The Art of Self Care: How to Strengthen Your Psychological Well Being
Zoia Mahjoubi
This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.
Available in February 2026
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.
During the expert session, Zoia Mahjoubi engages the audience through various means, including a Q&A session, live demonstrations using the Mentimeter app for interactive exercises, and debunking common myths surrounding self-care. Participants use the app to share their thoughts on personal hygiene routine and self-care practices they desire to engage with more often.
Zoia emphasizes the importance of self-compassion, setting personal boundaries, and practicing gratitude for improved psychological well-being. She recommends making self-care practices a habit and encourages participants to define their personal non-negotiables for long-term well-being.
Recognizing that self-care is not a luxury, but rather an essential practice for managing stress and maintaining overall well-being, and that it can involve both simple acts and challenging decisions.
Learning how to define and communicate personal boundaries effectively to improve psychological hygiene, and practicing gratitude as a powerful tool for emotional well-being by acknowledging the things we appreciate in life.
Understanding the importance of self-awareness in identifying our true needs and developing compassion towards ourselves through practices like mindfulness, writing, seeking feedback, and practicing self-kindness during negative situations.
In this expert session, Zoia Mahjoubi shares insights on the importance of self-care and psychological well-being. Beginning the session, Zoia introduces herself as a program manager from Germany, emphasizing the significance of self-care in today's complex world.
Zoia clarifies that self-care is not just about functioning but truly flourishing, sharing her personal experiences and growth in this area. To engage participants, she uses the Mentimeter app for a quick check-in on recent self-care practices.
Debunking common myths surrounding self-care, Zoia addresses misconceptions such as self-care being a luxury, an act of self-indulgence, requiring full self-love and acceptance before practicing self-care, or being selfish.
Self-care is defined by Zoia as the intentional, proactive pursuit of integrated wellness that balances our mind, body, and soul. She emphasizes its essential role in managing stress and maintaining overall health.
To clarify the difference between needs and wants, Zoia encourages participants to share their thoughts.
Mindfulness and self-awareness are key components of self-care, helping individuals identify their true needs. Mindfulness is the practice of observing thoughts, feelings, and the environment with focus, clarity, and acceptance, while writing forces us to clarify our thoughts and feelings. Seeking feedback from trusted individuals can help increase self-awareness.
Physical hygiene and mental well-being are closely connected. Zoia emphasizes the importance of setting personal boundaries as an effective self-care practice for psychological hygiene, involving defining and communicating desired boundaries clearly to others.
Setting boundaries helps improve self-esteem, confidence, emotional stability, and relationship quality.
Saying no is also crucial in practicing self-care. Using the "yes, yes, no" formula enables us to acknowledge other people's needs while expressing our own empathetically and setting clear boundaries. Developing a positive self-attitude through self-compassion, recognizing human suffering, and practicing kindness to oneself are essential for improved psychological well-being.
Gratitude is another powerful tool for emotional well-being, as focusing on the positive counteracts negativity. Practicing gratitude by acknowledging things we appreciate in life increases happiness by boosting serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitters.
Conscious choices about time management and prioritizing self-care practices can lead to significant improvements in overall well-being. The session concludes with Zoia encouraging participants to define personal non-negotiables, such as exercise or personal time, and consistently practice them for long-term well-being.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Excellent and engaging session with great examples of techniques that anyone can use - thank you 😊
Fantastic session by Zoia, right to the main points, very clear exposition and managing with sucess to get the audience to participate. Big Thank You.
Thanks a lot for the session, it was amazing.
Very well presented and an excellent topic
The speaker is passionate and engaging. Thank you for the great content.
It was a fabulous session. Good job to Zoia. I would love to have her again on well being sessions. Thanks for organising this great session. Keep it up!
Nice session with a good presenter whom is passionate about this topic. I enjoyed the session! Looking forward to something similar in the future.
Thanks Zoia. It is always great to see that really caring people exist. All the best to you
It is interactive, and the block above 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.
Available in February 2026 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. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.
Zoia Mahjoubi is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.4 out of 5, across 448 responses, and rate Zoia personally 4.6 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Zoia, 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, German. 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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