
The Awareness to Action Pathway: Disrupt Unhelpful Patterns and Unlock Your True Potential for Joy, Connection and Success
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The Awareness to Action Pathway: Disrupt Unhelpful Patterns and Unlock Your True Potential for Joy, Connection and Success
We all learned to tie our shoes, do math, and navigate traffic - but most of us were never taught the skills to manage emotions, have difficult conversations, set healthy boundaries or cope with life’s stressors. Without these tools, we end up feeling stuck, anxious and reactive - whether at work, at home or in our relationships.
As a mental health therapist, author, business owner and mother of four adult children, I’ve witnessed first-hand the power of learning these foundational skills. My own journey from being an anxious, reactive person to someone who responds with calm, resilience and authenticity has inspired countless others to do the same. I’ve trained everyone from attorneys and educators to parents and business leaders - and have seen these tools unlock their capacity for real connection, confidence and change.
In this keynote, you’ll gain practical, evidence-based strategies to bridge the knowing-doing gap and live more intentionally. It’s never too late to learn, and often, the most profound growth happens when we lean into discomfort.
Keynote Takeaways:
Close the Knowing-Doing Gap – Turn insight into action with simple tools that help you create real, lasting change.
Use Discomfort to Your Advantage – Shift your mindset so that stress and discomfort become fuel for personal growth, not obstacles.
Build Resilience in Uncertainty – Develop concrete skills to navigate change, stress, and setbacks with greater ease and confidence.
Improve Communication & Collaboration – Strengthen your relationships and team culture with practical tools for giving and receiving honest, supportive feedback.
Create a Culture of Growth – Foster continuous learning and adaptability that empowers yourself and those around you to thrive.
What You’ll Experience During & After the Talk:
You’ll leave feeling equipped and energized, with actionable strategies to tackle everyday challenges at work, at home and in your own mind. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of their own patterns and how to interrupt them, so they can reduce stress, improve relationships and navigate life with more ease and authenticity. This is more than a keynote - it’s an invitation to grow into your most resilient, connected and capable self!
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From Limiting Beliefs to Liberated Living: Rewire Your Mind for Personal Well-being and Professional Success
In this powerful, research-backed talk, you’ll discover how social-emotional intelligence (SEQ) bridges the gap between knowing what you need to do for your well-being and actually making those choices, no matter how pressured or stressful life gets. I guide audiences through my SHIFT framework, helping you identify the beliefs and habits that hold you back, then practice simple tools to rewire your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. With real-life stories, humor and practical tools, this talk will leave you feeling hopeful, equipped, and ready to take action toward both personal wellness and professional success.
By the end of this session, participants will:
Understand how limiting beliefs are wired into the brain - and how to change them using evidence-based strategies.
Identify personal barriers to well-being, including thought patterns, stress habits, and learned behaviors that hold them back.
Experience the power of the SHIFT framework to move from awareness into action.
Practice hands-on techniques that build resilience under pressure.
Develop a personal action plan for turning new insights into habits that support long-term emotional and professional well-being.
What You’ll Experience During & After the Talk:
You will feel seen and supported as you explore their own thought and behavior patterns that block your well-being and success. You will leave with simple tools you can apply immediately, whether you’re working with students, running an organization or business, leading a team, or caring for others in your personal life. Above all, you’ll gain practical ways to catch yourself when old habits show up, and to shift into new ones that help you feel grounded, confident and more aligned with who you truly want to be.
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Helping the Helpers: Tools for Thriving While Supporting Others
This workshop is an expanded, hands-on version of my keynote and is designed to give you practical tools to stay grounded, energized, and effective as you support those around you. Whether you’re an educator, clinician, union rep, advocate, or in any helping role, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the impact your work has on you — and concrete strategies to care for yourself so you can continue to care for others sustainably.
What You’ll Learn & Experience:
Understand the Impact of Stress and Trauma on Well-Being – Explore how toxic stress and secondary trauma affect your emotional, physical, and relational health - and why they often show up in professional caregiving roles.
Build Your Personal Awareness to Action Pathway – Shine a light on your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that stand in the way of well-being - and practice shifting them into skillful, aligned responses that support your goals.
Develop Your Emotional Resilience Toolkit – Practice trauma-informed strategies for self-regulation, stress recovery, boundary-setting, and creating emotional safety you can access anytime, even on your toughest days.
Strengthen Your Capacity to Support Without Self-Abandoning – Learn to hold space for others without losing yourself in the process - and discover practical tools to reset and return to center whenever you feel overwhelmed.
Transform Insight into Daily Practice – Design a personalized wellness plan with simple, sustainable micro-strategies you can immediately integrate into your life to feel more clear, calm, confident, and connected.
Foster a Culture of Care Without Compromise - Discover how supporting your own wellness isn’t a luxury - it’s a leadership move. Learn how caring for yourself models healthier norms and positively influences your workplace and community culture.
What to Expect:
You’ll leave this workshop feeling empowered with truly doable, trauma-informed tools to navigate stress, support yourself and others more skillfully, and build habits that help you stay present, engaged, and resilient - no matter what your role or circumstances. Get ready to experience the ripple effects of true well-being, starting with you.
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Take Control: Where Physical Safety Meets Emotional Strength
Two Experts. One Goal: Safer, More Resilient Workplaces.
Increased stress, trauma, and safety concerns are impacting teams across every industry. The smartest organizations are proactively addressing both the physical and emotional well-being of their people. That’s why I’ve teamed up with Mike Hayashi, founder of Take Control Self-Defense, to offer a unique collaboration that blends trauma-informed leadership and healing-centered workplace culture with practical self-defense and empowerment training.
Mike’s Confidence, Empowerment & Resilience Trainings have reached over 800 companies in 27 states—including Apple, Mayo Clinic, American Airlines and the Phoenix Suns. He equips teams with practical self-defense techniques and a confidence boost that lasts.
I bring over a decade of experience in mental health, trauma recovery and organizational well-being, helping leaders and teams build cultures that can navigate and recover from high-stress or traumatic events. My Healing-Centered Spaces Training supports employees before, during and after crisis—helping reduce the cost of trauma, burnout and turnover.
Together, we support:
Psychological safety & emotional well-being
Physical confidence & empowerment
Healing-centered spaces for long-term resilience
Cost savings by reducing burnout, turnover, and trauma-related absences
CHER’S OFFICIAL BIO
Cher Anderton is a seasoned mental health therapist, speaker, author and educator with a background in school counseling and educational consulting, specializing in trauma-informed practices and tiered systems of support. Cher helps organizations care for their people better by teaching them the skills they were never formally taught to be mentally, emotionally, relationally and even physically well through her podcast, book, workshops and speaking events.
Cher’s approach is relatable, disarming and encourages engagement through story telling, humor and evidence-based tools and strategies.
