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Using Mindfulness to Tend + Befriend the Inner Critic, Imposter, Perfectionist

6 May, 2025

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PRESENTATION

Angela Smith, Mind Your Mojo

Topic:      Using Mindfulness to Tend + Befriend the Inner Critic, Imposter, Perfectionist

With about 70% of people feeling like an imposter at some point in their lives, how might it be impacting your colleagues’ ability to fully show up?

The focus of this session is to bring awareness to the often unspoken, yet often experienced, unhelpful dialogue of the Inner Critic, Imposter, and Perfectionist. Rather than trying to rid our minds of these thoughts, what if we tended to them by befriending them?

Session takeaways:

  1. Thoughts are not facts,
  2. The main messages of the Inner Critic,
  3. How thoughts impact a person’s stress response,
  4. The connection between the Inner Critic, Imposter, and Perfectionist,
  5. Activity: Experience a mindfulness practice to help tend to the Inner Critic.

Your awareness of this trifecta, along with your support can go a long way in helping your colleagues to show up, so they can do all they great things they know, deep down, they can actually do.

 

About the speaker

Angela is a certified Business and Personal Coach, supporting high-achieving professionals to stay committed to what’s important without becoming consumed, overwhelmed, and burned out.

Mind Your Mojo workshops, 1:1 coaching, keynotes, and retreats are focused on supporting professionals to mindfully attend to their personal sustainability, their vitality, their mojo. Angela works with professionals who operate in high stress, high stakes environments so they are fully resourced to meet life’s inevitable demands and to be fully present when it matters most.

Mind Your Mojo is informed by the Eastern contemplative traditions Angela has practiced and studied for 40+ years, along with contemporary science that explains and validates the benefits of these and other practices. Angela is a teacher of yoga and meditation, accredited by Yoga Australia and the Meditation Association of Australia. Angela is a certified Business and Personal Coach and holds membership with the International Coaching Federation.

Angela has completed training on ‘Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma’ with world renowned psychiatrist, author, and researcher Dr Bessel van der Kolk. She regularly participates in an international community of practice focused on the cross-cultural practices found among the world’s Indigenous and Shamanic peoples. The application of these perennial wisdoms bridges the challenges of contemporary times, and how each of us, as leaders in our own lives, show up in the world.

Easy-going with a good sense of humour, Angela is a natural storyteller who brings a whole-hearted, practical approach to personal sustainability.

 

Notable clients and Keynotes for:

Accru, AIESEC Australia, ALPMA, AustLaw, BDO Australia, Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce, Coldwell Banker Preferred Real Estate Canada, Coherence Group, Cornwalls Law, DuPont Sustainable Solutions (dss+),  HLB Mann Judd (Sydney), Institute of Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA), Johnstone & Reimer Lawyers, Law Society of South Australia, L’Oreal Groupe, Melbourne Business Network, Moores, Russell Kennedy Lawyers, Women in Banking & Finance, Yoga Australia, Yellowfin, Victory Offices.