Start Date: 04/11/2026
Duration: 1 Hour 10am-11am
Location: Virtual Delivery
Cost: Free
Programme overview
As a busy person you understand the demands of the real world. The increasing demands placed on us personally and professionally affect our health and our business. What makes some people focus and perform better under pressure while others struggle? The answer is Resilience. This does not mean being hard. Resilience is a measure of your subconscious flexibility and what practical and psychological coping
mechanisms you have access to.
This workshop is free to attend for Members.
Learning Outcomes
- Getting external demands and dysfunction into persepective
- How your mind works
- Thoughts and emotions
- How to control your stress response
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for everyone in the work place.
Content Covered
Below are some examples of the content that will be covered. It will be a shorter version of the award winning one day course called ‘Resillient Mids @ Work’.
- Dragon Story – Identifying dysfunctions in the 4 areas we live in
- How our minds works
- Self Esteem
- The dynamics of our stress response
- Fear and Danger in a work and life context
- Fear and Courage in a work and life context
- How we perceive stress
- Anxiety and Withdrawal personality types
- The Big 5 personality types
- Use the above learnings to understand the concept of the exploratory hero
- The 3 components of happiness
- The 3 main areas in stress management
- Identifying our triggers
- Why we take things personally
- The personal stress audit
- With or For working mindsets
- Delivering bad news
- The law of attraction ( psychological)
- Dealing with toxic people
Trainer Profile
Richard Burke, Resilience Matters
Richard’s ability to design and deliver this course comes from his unique background, education and experience. He qualified as an Industrial Engineer in 1992 winning the AP O’Reilly award for his paper in Industrial psychology. He worked as the National Education officer for the I.I.E. for two years and in the area of business improvement in large manufacturing companies for almost twenty. His primary remit was on increasing efficiencies, changing organisational architecture and involving people in the change process.
He was a member of the global health and safety team with the toy manufacturer, Hasbro. Having held management roles in multi-national businesses, he earned his MBA in 2002. He then qualified as a trainer with the IITD in 2007. He has also lectured in Waterford Institute of Technology on their management degree program. Richard is a key note speaker every year at conferences in Ireland and the UK. His focus is on the role mental health plays in peoples personal lives and in organisations. He is a registered and insured clinical hypno-psychoanalyst and opened a private clinic in 2005. In his clinic he helps children and adults tackle a large range of disorders. He specializes in stress, anxiety, fear and trauma. As you can see, Richard has an in-depth knowledge of organisations and people. His skill-set marries business issues with psychological understanding and improvement. This insight and his unique method of delivery is the reason this course delivers practical value and why people will never forget the things they learn on the day. That’s a big promise. The course is a compulsory module in the Professional Diploma in Engineering from Engineers Ireland and also part of their CPD programme.
