I design and lead corporate stillness workshops for founders, leaders, and creative teams who need to stay clear under pressure. These sessions are not about slowing everything down. They are about learning how to regulate the nervous system so that clarity, courage, and wise action remain available even in difficult moments.

The flagship session is Stillness Under Pressure. It brings together thirty years of Tai Chi practice, breathwork, and nervous system training with my experience inside product and technology teams. The work is practical, grounded, and immediately usable in the flow of a normal working day.

What Participants Experience

Each workshop gives people a direct experience of calm while they are still at work, not on retreat. We explore:

1. How stress triggers the amygdala and narrows thinking
2. How breath, posture, and attention shift the nervous system from survival to presence
3. The pause between stimulus and response, and how to access it under pressure
4. Simple Tai Chi and breath based movements that can be used at a desk, before a meeting, or in a difficult conversation
5. How a regulated leader helps the whole room feel safer and more open

The emphasis is always on experience first, language second. People feel the difference in their own body, then we give it a shared vocabulary so teams can talk about it together.

Why This Matters For Teams

Research within companies such as Google has shown that emotional intelligence is one of the key differences between average performers and star performers. Programmes like Search Inside Yourself demonstrated that qualities such as self awareness, empathy, and composure are trainable through attention training, breath, and body awareness.

These workshops sit in the same lineage, but through the lens of Taoism and Tai Chi. The core idea is simple. When people feel safe in their own body, they think more clearly, listen more deeply, and collaborate with less friction. Nervous system regulation becomes a practical form of leadership.

Workshop Formats

Sessions are tailored to the organisation, but typically follow one of these formats:

1. 90 minute introduction – a focused experience of Stillness Under Pressure with core practices leaders can use immediately
2. Half day intensive – deeper work with more movement, practical drills, and time for reflection and discussion
3. Full day immersion – combines teaching, practice, and application to real team scenarios for lasting impact
4. Short series – a sequence of sessions over several weeks to help teams integrate the practices into daily work

All formats are designed to work in normal clothing and in standard meeting rooms. No special equipment is needed. People can participate whether they are new to Tai Chi and breathwork or already have a personal practice.

Who This Is For

These workshops are a good fit for:

1. Leadership teams who want to stay composed and clear under pressure
2. Product and design teams who need to protect creativity from constant urgency
3. Engineering and delivery teams working with complex, high stakes projects
4. Organisations that care about psychological safety and want a practical way to support it

What People Take Away

By the end of a session, people have:

1. Felt the shift from chest breathing to grounded, dantian centred breathing
2. Experienced how small changes in posture and attention affect clarity
3. Practised a short set of movements they can repeat at their desk or at home
4. Understood how their own state influences the wider team
5. Left with a simple language for talking about the pause, the breath, and presence at work

The most common feedback is simple. People say it is the calmest they have felt at work in a very long time, and that they finally understand how to return to that state on purpose.

Bringing Stillness Under Pressure To Your Organisation

If you would like to explore a workshop for your team or organisation, you can reach out here. We can then shape a session that fits your people, your context, and the pressures they are currently navigating.

Stillness is not empty. It is full of information. These workshops give people a way to listen to that information again, and to lead from a quieter, steadier place.

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