What Will Your People Experience?

Every workshop is tailored to your organisation, audience and purpose. Victor creates an energetic, welcoming environment in which people laugh, reflect, share ideas and learn from one another.

Participants explore:

• what optimism is and why it matters
• the relationship between optimism, wellbeing and resilience
• how optimism strengthens leadership, strategy, innovation and change
• their personal sources of optimism
• the optimism already present within the group
• practical habits that strengthen optimism in daily life
• how they can positively influence the people around them

The popular Optimism Superpowers exercise helps participants recognise their distinctive ways of expressing optimism and appreciate their colleagues' strengths.

The experience is practical, interactive and memorable. People leave with useful ideas they can apply immediately, renewed energy and a stronger sense that progress is possible.

Trusted Across Sectors

Victor has delivered optimism workshops for corporations, government departments, universities, schools, community organisations, leadership retreats, conferences and specialist settings.

Clients and hosts have included the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CSL, Australia Post, Epworth HealthCare, Amadeus, Deakin University, Victoria University, World Commerce & Contracting, Nelson Alexander, Animal-Free Science Advocacy, Dementia Australia, Rotary and Probus.

Workshops have ranged from intimate roundtables of ten people to conference sessions involving 600 participants. Victor has also worked with entire communities, including Kaniva and Armidale.

Programs can be delivered in person or online and tailored to suit your purpose:

• a 40-minute conference presentation
• a 60–90-minute interactive workshop
• a half-day or full-day program
• a leadership retreat or team-development session
• a tailored series supporting sustained cultural change

Tailored to Your Purpose

Each workshop is designed around your audience, objectives and available time. Optional elements include:

• the Best Possible Self exercise, helping participants imagine and describe a future in which things have worked out as well as realistically possible
• guided meditation and reflection
• a focus on optimistic leadership, strategy, innovation, resilience or change
• pre-workshop research exploring what makes your people optimistic
• a tailored report comparing participants’ responses with Victor’s international research
• copies of Optimism: The How and Why or The Optimist’s Gratitude Journal to support continued learning and practice

We will work with you to create the combination most likely to benefit your people and organisation.

Sustaining the Optimism

The workshop can be a memorable experience and the beginning of a lasting practice.

After the workshop, we can help your organisation sustain its optimism through:

• regular team conversations beginning with “What makes you optimistic?”
• internal optimism champions or peer networks
• follow-up workshops on leadership, resilience, communication or change
• stories capturing what makes your people optimistic
• a tailored collection of participants’ responses in written or multimedia form
• the Beacons of Optimism program, which identifies and develops people who can strengthen optimism across your organisation

We recommend revisiting the question “What makes you optimistic?” regularly and considering a follow-up workshop within six to twelve months. This helps keep the ideas alive, recognise progress and turn optimism into purposeful action.