Dr Chantal Hofstee

Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach, Renew Your Mind, Auckland, NZ

Dr Chantal Hofstee is a Clinical Psychologist, Executive coach and author who specialises in research based mindfulness. Originally from the Netherlands, Chantal moved to New Zealand 6 years ago and is the founder and director of Renew Your Mind. Renew Your Mind currently has 4 locations throughout Auckland and offers research based mindfulness courses, workshops, business trainings and mindfulness based counselling and coaching. Chantal is passionate about giving people insight into how their brain works and equipping them with practical tools that effectively rewire the brain and improve brain function through reducing stress. For more information about Chantal or the Renew Your Mind services please visit www.renewyourmind.co.nz.

Training the Brain with Mindfulness 

Chantal Hofstee is a Clinical Psychologist, Healthcare Psychologist (registered in The Netherlands) and Executive Coach. She is also the author of two books on Mindfulness and wellbeing called 'Mindfulness On The Run' and 'Reach Your Goals'. Chantal is the director of Auckland based organization Renew Your Mind, which specializes in mindfulness-based therapy and mindfulness courses and works as a leadership trainer and executive coach for Renew Leadership.

Chantal is driven by her own life-changing experience of training her brain with mindfulness and is passionate to spread the knowledge and techniques in order to help people take greater control over the stress in their lives.

Stress is often seen as a badge of honour. Yet, it comes with a high cost in sick leave, absenteeism and turnover, as well as reduced productivity and performance.  The problem of stress needs to be addressed in several ways but one of the ways available to us is through improving our resilience through research-based mindfulness training.  The great news is that there are simple, low-cost techniques that help manage stress levels in daily life - making you more productive, creative and resilient whilst also improving brain function and health.  Many companies, including Google, Apple and Deutsche Bank are turning to mindfulness-based stress management training for their staff.

MINDFULNESS – THE SIMPLE SOLUTION

There is now compelling scientific evidence that people become more resilient when they learn and regularly practice stress management techniques. This resilience improves performance under stress and protects people from burnout.  This session combines research-based mindfulness with powerful psychological techniques to teach you how to optimally manage stress and train your brain for greater resilience.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

» Insight into how your brain works

» 3 – 5 short mindfulness techniques

» Practical suggestions on how to incorporate some mindfulness in their every day (work) lives