Mental Fitness Program
An 8-week online mental fitness brain training to handle repatriation and expatriation challenges with increased confidence and less stress.
Are you…
→ Feeling overwhelmed with questions regarding your return home?
→ Anxious that you might feel like a stranger in your own country?
→ Judging the circumstances in which your return is taking place?
→ Afraid you’ll struggle to readjust because you’ve been away for so long?
And perhaps you’re thinking:
“Did I make the right decision? What if it doesn’t go as planned?"
And you resign yourself to the stress, doubt, worry and other paralyzing emotions…
I get it, I’ve been there !
By preparing yourself beforehand, you can twist things around and actually enjoy your return!
“The path of ease & flow is the path of the Sage, not the path of the Saboteurs.”
— Shirzad Chamine, founder and author of Positive Intelligence®
Mental Fitness is the X factor to:
Tackle your transition with calm, laser-focused action
Reduce frustrations and feelings of overwhelm
Reconcile your expat life with new repat perspectives
Create an empowering plan to build a fulfilling life back home
What is Mental Fitness ?
Mental Fitness is your capacity to respond to life’s challenges with a positive rather than a negative mindset – and your ability to shift quickly & deeply from one to the other.
PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient) measures the relative strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative mental muscles (Saboteur).
PQ is the most widely used measure of mental fitness.
Independent researchers have validated this measure to be the greatest predictor of how happy you are, and how well you perform against your potential.
Introducing the Mental Fitness program!
An innovative method I’m authorized and trained to guide my clients through alongside Positive Intelligence® founder, Shirzad Chamine.
I empower French expats to strengthen their mental fitness so they can handle their repatriation challenge with less mental stress and increased clarity & confidence.
When joining my program, you receive…
8x 1-hour online coach-led sessions (every Monday)
Facilitated by Amélie via Zoom to help unpack your weekly learnings, work towards your goals and amplify your results. You leave inspired and energized for the week's daily practices!
Guidance & support
I will be available in between each session to cheer you on, help keep you accountable and committed to the program, as well as answer any questions.
You’ll also receive bonus sheets to deepen your learning.
7x weekly 1-hour inspiring videos (every weekend)
Led by Positive Intelligence® founder, Shirzad Chamine, who guides you through experiential exercises that deepen and personalize your understanding of the mental fitness tools. You’ll gain awareness and practical tools to your week of practice.
Daily 15-min app-guided exercises
The Positive Intelligence® App, available exclusively to program participants, allows you to apply the learnings from the weekly training videos.
With a different focus every day, it’s designed to build one small mental muscle at a time, laying down new neural pathways to form lasting positive habits of your mind. The cumulative impact by program's end is substantial.
Unlimited use of the Mental Fitness gym
Build your self-command muscles using these innovative 10-second exercises (called PQ reps) so you can shift your mind more quickly and more deeply from self-sabotage to self-mastery.
Daily Progress Tracking
The app tracks your daily progress against minimum targets associated with new neural pathway (muscle) formation. Personalized daily coaching tips from Shirzad Chamine continue to both encourage and challenge you to keep going.
You’ll keep the app and all of its content for 1 year !
Accountability partners (for groups)
Connect with your group members through a dedicated channel for accountability, support and motivation. By, sharing and celebrating, you’ll keep the vibes high.
Cohort community
Receive additional peer support from Shirzad Chamine and other worldwide program participants. Optionally you can share your experience there, too !
Positive Intelligence® book
You will receive digital access (audio & PDF versions) to chapters 1-8 of the Positive Intelligence book at the beginning of the program, and chapters 9-11 at the end of the program.
MENTAL FITNESS INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM
8 individual sessions | 8 weeks
(individual coaching)
You wish to train on your own to have full 1-hour sessions for yourself? This individual program is for you!
You'll discover your inner critic, learn how to tame it and free yourself from self-imposed limitations, reduce your stress levels, connect to your strengths and inner compass, clarify your vision for the future and create sustainable habits to make clear-headed decisions.
The Best of Customized Coaching, Training
& Innovative Technology Support
What’s included:
8x weekly 1-hour online coach-led sessions, including:
1 on-boarding session
6 weekly coach-led sessions
1 completion session
7x weekly 1-hour inspiring videos
15-min daily app-guided exercises
Daily progress tracking
Unlimited coach accountability, guidance and support
Cohort community
Unlimited use of the Mental Fitness PQ gym
Positive Intelligence® book (PDF and audio versions)
Bonus sheets
Your investment:
990€ in total per person for 8 weeks
(or 250€ per person/2 weeks)*
*Requirements: Completion of a "Chemistry" coaching session (see below)
MENTAL FITNESS GROUP PROGRAM
8 group sessions | 8 weeks
(group coaching)
You wish to train with other expats or repats to feel more empowered? This group program is for you!
You'll discover your inner critic, learn how to tame it and free yourself from self-imposed limitations, reduce your stress levels, connect to your strengths and inner compass, clarify your vision for the future and create sustainable habits to make clear-headed decisions.
The Best of Customized Coaching, Training
& Innovative Technology Support
What’s included:
8x weekly 1-hour online coach-led sessions with 3-5 other group members, including:
1 on-boarding session
6 weekly coach-led sessions
1 completion session
7x weekly 1-hour inspiring videos
15-min daily app-guided exercises
Daily progress tracking
Unlimited coach accountability, guidance and support
Accountability partners/buddies
Cohort community
Unlimited use of the Mental Fitness PQ gym
Positive Intelligence® book (PDF and audio versions)
Bonus sheets
Your investment:
590€ in total per person for 8 weeks
(or 150€ per person/2 weeks)*
*Requirements: Completion of a "Chemistry" coaching session (see below)
Lasting positive change requires 20% insight and 80% mental muscles.
How is the mind wired?
What My Clients Say:
“I learnt to identify what was happening inside my head and find practical ways to focus and move forward.”
— Claire, Moved back to France after 10+ years in Australia
“One of the most important breakthroughs was about my hyper-vigilant, which I didn't realize had such a big negative impact on me. Being able to label it made it much easier to recognize and to handle.”
— Sophie, Moved back to Switzerland after 6+ years in China
“Overall, I feel much more centered. I am now able to manage my own emotions much better so that I can stop myself instead of snapping. I am more confident about believing I can do things. I feel less overwhelmed by tasks.”
— Andrea, Moved to Germany after 6+ years in China
To Achieve Lasting Positive Change…
…you only need to build 3 core mental muscles:
My goal is for you to be inspired, motivated and comfortable preparing for your return and able to take handle whatever life throws at you - before, during and after your return.
Research Foundation
This program combines the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive & positive psychology and performance science.
Research included 500,000 participants (CEOs, sales, operation & technology teams. elites athletes, Standford students) from 50 countries.
The research was summarized in Shirzad Chamine’s book Positive Intelligence, a New York Times best seller translated into 20 languages.
Understand How You Self-Sabotage
The way you approach your return can make all the difference.
More than ever it's crucial to look after our mental fitness.
Our habitual ways of thinking, feeling & reacting are ingrained in us. They start off as our guardians to help us survive the real and imagined threats to our physical and emotional survival in childhood. By the time we are adults, we no longer need them but they have become invisible habitants of our mind.
Our Saboteurs (aka negative inner dialogue) are soft-coded in our brain through neural pathways. When these neural pathways are triggered, we are "hijacked" by our Saboteurs and feel, think and act using their patterns.
If you’re intrigued and want to talk things over first, let’s chat!
FAQs
Is this the right program for me?
This is the right program for you if you are:
- willing to transition as smoothly as possible,
- ready to break free from self-imposed limitations that you are stuck in,
- willing to put in the initial effort to rewire years of mental habits that don't serve you,
- committed to improving your happiness, performance and effectiveness dramatically while reducing stress,
- looking for a science-based and trusted system to make it stick and last.
I don’t have time, I have too much on my plate right now. Wrong time to start?
On the contrary! On vacation or in less busy/challenging times, you won’t see or learn to handle stress, urgencies and challenges in your life. Now is the perfect time to train your mental muscles.
How is this different from meditation, mindfulness or other personal development practices?
Meditation and mindfulness are specialized forms of doing PQ Reps. PQ Reps are innovative 10-sec exercises that are simple, accessible, can be be done anywhere, anytime, with eyes open, and which you bring into any moment of your day.
How is this different from reading the Positive Intelligence book?
Would you be able to learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book about it? Probably not.
You will be asked to read the first 8 chapters of the book while participating in the program. The book provides the research foundation and introduces the tools.
The video sessions guides you through experiential exercises that help you personalize the tools to your own personality and needs. And the app coaches you to practice one tool at a time in the context of your own daily work and life challenges. The group coaching sessions help you unpack your weekly learnings to amplify your results.
Aren't negative emotions sometimes helpful?
Some people believe that negative emotions are helpful. For example, they think stress gives them their performance edge, or beating themselves or others up is helpful for continual improvement.
Feeling pain for a split second when your hand touches a hot stove is indeed useful, delivering an important alert. But your Saboteurs keep your hand on the hot stove, continuing to feel negative emotions which harm both performance and happiness.
In this program we learn to use negative emotions as a helpful alert, and then quickly shift to the positive region of the brain that has the calm, clarity, objectivity, and creativity to handle the challenge most effectively.
How much time and effort are required?
You would be committing to:
- watching a weekly 1-hour video with the Positive Intelligence app exclusively designed for this program
- doing a combined total of 15 minutes daily practice guided by the Positive Intelligence app
- attending an online bi-weekly 60-min coach-led call on your own or with maximum of 4 participants (via Zoom)
This might sound like a lot of time. In fact, cumulatively, it constitutes about 2% of your awake time for the duration of the program. Please consider that your Saboteurs are costing you far more than 2% of your time, effort, energy, and productivity. Consider how much more than 2% of time and productivity this seven-week investment will save for years to come.
Who will lead the Positive Intelligence Mental Fitness group program?
Amélie Papin (CPQC-Certified Positive Intelligence Coach) will personally facilitate each of the weekly group coaching sessions to help unpack your weekly learnings to amplify your results. She will also be available in between each session to cheer you on, help keep you accountable and committed to the program, as well as answer any questions. She is a bilingual (French-English) coach with a 15-year international career in France, Spain & China, with experience in Global Account Management, Sales, Business Development, Marketing/Communication and General Management within international service-oriented companies.
Her background includes a Masters degree in international business, in addition to a certification in Health & Wellness coaching and a 6-month training in Mental Fitness with Positive Intelligence (learn more).
Shirzad Chamine (Stanford lecturer and founder of Positive Intelligence®) will conduct each of the weekly video sessions. He will also participate daily in the exclusive online community of the program participants to answer questions and cheer you on. He is New York Times bestselling author of Positive Intelligence, translated into 20 languages, has been CEO of the largest coach training organization in the world and trained faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools. He lectures on Positive Intelligence at Stanford University and works with Stanford’s NCAA athletes. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams.
Why go through the program with a group?
Even though the focus of the program is individual development, going through this program with other participants provides perspective, accountability, support, motivation and helps keep the vibes high.
When do the calls take place?
They will take place every other Monday for 12 consecutive weeks. As for the time, this will depend on those who join as there will be a mix of participants from different time zone across the globe. I will try to be as flexible as possible and adapt to everyone’s needs.
Do you accept payment plans?
Yes, payment plans are available upon request.
