Professor Steve Peters is a medical doctor; he specialises in mental health and the functioning of the human mind. He has dedicated his working life to help people get the best out of themselves and to be in a good place.
Steve’s work past and present in the field of psychiatry and education includes: Clinical Director of Mental Health Services within the NHS at a district hospital, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at Rampton, Senior Clinical Lecturer of Medicine and Undergraduate Dean at Sheffield University. He has spent 20 years as an examination panel member at the Royal College of Psychiatry and has been an expert advisor to World Anti-doping Agency.
He has been a consultant to over 20 Olympic and national sporting teams including Liverpool FC, British Cycling, GB Taekwondo, England Rugby and England Football. Prof Peters works with CEOs, senior executives, teachers, students, hospital staff and patients. Steven Gerrard, Sir Chris Hoy, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Victoria Pendleton, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Lee Westwood, Jonathan Trott and Raheem Sterling are people that have all spoken publicly about how Prof Peters’ has helped them during their career.
Professor Peters is also a best-selling author, and his latest book ‘A Path through the Jungle’ was published in 2021. Steve has also authored 3 books including the bestselling self-help book of all time in the UK, The Chimp Paradox, which has sold over a million copies – as per Nielsen TCM Chart 2020. Other achievements include attending Downing Street for winning the senate award twice for his excellence in teaching.
For fun, Steve competes in track and field athletics and has held multiple World Masters Champion titles and world records over the 100, 200 and 400 metres.
This keynote is highly practical and engaging. Participants are introduced to The Chimp model and each individual will explore and identify their unique Chimp, Human and what they have stored in their Computers. It explores how this insight impacts our professional and personal lives, in particular around managing emotions. Participants will also learn skills and techniques for nurturing and managing their unique Chimp to optimise their mind.
This session will help delegates to:
– Understand the neuroscience underpinning the structure and functioning of the mind through The Chimp Model
– Gain insight into your own unique mind
– Understand how to develop emotional skills
– Apply emotional skills to managing your behaviours, thinking and emotions
During this session, we explore the difference between being robust and being resilient. We demonstrate how to build a foundation of robustness and develop skills for becoming resilient. Participants will develop take-away plans during the session to apply to their personal and professional lives.
This session will help delegates to:
– Appreciate the difference between robustness and resilience
– Put in place the foundations of robustness
– Develop skills for becoming resilient
Our stress into action session provides an insight into the neuroscience of stress and anxiety and demonstrates how our minds process information and how this can lead to feelings of stress and anxiety. The session will help delegates to learn to apply The Chimp Model, to learn skills and techniques for managing any current stress and anxiety by turning this stress reaction into an action. Delegates will form take away plans during the session to apply to their personal and professional lives.
This session will help delegates to:
– Understand the neuroscience of stress
– Recognise and manage immediate stress
– Recognise and manage long-standing stress
– See how stress can be turned into action
The session will be practical and engaging. Using The Chimp model, we will explain why we can find change so challenging and potentially stressful. We will demonstrate how to accept the reality of uncertainty and unwanted change and deal with it effectively. We will work on individual change management plans to apply to participants’ personal and professional lives, both for themselves and to support those around them.
This session will help delegates to:
– Understand why change is so challenging
– Appreciate how to accept obligatory change
– Be proactive in embracing change
– Consider life beyond change
– Consider different ways to assist people through obligatory change
Using The Chimp Model we examine high performance in individuals and teams and use the neuroscience to help gain insight into what happens in our minds when we deliver optimal performance.
The session will explore how teams can become high performing by considering areas such as empowerment, accountability, inclusiveness, team identity and collaboration. Delegates will learn skills and techniques from The Chimp Model to take back and apply to the teams in their professional and personal lives.
This session will help participants to:
– Consider the basis for high performance in individuals and teams
– Understand the neuroscience behind creating high performance
– Develop ways of turning any team into a high performing team
This interactive and engaging session will use The Chimp Model to understand the difference between efficient and effective leadership and how to be the leader you want to be. We also explore imposter syndrome, why it exists and the possible consequences when it goes unmanaged. We will highlight the potential benefits when imposter syndrome is managed effectively and explore ways to manage it.
Delegates will learn skills and techniques from The Chimp Model to help them to turn efficient leadership into effective leadership to apply to their professional and personal lives.
This session will help delegates to:
– Understand the difference between efficient and effective leadership
– Consider the wants and the needs of employees or team members
– Understand the basis and implications of imposter syndrome
In this session, you will learn about some common mental health conditions and gain insight into the treatments and prognosis for specific diagnoses. The session will also offer suggestions for using skills and techniques from The Chimp Model to help others achieve emotional and psychological wellbeing.
Participants will learn skills and techniques from The Chimp Model to take back and apply their professional and personal lives.
This session will help participants to:
– Learn about common mental health conditions
– Learn about treatments and prognosis for specific diagnoses
– Understand the basis for emotional and psychological wellbeing
– Develop methods for helping others
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