Assert Yourself Without Needing a Lawyer or a Therapist present.

Overview:

Do you find yourself staying silent in meetings even when you have valuable input to share? Are you tired of being interrupted or having your ideas overlooked in professional settings, or watching someone explain your own expertise back to you with impressive confidence? This workshop is for anyone who struggles to speak up when it matters—whether you're hesitating to address issues with your boss, letting colleagues or family members talk over you, or saying yes to requests you really want to decline.

Here's the good news: you already have everything you need to change this pattern—you just need the right tools and a bit of practice. We'll dig into what you're really protecting when you choose silence over sanity, and help you distinguish between actual danger and just garden-variety discomfort that your brain has blown out of proportion.

Advocate for yourself and others while understanding what it truly means to live an empowered life—one where you can make "good trouble" for positive change without compromising your values or relationships.

What You'll Learn:

Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy: Identify the underlying fears, beliefs, and patterns that keep you silent, and understand what you're really protecting by playing small.

Decision-Making Matrix: Create a framework for evaluating when and how to speak up based on your values, priorities, and the situation at hand. Not every hill is worth dying on.

Embrace Your Authentic Voice: Connect speaking up to actually living in your values instead of just posting inspirational quotes about them on LinkedIn.

Discomfort and Danger: Learn to assess when staying quiet serves you versus when it limits you, and embrace "making good trouble" for positive change.

"Call In" vs. "Call Out": When to address issues privately versus publicly, and how to challenge problematic behavior while preserving relationships and dignity (of everyone involved).

Silence Your Inner Critic: Recognize when impostor syndrome is sabotaging your voice and develop strategies to speak with authority about your own expertise and accomplishments.

Assume Benign Intent: Navigate tricky conversations by separating what people meant from what they actually did. Address harm and impact while maintaining connection.

Challenge Conversations: Build confidence to redirect discussions that exclude, dismiss, or undermine you or others, both at work and in personal settings

Making and Taking Space: Advocating for yourself and others while navigating the complexities of modern relationships and workplace dynamics.