Brooks Leney - Coping with Stress and Building Resilience Workshop
Client: Brooks Leney
Project: Coping with Stress & Building Resilience Workshop
What they needed: A practical and engaging session for the whole business, across roles and office locations, to better understand how stress affects individuals and performance, and to equip the team with tools to build personal and collective resilience.
What we delivered: A bespoke 90-minute virtual workshop for the full team, designed around the realities of their work and tailored to the specific pressures they face.
Result: Greater awareness of stress and resilience, with positive feedback and practical takeaways for managing pressure.
“We were extremely pleased with the outcome. It benefited me personally and helped the whole team.”
The Context
Brooks Leney is a planning and development consultancy with a team spread across three office locations. Their work is complex and often emotionally demanding, involving detailed advisory work, delivering challenging messages to clients, and staying on top of evolving legislation and external pressures.
The partner team recognised that this day-to-day pressure can accumulate and impact wellbeing, morale, and performance. They wanted to give the whole team (not just leaders) space to reflect, reset, and build confidence in how they manage stress.
What we delivered:
We worked directly with one of the Partners to shape the session, exploring not just the general pressures of professional services work, but the specific external factors and internal challenges relevant to Brooks Leney. The 90-minute online session was bespoke, combining short bursts of input with plenty of interaction chat and and built around three goals:
Raise awareness of how stress affects individuals and business performance
Equip staff with practical, evidence-based strategies to manage pressure
Encourage healthy habits and open conversations across teams
We explored:
What stress looks like in their roles
How to respond more constructively to pressure
Small, achievable habits that can support better wellbeing day to day
Workshop elements included:
An interactive poll to surface real-time experiences of stress
A stress-mapping exercise to explore individual and team pressure points
The Circles of Control model to support mindset and focus
Practical resilience strategies (e.g., prioritisation, reframing, resetting)
Space for personal reflection and commitments to wellbeing
Results and Reflections
Participants appreciated the balance of psychological insight with down-to-earth, usable tools.
Each person left with a clearer understanding of how stress shows up for them and at least one practical action they could take to improve resilience or protect their energy.
For the team: The session helped normalise conversations about stress and reinforced the message that wellbeing is a shared priority across roles and offices.
For the business: Leadership saw strong engagement, positive feedback, and signs that the session supported both personal development and a healthier workplace culture.
Testimonials
“We were extremely pleased with the outcome of the Stress and Resilience workshop with Growth Space. It not only benefited me personally but also helped the whole team understand more about the implications of stress on themselves and our business, as well as ways in which to build resilience.
Polly worked with me to understand how our business could potentially be affected by stress and the external factors that influence this, and built the workshop around our needs, making it bespoke to us, rather than an ‘off the shelf’ package.
I would happily recommend Growth Space to any business looking to help their staff and business develop beyond the day job.”
