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Mental Fitness training that helps mission-led professionals do their best work without burning out.
The change we create in the world is dependent on our ability to not get overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge, or get weighed down by the feeling that no matter what we achieve, it never feels enough.
My work is all about helping teams who are inspired to create change to build the resilience to avoid burning out, and bring joy back into their work.
Over the past 15 years, I've see that the qualities that make someone brilliant at this kind of work — caring deeply, driven to do the right thing, and inspired to make an impact — are often the same ones that lead to overwhelm and burn out.
The more we care, the more we tend to take on, and the harder our inner critic works: we feel like we could always have done more, and better, and it wears us out.
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We care, so we find it difficult to say 'no' to others, prioritise our own needs and assert healthy boundaries even when we're already drained.
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We're committed to making an impact, so we find it difficult to feel content in our efforts, our achievements or ourselves.
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We're purpose-led, so we're hyper aware of the need for change, making it difficult to slow down and switch off- because 'the world is burning'.
It often feels like the issues we fight for are getting worse despite our best efforts and we question the contribution we've made. It leads to a persistent feeling that however much we do, we fall short, and we end our days with a running tally of everything we didn't get to.
From the outside, it can be harder to see, until it becomes costly. If your people seem flat, are starting to look tired in a way that a weekend won't fix, or that meetings feel effortful rather than energising — this is for you.
The Mental Fitness workout
Signature Workshop
You didn't get into sustainability to spend your days feeling like you're falling short. This is Mental fitness training for sustainability and social change professionals who are good at what they do, but don't always feel it
Not therapy. Not another productivity system.
An interactive, experiential session that helps participants train their mind like a muscle, and befriend the voice that says you're not doing enough, so you can stay in the work for the long haul. With something left over.
You'll finally understand what's going on in that busy brain of yours, and start to build the clarity and courage necessary to feel not just inspired, but genuinely equipped.
Participants leave with simple, repeatable practices they can use in the real, pressured, complicated moments of their working lives.
FORMAT
Online or in-person
DURATION
45 mins – half day
GROUP SIZE
2–35 participants
PRICING
On request
Pricing is based on duration, group size, and location. Get in touch and I'll send over a proposal.
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Built around what your team actually
needs
Bespoke Sessions
Sometimes a team needs something more specific — a particular challenge they're navigating, a transition they're moving through, or a dynamic that's been quietly draining energy for months.
These sessions are scoped together, shaped around what's real for your people right now.
— Reconnect to values & purpose
— Stay focused when things get busy
— Bounce back after setbacks
— Keep calm when tensions rise
— Tricky team transitions
— Have the difficult conversation
— Take decisions with confidence
— Communication & transparency
— Curiosity and creativity
— Trust and compassion
Not sure which would be most useful? That's exactly what a discovery call is for. We'll talk through what's going on, and I'll be honest about what I think would help — and what wouldn't.
Outcomes
What HR leaders say they notice first
💼 Performance
Less avoidance. More action on what matters
The difficult decisions get made. Strategic work gets prioritised over the urgent but trivial. People stop hiding in busyness — and start doing the meaningful work your organisation actually needs from them.
🤝 Communication
Harder conversations happen — sooner and better
When people have more steadiness inside, they don't need to avoid tension outside. Teams navigate disagreement with more clarity and less damage. Problems surface earlier, when they're still manageable.
📉 Retention
You stop losing your best people to burnout
The ones most likely to leave aren't the ones who don't care — they're the ones who care too much. When the internal pressure system is addressed, the work becomes sustainable again. They stay. They give more.
🌱 Leadership
Leaders model what they're asking of others
When senior people do this work too, the culture shifts — not through mandates, but through example. A leader who can stay grounded under pressure gives everyone below them permission to do the same.
My Approach
Most of what's out there for people who are struggling at work is either therapy or coaching. Both are valuable. Neither is quite this.
Therapy helps you understand where your patterns came from. Coaching helps you set goals and work toward them. Mental fitness training does something different: it builds your capacity to catch those patterns in the moment — while you're in the meeting, writing the email, lying awake at 2am — and choose differently.
The word fitness is deliberate. You don't get physically fit by understanding the theory of exercise. You get fit by doing the reps. Mental fitness is the same. It's not just insight. It's practice.
This is what makes it different. Not a framework to study. Not another thing to understand about yourself. A practice to repeat until your nervous system learns a new default.
What you can expect
Most wellbeing programmes offer inspiration. Some offer information. These sessions offer something different: the practical capacity for teams to notice what's happening when challenges emerges- inside themselves and between each other- and choose how to respond with intention and integrity.
✓ Experiential mental fitness practice
Participants don't just learn about the tools, they practise them in the room- one rep at a time- so they can use them in the moments that matter.
✓ Psychological insight + real-world application
Grounded in neuroscience, mindfulness, and performance psychology, but translated into something immediately useful.
✓ Shared reflection
Space for teams to think together, which often surfaces things that have been unsaid but have been shaping the culture.
✓ Practical takeaways
Every participant leaves with something concrete. Not a vague intention, but a specific practice they can use the next morning.
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Hi, I'm Sol
For me, this work is personal.
I spent years trying to satisfy my inner critic, convinced that if I just worked harder, showed up better, gave more — I'd finally feel like enough. It didn't work. What changed things wasn't pushing harder. It was learning to recognise the voice, understand what it was trying to protect, and gently, persistently, stop letting it drive.
That's what I want to help you do.
I've spent over two decades working at the intersection of education, sustainability, and wellbeing — designing social action and sustainability programmes across London, working in some of the most challenging school environments, and leading a global programme of events for the world's largest online student community. I know what it's like to care deeply about the work and feel the weight of that.
I've trained in mindfulness at the Oxford and Sussex Mindfulness Centres, and in Positive Intelligence coaching. But honestly, the most important training was learning to do this for myself first.
I've since trained hundreds of people, from students to senior leaders, to build the mental strength to perform under pressure without burning out.