We help organisations do their best work, more sustainably.

We can help you with

  • Avoiding burnout

  • Improving resilience and wellbeing

  • Developing a culture of sustainable high performance

Some of our clients

university of cambridge
penguin random house
pearson
bethnal green ventures
reed

Kind word from our clients

  • “Jo’s expertise and careful attention to nuance and detail was a real asset to our publishing project. Jo balanced his professional insight with our practical needs and I felt very reassured by his advice. I think others will value his thoughtful collaboration and commitment to getting it right”. 

    Senior Editor - Penguin Random House

  • “Working with Jo was very much a highlight each month, I felt safe to share how I was feeling and always left our sessions feeling I'd learned something about myself that would help me going forward.”

    Michael Crinnion
    CEO & Founder, Mind Body Goals

  • “This has been transformational in my further development as a leader. The two weekly sessions have provided an excellent platform to be reflective within a supportive environment”

    Senior Leader in the Education Sector

Courses, products, and resources for organisations

CFC: evidence-based coaching for leaders

Sustainable high performance, through an evidence based coaching model.

CFC is a peer-reviewed and evidence-based group coaching model. Designed using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, featuring approaches backed by hundreds of scientific studies. Developed over five years, with senior leaders in the education sector.


CF
C is shown to:

  • Increase resilience.

  • Increase ability to understand complex behaviour.

  • Increase the ability to give/receive compassion.
    (Heriot-Maitland & Taylor, 2024)

CFC is effective because:

  • Developed using 5 years of research with senior leaders.

  • Designed using evidence based approaches have been shown to provide benefits across biological, psychological and social domains.

  • Incorporates approaches shown to reduce burnout.

  • Our Lead Psychologist, Dr Jo Taylor, has been providing impactful reflective spaces for leaders since 2015.

CFC is useful if you:

  • Value high performance.

  • Prioritise employee wellbeing and retention.

  • Work in a fast paced, high stakes environment.

  • Care deeply about leadership systems and processes.

  • Want to reflect and plan efficiently.

Interested in organising CFC for your organisation?

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The Psychology of Burnout

Burnout was coined in the 1970’s but is a contemporary issue. European workforce studies estimate the prevalence of burnout at 10%. Burnout is horrible on an individual level and can be disastrous on an organisational level. We have developed training combining research spanning over 50 years of research papers with the latest psychological tools to help identify, navigate and prevent burnout.

Taster Session

  • Define burnout

  • Identify the three dimensions of burnout

  • Explore burnout in your context

Short Course

  • Explore the three dimensions of burnout in your context

  • Identify six contributors to burnout

  • Leave with resources to plan protective factors, to sustain your ability to work in a fast paced, high stakes environment

Bespoke Training

  • Get in touch to arrange bespoke training for your organisation

Compassion Focussed Coaching - Training for Supervisors and Coaches

Compassion Focussed Coaching (CFC) is a peer-reviewed, manualised and evidence-based group supervision model. This training offer is for practitioners providing reflective spaces - as a coach or supervisor - to provide them with the knowledge, skills and supervision they need to deliver CFC as part of their work.


CF
C is shown to:

  • Increase resilience.

  • Increase ability to understand complex behaviour.

  • Increase the ability to give/receive compassion
    (Heriot-Maitland & Taylor, 2024)

CFC is effective because:

CFC training is useful if you:

  • Want to offer consistent and high quality reflective spaces.

  • Are looking to refresh your practice or participate in evidence based CPD.

  • Support individuals to develop more sustainable working.

  • Facilitate organisations to focus on staff wellbeing and retention.

  • Care deeply about leadership systems and processes.

As part of this training you get:

  • Two days of specialist training with time built in between sessions to apply techniques.

  • A supervision manual to guide practice.

  • The first six months of on going supervision, to support fidelity and provide a “drip feed” of ongoing CPD.

Join our next CFC training, explore arranging bespoke training and find out more

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