🌿 Build Personal Resilience

Workshops for Sustainable Focus, Calm, and Performance

Are you—or your team—struggling with:

Constant fatigue and lack of focus?
Trouble sleeping or “shutting off”?
Feeling overwhelmed by daily work and life demands?

You’re not alone—and it’s not a lack of willpower. And you are not “crazy”or “weak”. or “inadequate”. The symptoms above are a consequence of a mechanism placed deep within our brains by Mother Nature to protect us, to help us survive.

To help you to become resilient we explain the science behind this mechanism and provide you with simple, yet very effective TaiChi techniques to accomplish this.

🧠 Introducing the Building Personal Resilience Trainings

Tai-Chi infused, Science-backed. Practical. Tailored for modern life.

Better decision-making and improved focus
Reduced resting heart rate (measurable via wearables)
More calm energy throughout the day
Better sleep and reduced emotional reactivity
A practical plan for handling high demands without burnout

⬆️ Two Levels of Learning

🔹 Level 1: Workshop about the Foundations of Personal Resilience

Includes:
2 x Live Knowledge Sessions (1.5 hrs each + recordings)
4 x Video Q&A + Guided Practice Sessions (30 min each)

Highlights:

Understand how stress affects your mind and body
Learn the science behind the Relaxation Response
Practice Tai Chi-based microbreaks and focus resets
Discover your “Resilience Formula” using wearable feedback
Build daily habits to manage pressure and recharge

For workshop curriculum see further below.

🔹 Level 2: Masterclass – Deepening Your Resilience Practice

Includes:
2 x Live Knowledge Sessions (1.5 hrs each + recordings)
4 x Video Q&A + Guided Practice Sessions (30 min each)

Highlights:

Explore the 5 instinctive responses to stress: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Faint
Learn how multitasking affects your brain and energy
Spot signs of overwhelm in yourself and your team
Build a Personal Resilience Plan for modern energy drains
Use NASA’s “Error-Proofing Breath”
Use voice modulation techniques

For masterclass curriculum see further below.

💡 Why This Masterclass Works

Backed by science, delivered with clarity
Includes simple yet very effective TaiChi techniques + mental training
Adaptable for corporate audiences
Led by an expert with an engineering background and deep understanding of the nervous system

🎓 For Individuals & Organizations

Whether you’re looking to build your own resilience or support your team’s well-being and performance, these workshops offer a clear, structured path.

“I feel calmer during the day and sleep better at night. The Tai Chi techniques are so simple, yet surprisingly powerful.”
— Workshop Participant

📅 Upcoming Sessions

Live Online Format
✅ Recordings Available
✅ No special equipment needed
✅ Optional: Use your own wearable devices for tracking progress

Curricula

Can be tailored to an organization requirements, updated regularly.

Workshop

Module 1: Understanding Your Mind and Body’s Reaction to Pressure

Demands trigger a physiological and psychological response: The Fight, Flight, or Freeze response.
This reaction is an innate, automatic, and generally proportional response.
Demonstration of pulse rate variability using wearable technology.
The contrast between constant 21st-century demands and our natural biological programming: Chronic demands can erode your vital energy (Chi) – “Your body keeps the score.”
The Arousal-Performance Curve (Yerkes-Dodson Law): exploring the concepts of beneficial stress (eustress) and detrimental stress (distress).
The impact of positive and negative attitudes on your response to demands and their differential effects on your system.
How deadlines can sharpen focus – until they lead to overwhelm.
The effects of pressure to deliver on team dynamics.

Module 2: Training Your Brain for Focus and Calm

The Relaxation Response (RR) – the scientific basis.
How Tai Chi facilitates the Relaxation Response.
Learning and practicing the Relaxation Response through simple yet effective Tai Chi techniques.
Tai Chi Microbreaks: 2-minute desk-friendly resets.
The Tai Chi 5-Minute Focus Fix (movement-based practice).
Strategies for maintaining composure under pressure (The “Resilience Formula”):
- Resting heart rate as a biomarker (demonstration using wearable data).
- Identifying the Fight, Flight, or Freeze reaction in your body.
- The “Error-Proofing” Breath (NASA’s high-pressure technique).

Masterclass

Module 3: Deep Dive

The 5F Instinctive Reactions to Adverse Situations: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Faint.
Strategies for effective management when multitasking is unavoidable.
Factors that amplify the 5F reactions: not being in control/being controlled by others, uncertainty, caring about something, being a perfectionist…
How to recognize when you/your team transitions from “challenged” to “overwhelmed”: indicators such as productivity dips, irritability, and lack of focus.
The impact of stress on cognitive function: The physiology of prefrontal cortex shutdown.
Exploring why some individuals seem to “thrive” on stress and drama.
Understanding the difference between circular and linear thinking.
The difference between being in control and being chased (predator vs prey mindset)
Multitasking: understanding why task-switching drains energy and can lower IQ by 10
Triage: not everything is “red hot”. Classify in red, yellow and green. Or use the Eisenhower matrix
Burnout: means no energy is left. These people need help and long time to recover. Burnouts are very costly in human and monetary terms, so do your best to avoid them (in yourself and in your team).

Module 4: Personal Resilience Plan

A list of common energy drains in modern life:
- Non-stop demands and news consumption.
- Constant online presence.
- points (based on APA study).
- Mindless scrolling and reading.
- Further common energy drains.
Exercise: Personal audit of stressors and energy drains.
The 1% method: cultivating tiny daily habits for significant change.
Modulating your voice for greater impact and reduced stress.
Developing customized action plans: “When I enter the ‘overwhelm zone,’ I will ___.”
Strategies for effectively communicating your capacity when faced with excessive demands.