MASTERCLASS
60 minutes · Online, in-person or hybrid
About this Masterclass
“I’m not ready.” “I’ll fail.” These thoughts can feel like facts, but they are learned patterns, and patterns can change. Overcoming Limiting Beliefs helps people recognise the stories driving hesitation and self-doubt, then gives them a practical way to interrupt and reframe those stories in real work situations. A live breath-hold challenge makes the lesson tangible: participants predict their limit, test it and experience themselves moving beyond it.
Meet your speaker
Cole Groom spent his career in B2B technology sales, working in high-pressure environments as a top-performing sales rep and people manager. His own experience with anxiety and burnout led him to discover meditation and breathwork as practical tools for managing pressure, strengthening mindset and sustaining performance.
A certified breathwork and meditation teacher, Cole combines the research behind cognitive reappraisal and learned optimism with methods he has personally applied under real commercial pressure. Today, he leads delivery at Balance, working with global organisations including Google, Netflix, Booking.com and Deloitte.
Inside the session
01 · THE THEORY
People learn how repeated experiences, assumptions and self-protective thinking turn into beliefs that feel factual. Research on cognitive reappraisal and learned optimism shows how these patterns shape confidence, decisions and willingness to act — and where there is room to rewrite them.
02 · THE PRACTICE
Experience yourself moving beyond a limit
A simple reframing method helps participants challenge an unhelpful belief in a real work situation. The live breath-hold exercise makes the shift memorable: people predict their limit, apply the technique and experience themselves going further than expected.
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
Recognize the beliefs behind hesitation
A clearer view of the assumptions and learned stories driving self-doubt, avoidance and the feeling that they are not ready yet.
02
Reframe limiting thoughts at work
A simple method for questioning an unhelpful belief and replacing it with a more useful perspective before a conversation, decision or challenge.
03
Experience beating a self-set limit
A firsthand reminder that the limit people predict is not always the limit they have — creating evidence they can carry into future challenges.
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+
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9.1/10
average session rating
45%
average stress reduction · self-reported
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