Mid Life Thriving Fundamentals is our foundational three part course, designed for people like you, leading full lives, to help you make positive and lasting changes in your life.
People who have completed the course have described it as “life-saving”, “gently transformational” and “the best thing I ever did”.
The course is delivered online in small learning groups, creating a supportive space to learn, share and put things into practice. The aim is to make a difference from the very beginning, while giving you helpful habits and tools you can continue to use long after the course has finished.
The three parts in summary are:
Mental fitness: the habits and headspace that make everything else possible.
Vital body: understand what your body needs - and give it more of what it needs to thrive.
Spirited living: values, purpose and courageous alignment
Each part enhances the other, but you can choose just to complete one part. More detail below and in our BROCHURE.
Using POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE as a framework, we break things down into manageable, bite-sized pieces that fit around your life. You’ll learn practical tools and approaches to help you create more time and energy for the things that matter to you.
Take back control of your mind and unlock more of your capacity.
We all have moments when stress, worry, self-doubt, frustration or our inner critic get in the way. Mental fitness helps you recognise what’s happening in your mind, interrupt unhelpful patterns and choose how you want to respond.
You learn to become less driven by automatic thoughts and reactions and more able to stay calm, focused and in control. With practice, this can increase your capacity to deal with life’s challenges without them consuming so much of your energy.
And that can have a powerful ripple effect.
More mental capacity can mean better focus and productivity at work, more confidence and creativity, stronger relationships, better communication and more energy for life outside work. It can also help you manage stress more effectively - a very important part of protecting and supporting your overall health and wellbeing.
You can’t control everything that happens to you. But you can learn to have much more control over what happens in your own mind, giving you greater choice in how you think, feel and respond.
Just as we exercise our bodies to build physical fitness, these small, regular practices build mental fitness: helping you make better use of your energy, deal with pressure more effectively and get more from both your working and non-working life.
It’s about building the mental capacity to live, work and relate to others at your best. It’s not about just being positive all the time.
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Most of us know the basics of looking after ourselves. We know we should eat well, drink enough water, move more, sleep properly, manage stress and make time for the people we care about. But knowing what we should do and actually doing it are two very different things.
And as we move through midlife, our bodies change. The things that worked for us in our twenties and thirties don’t always work in the same way anymore. Understanding what’s happening - and why these fundamentals matter - can make it much easier to make changes that work for you.
Our Vital Body programme explores five key areas:
Nutrition & hydration : understanding what your body needs to fuel you well and support your changing needs.
Exercise & movement : finding ways to build strength, mobility and energy that work for your body and your life.
Sleep & relaxation : understanding the importance of quality rest and finding ways to help your body and mind recover.
Relationships & connection : recognising the powerful role that connection, belonging and supportive relationships play in our health.
Stress : understanding what ongoing stress can do to our bodies and learning practical ways to manage it more effectively.
Together, these everyday foundations can have a significant impact on your energy, capacity, resilience and overall health, helping you feel better, function better and get more from life.
It’s not about being perfect or following someone else’s rules. It’s about understanding your body, making informed choices and finding what works for you.
Details to follow.
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A bit about your coaches. Click on our names for more detail.
ERICA GIBBON
Registered member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition & Nutritional Therapy (BANT) and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). Also a qualified Functional Medicine Practitioner, with extensive clinical and training experience.
SOPHIE CARVIN
Associate of the Association for Coaching (AC), Positive Intelligence Master. Experienced in training development and delivery and supporting career focused women with leadership, confidence and mindset.
AARON LISTHAUS
International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach. An experienced executive coach with additional interests in habits, mindset, resistance to change and weight management and a background in education leadership.