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WORKSHOPS + TALKS


When you can see there is a problem, there is an opportunity to support your team.

Give experiential, practical tools that your people, managers, and team can immediately use when they hit a wall.

These 90 minute workshops cover all the stuff we weren’t taught about our mental wellbeing. Learn essential skills for improving psychological wellbeing and flexibility. Available in workshop or talk format.

Fierce Compassion Workshops
Mental Wellbeing Workshops

Fierce Compassion
Workshops

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Redefining Success

Lead with Purpose

Seeking achievement can become an automatic response to stress, leaving leaders depleted. This workshop explores why pushing harder stops working and how to shift toward sustainable, values-based leadership. Learn how to stay steady under pressure and model healthier ways of working.

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Breaking Free of Perfectionism

Creating space for progress not perfection

Perfectionism can motivate, but it often drains confidence and stalls creativity. This session helps leaders recognise unhelpful patterns, soften self-criticism, and move toward realistic, compassionate expectations. Learn how to make room for growth, creativity, and more authentic leadership.

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The Leadership Balancing Act

Supporting others without losing yourself

Leaders may carry the emotional load for others, sometimes at the expense of their own wellbeing. This workshop explores common traps like over-responsibility or avoidance and teaches supportive, boundaried ways to help others. Build confidence for the moments that matter.

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Courageous Conversations

Navigating conflict with clarity and compassion

Difficult conversations often trigger avoidance or defensiveness. Here you will learn practical strategies to regulate emotion, communicate clearly, and stay connected during conflict. Strengthen your ability to hold firm, kind conversations that build trust.

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Bridging the Divide

Leading with compassion in a diverse and polarised world

Our brains naturally favour the familiar, which can make inclusive leadership challenging. This workshop helps leaders understand bias, expand empathy, and approach difference with courage. Learn how to foster belonging and reduce polarisation in your team or organisation.

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Navigating Complex Systems

Staying grounded when pressures rise

Systems pressures can leave leaders overwhelmed, reactive, or stuck. This workshop explores how culture, structure, and stress shape behaviour, and how to stay grounded within them. Learn strategies for taking wise, values-aligned action even in the face of a demanding system.

You know your team - if they need specific support or you want to explore a different topic get in touch for a bespoke workshop.

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Mental Wellbeing
Workshops

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Building Resilience

The dance between capacity and challenge

We need an appropriate amount of stress to flourish, but resilience is a dynamic dance between our stress and coping capacity. Learn how values-based action eliminates our stress-autopilot and increases productivity in the areas that mean the most to us.

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Coping with Change

Navigate change with confidence

Learn the spectrums of change and common unhelpful responses that stop forward momentum. Here you’ll learn practical tools you can use when you find yourself overwhelmed and avoiding, so challenges can be navigated.

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Dial Down Anxiety

Learning to worry well

What is this thing called anxiety? Why does it happen? And what can I do? Learn the science behind anxiety and your brain and practice real skills to turn its volume down so life’s richness can unfold again.

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Supporting Others

What to do and how to do it

Mental health challenges are on the rise globally. When someone in your team is struggling they need support. Sometimes our well-intentioned support can have unintended consequences, do you know how to really help them? .  Learn evidence-based strategies for helping your staff, grow your confidence for tricky conversations, and understand where and how to get extra support.

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Energise

Freedom from the cycle of fatigue

Worn out in the day but restless at night? It can become a nightmare of frustration. Learn easy, actionable strategies to help reset your body clock and aid quality sleep, deep rest, and boost daytime energy.

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Thrive

Building the capacity for growth

Go beyond productivity training, to get to the root causes that can hold back professional and personal development. With the PACE model (Purpose, Autonomy, Connection, Expertise) you will learn to target key areas that are known to support humans to thrive at work. Improve your leadership skills and explore how to support your team to not just survive, but thrive.

You know your team - if they need specific support or you want to explore a different topic get in touch for a bespoke workshop.

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  • “We had a wonderful session for our people with Dr Mary Miller. I can honestly say it's one of the best mental wellbeing sessions I've attended. Dr Mary's sessions are always so well received at Sky New Zealand.”

    Stephanie Whyte, Learning and Development Manager, Sky New Zealand

  • “Seminars for our staff and students at Auckland Law, which offer practical tools to help equip participants to build resilience, cope with change, and manage stress. She is professional, knowledgeable and creates an environment where participants feel safe to contribute and engage with the material.”

    Nikki Chamberlain, Associate Dean of Equity at Auckland University

  • “Fierce Compassion is about finding equilibrium. Fierce Compassion is a framework - and once you've got that framework, it's much easier than to go okay, well, I'm being pulled this way or that way or that way, and here are some techniques for being able to rebalance.”

    Dan Heyworth, Founder, Box

  • “Mental health in the workplace is not an easy subject to discuss. Mary spoke to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dental Hygienists Association on the subject of 'mental health in the workplace'. This subject is not easy for many to discuss. Mary certainly achieved an environment that welcomed openness and interaction. The structure of the presentation used many mediums, giving the audience time to take the information in and give light and easy discussion.”

    Rebecca Woledge, New Zealand Dental Hygienists Association

  • “Our staff really wanted to know how sleep improves their wellbeing and how they can get more of it. When we talked to SKY staff they told us they wanted to know more about fatigue and getting a better sleep. In the past we have always focused on our Workplace fatigue guidelines, which helped but what staff really wanted to know was how sleep improves their wellbeing and how they can get more of it. SKY chose to do the “Energise - sleep and fatigue” workshop which included information everyone could relate with and practical techniques to get to sleep. Mary’s methods and soothing voice made it easy for the team to get involved. While trialling the sleep techniques some people actually nodded off and they are continuing to use the techniques at home today.”

    Brodie Cornelius, H&S Manager, Sky New Zealand