About The Mind Gym
The Mind Gym was born in 2000, with the aim of providing a beacon in the forest of psychology and personal development by making the former accessible and the latter rigorous.
The mind Gym delivers 90-minutes workouts, in a range of subjects from: Creativity for logical thinkers, Confidence, Stress busters, Tricky people.
The workouts are run in organizations across Europe, US and London Business School to Virgin, Microsoft.
Their sessions are packed with stories, exercises, scientific research and practical advice, which tend to leave people excited, motivated and wiser.
Our minds tend to work in autopilot. Like the foreigner who keeps repeating the same words only louder each time the local doesn’t understand, we carry on thinking and approaching business challenges in much the same way even when it isn’t getting us what we want.
The solution is to spot and change our mental default settings. Sessions around the campfire will show us how to.
As a result we will be more likely to:
Come up with solutions to what seemed like intractable problems
Spot new opportunities jut by thinking differently
Gain energy and have less negative stress
Achieve more in less time
Win people round to our point of view
Feel in charge of our destiny
“If every business leader in the UK applied The Mind Gym techniques, the UK productivity gap would disappear in a moment”, Tim Melville-Ross, CBE, Chairman of Investors in People, Former Director General of Institute of Directors
“After The Feast” Speakers and workshops
Choose from a list of inspirational “green” speakers and environmentalists, e.g. representatives from Oxfam, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Fair Trade Foundation, Soil Association, to speak around the campfire. Topics can be seriously green:
- Cannibalizing your vehicle in an emergency
- Making your own biodiesel
- Renewable energy systems
- Living “off the grid” by using solar heating, water power etc
- Building with green materials, straw, cob walling - echo houses
- Sustainable development
- Recycling and energy action grants
- Organic gardening and composting - humour, fun and food
- the power of alternative therapies
Storytelling and musicians
Or you can just enjoy stories,told by David Ambrose www.beyondtheborder.com and Chris Salisbury www.wildwise.co.uk and other famous storytellers, as you listen to musicians play a variety of instruments around the campfire.
Drumming and Storytelling Sessions
Drumming and Storytelling sessions are available.