Mental Fitness Is Your Superpower: Five Perspectives on Unlocking the Best Version of Yourself and Your Team
In boardrooms across the country, conversations around mental health have shifted to include mental fitness: the quality that allows everyone at your organization to develop resilience and avoid burnout. Our speakers provide cutting-edge tools from their own research—strategies like listening to your anxieties or giving yourself a pep talk with your own name—that you and your team can use to overcome challenges and thrive.
Why Anxiety Is Actually Good for You
“Anxiety exists in the space between where we are now and where we want to be,” says Tracy Dennis-Tiwary. A psychology and neuroscience professor and author of Future Tense, Tracy proves that although anxiety may feel bad, it’s actually a normal response to an uncertain (but hopeful) future—and an essential tool for prioritizing what really matters in life.
Unleash Your Inner Ted Lasso—By Talking to Yourself
If you want to lead others, you first need to lead yourself. And the voice inside your head can be your greatest asset and best coach—if you know how to use it. Ethan Kross, an award-winning psychologist and author of Chatter, calls your inner voice “the Swiss Army knife of the mind” and shows you how to use it to avoid burnout, lead others, and tap into high performance.
Art and Creativity: Your Greatest Tools for Belonging
Art isn’t just aesthetic. Vijay Gupta says it’s a powerful way to help everyone at your organization belong. Vijay is a “visionary violinist” (The New Yorker) and the founder of Street Symphony, an organization bringing music and art to America’s most disadvantaged communities. He shows us creative ways to cultivate beauty and connection at work—and everywhere else.
Self-Compassion Doesn’t Make You Soft. It Makes You Strong
Being kind to yourself doesn’t mean your standards are low, says Kristin Neff. As the first person to empirically study self-compassion, Kristin shows that self-compassionate people and self-critical people have equally high standards—but being kind to yourself actually makes you more resilient, a stronger performer, and better at overcoming challenges.
Happiness Comes from the Story You Tell About Yourself
What story are you telling about your life? Are you the victim, or the hero? Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, says you get to shape the narrative—and change your life. “There’s nothing more important to the quality of our lives than the stories we tell ourselves about them.”
“Anxiety exists in the space between where we are now and where we want to be,” says Tracy Dennis-Tiwary. A psychology and neuroscience professor and author of Future Tense, Tracy proves that although anxiety may feel bad, it’s actually a normal response to an uncertain (but hopeful) future—and an essential tool for prioritizing what really matters in life.
Watch an exclusive Lavin video where Tracy speaks about how anxiety is really a sign of hope.
Unleash Your Inner Ted Lasso—By Talking to Yourself
If you want to lead others, you first need to lead yourself. And the voice inside your head can be your greatest asset and best coach—if you know how to use it. Ethan Kross, an award-winning psychologist and author of Chatter, calls your inner voice “the Swiss Army knife of the mind” and shows you how to use it to avoid burnout, lead others, and tap into high performance.
Watch Ethan explain what your inner voice is, and why it matters.
Art and Creativity: Your Greatest Tools for Belonging
Art isn't just aesthetic. Vijay Gupta says it’s a powerful way to help everyone at your organization belong. Vijay is a "visionary violinist" (The New Yorker) and the founder of Street Symphony, an organization bringing music and art to America’s most disadvantaged communities. He shows us creative ways to cultivate beauty and connection at work—and everywhere else.
Watch a PBS interview with Vijay where he discusses the link between art and community.
Self-Compassion Doesn’t Make You Soft. It Makes You Strong
“Anxiety exists in the space between where we are now and where we want to be,” says Tracy Dennis-Tiwary. A psychology and neuroscience professor and author of Future Tense, Tracy proves that although anxiety may feel bad, it’s actually a normal response to an uncertain (but hopeful) future—and an essential tool for prioritizing what really matters in life.
If you want to lead others, you first need to lead yourself. And the voice inside your head can be your greatest asset and best coach—if you know how to use it. Ethan Kross, an award-winning psychologist and author of Chatter, calls your inner voice “the Swiss Army knife of the mind” and shows you how to use it to avoid burnout, lead others, and tap into high performance.
Art isn’t just aesthetic. Vijay Gupta says it’s a powerful way to help everyone at your organization belong. Vijay is a “visionary violinist” (The New Yorker) and the founder of Street Symphony, an organization bringing music and art to America’s most disadvantaged communities. He shows us creative ways to cultivate beauty and connection at work—and everywhere else.
Being kind to yourself doesn’t mean your standards are low, says Kristin Neff. As the first person to empirically study self-compassion, Kristin shows that self-compassionate people and self-critical people have equally high standards—but being kind to yourself actually makes you more resilient, a stronger performer, and better at overcoming challenges.
What story are you telling about your life? Are you the victim, or the hero? Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, says you get to shape the narrative—and change your life. “There’s nothing more important to the quality of our lives than the stories we tell ourselves about them.”
