I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a two-day workshop with my colleagues, being delivered by Jan from Insightful Communication, themed "Growing a Healthy Team Culture". The team started off with the usual apprehension but quickly became engaged and keen to participate. As the facilitator Jan created a fun, comfortable, inclusive space, with lots of prompts and opportunities for in depth discussions. Jan was able to extract key points and evolving themes to navigate through passionate conversations, with ample reflection, which was summarised into a foreseeable and actionable vision.
The program was well structured and designed. Day one developed the foundations of the workshop, which were expanded into more direct approach strategies and commitments throughout the rest of the workshop. Day two commenced with a summary but was the highlight of the workshop with the introduction of the "Pattern Catcher" exercise. A very fun filled, interactive, valuable and visionary exercise where we were able to map our self-awareness as a team and individuals. It was a wonderful way to conclude and summarise the workshop, providing an observational, and interactive result to our team culture.
I would highly recommend the workshop, and use of the "Pattern Catcher". It definitely had a lasting impact on the team and could be noted from the positive conversations that continued well after the work shop. Often noting discussions about the humanity, emotional intelligence, increased communication and other key components discussed in the work shop.
Client Workshop April 2022
Client Testimonials.
“We recognised that while the staff who had stepped up into new leadership roles had the passion and raw skills – they were missing the experience, perspective and necessary frameworks for approaching the issues you face when leading a team of people. Through no fault of their own, the new leaders had never been exposed to the range of techniques that a person picks up in a usual leadership journey. We approached Jan and Marian to see if they could assist us by offering a combination of group reflective practice sessions and mentoring/coaching 1:1 sessions for all of the new leaders.The results have been outstanding, people developed new skills and unlocked talents/techniques that they never knew they had. The feedback from staff has been exceptional and I have no hesitation in recommending Jan and Marian as excellent practitioners who are skilled, knowledgeable, engaging and reliable.”
— Organisational Wide Leadership Mentoring & Coaching Program
I just wanted to thank you. I really enjoyed your webinar. I watched the recording of your Emotional Intelligence at Work
self-regulation tips and strengths-based tools webinar and I found it engaging, valuable and I think I have built and will continue to build insights from watching.
I really appreciate your work.
Individual Webinar Participant November 2021
“Thank you for an excellent afternoon’s training. It provoked some thoughtful discussion and has formed a good springboard for the development of our cultural safety plan.”
— Cultural Safety Workshop – Basic Rights Queensland
“Marian and Jan from Insightful Communications provided our 200 staff with an amazing two hours of facilitated activities as part of our annual All Staff Day. Marian and Jan were able to run with our instructions of “make it fun, creative and purposeful” and design and deliver activities that allowed staff to create connections with each other in a meaningful way.
Facilitating a large diverse group of people can have its challenges. Marian and Jan worked with us to create activities to address these challenges and really listened to our needs for the sessions. The results of this creative consultation was that our staff came together as a group and really enjoyed the organised activities.”
— Client Workshop
“Jan volunteered her time at the height of the NSW 2021 Covid pandemic providing basic flow yoga sessions to the volunteer Lifeline Crisis Support team. Lifeline received extremely positive feedback from the attendees. Jan assisted the Lifeline volunteers on focussing on their self-care and wellbeing through basic flow yoga. Lifeline emphasises self-care as a priority for Crisis Support Volunteers. Lifeline is very grateful for Jan’s contribution.”