New year, new you: An expert's guide to making 2020 your best year

Join our ultimate day of talks on transforming your body and mind in the new year, learning how to shake up your eating habits and exercise, set goals and make decisions, and boost your motivation and happiness.

Whether you choose to make New Year resolutions or not, every January feels like a new beginning, ripe with possibility and opportunity. Once the grogginess of New Year’s Eve has faded and the Christmas spirit has waned, how do you seize the momentum of the coming year and take positive steps towards the life you want to lead? And how do you keep promises you have made yourself once the dark winter has passed?

Hosted by Sanderson Jones, this inspirational one-day workshop will give you the opportunity to take time out, consider what you want to achieve in the coming year, and assess which areas of your life deserve more attention.

You will learn how to set better, more achievable goals; make better choices for your mind as well as your body; and learn the necessary tools for developing your own action plan and taking practical steps towards achieving a more successful life. Perhaps most importantly of all, you will be given the tools to really dig deep and get in touch with yourself, and set you on the path to happiness and health.

You really do deserve the best things in life, and that includes a wonderful 2020.

Plus, bring a friend to make use of our two-ticket offer and save 20%!

Content

• Host Sanderson Jones, co-founder of The Sunday Assembly, will be delivering a talk about fostering more meaningful human connections, and will show you practical activities for improving the quality of your relationships and social interactions.

• Registered nutritionist and doctor Laura Thomas will guide you through confusing diet advice - and then do away with it. With her, you will learn about the evidence-based framework of intuitive eating and why it is more empowering and much healthier to take control of your food anxieties.

• Why sophrology is the new mindfulness: Dominique Antiglio, world-leading sophrologist, will introduce you to this simple but effective stress-management and self-development practice, which uniquely combines relaxation, breathing, gentle movement and positive visualisation, to build resilience, positivity and balance. This will be a practical session with key takeaways that you can use at home.

• Neuroscientist Dean Burnett will deliver a no-nonsense guide to the neuroscience of happiness, such as how to define and pursue what creates lasting contentment in your life, and the kinds of decisions you can make to build more happiness and purpose into your life.

• Award-winning international brand consultant Kubi Springer will share valuable insights into how you can develop your leadership skills in the coming year, including how to build a personal brand at work, adopting a growth mindset an cultivating more impactful working relationships.

• We will soon be announcing more amazing speakers in our line-up - watch this space!

Tutor profiles

Sanderson Jones is the co-founder of The Sunday Assembly, an inclusive global secular congregation that meets locally to hear talks, sing and generally celebrate life. He tweets @sandersonjones.

Laura Thomas is a registered nutritionist and intuitive eating counsellor based in London. She helps people figure out their issues with food and sort through confusing diet advice. As someone who has registered with the Association for Nutrition, she draws her practise heavily from science, and also brings in psychology and behavioural science. Laura has completed an MSc in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition at University College London, and in 2017 she established the London Centre for Intuitive Eating.

Dominique Antiglio is a qualified sophrologist, best-selling author and founder of the leading sophrology clinic, BeSophro. She specialises in stress and sleep management, anxiety, self-development, birth preparation and preparing for other major life events.

Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist, lecturer, author, podcaster and comedian. He has worked as a psychiatry tutor and lecturer at the Cardiff University Centre for Medical Education, and is currently an honorary research associate at Cardiff Psychology School and a visiting industry fellow at Birmingham City University. Previously, he wrote the Guardian's Brain Flapping column from 2012 to 2018, and released his debut book, The Idiot Brain (Guardian Faber Publishing) in 2016. He tweets @garwboy and his website can be found here.

Kubi Springer is an international brand strategy consultant and trainer, author of I Am My Brand (Bloomsbury Publishing) and founder of SheBuildsBrands. Kubi has 24 years of experience in brand marketing, and has worked with some of the biggest companies in the world including Nike, L’Oreal, Blackberry, MTV, Rio Ferdinand, Diddy, Justin Timberlake, Rolls Royce Motor Cars and Aston Martin as well as teaching in London, New York, Shanghai and Dubai. In 2018 she won the BWB Best Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and she became a regular contributor for BBC Radio 5’s Business Hour.

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