Removing the Mask is a powerful learning experience for high-functioning professionals who look capable on the outside but feel stretched, reactive, disconnected, or depleted underneath.

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This session explores how chronic stress, unprocessed experiences, and nervous-system overload can quietly shape behaviour, health, relationships, and performance — often without us realising.

Rather than framing burnout or stress as weakness, the work reframes these patterns as intelligent survival responses that may no longer be serving us.

 

What participants learn

• Why high performance often relies on masking — and the cost of sustaining it

• How the autonomic nervous system and vagus nerve drive reactivity or creativity

• How stress and trauma become encoded patterns that repeat automatically

• The role of brainwaves, coherence, and rhythm in clarity and decision-making

• Why gut health, nutrition, and rest are central to emotional regulation

• How emotional states shift through awareness, regulation, and choice

• Simple, practical tools to move from reaction to response

 

Why this approach is different

• Trauma-aware, non-pathologising

• Grounded in neuroscience, physiology, and psychology

• Practical and immediately usable

• Integrates body, brain, gut, emotions, and meaning

• Suitable for leadership, wellbeing, burnout prevention, and retreat settings
   

This is not about removing the mask overnight.

It’s about creating enough safety in the system for authenticity, clarity, and sustainable performance to emerge.

 

Outcomes participants commonly report:

• Less emotional reactivity and overwhelm

• Greater clarity, calm, and focus

• Improved energy, sleep, and motivation

• A stronger sense of alignment and authenticity

• More compassionate self-leadership

• Renewed creativity and purpose

 

Ideal for:

Leaders, managers, high-performing professionals, social care and health teams, wellbeing programmes, and reflective or retreat-based learning spaces.

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Trainers Bio’s

Jan Carpenter 

 

Jan Carpenter is a certified Personal Performance Coach, Wellbeing Practitioner, Trainer and Social Work Team Manager. Jan has developed and delivered workshops on the topics of personal performance, quality and wellbeing through various channels including recruitment agencies, conferences, Councils, government funded national programs, British Association of Social Workers and Brunel University, among others. 

 

Jan is a certified Havening Techniques Practitioner and Trainer as well as co-author of book Winning Mindset: Elite Strategies for Peak Performance (on Amazon).

 

Sunny Ahonkhai 

 

Sunny is a Social Work Manager, recognised for his expertise as a public speaker, trainer, and life coach. With a focus on the growth and development of professionals in leadership and management roles, Sunny places a strong emphasis on wellbeing in the midst of today's fast-paced lifestyle.

 

As a qualified Mental Health and Social Work practitioner, Sunny brings a unique perspective to his work. His international reputation extends beyond social work, making him a sought-after leadership coach, conference speaker, and mentoring specialist across various disciplines.

 

Sunny is dedicated to fostering high standards and integrity in both work environments and personal development, contributing to positive and transformative outcomes.​​