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The Resilient Mindset

A 7-week Positive Intelligence® online program

 

Practical mental fitness for meeting pressure, self-doubt and change with greater clarity, confidence and calm.

Choose your cohort

January 25th, 2027: Graduate students and young adults

January 25th or May 24th, 2027: Adults navigating work, family, and life

Weekly live coaching · Short daily practices · Supportive small group · One-to-one coaching session

Learning how to activate the brain, from the sage perspective, in the middle of a challenges and doubt, is the greatest gift you can give yourself, and everyone you interact with.

Change the way you meet the moment

Under pressure, we often fall back on familiar patterns: overthinking, perfectionism, avoidance, people-pleasing, constant striving or harsh self-judgment.

Positive Intelligence calls these patterns “Saboteurs.”

During this seven-week program, you will learn to recognise these patterns sooner, interrupt them and access a calmer, wiser response –the “Sage” perspective.

This is not simply a program about understanding new ideas. It is an opportunity to practise a different way of responding until it becomes easier to access when you need it most.

One program. Two life stages.

The core Positive Intelligence training is shared by both cohorts. The conversations, examples and group support reflect the experiences and priorities of each particular life stage.

For Graduate Students & Young Adults

January’27 Cohort

Build confidence for what comes next

You may be managing academic or early-career pressure, uncertainty about the future, comparison,
perfectionism or the feeling that you should already have everything figured out.

This cohort will help you develop practical mental fitness tools for navigating pressure, setbacks and important decisions with greater confidence and self-trust.

During the program, you will work on how to:

  • Manage academic and early-career pressure
  • Quiet comparison and the inner critic
  • Move through setbacks without losing momentum
  • Reduce overthinking and perfectionism
  • Approach uncertainty with greater confidence
  • Make decisions with greater clarity and self-trust
  • Build habits that support your wellbeing and performance

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For Adults Navigating Professional & Family Life

Two cohorts in 2027: January or May

Meet change with clarity and self-trust

You may be balancing the demands of work, relationships and family, reconsidering your priorities or navigating a change in your personal or professional life.

Perhaps the habits that helped you succeed in the past no longer serve you in quite the same way.

This cohort offers the time, structure and practical tools to recognise old patterns, reduce reactive stress and move into your next chapter with greater clarity.

During the program, you will work on how to:

  • Reduce reactive stress and overthinking
  • Recognise habits that may be holding you back
  • Navigate personal and professional transitions
  • Strengthen communication and relationships
  • Respond to challenges with greater calm
  • Reconnect with what matters to you now
  • Make decisions with greater confidence and self-trust

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Our seven-week journey

Small practices. Lasting shifts.

Through brief daily PQ exercises, weekly preparation and live group reflection, you will practise a different response until it becomes more readily available in everyday life.

Week 1: Shift out of autopilot

Build your Self-Command muscle and develop the capacity to pause, refocus and choose your response. You will establish a daily routine of brief PQ repetitions and explore bringing your mind back into the present moment.

Week 2: Quiet the inner critic

Recognise your Judge and begin to reduce its influence. You will explore how judgment affects the way you relate to yourself, other people and your circumstances. You will practise catching the Judge before it takes over with intercept and PQ reps.

Week 3: Change recurring patterns

Identify the Saboteurs that most often undermine you. You will explore your strongest Saboteur patterns and begin practising specific ways to interrupt them.

Week 4: Develop self-empathy

Learn to meet yourself and others with greater understanding and less judgment. You will explore the Sage power of Empathy and discover your own most effective way of accessing it.

Week 5: Approach challenges differently

Practise curiosity, exploration and creative thinking. Using the Sage powers of Explore and Innovate, you will learn to approach difficult situations as opportunities for discovery, learning and growth. You will also begin to develop the Sage perspective by using the accept or convert practice.

Week 6: Turn insight into action

Move forward with greater ease, courage and focus. You will develop the Sage power of Activate and practise turning a clear decision into focused action.

Week 7: Navigate with purpose

Clarify what matters and apply the approach to real decisions. Using the Sage power of Navigate, you will connect with your deeper values and consider how you want them to guide your choices. You will also develop your success strategy for going forward, exploring the PQ operating system and applying it as a whole to personal situations.

Weekly group coaching sessions

Each week we will meet as a group to review the week’s successes and discuss the upcoming week’s central theme from our own personal perspective. These group sessions are meant to support you and to also develop a group dynamic where we support each other on our PQ journey.

How the program works

  • Receive a weekly PQ themed 60 minute video on Friday. Watch video before the Monday  group coaching session.
  • 60-minute live online group coaching session on Mondays to discuss the weekly theme and share experiences.
  • Daily use of the PQ App.  APP offers you a focus for the day which follows weekly themes.
  • Daily access to the PQ gym with exercises of 2, 5 or 12 minutes duration. No gym clothing required!
  • Support from the entire group to reach your goals with regular support from Annette via WhatsApp.
  • Online access to the book, “Positive Intelligence” by Shirzad Chamine.
  • Access to Annette for questions throughout the program.

Continued app access

  • Access to the Positive Intelligence (PQ) App for the remainder of the year of your course.
  • App includes numerous “application modules” to assist you in integrating the PQ system into various life situations.

The PQ program has helped me to notice when I am being judgmental of people, whether at work or with my family, and also with myself. I like the PQ reps as they help you to pull yourself out of stressful situations and re-center your mindset. I find it calming to start my day by practicing PQ reps as I am getting ready for my day. I found this program to be a very interesting and useful, both professionally and personally.

Gaylene, Marketing Professional & Mother of 2.

Program Results for Committed Participants

  • Reduce stress levels.
  • Recognize and successfully intercept your judge.
  • Recognize your main accomplice saboteur and be able intercept it .
  • Develop the habit of shifting to “sage” and boosting your sage response.
  • Begin to use the five powers of the sage in communications, relationships and decision making.

What makes this program unique?

It is supported by sustained daily training (through the App) that allows the creation of new neural pathways which is the proven way to formulate new habits. You also have access to the App with additional modules for your own self exploration and use for a full 12 months. THIS IS HUGE!

TESTIMONIALS

“Participating in the this program has really helped me manage my energy levels and performance expectations during my university internship placement with a globally sought after employer.”
– University of Sussex student, Business Management Marketing program.

“Annette is such an experienced and talented coach and facilitator. She brings so much expert guidance to parents. Her approach with children and young people is so natural and insightful. This is the second programme I have taken part in and equally gained from. Thank you Annette!”
– Anne Pestiaux, Mind-body practitioner, mum to 2 young adults.

“I found this program to be incrediby therapeutic and enlightening. The knowledge I gained about mental fitness, our judge, our saboteurs, the sage powers and sage perspective was truly valuable. The pod meetings allowed us to review and reflect on what we had studied that week through videos and readings, and really kept us accountable to keep up with and practice positive intelligence. The one-to-one coaching with Annette at the end of the program was definitely a highlight: her ability to lead, guide and deeply help us address the issue I wanted to tackle was very powerful.”
– Adriana L, Teacher, mother of 2 young children.

“I am really happy I completed this programme with Annette, it’s excellent, requires lots of work but the results will shine through. It really helps to see things differently, live in the present moment, be more positive and empathetic. Coaching with Annette was great, I learned a lot, I highly recommend it for both personal and professional development.”
– Kate P., Investment sector professional, mother of two teenagers.

2027 Program Dates

Graduate Students & Young Adults

January Cohort:

Program begins with your first video arriving to your inbox on Friday, January 22nd. First group coaching session on Monday, January 25th @17:00 CEST.  (Final group call time may change depending on preferences and availability of entire cohort)

Registration and payment 200 CHF due on or before program start date. Monthly installments are available on request.

This is a meaningful Christmas or Birthday gift! Digital gift certificates are available upon request or it can be arranged for an innovation to be sent to the recipient after Christmas or on their birthday.

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Adults Navigating Work, Family, and Life

January Cohort:

Program begins with your first video arriving to your inbox on January 22nd. First group coaching session on Monday, January 25th @19:30 CET.  (Final group call time may change depending on preferences and availability of entire cohort)

Registration and payment 600 CHF due on or before program start date. Monthly installments are available on request. If you register before January 1st, 2027,  you receive a 10% discount. Use coupon code: TEN upon registration

This is a meaningful Christmas or Birthday gift! Digital gift certificates are available upon request or it can be arranged for an innovation to be sent to the recipient after Christmas or on their birthday.

May Cohort:

Program begins with your first video arriving to your inbox on May 21st. First group coaching session on Monday, May 24th @19:30 CEST.  (Final group call time may change depending on preferences and availability of entire cohort)

Registration and payment 600 CHF due on or before program start date. Monthly installments are available on request. If you register before April 30th,  you receive a 10% discount. Use coupon code: MAY upon registratio

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