Illuminate : Educate : Empower
Compassionate Empowered Workplaces is a program that educates on compassion, empowerment, trauma sensitivity and psycho-emotional health, and wellbeing in the work environment! It powerfully blends IQ (Intelligence Quotient),
EQ (Emotional Quotient) and SysQ (Systemic Quotient)
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on
building the new." Socrates
May I suggest that you read the ‘Compassionate Empowered Workplace’ e-book (above) for further information about what could be possible for you and your workplace.
Once you have gone through the e-book there is an opportunity to schedule an obligation free consultation. During this meeting we can explore the challenges you are currently facing and I can walk you through how the Compassionate Empowered Workplaces 6 phased ‘Roadmap' may offer sustainable solutions for you.
Building Resilience & Implementing SustainableSolutions to Challenging Situations
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw
We don't tend to think of the workplace as a place where we need to work with trauma overtly. We believe trauma belongs in the domain of mental health, to your therapy sessions, and not your leadership consultant or your executive coach. But here's the truth; you deal with human beings who have experiences, every experience leaves an impact on them, and adults spend most of their time at work. Workplaces need to become places where we not only grow and develop, but they also need to be places where we can feel safe. Becoming trained in a trauma-sensitive approach will significantly affect how you and your leadership team lead and connect.
I imagine you are seeking a healthy, vibrant, functioning workplace environment to do the work you're good at instead of constantly dealing with the current organisational issues and challenges.
It may be that you have tried many times to resolve the issues within your organisation only to discover that they might settle for a while but end up repeating or showing up differently. Any benefit from the work you tried isn't sustainable. I can show you how using a combination of linear and non-linear approaches will have you stop managing the symptoms and start addressing the cause. Using this approach is how you can affect the authentic, positive, sustainable change you desire.
After years of working in many different work environments ranging from the RAAF to Education to Palliative Care to many small businesses to operating my own business since 2006, it's really clear for me what constitutes a healthy work environment and what is a toxic workplace.
It was after completing my Masters and studying Trauma Recovery and Transgenerational Collective Trauma that I was able to have a very different understanding of how and why toxic workplaces exist.
It's from these experiences that Compassionate Empowered Workplaces program was born, with the intention of helping leaders enhance their confidence, authenticity and connection, allowing them to make significant positive change in their organisation's workplace and its' overall performance. The most sustainable way to affect any change is to start with yourself! The Leadership skills you already have will be complemented by the work you do with me.
" It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready
to change and others are not." James Gordon
Compassionate Empowered Workplaces is designed to support and embed deep positive change in the leadership of private organisations/businesses and Government sectors such as Health, Education and Justice. The result of leaders embracing this work then filters through the whole workplace; freeing your organisation from toxic elements which then creates the potential to enjoy a well functioning vibrant environment based on mutual respect and understanding.
This work is a commitment to your future sustainable success and the sustainable success of those who are in your employ.
This work is a commitment to your future sustainable success and the sustainable success of those who are in your employ.
Compassionate Empowered Workplacesis NOT for you if:
Compassionate Empowered WorkplacesIS for you if:
You are just ticking a professional development box!
As a leader you want to change your staff but you are not willing to look at yourself first.
You are a leader who really wants to make sustainable change in the way you do business;
You want to create a vibrant, healthy and supportive environment for yourself and those who are in your employ.
A high percentage of us have worked in one of 'THOSE' workplaces! You know the place where you hate the thought of having to get up and go to. When you wake up in the morning, you feel the dread in the pit of your stomach, your body feels heavy and it's like lifting lead up from the pillow into a sitting position. It takes everything inside of you to make yourself move and get ready for work. What a misery! That's not living your life to it's full potential.
You might have fleeting thoughts of calling in sick...but you did that last week! You could say one of the kids are sick....but you don't have kids! Or if it's your business and you are really feeling the burden of delivering what you need to and the challenges you are facing with staff zap all of your attention and energy.
It may be that you consume too much alcohol or chocolate. It may be any kind of addiction to lean toward to take your exhausted mind off work. You may find it hard to separate from your work. Your sleep may be disturbed.
You get what I'm saying!
I imagine you want a workplace you love going to but it's a bit like looking forward to a nice cup of coffee only to find when you drink it, it tastes worse than dirty dish water (not that I have tasted that but I can imagine it would be disgusting). Not to mention how your health and wellbeing is being negatively impacted.
- What if: There was something you could do that would have a deep positive impact on the state of your workplace?
- What if: This something had a deep positive impact on all areas of your life?
- What if: You could drink from the Healthy Workplaces cup instead of the Toxic Workplaces cup?
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What if: You didn't have to spend your precious time dealing with the toxic issues?
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What if: You could increase productivity - both your own and that of any staff?
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What if: You were attracting the perfect clients and perfect staff?
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What if: You could raise the bottom line?
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What if: Staff turnover was so low and you weren't wasting time recruiting and training?
"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late."
Seth Godin
"As a Leader, if you do not do your Inner Work, what is unresolved in you will be
reflected back to you by those you lead." Linda Conyard
Trauma Sensitivity Training
Trauma Sensitivity Training forms part of the education for becoming a Compassionate Empowered Workplace. I believe that this training is going to be the most needed in the coming years. Those leaders and executives who realise this will be ahead of the crowd and will save a lot of UNnecessary trauma.
People live with the symptoms of unresolved trauma. They UNnecessarily suffer, often missing the chance to heal and grow from their trauma because they just don't know unresolved trauma is at the core of their symptoms.
Being trauma sensitive doesn't mean you have to be their therapist. This training will show you how to recognise trauma and learn about regulating the nervous system of both yourself and supporting others to do the same. This training is beneficial for the workplace and will also be a skill you will have for any area of your life.
Praise for Linda's Training
From the Participants
Compassionate Empowered Workplaces
In the beginning the group felt that 3 hours of training would drag. By the end we didn't have enough time to gather testimonials in words :) So we did a quick round, rating their experience out of 10. The group was very keen to have another session. soon.
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Mylestones is part of CPL - Choice, Passion, Life, a profit-for-purpose organisation that provides vital support to more than 5,000 people with disabilities across Queensland and northern New South Wales. At Mylestones, our businesses are focused on creating more opportunities for people with barriers and disabilities to find work, earn an income, gain independence, develop new skills and follow their passions
💜 "I found Linda to be naturally professional and real. She was able to work easily with my staff and delivered her training in a manner that all my staff could understand. Since her training, I have noticed a massive change to my staff attitudes within the office, they are more positively engaged and I find they have a deeper understanding on how trauma presents and how to better service participants affected by trauma."
Anna Hanson
DES Coordinator
Organisation Name Withheld
💜 "OMG, you provided information I have never heard before. Amazing presentation." EM
💜 "My takeaways - Understanding trauma can go back generations; Remaining calm to help reduce charge in children and that parts of the brain just don't function when in a trauma response." MM
💜 "My takeaways - I gained understanding that trauma is generational and that by knowing and understanding my own ancestral unresolved traumas will help me to be the best support I can be." SM
💜 "My takeaways - I now feel that I have some tools to help support those I care for. The descriptions of types of trauma and practical solutions were really helpful." NC
💜 "My takeaways - I found it most helpful to learn that talking about trauma won't make it worse, it can make it better." TF
From the Organisers
North West Youth Accommodation Service Inc. (NWYAS) is a Specialist Homelessness Service that is funded by the Queensland Government to provide transitional support and accommodation to young people.
💜 "I engaged Linda to deliver Trauma Sensitive Workplaces as part of the Professional Development Program for our Organisation. This training was so valuable for us in our work with young people. We really appreciated Linda's style and expertise. Linda was fantastic and flexible in setting up and running the training."
Nicole Walsh
Manager
Trauma Sensitive Workplaces
💜 "Linda, I thank you for the wonderful training you provided. I said at the beginning I wanted to take away 1 thing. You have given me more than the 1 thing I asked for. It was a really enjoyable day. Thank you." Mel
💜 "Well informed. Listening is a massive positive attribute Linda holds. Awesome workshop - very relatable with Linda." Beka Toopi
💜 "Thought provoking training. Gained tools to understand both myself, my clients and team. Confirmed I'm on the right track and in the right space." Leanne Groom
💜 "Interesting and informative, responsive to the needs of the group." Name Withheld
💜 "A well thought out and informative training. Linda is an excellent speaker and listener." Scott Maher
💜 "This training allowed me to be open and honest." Tony Newman
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
Henry Ford
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