Deep conversations
Creative uncertainty can make decision-making feel more personal.
Contributing to Building Creative Resilience in 2025, a Gather Round Presents event for the creative community.
A panel event for the Bristol and Bath creative community exploring resilience, mistakes, decision-making and self-belief under pressure.
Gather Round is a Bristol workspace and creative community bringing people together through coworking, membership, events and shared learning.
The context
Creative people and businesses were navigating nervous clients, tighter budgets and a more uncertain industry climate. The session needed to feel useful, warm and honest without becoming gloomy.
The work
We created the space to think clearly, together.
Clear thinking
Kate brought a brain-based coaching lens to mistakes, decision-making, self-belief and staying connected to potential under pressure.
Practical ways forward
Made pressure responses normal enough to work with.
The outcome
Stronger foundations. Clearer direction. Better relationships.
- The audience had practical language for resilience
- Pressure and self-belief became easier to discuss
- The conversation stayed human, grounded and creative
- The event connected insight to real working life
“She often works with large corporate organisations and can hold the attention in a room with calm power. Her deep knowledge of neuroscience and psychology mixed with her approachable demeanour and wealth of experience makes her clients feel in safe hands.”
The impact
Clarity that changed how the work could move.
Sometimes the work is a shared public moment: a room of people recognising something true, laughing a little and leaving with language they can use.
Delve deeper
Related resources for the pattern underneath this work.
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Psychology & Work
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The gap between knowing something is broken and actually naming it out loud is one of the least examined spaces in professional life. It is also, right now, getting wider.
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Brain & body
What is the Brain-Based Coaching Certificate, and how does brain-based coaching work?
A plain-English guide to Kate's Brain-Based Coaching Certificate from the NeuroLeadership Institute, what brain-based coaching is, and how it differs from other coaching approaches.
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Resilience at work
Resilience Under Pressure: What One Room of Insurance Professionals Revealed About Work Today
A journal from Innovate This 2025 on resilience, attention, always-on work and what one room of insurance professionals revealed about pressure today.