Video - Positive Intelligence
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What Course Participants say:
What Course Participants say:
‘Learning about the Saboteurs was very insightful - to know myself better and to recognise saboteurs in others. I will use it at work and at home.’ Manager, Northern Ireland Civil Service.
‘Since completing the Positive Intelligence Training, I have completely changed my outlook to conducting staff appraisals.’ Manager, Tyrone.
‘The course helped me to see the bigger picture and understand why people are behaving in a certain way.’ AF, Manager, Apex Housing.
'I found the course to be a breath of fresh air - a new way of approaching things and very easy to apply. I now know why I think the way I think.' SM, Western Health & Social Care Trust.
‘The best morning I have spent in a long time. I will be able to tune in to other peoples’ reactions to situations that arise. Would love if it lasted all day.’ MM, Health Worker
‘Enjoyable workshop, excellent facilitator, brilliant delivery.’ (Recovery College participant)
'This course is vital for effective and happy living. It should be an integral part of the school curriculum from an early age. I only wish I had discovered it sooner' C.M., Teacher.
'How I wish I had availed of the Positive Intelligence Programme much earlier in my life. I feel free. It is a complete revelation.' (Jayne, Co Fermanagh)
I am a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach.
What is Positive Intelligence? Positive Intelligence is your capacity to use positive emotions in manage life’s daily challenges. It is also called Mental Fitness. Positive Intelligence (PQ for short) training helps you to build and sustain mental fitness to respond to life’s challenges with a positive rather than a negative mindset, enabling you to think and act positively and constructively, resulting in better relationships, improved performance and productivity and greater peace of mind.
I specialise in teaching individuals and teams easy to apply and highly effective techniques to improve their mental fitness. If you are physically fit, you can climb steep hills without physical stress, and if you are mentally fit, you can handle life’s challenges without mental stress or other negative emotions.
Designed by a Stanford University Lecturer (Shirzad Chamine), ‘Positive Intelligence’ has a solid scientific foundation – and is proven to improve confidence, resilience, performance and productivity, and to enhance relationships.
I have delivered Positive Intelligence training to employees of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Chartered Accountants Ireland, The Western Health & Social Care Trust, South West College, The Recovery College, district councils, housing associations, schools and community organisations.
I offer the following Positive Intelligence training:
- Positive Intelligence Presentations (1 hour) in person or on zoom
- Positive Intelligence Workshops (3 hour) in person or on zoom
- Positive Intelligence 6 week Bootcamp – on zoom
Learning outcomes
Positive Intelligence Training will enable you to:
- Identify saboteurs (negative voices) and their negative impact on positivity, productivity and relationships
- Recognise common saboteurs at work in yourself and others
- Use easy-to-apply and highly effective techniques to silence your saboteurs and activate your positive emotions
- Recognise and apply your positive emotions in practical ways to deal with day-to-day issues
- Use and apply the Positive Intelligence strategies you learn to:
- understand each other better
- improve empathy towards yourself and towards others
- manage stress
- increase your self-belief and confidence
- dramatically improve performance and productivity
- promote co-operation and team spirit
- be equipped with the tools to effectively promote and disseminate a positive, supportive and collaborative culture in the workplace.
How does Positive Intelligence work?
Have you tried to make changes in the past, but found it difficult to sustain them until they eventually fizzled away? How many books have your read or courses have you attended in the hope of increasing your work performance or your happiness? How many of these improvements lasted? The chances are, not many.
Why? Because fear and mental blocks prevent you from being as extraordinary as you can be! We all have internal negative voices that work against our best interests, we will call them Saboteurs. Everyone has them. Some examples of your Saboteurs are your Judge, your Pleaser, your Avoider, your Stickler and your Victim. They cause us to waste mental and emotional energy and miss out on opportunities because of the lies they keep telling us, (such as : ‘you’re not good enough’, and ‘there's no point in trying because you will fail anyway’), and they generate negative emotions in us such as stress, self doubt, anger, guilt or regret.
Although we all have Saboteur voices in our minds, the good news is we also have a deeper, wiser part of ourselves (the Sage) that helps us overcome challenges, feel positive emotions (like empathy, gratitude and creativity), handle challenges and remain grounded, calm and decisive even in the midst of a crisis. The more mentally fit we become, the more we can access the wiser self.
Mental Fitness Training empowers you to quieten your Saboteur voices, strengthen your Sage and form new habits for positive lasting change.
To find our more or to discuss how you could benefit from improving your Mental Fitness or to join the program, contact me via email [email protected]
(There may be a waiting list for the 6 week Bootcamp).
Work and Life Applications
Improving your mental fitness can help you to thrive personally and professionally - it can help you reduce stress, improve your productivity and performance, enhance your ability to work with ‘difficult’ people, improve your wellbeing, enhance team performance, improve leadership skills, and improve relationships at work and at home.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How can I find time to do the Mental Fitness Program when my schedule is already overloaded?
I realise you are all very busy, yet is spending a short time learning how to use your time and energy more productively not a good investment? Is it your Sage or your Saboteurs telling you not to take this opportunity to live a happier and more productive life? And the techniques you will use to increase your PQ all take 10 seconds or less and have been designed to fit your busy work schedule and personal life. Committing to the PQ practice doesn’t add a burden to your life. It reduces the burden that is already there.
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How much time and effort is required?
You'd be committing to watching a 1-hour video once per week and doing a combined total of 15 minutes per day of practice guided by the Positive Intelligence app exclusively designed for this program. This might sound like a lot of time. but it constitutes less than 2% of your awake time for the duration of the program, and your Saboteurs are costing you far more than 2% of your time, effort, energy, and productivity. Consider what this small investment in your time now could save you in time and productivity for years to come.
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How is this different from reading the book?
You'd never learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book about it. The video session guides you through experiential exercises and the app coaches you to practice using the new techniques you are learning in the context of your own daily work and life challenges.
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‘I don’t have saboteurs, how can PQ help me?’
Every one has saboteurs. They kept you alive as a child, warning you of dangers and teaching you to be cautious. Each of us will have a few dominant saboteurs and they will be different of different people and will have varying degrees of strength, but we all have them. If you would like to find out more about your saboteurs, contact me.
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I can’t afford it at the moment
Can you afford not to make changes to help you live a happier, healthier and more productive life? There are several payment options available. Research shows that people with high levels of Positive Intelligence earn more than their counterparts, so investing in this course is also an investment in yourself, your career and your future.
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Where’s the evidence that is works?
PQ is based on research by Shirzad Chamine and a synthesis of recent discoveries in Neuroscience, Positive Psychology, CBT and Performance Science. Independent Researchers Data from 275,000 people who have taken the PQ program validates the many benefits of Higher PQ, including a higher salary and greater success in the areas of work, marriage, health, friendship and creativity.
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Even if it has worked for others, how do I know this will work for me?
If it has worked for thousands of other people, why do you think it won’t work for you? Your Saboteurs are planting doubts again …
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Is this the right program for me?
This is the right program for you if you are a) committed to improving your performance and effectiveness dramatically while reducing stress, b) looking for a science-based and trusted system to make it stick, and c) willing to put in the initial effort to rewire years of mental habits that don't serve you.
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How will I know if my PQ muscle is getting stronger?
You can measure your PQ score at the start and at the end of the course at https://www.positiveintelligence.com/pq-score/
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I have taken many courses that didn’t work for me. How do I know this one works?
The reason many of the courses you took in the past had only short term benefits is that they did not teach you how to change your way of thinking and strengthen your Mental Muscle to affect change for the long term. Also they treated the symptoms rather than the cause (the Saboteurs), and had no common operating system with each training using different frameworks. Positive Intelligence teaches you one operating system that has many applications in your life and work.
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Aren't negative emotions sometimes helpful?
Some people believe that negative emotions are helpful. For example, they think stress gives them their performance edge, or beating themselves or others up is helpful for continual improvement. Feeling pain for a split second when your hand touches a hot stove is indeed useful, delivering an important alert. But your Saboteurs keep your hand on the hot stove, continuing to feel negative emotions which harm both performance and happiness. In this program we learn to use negative emotions as a helpful alert, and then quickly shift to the positive region of the brain that has the calm clarity, objectivity, and creativity to handle the challenge most effectively.