This is the right program for you if you are

a) willing to improve your wellbeing, and reduce stress

b) looking for a science-based and trusted system to make it stick, and

c) willing to put in the initial effort to rewire years of mental habits that don’t serve you any longer.

Some people believe that negative emotions are helpful. For example, they think stress gives them their performance edge, or beating themselves or others up is helpful for continual improvement.

Feeling pain for a split second when for instance your hand touches a hot stove is indeed useful, delivering an important alert.

But your Saboteurs keep your hand on the hot stove, continuing to feel negative emotions which harm your wellbeing, and so your relationships and performance.

In this program we learn to use negative emotions as a helpful alert, and then shift to an healthier state of being, activate the region of the brain that helps us to feel calm, clarity, objectivity, and creativity to handle the challenge most effectively.

The weekly Pod meeting will be facilitated by me, Susanne.

Shirzad Chamine - founder of PQ - conducts each of the weekly video sessions and also guides you through the daily challenges in the App, and his team answers question in the exclusive online community of the program participants.

Shirzad is the New York Times bestselling author of Positive Intelligence, translated into 20 languages. He has been CEO of the largest coach training organisation in the world and has trained faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools.

Shirzad lectures on Positive Intelligence at Stanford University and works with Stanford’s NCAA athletes. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. His background includes graduate level studies in neuroscience in addition to a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.

Watching a 1-hour video session and attending a 1-hour individual or group meeting once per week, as well as doing a combined total of 15 minutes per day of practice guided by the PQ app exclusively designed for this program. The practices can easily be integrated into your daily routine.

This might sound like a lot of time. In fact, cumulatively, it constitutes less than 4% of your awake time for the duration of the program. Please consider that your Saboteurs are costing you far more than 2% of your time, effort, energy, and productivity. Consider how much more than 4% of time and productivity this eight-weeks investment will save for years to come...

Did you learn to ride your bicycle by reading a book about it?

It is suggested to read the first 8 chapters of the book while participating in the program. The book provides the research foundation and introduces the tools. The video session guides you through experiential exercises that help you personalize the tools to your own personality and needs. And the app guides you to practice one tool at a time in the context of your own daily work and life challenges.

To change the balance of body and mind so that you feel more inner peace, more energy, joy and clarity, you need 20 % insight and 80 % practice.