Kay Pennington, former Group Spa Manager at Center Parcs’ Aqua Sana spas, has launched a new workshop programme called Resilience & Power. This programme is aimed at helping professionals to channel their inner strength and resilience to be better leaders.

This workshop will focus on positive psychology using scientifically backed techniques to help attendees to strengthen their focus, channel positive self-esteem and restore a feeling of personal power.

Pennington said the company was born out of a desire to help people work through trauma and understand more about what causes each individual to react in the ways they do.

"In the severity of a recruitment crisis, along with increasing mental health challenges, we need to consider the future of employee happiness,” said Pennington.

She has begun working with professionals in the spa market but said the workshops are applicable to any industry. Pennington is initially looking to work with five sectors: spa operators who require support for their teams; managers and senior leadership groups; business executives that require one-to-one sessions;  sales teams and product houses; students and apprentices; and wellness organisations and social groups.

The workshops are built around the concept that feelings and emotions are a huge part of what drives business and will challenge attendees to stop to think about how their teams feel and how they themselves understand how they feel, how they communicate and how they stay connected authentically.

The exercises in the workshops will support individuals to help unlock emotions and rediscover purpose through reflection, future goal setting and identifying personal strength characteristics.