Janette Kirk-Willis
Janette is a Positive Psychology Coach who specialises in Resilience. Having spent 30 years coaching people through change in the corporate world she now spends her time coaching and consulting with individuals, teams and organisation. She has a person-centred, calm, non-judgemental and wholly supportive approach.
Janette has a particular interest in resilience and change; menopausal support, managing physiology and self-compassion. She loves working one to one with individuals to help them to move closer to flourishing.
Janette was recently a wellbeing panel member at the ‘Women of the World’ festival and ran the South West’s first Menopause Café. She is a ‘Fellow’ of CIPD, has a Master’s degree in Strategic HR and a Post Grad in Positive Psychology and Coaching. She is a Master practitioner of RQi, a resilience psychometric developed at the University of Westminster.
Janette’s Blog
Managing Boundaries at Christmas
Guess what? Disney Christmas only exists in films. If that’s a blinding glimpse of the obvious to you then you need to read no further but for those of us who struggle every year with the concept of what we’d really like to do and what we feel obliged to do, read on...
Mental Health – What it really looks like
Where do you think you might be on the mental health spectrum today? (don’t worry it changes regularly) just today…are you struggling or thriving? unsettled or excelling? It’s important to really stop for a while and connect with what you’re thinking and feeling to...
Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching.
Why use Appreciative Inquiry in your coaching practice? We have so many positive psychology interventions to choose from, so why would we choose appreciative Inquiry (AI)? Positive psychology has a close relationship with AI, both start at a positive standpoint and...
What is Psychological Safety and Why is it Important?
The term ‘psychological safety is used increasingly lately, but what is it, what does it feel like, how do you create it and why is it important? What is psychological safety? “Psychological safety is being able to’ be yourself’ without fear of negative consequences...
How to Support the Wellbeing of Your Team
Change. It’s been quite a year. A pandemic, economic uncertainty and technology changing at the speed of light. Change can be exhilarating but continual change can create anxiety and eventually health issues like burnout and depression. How can you as a manager...
Which Arm Did You Choose Today?
An invitation to be vaccinated… I have occasional health anxiety, I know what caused it, how it gets triggered and how to manage it. The pandemic didn’t help and when I was invited for my Covid vaccination I had very mixed feelings. Of course, I was going to have it,...
Pandemic – How to manage emotions and increase resilience
We are only too aware of the physical, social and economic effects of this current pandemic, but it is also widely acknowledged that the psychological effects on individuals will be possibly our biggest long term challenge. Mental health and the pandemic The burden...
Acceptance – Why We Need More of it
Acceptance and its questionable reputation At first glance acceptance doesn’t have a great reputation does it? What often springs to mind is defeat. It feels somehow passive, perhaps resigned to settling for less that we had hoped for. It may feel unpalatable and...
Managing Relationship Boundaries is Key to our Personal Resilience
Boundaries are really important in relationships, whether they’re personal relationships or work-based relationships with colleagues.
Mental Health – Prevention is Better than Cure
‘Prevention is better than cure’ so the old adage goes…and it was never truer than with mental health. Fortunately, there are actions that we can take in order to keep ourselves psychologically well and resilient. It concerns me that the focus for some organisations...
The Benefits of Fostering ‘Belonging’ in the Workplace
Belonging – What is it? To feel a sense of belonging means to be accepted... It’s a human need, just like the need for food and shelter. Feeling that you belong is vitally important to seeing value in life as well as coping with intensely painful emotions. Why would...
How to Flourish
What does it mean to ‘flourish’? Is it possible to determine the state of flourishing and apply it to all of humanity? Well, yes and no. There are some core elements that need to be in place but of course the practical specifics will be different for everyone. Some of...
Supportive Relationships Enhance Resilience.
How much do you enjoy your work relationships?... If you answered ‘a lot’ to this question you’re likely to be significantly more resilient than people who answered ‘not at all’… We invest a lot of our time and energy at work, it can be miserable when relationships...
Resilience and Organisational Culture
How conducive is your organisational culture to facilitating resilience in your employees? Sustained organisational performance requires individuals to have recovery periods. Without recovery periods people burn out. That applies to everyone, even you! How...
How to help your people through change
Are there any organisations that aren’t changing in some way? Are organisations ever stable anymore? Whether the change comes from external drivers such as Brexit or technology or internal factors such as restructuring - change is omnipresent. And maybe it’s no bad...
Resilience and Managing Physiology
Who won't have at least a small blow out over Christmas? Too much food, not enough sleep, not enough exercise and not looking after ourselves well enough…Let’s see if we can get back on track… This is the first in a series of posts on Resilience based around the 6...
How can we increase our levels of personal resilience?
We have been talking about resilience a lot at work lately, I am currently working with an organisation that is undergoing a great deal of change and increasingly we are trying to do more with less, to achieve higher targets whilst our world is changing around us. How...
Be Kind – Feel Great!
Being kind makes us feel great. There is a mountain of research that outlines the benefits of performing acts of kindness. It improves our physical as well as our psychological health, so with anxiety and depression at an all-time high could kindness be the perfect...
Positive Psychology and the Menopause
How can Positive Psychology interventions improve menopausal symptoms? Menopause affects a billion people globally [1] and we barely talk about it. Mostly women ‘soldier on’ through difficult symptoms, often at a time of complex family changes. (children going to...