24—25 JUNE 2026
Room2, Queen Street, Belfast

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THE SCIENTIST OF YOURSELF
A BIOLOGY-LED APPROACH TO PERFORMANCE, HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP

Facilitated by
Jonathan Hook

Facilitated by
Damien Stork

Who this is for

Leaders and those working closely with leaders who want to feel more healthy, resourceful and effective in how they work and live—and know their current strategies aren’t quite getting them there.

This may be particularly relevant if:

You’re carrying sustained pressure and want to stay effective without burning out.


You’re leading through a period of change and need to be at your best.


You’re part of a leadership team where trust, clarity or cohesion isn’t quite there.


You’re noticing engagement or energy levels slipping—in yourself or others.


You want more agency over your health, stress and performance.


  • Most approaches to performance and wellbeing focus on skills, mindset or resilience. They place responsibility on the individual to cope better.

    This work looks instead at your capacity—the biological and emotional signals that shape how you feel, think and perform.

  • After the session, you will:

    See your health and performance differently

    Understand your own capacity and the signals that drive it

    Have practical ways to manage those signals day to day

    Know how to sustain performance without burning yourself into the ground

  • Most leadership development, including coaching, focuses on psychology—mind, mindset and behaviour.

    This work starts with biology.

    It looks at the capacity required to meet the ongoing demands of leadership, and how that capacity is experienced through mood and emotion.

    CHX Performance has spent the last ten years developing Scientist of Yourself®, drawing on research in physiology and neuroscience.

    This work is led by CHX co-founder Professor Chris Beedie.

  • Day One
    Focus on yourself
    Wednesday 24 June
    9.00am—5.00pm

    Understand your own capacity and what influences it

    Day Two
    Apply this to leadership
    Thursday 25 June
    9.00am—5.00pm

    Bring real situations and explore them through this lens

    Clandeboye Lodge Hotel

    £195 per workshop or £350 for both.
    Capacity 40 places per workshop.
    Tea/coffee + refreshments provided.

for either or both workshops

If this speaks to you we’d love you to join us.​

Also coming up

From June 2026
Virtual

International Supervision group

John will be launching another global coaching supervision group, co led by Kathleen Marron (Minnesota, USA) for qualified Executive Coaches and Team Coaches. If you want support, stretch, insight and collegiality, this could be for you. We will limit the group to 8 places, meeting every 2 months for 2 hours. This group will meet virtually on Zoom.

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