Monday 30 July 2018 and Wednesday 1 August 2018

THE EA/PA STRESS MASTERY CHALLENGE:
FINDING BALANCE AND BOOSTING YOUR PERFORMANCE + PRODUCTIVITY
Led by Dr Adrian Medhurst
Monday 30 July 2018

JUGGLING LIFE: MASTERING EFFICIENCY TO MANAGE YOUR TIME + MAXIMISE HAPPINESS
Led by Lisa O'Neill
Wednesday 1 August 2018

Welcome to 'THE EA/PA STRESS MASTERY CHALLENGE: FINDING BALANCE AND BOOSTING YOUR PERFORMANCE + PRODUCTIVITY'
Led by: Dr Adrian Medhurst
This full-day masterclass will be held on Monday 30 July 2018

Masterclass agenda

8.30 Registration and welcome coffee

9.00 SESSION 1: THE BALANCING ACT?

• The energy demands of modern work and life in the EA/PA industry
• The impact of stress and importance of resilience fitness. How psychological, physical and social fitness help us master stress and fatigue.
• How busy, hyperconnected cultures lead people to miss opportunities for rest and recovery and what you can do about it
• Your role in encouraging and supporting ‘Stress Mastery’
• Leading life on the see-saw: How balancing effort with ease is the key to sustaining wellbeing and performance
• Rest and Relaxation – tips to help you get good rest and relaxation, create healthy sleep habits, and manage fatigue
• Physical Practice: Movement practice for energising your mind and body

10.30 Morning coffee

11.00 SESSION 2: THE PARADOX OF PRESSURE

• How pressure is both a driver and drainer of our effort and energy
• Mastery - becoming resilient and attaining peak wellbeing + performance
• Mindset - Evidence-based strategies to help you develop growth-mindset and resilience in periods of change, challenge, pressure and uncertainty
• Meaning - How to create meaningful progress by cutting through biases and default patterns of thinking for more creative, adaptive and productive action
• Social Practice: Mindful meals and relationships

12.30 Lunch

1.30 SESSION 3: STRESS MASTERY - BOOSTING YOUR PERFORMANCE

• Mindfulness - the scientific benefits of mindfulness practices for 'stress mastery', resilience, rest, recovery, performance and productivity
• Practical, science-based techniques for bringing more mindfulness into our lives and workplace cultures
• Mindful Influence - key principles for influencing mindful teams and organisational cultures
• Psychological Practice: Mindfulness practices for work and life (highly practical suggestions for establishing healthy mindfulness routines)

3.00 Afternoon tea

3.30 SESSION 4: PRACTISE MAKES PROGRESS

• Einstein was right that "Nothing happens until something moves" - and we won't make progress without practice. Learn to practice how to move beyond cognition to intention plus action.
• Building commitment and setting a great example to promote healthy minds – strategies for role modelling at work as a powerful ingredient for positive team and cultural change.
• Creating a Practical Plan. Integrating what we have learned, experienced and practiced into our lives now, and over time. Setting our intention, planning our practice, establishing a routine, evolving through progress
• Mind-Body Practice: Balancing energy and ease

4.30 Close of masterclass

The masterclass will be conducted using a combination of presentation material and group exercises; maximising your learning potential. Please note that the masterclass content will be tailored to participants’ individual needs so the length of each session may vary. Refreshments will be served at appropriate times, including morning and afternoon teas and lunch.

Dr Adrian Medhurst is a psychologist, author, and co-founder of the work-life wellbeing tech business - Benny Button.

He is on a mission to optimise performance and wellbeing for people and organisations Adrian firmly believes that when we mindfully live at the intersection of our optimal level of performance and wellbeing, we are on the path to discovering new peaks of our potential.

“We need wellbeing to perform at our best - no exceptions. This means wellbeing AND performance deserve our mindful attention and effort - no exceptions.”

Adrian’s expertise has grown from a doctorate in organisational psychology, over 10 years in corporate consulting, university lecturing, and dedicated ongoing scientific study and practise in performance psychology, wellbeing science, organisational innovation, mindfulness meditation and yoga. He's based in the coffee capital city of Melbourne, but his work has seen him deliver training programs, facilitated workshops, and keynote presentations right across Australia, Asia, Central and South America, the UK and our New Zealand neighbours.

Adrian has worked with businesses at the big end of town, as well as NFP’s, Government departments, SME’s and startups. Some of which include CBA, Nike, Medibank, Swisse Wellness, Kimberly Clark, Australia Post, Coles, Vinomofo, NAB, Qantas, Fairfax, SBS, Asahi Schweppes, AFL Players Association, AMP, Red Cross, SBS, Novartis, BP, Sugar Australia, Heinz, and Fosters.

In his earlier years, Adrian was a dedicated Australian champion in track and field who competed in the 400m hurdles around the world - a career which gave him his first insights into the power of the mind in optimising performance and the crucial role of wellbeing.

Adrian is an author of the forthcoming book "Meditate on This: The Science of Mindfulness” and has two entrepreneurial ventures - Benny Button and Amelie.ai.

In this masterclass you will learn the art of juggling priorities with good planning, so you can feel on top of it all and can do more of what you want. Lisa will teach you to be a talented multi-tasker, to navigate your never-ending list of roles, learn to let the small stuff go, and prioritise living a life that you love. Filled with plenty of tips, tricks and Lisa’s signature bubbliness, you will come away feeling inspired and empowered to exude confidence in all that you do:

• Take control of your time, and manage your productivity
• Learn practical tools to multi-task, set / achieve goals, prioritise and stay ahead of the game
• Increase your happiness and sense of professional and personal fulfilment and happiness
• Master the art of work-life balance

MASTERCLASS AGENDA

8.30 Registration and welcome coffee

9.00 SESSION ONE - MANAGING MULTIPLE PRIORITIES AND ACHIEVING WORK-LIFE BALANCE

With life being a constant juggling act with so many conflicting priorities, modern EAs can often feel overwhelmed and stressed out. Doing so much for so many, it is very hard to ever feel satisfied that anything is being done to its best potential. This session will help you identify your key roles and understand what is important to achieve balance. Learn how to:

• Juggle priorities with good planning - how to become a talented multi-tasker
• Use time management tricks to make the most of the time you have
• Manage your work-life balance whether you work full-time or part-time
• Manage your inbox!

10.30 Morning coffee break

10.50 SESSION TWO - ENERGY, EFFICIENCY AND ENTHUSIASM - HOW TO GET MORE...

Without energy we are nothing. Having high levels of physical and mental energy is vital to living life well and experiencing productivity, creativity and fulfilment. This session will show you where you get your energy from and how you can noticeably improve your energy levels to become more effective and productive. Learn how to identify what you need to be at your best:

• Top tips on keeping your physical and mental energy levels up
• Finding balance and the warning signs to watch out for to avoid becoming overwhelmed
• How to restore balance and a sense of control when you’re feeling overwhelmed
• Getting good rest and relaxation, creating healthy sleep habits, and managing fatigue

12.30 Lunch

13.30 SESSION THREE - THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE - WHO'S WORKING IN YOUR SUPPORT NETWORK?

Feeling unsupported is a huge contributor to feeling overwhelmed. Everyone is your life is either contaminating or contributing. By understanding which people in your life are helping and which are hindering you, you’ll learn to identify where your best support lies to enable you to achieve what you need, and achieve it well:

• Creating your best support networks - identifying your contributors and contaminators
• Recognising good advice from bad and learning to follow your instincts well
• Learning how to influence and best communicate with your contributors and contaminators
• Mastering the art of delegation – engaging your contributors effectively

15.00 Afternoon tea break

15.30 Session Four - THE KEYS TO HAPPINESS - GET IN CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE!

Learn Lisa’s four keys that will change your life: Planning - Communication - Control – Happiness. Prioritise living a life that you love, gain back control to experience fun and fulfilment. Build your resilience and learn how to handle everything that life throws at you:

• Plan like you’ve never planned before
• Communicate your needs and wants
• Learn what you can and can’t control
• Start your PHD – ‘Personal Happiness Development’

4.30 Close of masterclass

The masterclass will be conducted using a combination of presentation material and group exercises; maximising your learning potential. Please note that the masterclass content will be tailored to participants’ individual needs so the length of each session may vary. Refreshments will be served at appropriate times, including morning and afternoon teas and lunch.

Charismatic and engaging, Lisa is a well known keynote speaker, author and MC to audiences in New Zealand and Australia.

Lisa is obsessed with people living the lives that they want to live - to honour themselves by being more of themselves. Helping companies improve their staff & customer engagement and individuals to have more energy, more passion and more happiness in their lives. Lisa gives people the tools and the permission to be the bet version of themselves.

With more than 10 years experience as a keynote speaker, Lisa speaks about the importance of energy, excellence and enthusiasm, .the power of personal presentation, the myth of work-life balance and how to live a magnificent life.

Being born and raised in small town New Zealand is what Lisa credits her ability to work with people from all walks of life. Having married her childhood sweetheart and raising 4 children while building a business, Lisa is the ‘queen of the juggle’ and a high energy multitasker.

Lisa is the author of two books, “Look Gorgeous, Be Happy” and “Juggling in High Heels - How to Organise Chaos”, and is currently working on her next book to be released in 2018.

She believes we all want to be happy, to have energy, to feel amazing but so few know how. How to have, do, and be the vibrant energetic person that they dream of being.

Lisa's keynote presentations are guaranteed to leave you feeling motivated, inspired and full of energy.