How to Make Decisions

During the expert session, Zoia Mahjoubi engages the audience through various means, including a Q&A session and live demonstrations, using the Mentimeter app for interactive exercises.

• Recognizing that every big or small decision throughout the day exhausts your energy level and learning how to focus on the more important ones.
• Understand your individual decision-making style to make better decisions in the future.
• Learning about strategies and ideas from psychology, philosophy, and economics for effective decision making.

Life is full of decisions. Every day, we are greeted by a barrage of choices from the moment we open our eyes: what to eat, what to wear, which project to tackle first—the list is endless. The effectiveness of our decision-making determines our success as leaders, colleagues, parents, partners, and friends, and lies at the heart of living a content life. Research suggests that we make about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day, ranging from strategic life decisions to mundane tasks. However, every choice we face depletes our cognitive resources, leaving us vulnerable to decision fatigue.

In this session, Zoia will help you understand the complexities of decision-making and how it impacts various aspects of your life. Participants will explore the concept of decision fatigue and learn how to manage it effectively. Through engaging discussions and practical exercises, Zoia will guide you in assessing your decision-making style and identifying common obstacles that hinder effective decision-making. This understanding will lay the foundation for developing better decision-making habits.

Furthermore, the session will equip you with proven techniques and strategies to enhance your decision-making skills. You will learn how to prioritize decisions, manage cognitive resources, and apply practical methods to make more informed and confident choices. By the end of the session, you will have a toolkit of techniques to improve your decision-making process, leading to greater efficiency and satisfaction in both your personal and professional life.

The Art of Self Care: How to Strengthen Your Psychological Well Being

There’s a myth fed by advertisement and social media that self-care is something like a luxurious spa-day, an extravagant weekend trip, or a fancy dinner in a prestigious restaurant. All these indulgences are great but they’re not self-care. What is self-care then? At the most basic level, self-care means the ability to care for yourself so that you generally function in the world. We all practice self-care, even if we’re not aware of it. But in this interactive session Zoia aims to show you how to turn self-care into something that is not just about functioning but flourishing. You will learn about the effects of self-care and why it matters for your longterm health and wellbeing. You will also get ideas on how to incorporate self-care into your life and how to build a self-care routine that actually sticks with you.

 

Mindful Communication

Skillful communication and warm connection are needed today more than ever before — whether that be in your professional or personal life. Mindful communication combines effective communication with the principles of mindfulness, which include kind and non-judgmental awareness as well as genuine curiosity. In this leqture, Zoia demonstrates how being mindful in our communication helps us deliver messages clearly, decrease the potential for conflict, and create genuine connection. So, whether you’re looking to excel in your career or improve your personal relationships, in this session you'll learn about the potential of mindfulness skills, and how you can apply them to level up your communication.

 

Cultivating Psychological Flexibility — The key to resilience and growth

If the question 'How to cope with life’s inevitable adversities?' sounds important to you, it’s because it is. We all take our psychology with us wherever we go — whether we are at home, work, or elsewhere, our level of psychological flexibility influences how well we can adapt our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in response to the increasing challenges of the modern world. The good thing is, the skills that allow us to develop psychological flexibility and resilience can be learned. In this session Zoia demonstrates why the skills that build psychological flexibility are so powerful and how you can begin developing them in yourself.