The International Institute For  Self-Help Holistic Therapies Ltd.

WithYourVoice for Companies

Introduction

Leading companies have always been able to adapt to ever-changing conditions brought in by new inventions, new markets and new demands from customers or fresh government legislation. A striking example is NOKIA: it went from being a small local tire manufacturer threatened by globalization to the cell phone giant we all know!

The need for companies to address the problem of change by providing the workforce with new coping skills to face an increasingly complex environment has long been recognized by human resources managers (HRMs), and training in companies is now widely accepted, aimed at improving job performance and boosting sales. External agents also focus on ameliorating the quality of life of line workers or middle line managers.

Until recently, top-level managers and executives were protected from the stress generated by these new conditions.

Globalization, however, by its very nature, is bringing considerable strain  to those most important to the company: recent studies show that 70% of top-level managers declare that they are tired most or nearly all the time; and 50 % say they are simply exhausted. Global business also means constant travelling, at a cost to health.

The silent evolution of stress can lead to catastrophic consequences for a company when it concerns top-level managers and executives through errors made in judgment or decision-making! The toll can be huge!  (How can stress affect health)

WithYourVoice’s mission is to cater to the specific needs of top-level personnel by offering them tailor-made, pertinent, efficacious and evidence-based skills and techniques to eliminate stress.

Brains are the most important resource for any enterprise that wants to be the fittest in the market.

Hearts are pumps designed to work 24 hours out of 24 hours for 100 years if well maintained.

But hearts are not just pumps! Brains are not just grey matter!

They are emotional!

Under stress there is a cascade of biochemical events with the release of neurotransmitters and hormones that directly influences our brain and heart.

There is an intimate relationship between brain and heart, the condition of one reacting on the other in a recurrent, reflexive loop!

Brain activity can basically be divided between Central Nervous System (CNS) and Autonomic Nervous System (ANS).

While our CNS controls our conscious activity (motility, perceptions, emotions, memory, learning etc.), our ANS is in charge of our respiratory, digestive, cardiac and immune systems, usually at an unconscious level via the vagus and sympathetic nerves.

Stress causes sympathetic nerve stimulation with the release of adrenaline,and cortisol the “flight-aggression” response: the heart accelerates and blood flow is rerouted from the brain and viscera to the muscles

After stress, the vagus nerve is activated to counterbalance the response of the sympathetic. This is the “rest and restoration response”: a release of acetylcholine slows the heart, the blood flow is redirected from the muscles to the brain for thinking and to the viscera for digestion.

Cutting edge technology offers us ways to understand this complexity and intervene at the most strategic moment and place, thanks to the control of Heart Rate Variability (HRV).

Stress is usually tackled through “stress control” or “stress management” techniques that are efficient techniques including, among others, breath control, meditation, cardiac coherence, cognitivo-behavioural, relation skills…

It is worth introducing psychology to top-level executives and managers since it can greatly contribute to improve their performance, but there are hitches:      

It is difficult for top-level executives to find the time to commit themselves to regular sessions with a therapist.         

A company’s problems may be highly sensitive, and there can be a reluctance to talk about them.

The International Institute for Self-help Holistic TherapieS Ltd. provides methods that are:     

• efficacious         

• with evidence-based results         

• fast and easy to apply         

• tailored to your needs         

• respectful of your privacy.

With the International Institute for Self-help Holistic Therapies Ltd. you will work with highly-qualified professionals who bring their rich, practical experience to corporate intervention. Our techniques are based on:

• Voice Technology from Dr Roger Callahan      

• Coaching      

• NLP (including cognitivo-behavioral skills and systemic approaches)     

• Teaching language skills (Gordon’s model, Clean Language, Skills of the Mouth)        

• Teaching Cardiac coherence