Piotr Chimko

Workshop: Stay Healthy and Deliver: Contemporary Art of Working Under Pressure

I’ve been working in a demanding environment for the most of my career. On top of that, I have always engaged myself in a number of additional activities (like… Toastmasters!). Then, when my family grew to 2+3, the level of stress and pressure became unbearable. Since I liked my family, my job and all my activities and I also liked my physical and mental health, I started to search for solutions. First, I realized that living under pressure both requires and builds resilience. And then, in the next few months of research and trying different things, I came to the conclusion that making it work for you requires three, seemingly unrelated skills:

1. Understanding stress: why and how exactly we experience it – what happens to our body and mind when we are under pressure; and capacity to actively manage it in short, medium and long term;
2. Assertiveness: developing the capacity to define and protect your boundaries – both in relation with others and, often more importantly, with you and your beliefs;
3. Task management: especially ability to prioritize some activities over others and, even more importantly, careful and mindful resignation from some other activities.

Consequent development of those three elements helped me become more conscious and resilient, helped me achieve more while protecting my health, helped me stay curious and cheerful at the same time.

In the last few years, I successfully delivered this workshop multiple times. While the whole program takes one full day, I will share with you the most important parts of it. You will be able to start using some of the tips & tricks immediately and you will know where to look for more information and inspiration to further grow your resilience.