Building Connections and Well-being
Rose Auyeung-Chen
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
This one runs as a masterclass: Rose Auyeung-Chen takes your colleagues through the research and the thinking behind it, with live questions throughout.
Rose specialises in mood disorders, vocational rehabilitation, crisis intervention, self-harm, emotion regulation, stress management, and conflict resolution. She is trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is currently working in her private practice as well as a Clinical Counsellor at the BC Occupational Stress Injury Clinic treating persistent psychological difficulty resulting from operational duties performed during military or RCMP service. She also worked at Vancouver General Hospital’s Mental Health and Substance Use Outpatient Services for eight years providing group and individual therapy for a variety of mental health conditions. She is also a TEDx speaker and has over ten years of experience working with children and youth.
All sessions by Rose →Despite the fact we are often surrounded by other humans on a daily basis (whether it be through technology or in person), many of us find it challenging to deepen and forge strong connections with others. Did you know having strong healthy social connections in one's life actually has many positive benefits on one's well-being?
Through this session, you will learn ways to grow and deepen your social network while avoiding the 4 common pitfalls people often make when building and managing meaningful relationships.
During the expert session, Rose Auyeung Chen engages the audience through interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app, a live Q&A session, and discussions on managing relationships and overcoming common barriers. She introduces concepts like "expired eggs" and the donut and cinnamon bun models while encouraging reflection on personal experiences and addressing common relationship challenges.
Additionally, Rose emphasizes the importance of practicing gratitude for improved well-being and deeper human connections.
Recognizing common barriers like personalization, timing and tolerance levels, and reassurance seeking is key to improving and maintaining healthy relationships.
Practicing gratitude by focusing on positive experiences, expressing appreciation, and reflecting on interactions can lead to better mental health and stronger connections with others.
Maintaining various layers of connections, considering the timing and impact of conversations, and avoiding excessive apologizing are essential practices for building and nurturing lasting relationships.
In this expert session, Rose Auyeung-Chen shares insights into two models for managing relationships: the donut and the cinnamon bun. The donut model prioritizes individuals within one's circle of trust, providing temporary relief when feeling overwhelmed but leading to a narrow world.
In contrast, the cinnamon bun model requires more effort but offers long-term benefits by enabling connections with various layers of people.
Rose then introduces the idea of "expired eggs," representing toxic relationships that can drain energy and make it essential to recognize which connections recharge us. She emphasizes the importance of mindfulness when dealing with such relationships, as personalization often acts as a barrier preventing deeper social connections.
Furthermore, Rose discusses the scenario where someone does not receive a prompt response from a friend or family member and encourages participants to consider other possibilities before jumping to negative conclusions. She advises taking into account that sometimes situations are not about us.
Another common barrier she introduces is ignoring timing and tolerance levels. People often rush to share their thoughts without considering if it's the best time for the recipient, who may have different tolerance levels based on life experiences.
Rose advises being mindful of one's urgency and evaluating whether the timing is right before engaging in potentially uncomfortable conversations.
Lastly, Rose discusses reassurance seeking as her favorite barrier, which involves excessive apologizing to make things okay or avoid potential conflicts. She highlights that while it may seem respectful, excessive apologizing can create unnecessary tension.
Instead, she advises giving situations time and considering the impact on oneself and others before reacting with an apology.
Throughout the session, Rose encourages participants to reflect on which barriers they frequently encounter. The practical next steps involve addressing loneliness by maintaining various layers of connections while being mindful of common barriers.
She ends the session by emphasizing the importance of investing in one's own well-being and encouraging everyone to take small steps towards connecting with people and building stronger relationships, even if it takes time.
Additionally, Rose discusses the benefits of practicing gratitude. According to her research, focusing on what we are grateful for leads to better mental health and overall well-being. She encourages participants to write down things they are grateful for and reflect on interactions that left a positive impact.
She emphasizes that sharing gratitude with others further enhances its impact and mentions professor Robert Emmons' research on the subject.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Thanks for the good subject WE shall have more like this...
Great session! Thank you so much!!
Thank you for an inspiring reminder of the obvious "facts of life" that we all tend to forget in our own daily rat race (life-style).
Well organized, clear topics, well explained.
That was a really intense and helpful session. Thank you.
It was a clear and "to the point" session with a clear choice of subject matters.
That it's sometimes good to analyse/review your social network, to be thankful for the relationships and connections we have in life and to find opportunities to improve the connections with others
It os definitely good to slow down, be thankful for what you have. Stop and think about where you are in the moments of your lives. Need to isolate, interact.
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Despite the fact we are often surrounded by other humans on a daily basis (whether it be through technology or in person), many of us find it challenging to deepen and forge strong connections with others. Did you know having strong healthy social connections in one's life actually has many positive benefits on one's...
A masterclass. Rose Auyeung-Chen takes your colleagues through the subject and the reasoning behind it, and answers live questions. It is practical in what people take away, without the hour turning into an exercise class.
Rose Auyeung-Chen is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.1 out of 5, across 251 responses, and rate Rose personally 4.5 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Rose, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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