Let AI Handle the Tasks. We Help Your People Lead the Innovation.
Technical skill is now the baseline; emotional regulation is the new competitive advantage.
IA has both raised the bar and leveled the playing field. We help your people unlock the innovation that technology cannot replicate. Through Workplace Emotional Intelligence and Resilience training, we teach your team to find the "Pause Button"—moving them from reactive survival mode into strategic, creative action your business needs to lead.
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You Cannot Innovate in Survival Mode
If your team is emotionally maxed out they don't have the energy or capacity to think big, dive deep or learn and be curious.
Most professional development fails because it ignores the biological barrier of stress. You can give an employee a strategy, but if their nervous system is in a state of survival, they physically cannot execute it.
Instead of innovating, your team gets stuck in a survival cycle that looks like:
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Fight: Irritability, defensiveness, and internal conflict becoming external.
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Flight: Avoiding difficult conversations and running away from complexity.
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Fawn: Over-committing, people-pleasing, and lack of clear boundaries.
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Freeze: Procrastination, decision paralysis, and an inability to execute.
Your team doesn't need more team building exercises, they need practical skills to address the root cause of lost productivity: Lack of emotional regulation.
The Solution: The Art of Unblending
What is Unblending?
It's a critical self-leadership skill that's the key to emotional regulation and control.
We teach your team how to find their center of Calm, Curiosity, Creativity, and Connection—even in the middle of a crisis. They learn how to give their creative, confident, and risk-taking sides enough space to do their jobs when the pressure is on.
Regulation is Not Repression
A common fear is that "managing emotions" means stuffing them down. We teach the opposite. This isn’t about ignoring your emotions. It’s about finding the pause button.
We give your staff the tools to:
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Recognize when they have blended with a survival state.
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Unblend (Step back) to get the job done effectively.
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Process the emotion later, in the appropriate time and place.
This is the skill of Emotional Agility (Regulation). It allows you to visit a high-stress state without getting stuck there.
The Business Impact:
Mastering this skill links directly to your company's strategic goals:
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Enhanced Psychological Safety: Conflict becomes collaborative problem-solving.
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Cognitive Agility: Faster, more clear-headed decision-making under pressure.
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Retention & Sustainable Performance: Staff operates at a healthy, consistent pace without the burnout crash.
Workshop and Training Options
Available as: Lunch & Learns (60 min) | Interactive Workshops (90 min) | Half-Day Deep Dives
These workshops teach the "missing link"—the emotional self-regulation skills required to move from knowing what to do to actually doing it.
1. Stress Management & Regulation
Burnout isn’t just about workload; it’s about the biological inability to downshift. This workshop teaches staff how to recognize the signs of the "Freeze Response" and utilize the 5 S’s Framework to reset their focus in real-time.
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Topics: Burnout Prevention, Somatic Regulation, Sustainable Performance.
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Outcome: Staff who can self-regulate in high-stakes environments.
2. Overcoming Procrastination
Why do we put off important projects? Usually, it’s an internal conflict between the drive to innovate and the fear of failure. We teach your staff how to negotiate with this internal resistance (Self-Sabotage) to stop fighting themselves and start executing.
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Topics: Executive Function, Time Management, Decision Making.
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Outcome: A decision-making framework to move from "Stuck" to "Flow State.
3. Effective Team Communication
In a busy workplace, we often listen to fix rather than to understand. This breaks trust. We adapt professional peer-support techniques for the workplace environment, teaching leaders how to hold space without taking on the team's emotional load.
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Topics: Conflict Resolution, Empathy Training, Team Dynamics.
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Outcome: A culture of trust where problems are solved collaboratively, not buried.
Need something specific? Contact us to custom-design a course based on these topics.
Focus Areas of Coaching:
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Adaptive Leadership & Self-Leadership: moving from reactive management to conscious leadership.
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Emotional Intelligence (EQ) & Resilience: Understanding the "why" behind workplace emotions and reactions.
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Team Dynamics & Communication: navigating conflict and building trust.
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Work-Life Integration: Managing energy, not just time.
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Transforming Limiting Habits: Shifting from procrastination or perfectionism to flow.
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Navigating Change & Resistance: Tools for staying grounded during organizational shifts.
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Burnout Prevention & Sustainable Performance: Nervous system regulation for high-performers.
Key Techniques & Concepts:
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Cultivating "Executive Presence" (Self-Energy): Leading with clarity, curiosity, and calm.
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Values Alignment: Connecting daily tasks to broader professional vision.
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"Internal Team" Management: resolving internal conflict between competing priorities (e.g., the perfectionist vs. the innovator).
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Nervous System Regulation: Practical tools to de-escalate stress in real-time.
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Professional Boundaries: Protecting time and energy without guilt.
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Strengths-Based Self-Recognition: Moving from inner criticism to constructive self-feedback.
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Building Psychological Safety: Creating environments where open, honest dialogue is possible.
What past class participants have to say about Shayla
Gillian K
Shayla's Integration course really helped me to uncover underlying emotional issues and helped me to trace the root of some of my triggers and challenges.
More importantly, Shayla gave me actionable tools and processes with what to do with the insights and awareness that I gained. Before this course, I would gain awareness and insights but lacked the skill to integrate the learnings and move forward with healing. I had an incomplete feeling of 'where do I go from here?'.
Now I have tangible, tactical processes to deal with new insights and I'm able to move forward and shed some of the behaviors that stemmed from past trauma, without self blame and shame. I feel like Shayla gave me a blueprint of how to move forward and leverage my learnings.
Sung K
This workshop (Integration Fundamentals) has been transformational for my personal growth and understanding of my selves (parts).
It was very rough for me during the first few weeks when I would be constantly activated and felt a lot of resistance from my parts along with turbulent emotions.
Now I recognize that my parts felt threatened as I was very harsh and judgmental towards myself & parts.
I am so so glad that I stuck with it and learned so much from this workshop!
Tobi M
Shayla is a great instructor and wonderful at her craft. She organizes and frames information in just the right size pieces so that it’s easily understood. I gained a lot of insight through the integration class.
It helped me to process a lot of things that I had been stuck on or not truly looking at because of fear. It helped me to put down old baggage that I had been carrying for years. It also helped me to see the parts of me as parts and not just one massive knotted up mess.
The methodology that she brings to the class, helped me to understand how complex we are as individuals, and that I could have a conversation with myself and the parts of me that were not ok. This class helped me to process those pieces in a more structured way. I still use the skills that I learned in her class today even months later.
As a lifelong learner you can utilize these skills throughout the rest of your life and apply it to a lot of different things along the way.
I am also a fan of her teaching style as it is a great combination of demonstration and explanation,in a conversational format.
Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
For C-Suite, Founders, and High-Potential Leaders.
While our workshops teach teams how to manage reactivity, our 1:1 Executive Coaching is designed to resolve the underlying patterns that drive it.
Specialized Coaching For:
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Imposter Syndrome & Perfectionism: For leaders who over-prepare and fear being "found out."
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Emotional Regulation: For executives who struggle to stay calm in board meetings.
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Work-Life Integration: For high-achievers who cannot disconnect.
In a private and confidential setting, we do the deep work of Core Resolution—clearing the root causes of professional self-sabotage so you can lead with authentic Executive Presence.
FAQs
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Is this therapy?
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No. Our approach is developmental, not clinical. We use evidence-based psychological frameworks (like IFS) strictly for professional growth, resilience, and skill-building.
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While this work can definitely support therapy, the workplace trainings are not the place for deep emotional processing, more for emotional education.
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Do you offer virtual training?
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Yes. All workshops can be delivered virtually or in-person for teams in Seattle. For in-person events outside of the Seattle area, a travel and lodging stipend will be itemized in the final proposal.
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