Please Note: This session will be given as a virtual presentation. Attendees will be emailed with a link to join.

Lance Burdett: Challenging Our Challenges

Come and hear Lance Burdett, author and experienced crisis negotiator, speak about resilience, stress and how to unwind in today's busy and sometimes turbulent world.

Following a successful career as a construction manager, Lance Burdett spent 22 years as a cop, 13 of those as a crisis negotiator. He brings together experience from training in New Zealand, Australia, England and the USA with the elite units of police, prisons, emergency services, the military, and the FBI. His programmes are grounded in neuroscience, emotional intelligence and positive psychology. Lance has a Master of Arts majoring in Terrorism, Safety & Security, a Diploma in Policing, a Diploma in Business Studies, and is completing a Diploma in Positive Psychology and Wellbeing. He published the bestselling books Behind the Tape and Dark Side of the Brain. Lance also makes regular media appearances.

Lance will be here to talk about why people are becoming overwhelmed and sometimes emotional, how to manage uncertainty and adversity, how to reduce worry, and the importance of taking positive action. He will also talk about how to identify when people are struggling with negative thoughts or are potentially suicidal, how to safely engage with that person and steer them towards professional help. Lance will finish with a few simple tips on how to stay alert and energised, how to switch off at the end of a busy day, how to get to sleep within just a few breaths, and how to stop waking between 3 and 4 in the morning with feelings of stress.

Limited spaces available. This is an R18 event.

If we are in Alert Level 2, this session will move to a virtual presentation.