Day 1: Understanding Psychological Barriers to Technology

• Introduction: Why do so many people find using technology challenging, and what impact can this have on productivity and well-being at an individual, team, and organizational level?
• Understanding common psychological barriers to using IT and how this impacts confidence and competence.
• Reflection on your blockages and the resulting impact.
• How can labels like "Technophobe" and "Luddite" prevent people from overcoming blockages related to using technology, and how can they avoid this trap?
• Using the many benefits of building your IT confidence to help motivate you.
• Inspiring case study examples.

Day 2: Regulating Stress Responses to Technology

• An introduction to the Polyvagal Theory is needed to understand your stress response to working with technology.
• Learning to regulate your autonomic nervous system consciously is essential for IT competence and how to become more regulated.
• Exercise: Mapping your autonomic nervous system to understand your stress responses better.
• Understanding the fight-flight response to IT: What happens physiologically when anxiety takes over and how to bring calmness and competence back on board.
• Understanding the freeze response: What happens in your brain and body when you start to "zone out" or your mind goes blank, and how do you bring your thinking brain back on board?
• Exercise: Set manageable IT goals in partnership with your autonomic nervous system to prevent overwhelm, build confidence, and increase your capabilities.

Day 3: Using the Voice Dialogue Model to Overcome IT Blockages

• Introduction to the Voice Dialogue model is needed to understand our system of parts or selves and our subconscious and use this approach to overcome IT blockages, confidence, and capability issues.
• Understanding the parts of you that sabotage and work against you and how to overcome them.
• Using Voice Dialogue in the workplace to access your confidence and develop your IT and related professional capabilities.
• Voice Dialogue Practice Session: Working with your unique system of parts and subconscious for personal transformation and IT competence.
• How to combine psychological reframing and physiological orientation to tackle your IT blockages and become more competent.
• Introduction to IT Practice Sessions.

Day 4: IT Practice and Role-Playing for Confidence

• IT Practice Session: Facing your discomfort with support and encouragement.
• IT Situational role-play: Real-life scenarios and applying your newly learned IT confidence.
• Using visualization and powerful exercises for "stepping into" and fully embodying a more confident and competent IT version of yourself in the workplace.

Day 5: Leading with IT Confidence and Future Growth

• IT Practice Session: Continued development of your IT confidence and competence.
• Leading by example and supporting others with IT confidence.
• Identify appropriate further IT training and support your ongoing development.
• This is an action plan for bringing your learning, personal insights, and inner changes to the workplace and applying them practically to your IT tasks and activities.