The Ninja Way Brochure

Your challenge

You have a big, possibly emotional, decision to make. It might be career, work or home based. Something has happened and you need to change what you do and how you do it. Perhaps you are stuck and don’t know what to do next but know you need to do something. Or perhaps one or more of your team are struggling and need some extra support. You’ve thought about coaching but think it’s probably not quite right and might also take to long to see results.

Your solution

This deep immersive coaching retreat run over 3 days explores the neuroscience of change with practical tools to move forward and ensure you make the right decision for you. You will learn how to re-think and re-frame your challenges, determine what outcomes will serve you best and come away re-telling your story the way you want to tell it.

Based on a real life case study (me) so I know it works.

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My Story

Once upon a time, it seemed like it had been a successful year, I had just finished the last edit of my book, was looking to move with my partner to the country and try a new life, my own business was doing well and the courses I’d created seemed to be working for people. For perhaps the first time in my life I felt a sense of calm, that I finally knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. That for once I knew what I was doing and had a nice safety net to start to try out some new things and new ways of living.  

Until. One day. One fatal day when it all got pulled from under my feet, unexpectedly, threw everything I knew up in the air and left me in the fog, in panic, in fear and surrounded by uncertainty of what to do next. Life from that day would, I knew, never be the same. My relationship of nearly 30 years ended on that day.

After the initial shock wore off, I had, I figured, three options. Get very very angry at the person who had caused this, hide under the duvet crying and hoping it would all go away or try and manage a way forward and carve out a new, unknown future for me.

I knew many who had tried anger and knew it would feel good only for a microsecond before making me feel worse with all the things I might say and later regret. I knew many had tried hiding under the duvet, it was the easy choice, but wouldn’t help me, short or longer term.

The only option therefore was the last one, to try and carve out a new life. But was I brave enough? And where to even start? For something I’d never done nor wanted before (at least in this way and by myself). How do you carve out a new life that you can’t even begin to imagine?

It was at that moment that I decided to try out all the tools I teach and coach others in, a combination of change management and the neuroscience of change. After all, if they are good enough for delivering change at work, they should be good enough for managing change in life. But would they really work on big raw emotional change where every wrong decision could have a detrimental impact on me and my life?

Churchill said to never waste a crisis, that challenging times can be used as an opportunity to learn and benefit from to emerge stronger. And so, despite all the fear, anxiety, anger, sadness and overwhelm of emotions this really did seem like the perfect opportunity to put what I teach to the test.

And guess what? It worked. I achieved my happily ever after. It was hard work, it was anxiety and emotionally driven, I didn’t know at the start what my happily ever after was, there was no grand plan. But by using the science and tools I knew worked for change and change management, on me,  I was able to navigate through the fog, make the right difficult decisions, and carved out a new, unimaginable at the time, life. A life that serves me far better than the previous one. I became my very own case study and Ninja’d my life.

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An intensive deep coaching event based around story telling. It’s a retreat with a difference: it’s practical, has long lasting impact and there’s not a yoga mat in sight!  

• It’s an opportunity to step out of the hustle and bustle of everyday life to give you time to think, reflect and work through those ‘rock and hard’ place problems.

• It’s an opportunity to reconnect with yourself through storytelling. To learn how to re-tell your story the way you want to tell it.

• It’s an opportunity to share in a safe space, a space for insights and reflection, a space for laughter, a space to recharge and connect back with what matters to you.

• It’s an opportunity to not only learn, but ‘do’, with practical tools that will give you a definite next step in your story. Practical tools that will serve you well for any future challenges.

If you are looking to self-develop, explore coaching, have a real life challenge you need to resolve (personal or work related), recognise the need to start thinking differently or know you need to get away to allow time to think things through then the Ninja Way could be the event for you.

If you have colleagues who perhaps need some help or extra support right now, dealing with big changes of any kind then this might be an opportunity to help them at pace.

The event is held in a beautiful location, away from the city and encourages being outdoors where possible. The event is fully catered with healthy homemade food. Optional activities such country walks, running, outdoor swimming, mindful photography, fireside chats will also be offered.

Thinking differently about change