Jonathan Spark & Associates - Counselling and Consultancy
Personal and Professional Support
What is Emotional Energy and Culture?
All of life involves relationship, no matter if it is your partner, colleague, employee or friend. In
relating we impact. In impacting we define and direct life.
How conscious you are of how you are feeling directly affects how well you will feel and how
harmonious your life may feel. This is where I come in to support you.
Emotional energy is the biggest, yet most often dismissed, overridden or ignored dynamic in all
relationships including the work place, maybe because people just do not want to go there.
Positive change begins by learning how to recognise how this dynamic is firstly impacting on your life
and those close to you. This can then lead to understanding what may need to change in you or your
work environment as you learn to listen to what is most asking for your attention. Be this in yourself
or others.
Although this may at first feel somewhat challenging, it actually takes a lot less energy than what we
put into resisting and overriding emotional energy.
It is so important that our relationship with this entirely natural experience, to feel and to feel
emotions, changes because once you allow yourself to understand and engage more honestly with
your emotions and feelings, you will discover how much more effectively you will be able to impact
and direct the things that mean the most to you.
Examples of Consultancy Programs
Level 1
A 2 hour workshop experience for staff, to come together to explore and understand the
Emotional Culture in a work place and what may need to change.
Your team will be guided through a training program that allows them to
recognise, discuss and explore what can sometimes be the trickier dynamics in a business.
With humour, lightness and Jonathan’s ability to quickly get to the heart of the matter, your team
will develop new and better ways to support themselves, each other and ultimately the business.
Working through the Hard Stuff - To get to the Good Stuff:
In this workshop we will explore:
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Understanding feelings and emotions and their impact in the workplace.
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Confronting confrontation quickly.
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Recognising the walls and what they cause.
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The importance of addressing the negative.
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Why hardening up hurts and what to do instead.
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Understanding the culture of calm.
Level 2
Supporting the Good Stuff:
A follow up workshop where there is time to explore what your team has been discovering and what it takes to truly impact on the culture and the way you, and they may want it.
In this workshop the Emotional Energetic Culture can be approached from an understanding
established in the first level, but now it is based on the understandings and insights of the team.
Here we will explore:
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Building the emotional culture, you want.
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New responses to old dynamics.
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The power of empathy.
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Making a difference in your life, making a difference to others.
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Pace vs presence.
Workshop participants
PJL are a dynamic and progressive company that are taking the mental and emotional well-being being of their team seriously.
Having noticed pattern of distress in employees they reached out to Malcolm Scott and myself for support. We now run regularly well being training workshops and the company employs Mal and I for any one to one session needed.
They are reaping both the cultural and financial reward for their compassionate approach.
PJL
Alex Mason Contracting
Another successful Wellbeing workshop run.
Thanks Alex Mason contracting for stepping forward and offering your team such solid support.
Building Successful Business Culture
In 2012 Jonathan with his wife Yasmeen took on the lease of a 1882 run down wooden church in post earthquake Christchurch to move their business Pascha Nourishing Body and Soul into.
Beside this church in Sydenham was the old Sunday School. Both buildings were the worse for wear but stood on solid foundations.
Contacting his friend Christopher Penny, Jonathan introduced the idea he and Yasmeen had of a café in the old Sunday school. Initially Chris turned this down based on the state of the building. But came back the next day agreeing to partner with them in the creation of Hello Sunday Café. A business which quickly became a local icon eventually winning 11 awards including people’s choice and supreme establishment. Some years it was a little embarrassing how Hello dominated the awards ceremony.
Within a few years we had a number of developers asking for us to create another venture in their new projects in the city. But it was only when the old building across the road form Hello Sunday did we see the next venture.
Here Jonathan and Chris created 5th Street, with Jonathan project managing every aspect of the build and running the team.
5th Street won its first award in the first 3 months and in the following year received 3 more awards including supreme establishment.
Jonathan’s main focus with both of these businesses remained firmly on the wellbeing of the staff, with Chris holding the customers and front of house energy so well. It became normal for staff to remain with the café and restaurant for many years.
These businesses which Jonathan no longer owns were a huge success which taught him a great deal.
Then there was the one that wasn’t which became his greatest teacher.
So as a business consultant supporting you and your staff you get a guide who has a deep experience of what businesses ask, give and take.
Let his experience be your benefit.