discussion among leaders.

    • Leaders will work with the facilitator to create a strategic plan and norms in the team, department or organization to create psychological safety.

    • This framework is presented to the entire group it supports followed by a discussion and strategic exercises to get ‘buy in’ and input from the team to improve the document.

    • Conversations, behavioural support and specific direction for leaders and teammates to implement the plan.

    • Active listening training for the virtual and in person world.

What Attendees Are Saying

Dr. Belanger is an engaging speaker whose activities and strategies are relatable and easily implemented, which increased the value of the session for me.

Loved the empathy example and suggestions for mental breaks. The answers from the Q&A session were very helpful.

I found the action items realistic and things I can actually implement. The daily prescriptions for your brain piece is something I can start using right away.

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Workshop 02

Mental Agility

Life's unpredictability and constant energy demands, we can feel the strain, especially with the added challenges of change, failure, and setbacks.

This workshop draws from psychology, behavioural science, and neuroscience

..to provide insights on setting up your environment, community, and team for optimal performance in high-stress situations and periods of rapid change.

    • Acknowledge the meaning and importance of resilience.

    • Understand the role of stress.

    • Identify strategies to stay motivated during challenges.

    • Establish behaviours and thought processes to thrive in monotony and change.

    • Learn how, when, and what to do to ensure recovery from stress and work.

    • Learn ways to promote re-strategization.

    • Understand how to fit these practices into busy schedules.

    • Take steps to set up an environment and culture to facilitate behaviours that promote wellbeing.

“Dr. Belanger's engaging style of presentation made the info more relatable than other presentations I have seen on the same subject and yes there are takeaways that I can start using right away.”

Mental Agility Event Attendee: Ontario Public Service

“Practical advice from a real person - mom, Canadian, busy, vulnerable, evidence-based approach. Easy to use strategies that work within minutes of investment.”

Mental Agility Event Attendee: Ontario Public Service

Workshop 03

Burnout For Leaders

In a world where work is constant, how can leaders care for themselves and their teams? How can they institute fundamental changes to prevent future burnout damage? This workshop confronts these questions.

The discussion encompasses cultivating skills for meaningful dialogues, leveraging diverse perspectives, and prioritizing the well-being of those under leadership.

Join us as we explore strategies to enhance personal and team mental agility, equipping leaders for the disruptive future of work. This workshop focuses on step-by-step, strategic plan development for addressing burnout within leaders and their teams.

    • Define, understand, and identify the contributing factors to burnout.

    • Understand the impact of burnout on the body and mind.

    • Learn how to mitigate stress to optimize recovery.

    • Develop your own daily recovery plan.

    • Identify how systems, companies, and teams impact burnout.

    • Identify leadership tactics and develop a proactive plan to help prevent burnout within your team(s).

Workshop 04

Leading from the Edge

This workshop addresses the challenges of leading through change and uncertainty, lead with empathy, create sustainable work cultures and key leadership daily habits needed now more than ever. Learn key techniques to inspire and facilitate change, backed by case studies illustrating the positive impact of leaders who model behaviours, whether in virtual, hybrid, or in-person work settings.

Explore strategies for setting up an environment and culture that supports desired change, increases personal and team capacity, while understanding your role in implementing sustainable and meaningful transformations for teams and organizations.

    • Enhanced communication skills for the remote, hybrid, in office and everything in between workplace.

    • Emotional intelligence remotely and how it relates to difficult conversations and conflict.

    • How to improve, practice and teach empathy.

    • How to create and implement the science on effective meetings.

    • Understand leadership and company role in proactive mental health for all team members.

    • Create a proactive strategy for mental health and performance for yourself and your team.

Workshop 05

Pay Attention! Fast, Simple Ways to Improve Your Focus Workshop

In today's world filled with distractions, the constant tug of our phones and the challenge of balancing home and work life can be overwhelming. While we're often told to pay attention, the actual skill of paying attention is rarely taught.

This workshop explores actionable behaviours to enhance clear thinking, productivity, resilience, sustained motivation, and avoid overwhelm.

    • Why our environment invites distraction.

    • How focus affects our behaviours, life, job, brain and body.

    • How to incorporate short, daily practices to improve focus.

    • Research-based strategies on taking breaks to improve productivity, and mental capacity.

    • How to pay close attention (even for redundant work).

    • How to utilize techniques to help manage stress, improve performance, and regulate mental health.

Workshop 06

Burnout Prevention & Recovery

This workshop delves into the practical aspects of achieving high performance, with emphasis on leadership, culture and sustainable work environment. It introduces a paradigm shift in the relationship between work and rest, showcasing their interdependence in a comprehensive approach to productivity and well-being.

Drawing from research in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural medicine, attendees will gain insights into practical, capacity-building strategies that seamlessly integrate into demanding schedules, providing a pathway to reduce stress, elevate overall well-being, and achieve remarkable results—all while maintaining a surplus of energy.

NOTE: Workshop has been approved for continuing education credits for physicians with the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Continuing Education and Professional Development Office at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

    • Define and understand burnout.

    • Identify the 6 contributors to burnout.

    • Understand the impacts of burnout on the body and mind.

    • Learn how to mitigate stress to optimize recovery.

    • Develop a daily recovery plan.

    • Identify how systems, companies and teams impact burnout.

    • Identify leadership tactics to help prevent burnout.

    • Develop a proactive plan to reduce the risk of developing burnout within yourself and within your team.

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