2020 Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards

16 GHP / 2020 Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards , Sep20626 Best Cultural Psychology & Coaching Company 2020 - Australia Established in 1999, WISDOM in Your Life is a leading cultural psychology and training company. Following the firm’s well-deserved success in the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards 2020, we touched base with Roslyn Snyder to find out more. “WISDOM in Your Life provides simple, visual, inclusive and integrated teachings to heal the mind, enhance culture, or smooth the interface between two or more cultures: workplace culture, family culture, community culture, or specialised cultures of medicine, law or any subcultures. “The three basic tenets are: Culture either enhances or damages the psychology of individuals within that culture. Culture is created by the space in between people, that are the relationships and energy connections. Leaders have more influence on culture than disempowered people. Our teachings are ‘activity based’, we get people to do simple things. We usually teach a ‘concept’ or ‘framework’ in picture or metaphor, we enhance this with story and then we ask people to do an ‘activity’ which uses either story, movement, music, art or language or to observe themselves. Naturally, people retain up to 90% of what they do and only about 10% of what they read or hear. Our teachings seamlessly combine psychological and Australian Aboriginal ways of knowing which result in unprecedented learnings. Aboriginal culture focuses on the unconscious whereas Western Culture focuses on conscious, by integrating these two cultures we connect the tangibles with the intangible. The language of the unconscious is metaphor, story, symbols and pictures, To experience this, we have developed two fundamental online training programs. These have been taught for over 20 years in person, but due to Covid-19 and the need across the world for people to deal with the psychological aspects of lockdown and the pandemic we are releasing these in January 2021 and March 2021. Earth School 1: Foundations for Life and Earth School 2: Relationship Foundations. Each has ten teachings, each concept is delivered by video with downloadable handouts, then participants do an activity, upload the results and a reflection. Each teaching can be practised many times, I still do many of these activities regularly to maintain my psychological integrity. We hope that workplaces will undertake these teachings for entry level staff. Research shows these are the two most important aspects for lifelong wellbeing. An example from Earth School 1 teachings is to be the Captain of your own life. You, as captain is your physical self, the equipment on board is your mental self, the ballast, your emotional self [the psychology], the rudder is your spiritual self, the weather is other people and the water, your surroundings [the culture]. Finally, your boat is ‘your core’, your unique energy pattern. Imagine a family culture on a river in canoes and then a child is born with an ocean liner as their core. The ocean liner is never going to ‘fit’ with the river, an oar is not enough equipment to sail an ocean liner. In addition, the captain needs to steer his boat, that is physically connected to the rudder (spiritual). By understanding life in this way, people are empowered to take action. Workplaces seek people that ‘fit’ their culture, not just having the right equipment (e.g. a degree). Similarly, Earth School 2 teachings identify what healthy relationships look like, we also include cycles of dysfunction so people can readily identify these practices in workplaces or in intimate relationships. People often ask, how did I develop this work. As a child I always sensed energy patterns, which lead me to study pure science, mathematics and eventually psychology. After graduating with first class honours in psychology, I dreamed of ‘the map’, an emotional landscape of life. ‘The map’ reframes complex psychological processes into a simple picture. Instead of having mental illness, people are ‘stuck’ in the Swamp of Feelings or the Desolate Desert, decision making occurs on the Seemore Mountains. People can immediately see where they are and where they need to go, workplaces or “WISDOM inYour Life provides simple, visual, inclusive and integrated teachings to heal the mind, enhance culture, or smooth the interface between two or more cultures: workplace culture, family culture, community culture, or specialised cultures of medicine, law or any subcultures.”