Workshops & Trainings
Natália Leal offers a range of workshops and trainings on different topics, whether related to your personal or professional development, individually or as a team.
Workshops can be designed on request and existing ones can always be adjusted to the intended audience (executives and employees, other professionals; jobseekers; graduate students, expats and their partners or those considering retirement, for example) and preferred length of time (from 1 hour to multiple days). It is also possible to mix multiple workshops together. Most of the available workshops can be delivered in-person as well as online.
Almost all the workshops build closely on scientific findings from the fields of Positive Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, Behavioural Coaching and Neurosciences, as well as on Natália's own professional and life experience. The main topics covered in workshops are: well-being and happiness, defining success, core values, career planning, character strengths, cultural competence, resilience skills, goal-setting, creating action plans and new habits (get rid of old ones). Below are some of the existing workshops and their main details.
Boosting Your Mental Fitness
Closely based on the Positive Intelligence (PQ) framework, in this workshop participants will be able to learn about both the science and the practical tools they can use to improve their overall mental well-being, create a better ‘relationship’ with their inner saboteurs and spend more time thriving in their life and at work. It includes several exercises/games and group discussions, and a section to create a personalised Action Plan.
Recommended minimum time: 3-3,5 hours.
Bridging Cultural Differences
(For teams only)
A workshop for multi-cultural teams to explore the differences among their members, especially their varying cultural backgrounds, and how to create better working relationships based on it.
Recommended minimum time: from 1,5 hours.
(Re)Defining Success
In today's world, we all tend to identify our sense of self-worth with our 'productive outputs', our work achievements.
In this workshop, which usually includes a few practical exercises, participants will be able to:
Understand how the Work sphere tends to relate to their own sense of identity and self-worth;
Become more aware of their current definition of Success and where it comes from;
Identify what matters most for them in life;
Learn how to challenge their current mindset and limiting beliefs; and
(Re)define success in a way that is more empowering and aligned with what truly matters to them. [It can also include alignment with their company/employer.]
Recommended minimum time: 2 hours. Ideal: 3-4 hours.
How to Draw Your Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life is a great, simple tool that enables you to draw a picture of where you are now regarding different areas of life, making it easier for you to then come up with an action plan towards a more balanced life and becoming who you truly wish to be. Attending this workshop will allow you to:
Take a 'picture' of how your life is today;
Identify which life areas might be in greater need of attention in your near future;
Consider concrete action steps to improve your wellbeing and happiness.
Recommended time: 1-1,5 hour.
Know Your Strengths & How to Use Them
This workshop invites participants to reflect on their main character strengths and the values they hold highest. How can you build on these strengths to improve your overall happiness and design a career path towards a job that really fulfils you?
More about past workshops here.
Recommended minimum time: 2-3 hours.
Building Your Resilience Skills
This workshop helps participants find out how to overcome and 'grow stronger’ even in the most difficult periods. It focuses on what is resilience, its critical variables and why it matters so much; what skills can you develop better to cope with adversity; what traps should you watch out for; and how can you build on your strengths to have a happier life.
Recommended minimum time: 1 hour.
A Roadmap to a Career You Love
This workshop offers participants a light structure regarding how to design a career path that contributes to your overall happiness. You will leave with a proposed roadmap, different steps and suggestions; a guide to help you build a career you love and which is fully aligned with who you are.
It is particularly helpful if you are:
Wondering if you have made the wrong choices in your professional life;
Unhappy in your current work role (demotivated, feeling stuck or lost ) but not sure where to go next;
Pretty confident of what you’d like to do next in your career, but not sure where to start and how best to get there;
Seeking a career that you genuinely love.
This is not about how to write a CV or apply to job (though it's also included).
More about past workshops here and here.
Recommended minimum time: 3 hours.
The Secrets to Reaching Your Dreams
Are you ready to reach your dreams or does it scare you? Finding happiness and reaching your dreams requires dedication, hard work and doing your ‘homework’.
In this workshop, we’ll show you what you need to do, based on recent findings from the sciences of happiness, performance and fulfilment – from positive psychology to neurosciences and behavioural economics – on what drives us (and stops us), what makes us happy and what can help our dreams come true.
The secrets – for the most part – are already out there, and we’ll explore quite a few during this workshop.
More about past workshops here.
Recommended minimum time: 1 hour (conference) or 3 hours (workshop).
Coming soon....
Reviewing Self-Beliefs and Success
We all carry with us many beliefs about the world and ourselves, how things should be like, including a notion of what being successful means. A lot of it stems from our educational and cultural backgrounds. Once you move to a new country, you will often find that local beliefs and the way success is interpreted is done in a different way there.
In this presentation you will be able to:
Become more aware of your (limiting) beliefs as well as your current definition of success, and where they come from;
Learn some simple tips regarding how you can challenge and 'upgrade' your current (culturally-based) mindset and limiting beliefs; and
(Re)Define success in a way that is more empowering and aligned with what truly matters to you, in your new country and cultural context.
Recommended time: 1-3 hours.
Re-Discovering My Life & Career Abroad
A workshop ideal for recent and long-term expats or those now considering a move abroad (for work, study, love...), including their partners. How can you deal with a new culture, no friends, career frustration, overall uncertainty and find (again) a balanced life and fulfilling career?
This workshop aims to create a space for reflection on the personal and professional challenges of (regularly) moving abroad and how best to deal with them. At the end, participants will have gained a greater sense of awareness about themselves and their options, as well as concrete ideas and actions to face the likely challenges and achieve a more balanced life while living abroad.
Mixing a short version of other available workshops, the workshop has 3 parts, including exercises:
Part I: Discovering yourself - Finding your own happy spot;
Part II: Moving abroad - Coping with the different phases of adaptation in a new country;
Part III: Towards a fulfilling career - Steps to building a successful career.
More about past workshops here.
Recommended minimum time: 3-5 hours.
How to start new habits and get rid of unhelpful ones
Each of our days is composed mostly of habits - both good and bad - that impact our entire life, from productivity to happiness and health.
In this workshop you'll find out more about what is a habit and what are the most important steps and ingredients to create a new habit that sticks as well as to break an existing one, whether in your personal or professional life.
While it may not be easy to implement, you will learn that there is a scientifically-proven recipe that is not so complicated and which you can use almost by yourself, over and over again. There will be a chance to implement some of the steps to your own new/old habits.
Recommended time: 2-3 hours.
Happy Golden Years: Well-Being & Life Satisfaction in Retirement
This workshop takes us through the core concepts and findings of Positive Psychology to show you how you can use them at a stage in life when employment is no longer the main way of occupying your day.
Recommended minimum time: 2 hours.
(Re)Discovering Yourself: Steps Towards a Meaningful Life
This workshop seeks to create a space for discovery and reflection about your identity, your life goals and main priorities. Finding the road to happiness requires you to be aware of who you are, what drives you and your actions in the word (and what blocks them), and what direction you feel you should follow.
The workshop includes several exercises and offers tools to help uncover these issues and make the first steps towards identifying your own personal mission. At the end, participants will have gained a greater sense of awareness about themselves and their options, as well as concrete ideas and actions to achieve a more balanced and meaningful life.
This workshop is particularly helpful if you are:
Feeling lost or stuck in life, not sure where to go next;
Too focused on your job and missing the rest of life, probably working close to exhaustion or near a burn-out;
Curious about how to overcome your fears;
Looking for meaning and purpose in your life.
Recommended minimum time: 3 hours.
Testimonials
Very inspiring and useful workshop. I recommend to everyone.
Melike A.
Every professional should attend this kind of workshop, not depending on path and type of career. It opens different perspectives.
Vitalija P.
Natalia delivered an engaging informative webinar (...) was quite an eye-opener.
Karen S.
Natália knows how to convey the workshop very well with a variation of her professional knowledge and personal examples. This workshop is very inspiring and has certainly given me the tools I was looking for to give my life even more meaning and happiness.
Silvano S.
I enjoyed the webinar presented by Natalia, it was well structured and full of inspirational tips and ideas, also practical for me to apply in my work or personal pursuits. Natalia is a good presenter with focus on the topic, also allow the participants the space to think for themselves. Overall, it was a lovely experience and I will certainly participate in her future workshops.
Qin C.