Jayne Storey Speaking Topics

• Beyond the Mental Game (for business audiences)

  Quietening the mind to attain the experience of flow. We will cover a range of ancient principles and practices to calm the busy mind including various breathing exercises and forms of meditation and stance-training drills from Tai Chi and yoga. We will look at why mindfulness apps don’t really help and common mistakes and assumptions about the meditative state and flow. Following this we will look at harnessing deeper levels of insight for completing complex tasks and projects and finish with how to build a daily practice of your own from what you’ve learned.

  Benefits and take home value: Audience members will be able to put together a daily Performance Practice to help dispel anxiety and remove all forms of mental interference and stress. They will be shown how to build and develop the practice, apply it to the busy working day and revisit it at times of overwhelm to get back in flow and feel more at ease.

  Fully interactive speech.

  Duration: 90 mins speech or half day (4 hours) training.

  Additional training: bespoke over 1-2 days as required.

• Stillness is the Master of Motion (sports audiences)

  Attaining a state of relaxed readiness so the body can respond naturally to the intention for the shot; how intent is quicker than the mind and why thinking slows down the release of complex movement skills, including decelerating through the ball. How thinking about moving disrupts the signal from the motor system throwing off balance, rhythm and timing. The daily practice of standing meditation as used in Tai Chi and its applications for all sports. True balance, ground force reaction and leverage. Moving from the ground upwards. Preparing your body with the twin qualities of structure and relaxation; using the body’s center of gravity for more centrifugal force. What’s missing from modern biomechanics and how ancient practices free the body to release athletic skills.

  Benefits and take home value: Audience members will put together a foundational practice to help in the preparation for delivering complex sporting movements without resorting to technical thinking which can disrupt and inhibit the body. Advice will be given on how to build and develop the practice, implement it during pre-shot routines and in the midst of competition.

  Fully interactive speech.

  Duration: 90 mins speech or half day (4 hours) training.

  Additional training: bespoke over 1-2 days as required.

• Deep Practice and High Performance (sport or business)

  Preparing the inner conditions necessary to enter the flow-state or zone, bypassing many of the assumptions and myths of psychology and the mental game. How to develop inner quietude by focusing on the body. Understanding the body as the true foundation of Presence. Being in the body is being in the moment. Learning a range of movement principles and practices from Tai Chi and yoga. The twin qualities of structure and relaxation. How being aware of the body quietens the mind. Self-awareness and the loss of tension. Stillness in motion; letting the mind rest in the center of the body. Using the body as a foundation to quieten the mind.

  Benefits and take-home value: Audience members will be able to develop a body-based daily practice to develop greater inner quietude, self-awareness, clarity, confidence and the ability to perform under pressure with ease and mastery.

  Fully interactive speech.

  Duration: 90 mins speech or half day (4 hours) training.

  Additional training: bespoke over 1-2 days as required.

• Tai Chi Experience

  Jayne Storey has been practicing Tai Chi Chuan since 1987 and has been teaching week in – week out for the past 25 years. She has learned from many of the great exponents of the art, specifically the Yang (Yeung) Family Long Form. Teachers she has studied with include the late master Chu King Hung, Sifu John Hine, John Ding and most recently Kevin Bryant who is a disciple of Jim Uglow.

  In this session, delegates will experience the root of Jayne’s unique Performance Practice methods by exploring meditation, softening exercises, chi kung (Qi Gong) breathing and postural awareness and of course, some of the movements of the Tai Chi form.

  It is an ideal way to help busy executives and personnel unplug from their devices, de-stress and reconnect to the body. It is also an opportunity for athletes and performing artists to experience first-hand how the training helps to overcome performance anxiety as it offers a way to quiet the mind and develop a body that is athletic yet relaxed.

  Studies show that regular practice of Tai Chi reduces tension and mental interference, improves cardiovascular health, enhances flexibility, aids digestion, promotes better sleep and improves mental health.

  Companies who have enjoyed this experience include Academy for Chief Executives, Avaya, British Gas, Debenhams, GlaxoSmithKline, Hampshire Police Constabulary, Huf Haus, National Health Service, Unilever and Vistage.

  Benefits and take home value: This session will provide a bite-size deep dive into the world of Tai Chi, exploring Eastern philosophy and practice and how it can promote well-being at work or provide benefits for athletes needing to perform under pressure.

  Fully interactive session.

  Suitable for golf, sport, music and business audiences. 

  Duration: 60 -90 minutes.

• Journey of a Thousand Miles

  Learn more about Jayne’s life in the Eastern martial and meditative arts and her ongoing daily practice since 1987; how she overcame chronic shyness, trained her body and mind with traditional ways and how it's influenced her understanding of the phenomena of ""flow"" i.e. not from the usual psychological perspective, but from her deep practice.

  Benefits and take home value:

  This speech will inspire and motivate any audience, especially those wishing to implement new or challenging ideas, to persist against the odds and do more than they currently believe is possible.

  Motivational speech with some interactive activities.

  Suitable for golf, sport, music and business audiences.

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