Inside Out Training Programme
The pathway to resilient leadership
‘Inside Out’ is a programme for CEOs and senior leaders who are passionate about their work and dedicated to their staff and stakeholders and who want to build their resilience to sustain themselves and their organisations in these complex times.
Astrid Korin and Maggie Farrar, founders of Inside Out, have worked together on organisation and leadership development for many years. At the same time we have been cultivating our own personal practice toward greater leadership presence and resilience. We have seen the impact of these practices in our own lives and in the lives of the many leaders we have worked with over the years. Now, we want to share this with you through the ‘Inside Out’ programme.
Our Team
Astrid Korin
Executive Transformational Coach
Maggie Farrar
Empowering Mindfulness in Leadership
Roger Bretherton
Clinical and Coaching Psychologist
We are inviting you to consider a deeper, more authentic way to lead that will help you cultivate resilience for yourself and your teams in our fast-paced, uncertain and constantly changing world.
We want to share and build a new way of thinking about resilience, defined by the Resilience Leadership Institute as: “The ability to effectively address challenge, change, and complexity, and in doing so, to be enhanced, not diminished by these experiences.”
‘Inside Out’’ will help you:
Develop greater self-awareness. You will gain a better understanding of your triggers, the lens’ through which you see the world and your internal belief systems (about yourself and others), enabling you to be more authentic in your leadership.
Develop compassion for yourself and others. You will learn to notice and name the judgements you make about yourself and others that can keep us stuck in negative thought patterns, and erode our resilience, well being, energy and effectiveness.
Build agency and control of your own environment. You will discover opportunities to set boundaries and choose responses & behaviours that serve you better, allowing you to be more responsive and resilient.
Programme Overview
The programme will introduce you to the following:
Key concepts from the field of psychology that are commonly used in coaching to help leaders understand themselves and their staff better. This will include understanding common states of mind, communication patterns and the stories we create and tell ourselves that erode our self-worth and hinder our performance.
Tools, frameworks and practices that will help you to cultivate resilient leadership. This will include understanding your habits of mind, adjusting how you respond to challenges, cultivating healthy relationships and communicating with passion and purpose.
Practices that cultivate protective awareness in leaders and help you to reduce stress and burnout for yourselves and for others in your organisation. This will include how the practice of compassion and kindness can be a powerful motivating force, allowing you to be ‘kind to people’, including yourself, ‘whilst being tough on issues’.
You will be guided by Maggie and Astrid, who draw on their extensive experience, which they developed through their own leadership journeys and through the work they are now doing with leaders and their teams in the UK and globally.
Programme Content
Recent evaluation results
Self-awareness
Compassion for self and others
Agency and control on their environment
An external, third-party qualitative and quantitative evaluation showed that Inside Out had a statistically positive impact on 12 measures of resilience and wellbeing in three categories:
On completion of the programme, participants were better able to:
Our findings also show that:
Participants became more curious and open-minded when under pressure and they noted a clear shift in how they respond to challenges at work:
“I tend to try and fix it, but I am now trying to stop and pause before responding which means I don’t agree to solve everyone’s problems.”
“[I deal with challenge in a] more systematic way - power of the pause - I balance between the balcony and dance floor - being present and visible when/as much as possible.”
“Sometimes (I) jump to worst case scenario but I am dealing with this now.”
“I now make sure that I take time to stop and think, step back and try to see the wider picture. Listen to what people are and aren’t saying - [I ask myself] who is the situation actually a challenge for?”
Format, timings and logistics
Our cross-sectional cohort that started in September 2024 is FULL.
A cross-sector, cross-industry cohort starts in January 2025.
Cohort led by:
Roger Bretherton
Astrid Korin
The January 2025 cohort will take place over the following times and dates:
16 January 2025, 3pm - 5pm: A two-hour Zoom introductory session to set the scene, introduce the content and begin your journey.
13 February 2025, 10:30am - 4:30pm: A one-day face-to-face delivery at Friends House, London (walking distance from Euston and Kings Cross stations).
20 March 2025, 3pm - 5pm: A two-hour Zoom session 3 weeks after the event to consolidate and expand your practice.
24 April 2025, 3pm - 5pm: A final two-hour reflective Zoom session to deepen and sustain your resilience.
The cost is £450 plus VAT @20% per delegate excluding any travel and accommodation.
We deliver bespoke programmes in-house for organisations who want to send a full cohort of leaders. Please reach out to our team for further details.
What previous participants have said
How to get in touch
If this sounds like it could be interesting to you and your organisation, please get in touch with one of us and let’s chat!
Victoria (Inside Out Manager): insideout@astridkorin.com
Astrid: coaching@astridkorin.com
Maggie: maggie@maggiefarrar.co.uk
Thank you. We look forward to hearing from you!