Dr Marny Lishman is a Health & Community Psychologist, Author, Wellbeing & Mindset Coach, Keynote Speaker, Media Commentator and Channel 9 Perth’s Resident Psychologist.
She holds a Bachelor Degree in Psychology as well as a Doctor of Psychology degree, with Health & Community Psychology speciality titles.
Her work involves creating agility of the mind, so that her clients can become more successful in their professional and personal life. Marny helps her clients increase their psychological capacity to not only design & create the life that they are envisioning, transform their internal capabilities to beyond what they thought possible, but deal with life’s individual and collective disruptions that people will inevitably face on their pathway to success.
An experienced facilitator, trainer, speaker, therapist, coach and mental health program developer, Marny has worked in a range of industries that has included designing and implementing government prevention programs, to training professionals in cutting edge evidence-based programs in the health industry. She has also worked at Edith Cowan University and Curtin University as a sessional academic working as a lecturer & tutor for a variety of psychology courses. A nurturer at heart, Marny has ran a successful private practice in Perth, Western Australia for the last 10 years.
Marny delivers inspirational and influential presentations to audiences to arm them with the psychological tools to increase their own psychological capability and flexibility to fit with todays fast-moving and uncertain world. She has presented for and worked with several leading organisations in the last few years including Chevron, Reinvention Consulting, Synergy, Murdoch University, NAB Wealth, Westpac, INPEX, Curtin Business School, Seven West Media, Chamber of Commerce & Industry, RAC, LG Professionals, Capricorn & a large number of WA schools & law firms. She is also the psychologist presenter/adviser at A Stitch In Time, a well-known Western Australian mental health charity organisation which provides mental health and wellbeing training to schools & sporting clubs.
Marny is a sought after national mental health & wellbeing expert that provides commentary on a variety of mental health topics on TV, radio and in print. She is the Resident Psychologist on Channel Nine’s '9 News at 5' in Perth and has been a columnist for Australia’s Body + Soul, & The Sunday Times.
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THRIVE: Mental Health, Mindset and Doing What Matters
WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS & PRESENTATIONSTHRIVE: Mental Health, Mindset and Doing What Matters
If you're looking for a speaker to inspire or educate a group or workplace team, then I present on a wide range of topics. I have presented to thousands of individuals over the last 15 years on topics that promote growth and change by helping people become the best they can be. From Keynote Presentations, Lunch & Learns, through to longer and practical workshops, I'm sure there is something to suit your audience. My learning and development experiences can also be designed to the needs of your specific audience or industry. I'm available for local, national & international presentations in-person and virtual.
Presentation Topics
THRIVE: Mental Health, Mindset and Doing What Matters
According to The World Economic Forum in its Future of Jobs Report, the top most important skills that employers are now seeking include complex problem solving, critical thinking and creativity. For these skills to be operationalised in the real world, mental health and wellbeing needs to be a priority. When individuals are stressed, anxious and feeling low, it’s difficult to be innovative, think differently, solve problems, understand others and be excited about engaging in opportunities for the future. Fortunately, making a shift early in one’s self-leadership journey - of shifting mindset to one of nurturing the person behind the professional - can lay a healthier physical and psychological foundation in which to lead our life from. Many ambitious people are wired for achieving, conditioned to keep busy and work under the constant pressure to succeed, with self-care often taking a back seat. Unfortunately, this way of operating is not sustainable, ultimately impacting our mental health and performance. Maintaining our ambitious drives, actualising our personal and professional plans, whilst also staying mindful of our own physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs is an art. This workshop gives participants the knowledge and the mindset to work towards creating a satisfying and fulfilling life, personally and professionally. It helps people develop a foundation of mental fitness, foster the courage to follow their dreams, sustain their ambition, keep their eyes on their goals, align with their values, anticipate roadblocks, embrace authenticity and be psychologically adaptable in this complex, ever-changing modern world we live in. Marny will outline the crucial key areas that ambitious individuals need to be aware of and be proactive in to manage their own wellbeing, so they can present their best self in their personal and professional life, and ultimately reach their potential.
FOCUS: How to Become Indistractable
If you’ve ever settled in to get a hard days work done, confident that the 8 hours will be productive … and ended up doing anything but, you’re not alone. With all good intentions to stay on task, we end up distracted and finding ourselves caught up in something entirely different with our attention pulled in all directions other than were we intended it to go. It might be scrolling through instagram when we should be working on a project, it might be checking emails every five minutes, constantly checking news feeds or even picking up our mobile every time a notification grabs our attention. If you’re a typical working individual, you’ll be distracted every 11 minutes; and, it will take you 25 minutes to settle down again to your task. Distractions have a huge cost on our focus and productivity. If you want to improve or increase your focus, you need to learn to deal with the distractions in your life. This presentation gives audiences the powers of indistractability so they can be more productive in the workplace.
FOCUS: How to Become Indistractable
FLOW: The Art of Psychological Flexibility
FLEXIBILITY: With ongoing disruptions to our schedules, plans and life in general, do you ever wonder if you’d get less worked up or stressed out if you were less annoyed about change, stopped blaming others for making you change, became less resistant and just let life "happen"? Psychological flexibility refers to a person’s ability to stay in the present moment and accept difficult thoughts, feelings and sensations as well as process & work through each of them. It involves being able to take a broader, more holistic view of the situation and adjust our life accordingly. And most of all, it helps people keep living according to their deeply held values and proactively design their life with the learnings from their personal growth experiences. Going with the flow does not come naturally to many, but it’s a useful trait for all of us to develop to help maintain good mental health wellbeing particularly in this time of continuous adapting. In fact, many experts argue that psychological flexibility is the ‘super skill’ of resilience and mental health, and this seminar covers exactly what it is, and what steps an individual needs to take to become more flexible to change.
FLOW: The Art of Psychological Flexibility
PLAY: Benefits of Adult Play & Humour in the Workplace
Babies laugh, on average, 400 times a day; people over 35, only 15. Adults tend to be the fun police, but laughter has increasingly been shown to be exactly what the doctor ordered. From reducing stress, boredom, tension, and anxiety to increasing wellbeing, creativity & productivity, laughter is being seen to be the perfect antidote to the serious and often sombre adult world we live in. Play has been shown to increase happiness, momentarily as well as over time, when we build more of it into our busy schedules. Play has also been shown to improve relationships, aiding in connection with the people in our lives. What is adult PLAY about, and how can we do more of it as adults? This seminar talks through the evidence behind play & humour and participants will engage in activities to get their creative brain working and get a taste of how play & laughter can improve performance.
PLAY: Benefits of Adult Play & Humour in the Workplace
ADAPT: Why Mindset Matters in the Changing Workplace
Unless change is our idea, we don’t tend to like it. In fact, if change isADAPT: Why Mindset Matters in the Changing Workplace
imposed on us, either too quickly or if we can’t predict the benefit, it’s
likely that we will resist it. But in a world that is unpredictable, fast-paced and ever-changing, being adaptable is a crucial human trait to have. Is your organisation experiencing change, going through stressful times, or are staff not operating to their fullest potential? This seminar gives participants a suite of evidence-based tools & techniques to manage their mind so they can adapt to change and still perform at their best despite the regular organisational pivots. Marny covers the most useful cognitive techniques that she gives her own individual clients that helps them manage their mind so that they feel calmer and more focused, both at work and in their personal lives whilst going through adversity.
THE SLEEP SOLUTION: Sleeping For High Performance
Before the invention of the electric light most people were getting 10 hours of sleep a night. Us adults now get roughly about 6 hours a night, if we are lucky. Obviously, we can survive on this lesser amount of sleep, but it comes at a cost. With our modern sleeping behaviours, we are pushing it way past what our bodies have evolved to do, and subsequently we feel the harsh consequences. Sleeping is for relaxing, recharging, rejuvenating and resetting; and there are few special tools that adults need to know to actualise a good and healthy sleep. In this seminar, Marny will discuss the neuroscience behind sleep, and what behaviours are crucial for people to incorporate into their daily rituals to not only get a regenerating sleep, but one that boosts their performance in their waking hours.
THE SLEEP SOLUTION: Sleeping For High Performance
MANAGE YOUR MIND: Re-Wire Your Thinking Style
Being mentally healthy is more than just not being depressed or anxious. It means being able to manage your mind in moments where it tends to become unhelpful rather than helpful. It might be worrying too much about the future or thinking too much about the past or even constantly overreacting to certain situations in the moment. Thinking like this is unhelpful, distressing, exhausting and pulls us away from optimal functioning in all areas of our life. Being mentally healthy allows us to perform at our best and reach our full potential, and most of us need a little help with this. This presentation gives participants a selection of ‘mind tools’ to manage unhelpful cognitions and develop a healthier way of thinking.
MANAGE YOUR MIND: Re-Wire Your Thinking Style
BURNOUT TO BRILLIANT: Bouncing Back From Burnout
Noticed you’re dragging yourself to work lately? Feeling cynical about it? Exhausted throughout the day? Productivity reduced? The passion you once had for your work disappeared. Perhaps it’s not because you hate your job, but rather because you’re suffering from BURNOUT. With the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently recognising burnout as a medical condition, it’s now time for individuals & employers to take notice of this as a serious condition that has an enormous impact on the psychological and physical wellbeing of the sufferer. Not to mention, the flow on effect in the workplace. What are the signs and symptoms of burnout? What can assist a person suffering from burnout in the workplace? What can an individual & workplace do to prevent & treat burnout? A copy of Marny's new book "Burnout to Brilliant" can be provided to all participants on request.
BURNOUT TO BRILLIANT: Bouncing Back From Burnout
