Workshops: Interviews with Psychologist Sharon Bent
Helping With Mental Health
Helping with Mental Health provides knowledge, skills and confidence in promoting good mental health in ourselves and others. The workshop helps participants understand when and how they should intervene to help. It provides hands-on practice in conducting a ‘helping conversation’, including referral options, confidentiality issues and self-care. The workshop is relevant in […]
Being Well Performing Well
This workshop is about the robust relationship between wellbeing and high performance. It is about the optimal balance of stress and how that converts to resilience in the pursuit of high value goals. It presents the four pillars of resilience: Social Resilience, Physical Resilience, Psychological Resilience andPractical Resilience. An analogy is developed […]
Being the Best You Can Be
Being the Best You Can Be provides deep self-knowledge and strategies for living one’s life well.Given we cannot significantly change our personality, our job is to be the very best rendition of ourselves that we can be. The workshop examines why personality is important and provides an understanding of each participant’s profile in […]
Being Creatively Intelligent
In this conversation with psychologist Sharon Bent we explore the Being Creatively Intelligent workshop, beginning with the view that creativity is a defining feature of the species, not a special feature of a small number of people. There is some discussion about the mix of personality and learning in the development of creative […]
Living Well
Psychologist Sharon Bent and I discuss Living Well, and we begin by exploring the equation: Reality + Mindset = Experience. The workshop is largely about the freedom of being able to change experience by changing our mindset by changing 1. what we pay attention to and 2. the manner or style of that […]
Doing What Counts Most
This conversation with psychologist Sharon Bent is focused on the workshop Doing What Counts Most. We begin by discussing the two key elements of sustainable productivity: energy and attention. A key insight iso that we need to be doing fewer things but doing them deeper and better. We examine the pitfalls of ‘alleged multitasking’ (understood […]
Being Perfectly OK
In this conversation with psychologist Sharon Bent we discuss the relationship between anxiety, stress and obsessiveness and perfectionism. However, we also discuss the fact that there are healthy and productive aspects to perfectionism. This seeming puzzle is resolved by Elizabeth Lombardo in her fine book Better Than Perfect which distinguishes perfectionistic strivings (healthy) from perfectionistic […]
Being Intentionally Aware
In this conversation with psychologist Sharon Bent, we firstly define mindfulness as non-judgemental attention, including our awareness of that attention – or metacognition. We then discuss the raft of cognitive, physical and emotional benefits of practising mindfulness. Our discussion then moves to everyday mindfulness, especially to reduce our distractibility. Sharon and I explore so-called […]
Staying Open Minded
In this discussion of Staying Open-Minded psychologist Sharon Bent and I talk about some of the natural biases and errors of our naturally predictive mind. Drawing on the work of Kahneman we discuss System 1 and System 2 thinking and how we can use strategies to correct for these natural biases. WE then explore Dweck’s work mon […]
Managing Difficult People
This conversation with psychologist Sharon Bent starts with the ’empathy continuum’ – a way of distinguishing between types of difficult people and how we should modulate our response accordingly. We discuss the ‘dashboard’ model that uses intention and remorse as two indicators of how much empathy and what sort of consequences we should apply. […]