emotional regulation and leadership patterns
Understanding your patterns under stress and building steady, intentional responses
How this session fits
This workshop helps leaders understand how stress, past experiences, and nervous system responses shape their reactions during challenging moments. It introduces grounding practices, gentle noticing, and simple ways of working with activation. Leaders begin to recognize their patterns and explore shame resilience in plain language so they can reduce self-judgment and stay present when things feel hard.
Why this workshop exists
Leaders often know what they want to say or do but lose access to that clarity in the moment. Stress, pressure, or discomfort can lead to familiar patterns such as defending, withdrawing, disappearing, or overexplaining.
This session helps leaders understand those patterns without judgment and introduces simple ways to stay grounded.
What this workshop covers
Participants learn:
- How stress and activation influence behaviour
- Common leadership patterns
defensiveness
avoidance
overexplaining
shutting down
urgency spirals - How to pause and ground during difficult moments
- How emotional cues signal what they need
- How shame resilience helps reduce collapse and self-judgment
Who this workshop is for
This session is useful for teams who:
- Experience tension or reactivity
- Want more confidence in difficult moments
- Need practical tools for staying steady
- Are preparing for decision-making or hard conversations
What participants leave with
- A simple pattern-awareness profile
- One or two grounding practices
- Language to describe their emotional cues and patterns
- A small plan for staying present in upcoming situations
How we work in the session
The tone is calm and supportive. A typical flow includes:
- A grounding practice
- A plain-language introduction to activation
- Exploration of common patterns
- Values as a steadying tool
- Small-group reflection
- A plan for applying the tools
What is included
- Pre-work reflection
- Grounding practice guide
- After-session prompt
Investment
- Online: 3,500 dollars for up to 6
- In person: 4,500 dollars for up to 6 plus travel
- Additional participants: 300 dollars per person
