Opinion piece
The Brain Booster team wishes you a year full of hope!
I'm not sad to see 2023 fade away with all the violence, wars, extremism and global warming it leaves us with.
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Events
Life Transitions #01
Midlife crisis, midlife crisis, does it speak to you? - No surprise.... A very recent study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridges, Ma, USA, among 500,000 people worldwide, showed that the "Midlife crisis" is now a more common reality than ever.
Events
Life Transitions #02
By the way, what is a life transition? Because life is movement and because it is in the changes, the transformations, the passages, that it takes all its meaning, all its essence, I share with you some thoughts on life transitions.
Events
Life Transitions #03
Life is a succession of transitions! Because life is movement and it is in the changes, the transformations, the passages, that it takes all its meaning, all its essence, I share with you some thoughts on life transitions.
Opinion piece
Good news!
Some good news 2022 because at Brain Booster we are optimistic. It is when we least believe in it that the real changes begin...
Opinion piece
The Brain Booster team wishes you happy holidays!
Hanukkah sameah, Merry Christmas, Winter Solstice, Saint Lucy's Day or Yule...
Events
Listening to oneself to (re)find oneself
On navigating our personal and professional transitions...
a 3-day retreat to give you the time and space to reflect, catch your breath, re-evaluate your priorities, set yourself in motion towards your future.
Opinion piece
Brain Booster is taking action for the planet.
2022, the hottest year in the world... To continue to ACT... Brain Booster is now a shareholder of the Time for the planet organization.
Coaching Our publications
15 coaching case studies explained
A collective work from a group of authors including Stéphane Vallée and Gilles Vialard.
Our publications
A human and high-performance leadership
By Nathalie Delmas.
In a world as volatile and uncertain as ours, a new type of leader capable of combining humanity AND performance is essential. How to become one?
Our publications
Rediscover body intelligence
By Eve Berger-Grosjean.
All learning, all interaction, all processes of evolution and transformation are initiated and embodied in the body.
Brain Booster comes together for "Gold in September"
"Gold in September" marks a month dedicated to raising awareness of infant and childhood cancer. Despite advances in research, cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease in children over the age of one.
Opinion piece
The best piece of news of September 2022
Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard, is donating his company to fight climate change.
Co-development Our publications
Co-development - Collective intelligence at the service of the individual and the group
24 years after the publication of the reference book on co-development, a concept developed by Claude Champagne and Adrien Payette, "Le codéveloppement. L'intelligence collective au service de l'individu et du groupe" has just been published by Editions Eyrolles. Suzanne Peters and Gilles Vialard are happy to have contributed to it through their experience in coaching organizations.
Our publications Vitality and prevention of BO
"Le Guide Psycho"
Suzanne Peters wrote the chapter "Stress or burnout" in Le Psycho Guide, a reference book on "well-being" edited by Dr Sylvie Angel and published by Larousse.
Our publications Vitality and prevention of BO
Overcoming burnout
Chronic fatigue, loss of motivation and efficiency at work, feeling overwhelmed, self-deprecation, increasing irritability and lack of concentration... Burnout is not inevitable. It can be managed, and better still, prevented.
Opinion piece
Christmas from the Tuscan hills
I have the immense luck and privilege of being able to take refuge in the beauty of the Tuscan hills. From these harmonious and rejuvenating landscapes, a letter written by Fra Angelico to a friend in 1453 inspired me...
Opinion piece
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or community?
Today is a national holiday in the US. And guess what... America is honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, the man who has relentlessly fought for the end of racial segregation, actively contributed to passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964, he was assassinated 4 years later.
Opinion piece
Choose to be grateful
It is not that I am really a big fan of traditional holidays and celebrations... but Thanksgiving is my favorite. Not because of the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and the cranberry celebrating the first harvest of the Mayflower pilgrims...
but for taking a pause to reflect back on the past year and for what we can be grateful for.
Coaching Tools / Resources
4 Powerful Questions
What about taking some time to perform a sincere assessment of your current working situation?
Co-development Our publications
Co-development and Theory U, resonances and synergies
By Suzanne Peters and Gilles Vialard published in the Bulletin Veille et Recherche of the AQCP. This article conceptualises a new model that emerged during a training session that Gilles and Suzanne gave to a group of managers whom they trained in co-development facilitation.
Vitality and prevention of BO
Preventing and helping employees facing Burnout - Restoring vital energy
What if professional coaches, human resources managers and managers were to become key players in helping employees to overcome burnout and avoid work-related stress?
Vitality and prevention of BO
Towards Sustainable Performance
From the beginning of the fist lockdown on March 17, 2020, we exchanged views with our clients and with each other, we read, observed, reflected... It may seem counter-intuitive to free up time to take a step back and understand the consequences of the pandemic on organizations, given that operational and business constraints take priority. And yet...