Making Friends with Stress: How to Create A Brain-Friendly Space

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Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.

This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.

Event Schedule:

6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open

7pm Lecture Starts

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Talk Concludes

8.30pm Event Closes.

*Please arrive close to 6.30pm

A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.

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Making Friends with Stress & Creating a Brain-Friendly SpaceStress isn’t the enemy. In fact, the right amount of pressure can help us focus, perform and grow. The problem begins when pressure becomes prolonged and our brains and bodies don’t get the opportunity to recover.In this engaging, practical keynote, Charlotte Ingham explores the neuroscience of stress and what happens in the brain when workplace pressure becomes too much. Participants will learn how cortisol influences thinking, behaviour, communication and performance and, importantly, what we can do about it.Moving beyond simply telling people to “manage their stress”, Charlotte introduces the concept of a brain-friendly workplace: an environment designed to reduce unnecessary stressors while increasing the conditions that help people feel safe, connected, motivated and able to perform at their best.Blending neuroscience, psychosocial…