Choosing your Attitude – from overwhelmed to untroubled – with John Perry

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Choosing your Attitude - from overwhelmed to untroubled - with John Perry

Event Summary

This highly interactive 3-hour workshop will demonstrate a range of practical tools to empower you to Choose your Attitude and stay on top of your inner-game.

Thursday, 8 October 2026
13:00 - 16:00
Zoom Online Event

Main Contact

Lead Team
02380 253874
This training course is accessible for wheelchair users.
If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.

Event Speakers & Trainers

Mr John Perry
Mr John Perry
Speaker/Trainer
This training will be run over Zoom. To participate you will need to install Zoom on your device, and ensure it is has a microphone, speaker, and camera. Please Note: Some trainers will no longer allow you to stay on the call if you do not have your camera operating, without good reason. If this is the case you will not be reimbursed for the course.

Log into Zoom 12:45 session runs 13:00 to 16:00

Introduction

This highly interactive 3-hour workshop will demonstrate a range of practical tools to empower you to choose your attitude and stay on top of your inner-game.

Aims

  • To equip primary care professionals with practical tools to manage pressure and maintain emotional balance at work.
  • To strengthen resilience by helping participants consciously choose constructive attitudes in challenging situations.
  • To support sustained wellbeing and performance by improving stress awareness and response.
  • To enable participants to stay in a calm, capable mindset rather than slipping into overwhelm.

Content

Learn how to:

  • Manage Demands
  • Control your Response
  • Recognize when you are heading for ‘Survival Mode’; and
  • Return quickly to ‘Competency Mode’
  • Identify and Challenge Thinking Errors
  • Distance yourself from Self-Criticism
  • Practice ‘Unconditional Self-Acceptance’
  • Distinguish Positive Stress (‘Eustress’) from Negative Stress (‘Distress’); and utilise the former whilst minimising the latter.
  • Activate the Relaxation response – and get a good night’s sleep!

The facilitator will be John Perry, MA, MA, MA, MSc, FHEA. John has delivered coaching, workshop facilitation and consultancy to a wide range of world-class organisations, including financial services, media, manufacturing, government, policing, and health services

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Event Speakers & Trainers

Mr John Perry
Mr John Perry
Trainer - Coach & Psychological Wellbeing Expert

John Perry has delivered coaching, workshop facilitation and consultancy to a wide range of world-class organisations. He is a former Principal Teaching Fellow at a leading Russel Group University, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has published over a dozen articles and is a regular speaker at international conferences. John was the winner of SUSU’s ‘Most Engaging Lecturer’ award for 2020.

John has particular expertise in the areas of Psychological Wellbeing, Stress Management & Resilience, Values Exploration, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Promoting Unconditional Self-Acceptance.

John holds 4 Masters’ degrees, including in Health Psychology & Psychotherapy, and Professional Certifications in Coaching, Counselling, Hypnotherapy, Existential Analysis,Transactional Analysis, NLP, Personal Construct Psychology, Group Work and Supervision. He is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and holds accreditations in both Strengthscope and the Strength Deployment Inventory and in ‘Time to Think’, ‘Wingwave’ and ‘Therapeutic’ Coaching.

Price List 

Name

Description

Price (Inc VAT)

All GPs and members of staff working within GP practices in Wessex LMCs’ catchment area

This option is for everyone working in a GP practice in Wessex LMC's catchment area, that does not fit into one of the other options on offer.

£63.00

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Nurses & AHPs Thanks to the HIOW Primary Care Training Hub and to NHSE Investment in Continual Professional Development, certain eligible roles such as Nurses and Allied Health Professionals can attend fully funded £00.00
BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire Clinicians (excluding GPs) Thanks to the BSW Primary Care Training Hub and to the NHSE Investment in Continual Professional Development, some clinical roles can attend fully funded. These may include Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and HCAs. £00.00

Non Members

This is the cost if you are not working in a practice in the Wessex LMCs' catchment area. £126.00

Waiting List

Please be advised there are spaces available on this course unless it states otherwise. If a course is full you will be given the option to book on the waiting list. If you are on the waiting list and a place becomes available, you will be notified automatically via email, you do NOT need to contact Wessex LMCs. 

Refunds

All delegate fees are non-refundable, however, if it has been agreed that a refund is possible, it will be subject to an administration charge of £5 for delegate fees of £100 or less, or £10 for delegate fees more than £100.

Attendance Details

In certain circumstances, we will share details of attendance or non-attendance with the person who booked and/or funded this course for the delegate. If you have any objection to your attendance status being shared, please can you contact Louise Greenwood (Wessex LMCs Director of Education & Training) at least 48 hours before the start of the training at louise.greenwood@wessexlmcs.org.uk

Sponsorship

This event may be sponsored so companies have the opportunity to promote their product(s) at the start of the meeting. No sponsors have been involved in the selection of speakers, agenda items, or any other matters relating to this training. Your name and practice will be shared with the sponsor representative, but not your email address.

Further Dates

No Further Dates.