Would you like to support your employees' or students' mental health and wellbeing?
We take a preventive approach: we reduce risk factors and teach people to recognise signs of depression, burnout or chronic stress.
Workshops for schools, businesses and institutions
To feel good in their bodies, in their lives and within themselves.
People often look for a remedy and begin working with their emotions only once they are already ill. When their bodies are already in pain, or they find themselves unable to change something in their lives. When their mental prisons become unbearable. When the pressure from outside literally crushes them within.
We act early — before suffering and overwhelm begin to run our lives.
My mission
I help you reclaim the power to create the life you truly want — transform what holds you back and make room for what once felt impossible.
What do I offer?
Workshops that develop skills
One workshop can become a turning point. I guide you through knowledge and experience that you relate to your own life. You practise specific methods and receive instructions to keep practising afterwards. What we begin in the workshop, you build on in daily life.
I currently offer three workshops. Each lasts 90–120 minutes. More are in development.
Do you need your employees or students to learn more effectively?
Memory techniques, awareness of their own experience and principles of learning give them practical ways to work on concentration and recall.
Have you noticed that your team is stressed?
Learning to regulate emotions helps us respond more flexibly to the difficulties of everyday life. It is not about never feeling stressed, but about finding our way back to balance.
Who are the workshops for?
I work with schools, businesses, corporations, foundations and other institutions that want to give their students, teams or employees space to learn and care for themselves. My workshops are for young people aged 15 and over — from the first year of upper secondary school — and adults.
My approach
How we work
Through embodied psychoeducation — knowledge explored and put to the test through experience — we become more aware of what happens within us.
My workshops bring enjoyment and practical value together. Sight, sound, touch, movement. Joy, laughter, seriousness. Metaphors, storytelling and connecting the dots help make sense of the subject, while exercises allow participants to relate it to their own experience.
During five years of working in schools, I tried different ways of teaching, observing how attention, focus and presence changed with the situation, the material and additional stimuli. That is why I care about accessible language. So that the person learning can understand. Connect new information with what they already know, and use it.
Most of each workshop is devoted to exercises and putting knowledge into practice. Participants get up from their chairs, move, focus, practise and try things out. They learn through their bodies and experience, including their own mistakes.
I offer a wide range of practices. From more energetic ones involving swinging movements and jumping to very subtle ones, such as working with the hands. Practices you can also turn to at your desk, in a public place or before a difficult conversation.
I explain the purpose of each exercise. Participants explore their responses and learn how to use the practices in everyday situations.
Taking part in the exercises is voluntary. There is room here for your “yes”, “differently” and “no”.
I prepare printed exercise instructions so participants can return to them after the session.
Effective learning
Effective learning workshop
- Duration
- 90–120 minutes
- Audience
- Young people aged 15+ and adults
- Format
- In person / online
- Location
- Kraków, Poland / online
With humour, flair and a good kick of energy, I teach simple principles and methods that help people learn. You learn and practise ways of working with presence, concentration and memory — including long sequences of words, dates and data.
We experiment, play and discover. We try the methods out straight away through exercises, so participants can later use them with their own learning material. You receive instructions so you can return to the methods in your own learning.
Depression and mental health
Understanding depression workshop
- Duration
- 90–120 minutes
- Audience
- Young people aged 15+ and adults
- Format
- In person / online
- Location
- Kraków, Poland / online
I help people understand depression and look more attentively at the person experiencing it. Including when that person is ourselves.
We discuss what depression is, the myths surrounding it and the factors that contribute to its development. You learn to notice and understand signs that indicate a need for professional help. You learn ways to respond when you or someone close to you is struggling.
In the practical part, we turn to breathing, connection with the body and questions that help us explore our own emotions. There is also space to experience another person's attentive presence.
This workshop is educational and preventive and does not replace diagnosis or treatment.
Stress and balance
Types of stress and returning to balance workshop
- Duration
- 90–120 minutes
- Audience
- Young people aged 15+ and adults
- Format
- In person / online
- Location
- Kraków, Poland / online
We explore how stress makes itself felt in the brain and the body. We learn about the basic functions of emotions and different types of stress to better understand our own responses.
We use movement, grounding, breathing and exercises that bring attention to the senses. We combine more energetic ways of working with tension with subtle practices that can be useful in everyday situations.
You explore your responses to movement, breathing, grounding and working with the senses. You choose practices to use at home and at work.
Contact
Arrangements and enquiries
Would you like to adapt the length or scope of a workshop to your group? Or do you need a session designed from scratch? Email me or give me a call.
A conversation and a short questionnaire will help me get to know the participants and the challenges they face. Based on the group's needs, I will propose workshop content within my area of competence. We will agree on the format, duration and practical arrangements.
Book a workshop in Kraków or elsewhere in Poland. Travel arrangements are agreed individually.
I also run online workshops. Please state clearly in your booking request that the workshop is to be held online, so I can adapt it to the requirements of this format.
To receive a proposal covering the workshop content, a date and a quote, please tell me which topic interests you, how many people you are planning the session for and whether it will take place in person or online. For an in-person session, please also include the town or city.
About me
Anna Piechowska
I combine teaching experience, communication and bodywork to turn knowledge into skills people use in everyday life.
My education brings together language, communication and preparation in pedagogy and psychology. I hold master's degrees in English Philology and in Journalism and Social Communication. I have also completed training in coping with crises and psychotraumatology.
I am currently training in Neurodiagnostics and Therapy (NiT), working towards a neurotherapist diploma, and studying at a somatic psychotherapy training school.
I have attended workshops on nervous system regulation, body awareness and the neurobiology of breathing. I also took part in Leah Brathwaite's mastermind, which included a series of ten training programmes and weekly meetings.
Over the years, I have also studied independently and put what I learned into practice. I practise everything I teach. I systematically explore knowledge from books and training in my own practice: observing responses, the conditions in which particular methods are helpful, and their limitations. I consider these experiences alongside the literature and scientific research, and use them to develop the way I work.
I take individual differences in responses to exercises into account. That is why participants have space to observe their own reactions, adapt the practices and choose what works for them.
Book a workshop for your people. Email me or give me a call.
Offer
History in English
Meet Henry VIII
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Audience
- Schools and institutions; B1+ level
- Language
- English, B1+
My love of storytelling and teaching also has a historical side: lessons on the history of England and Scotland, taught in English.
The history of the British Isles is a colourful stage where white and red roses play and sing, Robin Hood's companions roam the forests, and clans beat their shields.
Through these stories, we explore language, history and culture. We open ourselves to other places, times and people.
I currently invite you to meet Henry VIII — 45 minutes of storytelling in English, for learners at B1+ level. I particularly recommend this part of my offer to schools and institutions.
Would you like to invite me to give a lesson? Email me or give me a call, and we will arrange the details.