MASTERCLASS
60 minutes · Online, in-person or hybrid
About this Masterclass
New leadership, shifting priorities, plans that keep moving. When people can’t see what’s next, focus drops and worst-case thinking takes over. This session gives teams a way to steady themselves and keep thinking clearly. Calm & Clarity in Times of Change combines a clear explanation of what uncertainty does to attention and decision-making with a practical technique people can use when plans change, answers are incomplete and work still needs to move forward.
Meet your speaker
Mariangel Maldonado is a Clinical and Organizational Psychologist and Therapist who led global wellbeing at Booking.com, building mental health and wellbeing into organizational strategy, culture and leadership across a large, fast-moving international workforce. That experience sits behind this session. She has seen from the inside what sustained change asks of people at scale, and what actually helps them stay clear and effective through it — rather than what simply sounds good in a policy.
Inside the session
01 · THE THEORY
When the brain cannot predict what comes next, it uses more energy scanning for risk. Focus narrows, decisions feel heavier and worst-case thinking becomes more convincing. Participants learn why this happens and how to recognise it before uncertainty starts running the day.
02 · THE PRACTICE
Steady yourself without waiting for certainty
A guided technique helps people settle the immediate stress response, separate facts from assumptions and identify the next useful action. They leave with a practical reset for changing priorities, incomplete information and moments when the plan moves again.
How it works
DURATION
60 minutes
FORMAT
Online, in-person or hybrid
GROUP SIZE
Flexible for any team
INCLUDED
Live exercises and follow-up resources
How this helps your team
01
Understand why uncertainty hits so hard
A clear explanation of how constant change affects focus, decision-making and the stories people tell themselves about what might happen next.
02
Steady themselves in the moment
A practical technique to reduce the noise, regain perspective and respond more deliberately when new information or another change lands.
03
Keep moving without perfect certainty
A way to identify the next useful action and stay productive, even when the full plan, timeline or outcome is not yet clear.
Built for real workplaces
Practical sessions that help people at work and at home, and tie back to the outcomes your business cares about.
10,000+
participants
9.1/10
average session rating
45%
average stress reduction · self-reported
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