Operating at Peak Performance Do you want to: improve your decision-making capacity? enhance your memory for concepts, details or people? grow the quality of your thinking processes and your capability to develop new ideas? increase your energy and motivation levels? be fitter in mind and body? better manage your sources of stress and the impact that stress has on you? develop tools and techniques that help others to improve these aspects of performance for themselves? In an environment where there is increasing evidence that business success is linked to the performance of key individuals and teams, Dr Brian Marien and I offer a range of workshops, which help leaders align their physical and mental health with their performance at work. These workshops bring together latest thinking in the medical world, leading edge coaching and personal transformation techniques and system thinking. Our workshops focus on: the science of staying healthy developing robust survival skills creating a healthy business approach These workshops draw on evidence-based, leading edge medical science, latest thinking in sports and motivational psychology and advanced coaching, facilitation and personal development techniques. Over the past twenty years there has been a significant growth in the medical and sports/fitness world in understanding the links between Mind and Body health. Recent advances in medicine, brain imaging, cognitive science and psychology are providing remarkable insights into the factors that influence our physical and psychological well-being. The research consistently shows that energy levels, sleep, cognitive functioning, decision making, executive skills and performance are closely associated with certain psychological factors. There is now robust evidence that these same psychological factors can be positively influenced using a ‘tool-kit’ of practical strategies. In the organisational world, there has also been considerably more use made of such philosophies, tools and techniques as NLP, Appreciative Inquiry, Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence as well as feeds from the therapy world such as process consultation, Gestalt etc. These are, of course, strongly linked. Furthermore, organisations are spending increasing amounts of money supporting stressed and unwell employees. The modern business environment can create periods of pressure and heavy workloads. There are effective solutions, a set of techniques for helping people stay positive under pressure. These effective, protective strategies can improve well-being and performance. Brian Marien is Director of Positive Health Strategies Ltd, which delivers a multidisciplinary occupational health service for doctors (GPs and hospital doctors) to a number of NHS Trusts and Permanent Health Insurers as well as other clients including Syngenta, Zeneca, IBM, PWC, Cubiks and Wyeth. Brian works as a specialist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and is a visiting lecturer at Surrey University, Health Psychology MSc, and at Brighton Postgraduate Medical School. He has developed a specialist interest in providing effective strategies for maintaining physical health and well-being, enhancing performance, and preventing stress related problems. These ‘positive health strategies’ are directly informed by rigorous scientific research. He has written numerous articles, taught and lectured widely on stress related illness, its prevention and its optimal treatment. We would be delighted to work with a single organisation or team, focused on your individual context, to help you understand the areas where your health and stress might be getting in the way of you performing as you would need and like to in your work life, and to develop strategies with you which enhance both your health and your performance. Our flexible involvement is business goal focused and specifically designed to release talent, promote personal growth and resilience - a catalyst for positive change. We can also offer the following workshops to individuals and teams within organisations: A one-day “performing in peak condition” workshop focused on understanding the medical links between mind and body and between performance, health and stress and developing realistic strategies to enhance your performance A two-day “developing a positive thinking approach” workshop which brings together the science of the brain/body link and realistic, practical techniques for enhancing your positivity and creativity A two day intensive mind/body health assessment which provides you with the services of medical doctor, cognitive psychologist, exercise specialist and executive coach to deeply analyse your own corporate lifestyle and establish significant shifts in the way in which you look after yourself and increase your performance at work. We also offer consultants, coaches and facilitators a full day workshop on understanding the links between the emerging toolkits being used in organisations and the science of mind and body. This workshop is intended to assist in the building of (and providing more robustness to) tools, which the consultants use with their clients. To know more about these courses, feel free to contact me or Brian himself on brianmarien@phsltd.co.uk . We are delighted to run more courses in a variety of locations so please do contact us if you are interested.

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