REVEL

JULIA STOCKMAN: Revelling in the challenge

Be assured Julia’s 25+ years of experience working in the people and culture space gives her a solid understanding of the daily challenges that organisations face when it comes to their people. In fact, she ‘Revels’ in it, with Revel the name of her business which delivers programmes, workshops and consulting to organisations that simply want to do better for their people.

She supports organisations to create thriving cultures that prioritise their people and promote wellbeing through science based mindful solutions. For small businesses this might be developing people strategies that support wellbeing and for larger organisations, workshops could compliment your existing wellbeing strategy.

Asked to describe the basic principles behind Revel, Julia offers the following:

“Revel is about strengthening the connection between wellbeing and performance of organisations. When we have healthy minds, we have healthy organisations. And based on the scientific research, healthy organisations lead to high performing teams.”

There are three key areas of focus that underpin this philosophy: Culture, Connection and Change.

Culture

“There’s never been a more critical time to focus on culture. We need to start embedding healthy workplace culture into business operations. By definition, culture is the shared values and beliefs that guide thinking and behaviour. It’s the foundation that sets you up for sustained success.

Being aware of your culture and understanding its positive and hindering impact is the starting point towards a healthy workplace culture - one where your people are contributing fully, feel good, engaged and have greater levels of satisfaction. Undertaking culture reviews, identifying key values and exploring the behaviours that underpin these values are all key to building high performing cultures.”

Connection

“One of the most important relationships we have in our lives is the one we have with ourselves. Connecting to our inner world, understanding ourselves and how we show up in the world, helps us to find the confidence to lead others in a human-centric way, which ultimately leads to optimised performance.

We know that having high selfawareness and emotional intelligence is key to being able to successfully lead others. And for your team members, having a deeper level of understanding how they connect with their own self (and their colleagues) is a start towards building high performing (healthy and happy!) teams.”

Change

“Change is the final aspect of Revel. When do we need to be more resilient? When do we need to understand ourselves more? Typically, it’s when things are changing. Change is inevitable and Revel’s offerings are there to support organisations navigate change in a mindful and deliberate way.

Whatever the catalyst is for change, how are we helping our people move through this so that they adapt quickly without too much resistance? What can leaders and business owners do to ensure they set their people up for success? Helping people understand their own emotions, their own reactions to change through mindful practices can be extremely beneficial.”

Julia is passionate about what she is doing, be it with her corporate clients, team leaders, or individuals, she gives it her total commitment every time. Her own experience has led her to discover the importance of balancing the mind and body to help deal with the challenges of life and it is this that inspires her to share knowledge and build positive wellbeing cultures.

In addition to her Yoga Teacher qualification (which she firmly believes complements her ‘day job’) she is currently working towards becoming a Certified MBSR Mindfulness teacher through the Mindfulness Training Institute.

Julia is vastly experienced in facilitating workshops, leadership programmes, consultancy and coaching and leaves you with this final message: Revel from within . . . it’s time to approach workplaces differently.

Let’s connect and talk about your needs. Contact her at julia@revel.nz or 027 450 9983