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Trauma Responsive People Teams and Culture Program (self-paced)
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Ever wonder how trauma impacts the workplace? It’s more common—and more impactful on productivity and flourishing —than you realise. Trauma affects how we think, behave, lead, and connect. But what if your organisation could take proactive steps to build a culture that not only understands trauma but responds to it effectively?
The Trauma Responsive People, Teams, and Culture Course is a groundbreaking online and offline program designed to transform the way your organisation approaches leadership, team dynamics, and employee well-being.
The 10-module course is packed with everything you need to know, from understanding how trauma happens and its impact on our neurobiology, behaviour, and relationships, to tackling the dangers of cumulative trauma and burnout in the workplace.
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This is a video series, made up of 10 short self-paced modules
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Anyone. Particularly leaders and teams.
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Futures Thinking Program
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The future isn’t something we predict — it’s something we shape.
Delivered by a futurist, this dynamic program introduces participants to the tools, mindsets and practices of futures thinking — a discipline that equips individuals and organisations to anticipate change, explore emerging possibilities, and make more informed, future-ready decisions.
Outcomes include:
Gain practical foresight tools to scan for signals, map drivers of change, and identify opportunity spaces
Build confidence navigating uncertainty and complexity
Develop compelling future scenarios to inform strategic planning and innovation
Enhance collaborative, long-range thinking and systems awareness
Translate foresight insights into action and influence in your context
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MASTERCLASS: Katy Cooper will deliver a masterclass on what Futures Thinking is and what it is not. This thought provoking session is the precursor to the workshops and practical tool application.
PRACTICE: Participate in immersive workshops using real-world scenarios to apply foresight methods and frameworks.
PLAYBOOK: Gain a curated suite of tools, templates, and activities to support continued futures work beyond the program.
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INDIVIDUALS: Expand your perspective, build strategic adaptability, and strengthen your role as a forward-thinking contributor in any field.
LEADERS: If you’re responsible for guiding teams or organisations through change, futures thinking equips you to lead with foresight, not just react in hindsight..
CHANGE PRACTITIONERS: If you work in transformation, culture or innovation, this program offers powerful tools to expand your influence and deepen your strategic impact.
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Katy is an experienced Futurist, trained through The Institute for the Future, POLI-Design at Milan POLI.technic and Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. She has also studied Disruptive Innovation with INSEAD. She holds a Graduate Diploma of Management (GradDipMgt) from Australian Institute of Business.
Big Conversations, Better Outcomes Training
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This is an immersive experience designed to build capacity and confidence in giving and receiving feedback, having performance conversations, and creating a responsive culture of growth, innovation and continual improvement in all areas of the business.
Participants will learn about:
🪩 The neurobiology of human interactions and how this impacts behaviour under stress,
🪩 What feedback is (and what it isn’t) and why it is important for heathy cultures,
🪩 How and when to give and receive feedback,
🪩 Why boundaries matter,
🪩 And practical tools to equip leaders and managers to empower themselves and their people.
By the end of this workshop, participants will walk away with real skills to improve communication, build trust, and create stronger workplaces.
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This can be delivered as a full day workshop or divided into smaller, bite sized coaching circles.
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Anyone
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Vicarious/Secondary Trauma Training
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This is a one-day program for people, teams, leaders and practitioners who are regularly exposed to trauma or highly stressful information, experiences or situations in the line of their work.
In the workshop participants will learn how to regulate their experiences, know the signs and mitigations of an overloaded system before it hits burnout, tools and practices to undertake peer-led meaning making sessions, and gain a deeper understanding of how vicarious/secondary trauma shows up in the body, and in behaviour.
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This training can be delivered in-house to intact teams, or as part of a regular open offering – express your interest here to be notified when our next workshop is on.
Participants will receive access to Trauma responsive people, teams and culture self-led video training, workbook and the one day in person workshop.
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Autopilot to Awareness Program
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You know when you drive somewhere you've driven a hundred times before and you zone out, surprised when you arrive having no real memory of the journey?
How much of your day feels like that? On autopilot / cruise control / zoned out
Wouldn't you rather be aware / awake / alive?
What might be possible if you were really paying attention?
Getting curious about what you feel, think, say and do
Being intentional rather than reacting / reflexive / habitual.
In a world where everything is being automated, I think now's a great time to shift from autopilot to full consciousness. To sit squarely in the cockpit.
Conscious leaders show up intentionally, with self-awareness and curiosity. They are adaptive, accountable and understand how their thoughts and actions influence those around them.This program is for leaders looking to switch from auto-pilot to awareness. From cruise control to consciousness.
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🪩 Co-designed sessions to suit your context, meeting regularly.
🪩 Facilitated provocations and discussions relevant to the group.
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Leaders or small teams looking to connect on a deeper level
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Adaptive Leaders Program
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Focusing on aligning teams with organisational strategy and culture; change leadership and capability building across functions; and creating safe-to-fail environments for bold experimentation.
We focus on strengthening organisational systems of leadership: nurturing individual leadership potential and collective impact.
Partnering with DISCO means expanding leadership capability mapped to the future of your organisation. Developing leaders to enable the next horizon of your strategy as you work towards your vision.
Our Adaptive Leadership approach enables leaders to focus on their scale and impact in delivering strategy, within the context of your organisational values and culture.
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Co-design your own adventure, or deploy our 12 month program.
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Frontline leaders:
Emerging leaders
Technical experts transitioning to leadership
Adaptive behaviours in daily operations
Introduction to perspective-seeking and developmental reflection
Enterprise leaders:
Aligning teams with organisational strategy and culture
Change leadership and capability building across functions
Creating safe-to-fail environments for bold experimentation
Executive leaders:
Shaping and stewarding long-term organisational futures
Visionary alignment and purpose-driven culture work
Facilitating transformation through others, not just managing it
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We are a multi-skilled, adaptive team. We are futurists, learning designers, facilitators, coaches, and strategy experts. We come from wide-ranging backgrounds that enable a flexible and adaptive approach to working towards your leadership development goals.
DISCO’s Guide to Change Making
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Change making isn’t about implementing IT software or ticking boxes on a project plan. Change making is about the human impacts of initiatives and projects, many of which are happening in tandem.
Change making is about understanding the complex ways people think, relate, and work together to create flourishing systems. It’s messy, unpredictable, and human to its core.
The scariest thing? You will not have all the answers… and that’s okay, in fact - that’s the way it’s supposed to be. Change making is about curiosity, connecting dots, having a bird’s-eye-view to see the system as no one else does. And always from a people perspective.
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This program includes 6 modules + a DISCO’s Guide to Change Making Playbook
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Designed to support change makers by title and by the nature of their role (e.g. HR, P&C and Org Dev professionals).
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What others are saying…
Feedback from Katy’s work:
“Last night’s event with Katy Cooper speaking about the work of DISCO really stuck with me. Their take on futures thinking and organisational alignment wasn’t just insightful, it was energising ⚡ There was a clear call to action in her words: to think long-term, to plan beyond immediate pressures, and to create strategies that actually translate into aligned, meaningful action.” Change Management Institute's event attendee.
“Katy’s refreshing take on the business I look after and her understanding of the Tasmanian market help me look at both operations and marketing from different angles.” General Manager, Cradle Mountain Wilderness Village
“I found Katy to be engaging and entertaining, and she captured and held the attention of the whole room.”
“The passion Katy had for the field and her areas of expertise really came out in her presentation. She was exciting and had a great stage presence which made the topic even more engaging.”
AHRI Tasmanian Committee Member and Participants at the AHRI Tasmanian State Conference 2019.
Feedback from Polly’s NeuroLeadership and Big Conversations program participants:
“Hi Polly, I wanted to reach out and express my gratitude for the work you are doing. I have done a number of “these sort of things” and this was the most real, honest and practical approaches I have seen. I love that we were able to broach some tricky subjects and practice some skills that desperately needed."
“I found your session truly inspiring and full of valuable insights—felt lucky to attend!”
“Thank you for pouring your passion into delivering a forever memorable leadership experience. Your enthusiasm and powerful topics were incredibility engaging.”
“Thank you so much for today. The session was amazing. Your words of wisdom are so insightful. Hoping I can bring my learnings into the workplace and make some positive change.”
“Thanks for a thoughtful and engaging NeuroLeadership workshop yesterday—I found it practical and relevant.”
Wondering what futurist and a NeuroLeadership designer talk about when they get together?
Check out this awesome conversation between DISCO’s co-CEOs Katy Cooper and Dr Polly McGee.
