Self-Care for Leaders: Because You Just Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup

Leaders need to take the time to invest in and protect their own health and wellbeing – and this is rarely high on their agenda.

In this session, Tim Anstiss will share and explore insights from acceptance and mindfulness approaches, which help us to unhook from unwanted thoughts and to become present and accepting of life’s happenings. We will also take lessons from compassionate mind training, including cultivating self-compassion and self-acceptance, as well as working with a range of cognitive strategies and noticing thinking biases that can trip us up and be demotivating.

We will also have a word with our inner critic – yes, we all have one! – and instead, cultivate each of the five pillars of wellbeing (positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and feelings of achievement) and other options for staying or becoming more resilient.

By the end of this session, you will have learned about:

• the six pivots of psychological flexibility, and how to make them
• the three flows of compassion, and how to increase them
• the five pillars of wellbeing, and how to strengthen them

This session is for busy leaders, managers and innovators seeking the latest insights into how to stay healthy and well into the future.

It is also for cynics and sceptics of the wellbeing movement who wish to critically engage with the science around happiness and flourishing.