Imagine Plus : resilience, sustainability and thriving in a challenging world

Resilience is made of mindset, skillset and enough resources to get you through challenges and difficulties and come out better than you started. It’s not a special gift, not a talent or a family trait; it’s grown and built, and we can grow resilience at any age and in any circumstance. Our resilience isn’t defined at birth or by events, but by how we we learn to deal with them.

Life-long human resilience is built with simple practices and small steps you can learn and apply to your career or in your life  In a leadership position, you can improve your team’s capacity and function by using the very same tools.  The key is to learn what works and what doesn’t. This is what we do, providing you with strategies, tools and systems to improve your life, career, balance and team.

Book a free consultation and find out how we can help you find the right approach and solutions for your needs and circumstances.

We help you integrate better practices to thrive in work & life

We provide (1) interactive group sessions and (2) one-on-one executive/ personal coaching.  Our interactive group sessions and coaching help you plan, implement and integrate what you need to improve motivation, quality of life, mental health in a sustainability-based mindset.

We also provide professional training: (3) a Resilience Coaching Certification and (4) coach training courses, recognized as core competencies towards ICF accreditation.

We are based in Ottawa, Canada and work virtually and in person with clients in Canada and around the world.

Resilience is about recharging & thriving (not enduring)  

Resilience is about how you face life, with the resources you have available, with your skillset and experience, with a clear vision of the life you want and build, every day. Not someday, but today.

Resilience is not magic – it’s how you use your unique strengths and qualities to get you through life challenges unscathed, growing from your learning and experience.  Once you become aware of this, you become acutely aware that what you decide, what you choose and do create a powerful ripple effect.  Are your choices and habits creating the kind of ripple effect you want?  Do they support you well?  Do they serve you, respect you & provide space for growth?  This, in a nutshell, is a resilient mindset.

Building resilience start with looking ahead and investing into you, using sustainable, replenishing practices to improve your quality of life, authentic productivity and happiness.

Sustainability is choosing what supports you at your best today, tomorrow & next year 

Sustainability is about assigning available resources for topmost priorities, to support work and life now, and to move forward unscathed.

It’s not either/or: it’s both.  And this means that performing at 150% every day is a definite road to mental and physical depletion with the resulting consequences: burnout, high turnover, “quiet quitting”, and mental / physical exhaustion and disease.  Defining whatever lands on your plate today as an urgency is like crying wolf: it can only work for so long. After the massive changes and turmoil of the pandemic, we need to deliberately hold space for recovery and replenishment.

Resilience is anchored in a life-long process of conscious living, supported by deliberate choices and actions leading to your best outcomes.

Restore yourself: replenishing emotional, cognitive, spiritual and physical resources, to keep you motivated, emotionally well, engaged, clear and focused.  Taking stock and a big picture approach will help you use a more strategic approach to your life and career, using simple solutions that support you at your best – this is what thriving is about.

Learn how to deal with demands and challenges, with better energy and less stress.  Resilience is about thriving – not coping, not enduring and not survival mode.  Contact us and get started now.  Today is your life.

Customized, interactive group sessions: resilience, sustainability, leadership, mental health

Virtual/ In-Person Group Sessions & Workshops – from coping to thriving. The pandemic has  transformed how we work, and returning to work in person means more change and adaptation, after the 24/7 virtual workplace brought work home.  Now, how do you keep space for your life? All these challenges impact your & your team mental wellbeing, motivation, quality of life and performance.  You need different tools, new perspectives and to structure your days with time, energy and space for living. Resilience training will provide you and your team tangible strategies to recharge energy and motivation, to reduce stress and prevent burnout, and to build a healthy, productive workplace and life. Learn practical, simple strategies to reduce stress, build capacity and mental health and prepare for a sustainable future.Whether you need a small group session, an all-staff retreat or interactive training for your management team or employees, we design and customize practical, interactive virtual or in-person group sessions to best fit the needs of your group and deliver tangible results.

Our mission is to help you with simple, realistic solutions, whether you are a leader, an entrepreneur, a manager or an employee.  We use an interactive, multi-factor framework of adaptable strategies to build and support individual and team capacity, morale and productivity, and a healthier, sustainable workplace culture. Here are a few of the customized sessions we’ve provided this year:

Resilience, Mental Health, Burnout Prevention

1. Building resilience & mental health: key factors, strategies, integration
2. Work-life (+ self) balance – 3-Dimensional approach to resilience
3. From coping to thriving: productivity, motivation & sustainability
4. Mental health/ stress management strategies & approaches
5. Reduce/avoid impacts of chronic stress & burnout

Resilient Workplace

1. Resilient leadership: a proactive strategic approach
2. Transitions: from virtual to in-person strategies for best results
3. Leading effectively through constant change, transition and transformation
4. Leading/dealing: difficult conversations, people & circumstances
5. Harassment & bullying: solutions & strategies
6. Respectful workplace
7. Intergenerational workplace
8. Trust: communication that works
9. Planning the future of work
10. Working better together (team-building)

Resilient Life, Sustainability, Work Planning

1. Managing life resources: time, energy & mental space
2. Change & adaptability strategies in a fast-moving world
3. Build capacity & sustainability with highly productive days
4. Supportive work structure = sustainability

Specialty

1. Caring for caregivers: strategies, tools & resources
2. Healthy, resilient family dynamics

All group sessions can be delivered in English, French or bilingual format (Canada) or in English, French or Spanish (international) including learning aids. For more information and costs, contact us: catherine@imagineplus.ca

Coaching: Self-Leadership, Resilience, Sustainability

Coaching provides a safe, confidential space to connect with your strengths and potential, to build new skills and strategies, and to explore realistic solutions.  Our goal is to support you, so you can live and work better. We bring 30 years of experience and a background in coaching, psychology, mental health and resilience.  Coaching can transform your life and career, with significant, long-reaching results.

1. Improve true productivity, quality of life and work-life balance
2. Learn and apply mental / physical performance strategies
3. Reduce chronic stress load & prevent burnout
4. Apply resilience & sustainability principles to work and life
5. Use strategically the 4-R’s of leadership to build a life & career that supports & inspires you
6. Learn about Life Satisfaction  5-G’s to build a life that fits, fuels and fulfills you
7. Learn a 3-D dynamic approach to life and work
8. Own your life by using time/energy blocks
9. Grow an inspiring, sustainable career and life
10. Explore & plan life transitions (such as retirement or career changes)
11. Maximize leadership and self-leadership capacity, skillset & competencies
12. Master the power of negotiation & coaching to improve your life

Book an exploratory call with Catherine or Emilie and see how you’d benefit from a coaching approach to your personal life and career.  

Executive Leadership/ Resilience/ Sustainability Coaching:  Learn how to better use your strengths, enhance your skillset, build new competencies and improve your strategic thinking for real-life circumstances. Through our sessions, you’ll learn what makes the most difference and how to apply simple strategies to your work and life, to optimize your professional value while opening up space for a more rewarding personal and family life.

Life Management Coaching:  Transform your life from coping and “managing” to thriving using a self-management approach to improve your personal and family life, your career and your overall life balance with a small-step approach. Each session will provide you effective tools, reflections, strategies and guidance, so you can move forward better equipped for life challenges and thrive.

Transition Coaching (Life/ Career/ Retirement): Whether you are considering a promotion, a change in your career path, a new relationship or getting married, being a new parent, dealing with new personal life circumstances, or retirement, Catherine will help you determine your best options, and how to best support yourself so you make the most of the next phase of your life.

Small Business Coaching: Need experienced help to get your new business off the ground?  Our coaching will help you determine structure, path and convert them into feasible steps that work. we’ve provided coaching and mentoring to a number of new and experienced entrepreneurs looking for a smarter way to work, and time to have a life, too.

Resilience Coaching for Motivation & Mental Health: Your resilience and mental health are essential to learn, grow, change, adapt and thrive.  But these don’t just “happen”. How can you recharge your batteries and maintain your motivation, stamina and productivity when there is so much to do? You’ll be surprised how small innocuous new choices can significantly reduce your chronic stress load, and improve your productive energy and quality of life.  In our sessions, you’ll learn what these are, how to make them work for you and how the significant impact they have on your life.

Resilience Coaching Certification (Offered through ILCT – Institute for Life Coach Training)

An 80-hour coaching training course open to new and experienced coaches. This certification will add to your professional expertise and skillset, offering new possibilities and expanding your practice.  To learn more or to register, read below then follow this link: https://www.lifecoachtraining.com/programs/specialties-path/certified-resilience-coach

The following courses provide Continuing Education Credits towards coaching accreditation and recertification with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE).  All courses are taught by Catherine Morisset, BA Psychology, PCC-ICF, BCC-CCE.  

Resilience Coaching for Stress & Burnout (20 CEC’s) – live virtual course, Thursday 3:30-5:30pm ET (10 weeks). Session now underway. Next session scheduled for fall 2024, with registration opening in August.  Work and life are fast, demanding, and our clients are feeling overwhelmed. How can you help them recover and rebuild, develop new skills and better capacity? To register or for more information: https://www.lifecoachtraining.com/programs/all-courses/resilient-coaching-for-stress

Resilience 101 (6 CEC’s) – live virtual course, Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm ET (3 weeks).  Spring session 2024: June 4-11-18. Fall session 2024: November. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN. Learn simple tips, tools and strategies to build your own resilience capacity with easy steps.  Make the most of your busy life and show up motivated, energized and ready to move forward.  To register or for more information, click here: https://www.lifecoachtraining.com/programs/all-courses/resilience-101-your-life-owners-manual

Coaching for Personal Resilience (20 CEC’s) – live virtual course, Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm ET (10 weeks).  Spring Session 2024: March-June (10 weeks). Course now underway with registration closed; next session starting September 2024. A transformative, practical course to explore long-term human resilience. Best suited for professionals and coaches working in mental health, health care, human resources, organizational change management and learning institutions.  Learn to coach with a practical, effective approach to resilience-building.  Build a strong resilience skillet, and coach individuals to grow vision, skills and resources to best face life’s challenges and thrive.  To register or for more information, click here:  https://www.lifecoachtraining.com/programs/all_courses/coaching_for_personal_resilienc

Organizational Resilience & Resilient Leadership Coach Training (20 CEC’s) – live virtual course, Thursdays 3:30-5:30pm ET (10 weeks).  Winter session Mar-May 2025 (10 weeks).  A coach training course building on personal resilience concepts, with a cohesive, practical approach to building individual and collective resilience in the work culture.  Learn what defines resilient leadership and how to design effective, engaging virtual group sessions.  Prerequisites: 40 hours of coach training plus completing one of the following courses: Resilience 101 OR Coaching for Personal Resilience. To register or for more information, click here:   https://www.lifecoachtraining.com/programs/all_courses/organizational_resilience 

Coaching for Family Resilience (10 CEC’s) – live virtual course, 5 weeks, Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm (5 weeks). Fall session starts October 2024. This coach training course will deepen and broaden knowledge and strategies introduced in one of two basic courses (Resilience 101 and Coaching for Personal Resilience), to help your clients build healthy, resilient family dynamics. For more information or to register, click here:                  https://www.lifecoachtraining.com/programs/all_courses/coaching-for-family-resilience

About Catherine Morisset

Catherine Morisset, Professional Certified Coach PCC-ICF; Certified Life & Resilience Coach ILCT; Board-Certified Coach BCC-CCE; BA Psychology UO.  E-RYT YA; NWS/OAS-CFP; CALA. Canadian Federal Government Secret Clearance

I am a coach, facilitator, speaker, teacher, writer and entrepreneur with some 30 years of professional experience.  My goal is to help you build and grow your life, career, business, team and work community.  I’ve learned a lot from my clients and from my own life experience. We change and grow as a result of life unexpected twists and turns.  Our life is shaped by our experiences, but also by our mindset and the choices we make in response to life challenges.

I wouldn’t be who I am today without my own challenges and hardships: they helped me acquire depth and understanding to help you. I love the work I do to help people build and live a life that truly fits and fulfills them, and I’ve invested years studying, learning and applying how we each have the innate power to build our own quality of life and resilience, one day and one step at a time.

I introduced the resilience mindset into leadership and change management for Canada’s federal government and private sector over twenty years ago and since then, I have been teaching and coaching clients about a resilient approach to life, career and leadership. I have provided coaching and training at CSPS (Canada School of Public Service) 2004-2013, ESDC (Economic & Social Development Canada) 2015-ongoing, and SOS-Health Canada, 2008-ongoing.  I was one of the very first professionals to address the place of resilience in mental health, and to put resilience on the map, creating in 2014 a stream of ICF-recognized coaching certification courses focusing on a resilience mindset.

I have a degree in Psychology from the University of Ottawa, and hold professional certifications such as: PCC-IFC (Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation); BCC-CCE (Board-Certified Coach, Centre for Credentialing & Education).  I regularly provide 360-surveys and personality type services.  I work in English, French and Spanish.

To learn how we can work together, schedule a complimentary call or email me at catherine@imagineplus.ca

Our commitment

Our passion is to help you build the life and career you dream of, now and for the future, as you improve your quality of life, your energy, health and productivity, leading you to the successful life you want.

Our cohesive approach based on effective small, progressive steps work best to improve skillset, capacity, competencies, resources and strategic vision. We use a personalized approach with clear strategies, positive motivation and measurable results – because it works!

Our objectives are based on making your life easier, more gratifying and supportive, with small steps that are easier to implement, maintain, and deliver better results.

Our experience which provides you different perspectives, new options, and realistic, easily implementable strategies that work.

Our professional background with over 30 years of dedicated professional practice, coaching and training thousands of busy clients, providing the vision, awareness, new perspectives and strategies needed to build a resilient, gratifying life and career.  We also provide ICF-credited coach training to professionals internationally; and offer you our expertise coaching and training leaders, executives and employees in the public and private sectors.

Our life experience – Having been successful executives and entrepreneurs, having lived through taking projects from ground to success gives us the insights and wisdom to help you find your own recipe to success, and helps us understand the challenges that life throws us.

We walk our talk. We love our work, but we also keep space to live a good, satisfying, resilient life…  We hold space to live and to take care of ourselves, so we too can keep going despite challenges and thrive!  We have full lives, like you do, and we make sure we don’t use up all our time, energy and mental capacity in one area. We keep time for family and friends, for fun and for quiet, to rest, recharge and realign our choices with what we most treasure.  We hope that through our workshops, courses and coaching sessions, you’ll find that life offers you a menu of wonderful discoveries and experiences.  We hope to share this with you, soon.

Our purpose is to help you integrate key strategies to support & build your capacity despite challenges, & THRIVE

Our Clients

We work with federal government departments and agencies, national and international organizations, and individual clients.  Our clients are busy people like you, who deal daily with the challenges of a fast-paced, multi-dimensional, diverse workplace and demanding family/personal life.  They want and deserve the best outcomes, and we provide them with adapted, realistic, practical strategies and solutions.

• SOS-HC Qualified Service Provider 2008-current
• CSPS Canada School of Public Service Faculty 2007-2011
• CBSA, CRA, CRCC & Canada Space Agency
• Global Affairs
• Fisheries & Oceans Canada
• Entrepreneurs’ Organization
• ESDC-HRSDC
• FCM – Federation of Canadian Municipalities
• Health Canada
• ILCT – Institute for Life Coach Training (USA)
• Justice Canada
• LAC-BAC
• Municipalities such as: Ottawa and Windsor
• Natural Resources Canada
• School Boards, such as New Frontiers
• PPSC, Public Safety & RCMP
• Service Canada & Service Ontario
• SSHRC & Statistics Canada
• Transport Canada & Treasury Board
• Police Departments & 9-1-1 Centres

About Catherine Morisset

Catherine Morisset, Professional Certified Coach PCC-ICF; Certified Life & Resilience Coach ILCT; Board-Certified Coach BCC-CCE; BA Psychology UO.  E-RYT YA; NWS/OAS-CFP; CALA. Canadian Federal Government Secret Clearance

I am a coach, speaker, teacher and entrepreneur eager to use my thirty-plus years of experience in building strong, resourceful, resilient individuals and communities.  I strongly believe that we can change and that we grow because we live through unexpected and challenging life circumstances.  Of course, life shapes our reality, but we determine how we perceive these circumstances, and how we use them to explore new possibilities and make better choices.  I wouldn’t be who I am today without my own challenges and hardships: they gave me the depth and understanding to be here now.

I love my work, which is about helping my clients build and live a life that truly fits and fulfills them, and I’ve invested years studying, learning and applying how we each have the innate power to build health, quality of life and resilience…

I have been teaching and coaching clients about a resilient approach to life, career and leadership for the past thirty years, working for organizations such as the Canada School of Public Service (2004-2013), ESDC Economic & Social Development Canada (2015-ongoing) and SOS-Health Canada (2008-ongoing).  I was one of the very first professionals to address the place of resilience in mental health, and to put resilience on the map, creating in 2014 a stream of ICF-recognized coaching certification courses focusing on a resilience mindset.  I also initiated a resilience model into leadership and change management context for the Canadian federal government and private sector.

I coach, write and teach about resilient life and resilient leadership, healthy sustainable workplace, mental health, work and life balance, preventing burnout, caregiving and resilient families, and change-transition in Canada and internationally. I have a degree in Psychology from the University of Ottawa, and hold the following professional denominations: Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation (PCC-ICF); Board-Certified Coach, Centre for Credentialing & Education (BCC-CCE). I also hold current professional certifications in fields related to quality of life, health and mindfulness, such as E-RYT-YA Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher – Yoga Alliance) and past professional certifications and professional experience in fitness, specialty fitness, holistic wellness, nutrition, medical exercise, meditation and aqua therapy. Life interests me, so I really enjoy learning different aspects of what makes us feel alive and resilient. I am also qualified to work with personality type tools such as the Enneagram, and provided 360-surveys across national organizations.

I look forward to the opportunity to help you, your family, team or organization build their resilience potential, with small steps that turn into massive improvements in quality of life, sustainability, mental and physical health, and resilience.  Book a call or email me at catherine@imagineplus.ca

We provide services in English, French and Spanish.

Our commitment

Our passion is to help you build the life and career you dream of, now and for the future, as you improve your quality of life, your energy, health and productivity, leading you to the successful life you want.

Our cohesive approach based on effective small, progressive steps work best to improve skillset, capacity, competencies, resources and strategic vision. We use a personalized approach with clear strategies, positive motivation and measurable results – because it works!

Our objectives are based on making your life easier, more gratifying and supportive, with small steps that are easier to implement, maintain, and deliver better results.

Our experience which provides you different perspectives, new options, and realistic, easily implementable strategies that work.

Our professional background with over 30 years of dedicated professional practice, coaching and training thousands of busy clients, providing the vision, awareness, new perspectives and strategies needed to build a resilient, gratifying life and career.  We also provide ICF-credited coach training to professionals internationally; and offer you our expertise coaching and training leaders, executives and employees in the public and private sectors.

Our life experience – Having been successful executives and entrepreneurs, having lived through taking projects from ground to success gives us the insights and wisdom to help you find your own recipe to success, and helps us understand the challenges that life throws us.

We walk our talk. We love our work, but we also keep space to live a good, satisfying, resilient life…  We hold space to live and to take care of ourselves, so we too can keep going despite challenges and thrive!  We have full lives, like you do, and we make sure we don’t use up all our time, energy and mental capacity in one area. We keep time for family and friends, for fun and for quiet, to rest, recharge and realign our choices with what we most treasure.  We hope that through our workshops, courses and coaching sessions, you’ll find that life offers you a menu of wonderful discoveries and experiences.  We hope to share this with you, soon.

Our purpose is to help you integrate key strategies to support & build your capacity despite challenges, & THRIVE

Our Clients

We work with federal government departments and agencies, national and international organizations, and individual clients.  Our clients are busy people like you, who deal daily with the challenges of a fast-paced, multi-dimensional, diverse workplace and demanding family/personal life.  They want and deserve the best outcomes, and we provide them with adapted, realistic, practical strategies and solutions.

• SOS-HC Qualified Service Provider 2008-current
• CSPS Canada School of Public Service Faculty 2007-2011
• CBSA, CRA, CRCC & Canada Space Agency
• Global Affairs
• Fisheries & Oceans Canada
• Entrepreneurs’ Organization
• ESDC-HRSDC
• FCM – Federation of Canadian Municipalities
• Health Canada
• ILCT – Institute for Life Coach Training (USA)
• Justice Canada
• LAC-BAC
• Municipalities such as: Ottawa and Windsor
• Natural Resources Canada
• School Boards, such as New Frontiers
• PPSC, Public Safety & RCMP
• Service Canada & Service Ontario
• SSHRC & Statistics Canada
• Transport Canada & Treasury Board
• Police Departments & 9-1-1 Centres

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